enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Billiard Congress of America - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard_Congress_of_America

   Billiard Congress of America. The Billiard Congress of America (BCA) is the governing body for cue sports in the United States and Canada, and the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). [1] It was established under this name in 1948 [2] as a non-profit trade organization [3] in order to promote the sport and ...

3. Eight-ball - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-ball

   Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, [1] big ones and little ones, [2] or rarely highs and lows[3]) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object ball s).

4. Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_(cue_sports)

   A player racking the balls. Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. [1][2] Of the many different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool.

5. Eight-ball pool (British variation) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-ball_pool_(British...

   A player shooting a kick shot. The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen usually unnumbered object balls) on a small pool table with six pockets. It originated in the United Kingdom ...

6. Nine-ball - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-ball

   Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white cue ball to pocket nine ...

7. American Poolplayers Association - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Poolplayers...

   The American Poolplayers Association (APA) is a governing body for amateur pool (pocket billiards) competition in the United States. The APA conducts pool leagues and tournaments in the disciplines of eight-ball and nine-ball with a unified ruleset. The organization was founded in 1981 by professional pool players Terry Bell and Larry Hubbart ...

8. Derby City Classic - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_City_Classic

   Derby City Classic. The Derby City Classic is an annual pool convention and tournament held every January at the Caesars Southern Indiana casino in Elizabeth, Indiana, near Louisville, Kentucky. [1] It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of competition for pool players of all caliber. [2] It is often referred to as the DCC.

9. List of U.S. Open pool championships - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Open_pool...

   "U.S. Open Pocket Billiards Championship" as a proper noun most often refers to the straight pool (14.1 continuous pool) championship, the oldest of the events. Though "U.S. Open Pool Championship" as a stand-in for an official event name most commonly refers to the nine-ball event, it may, depending upon context, refer to any of six different ...