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2. Billiard table - Wikipedia

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   Billiard Table Manufactory, J. M. Brunswick & Bro., Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865 ad. A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered ...

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

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   British pool tables come in 6 × 3 foot (1.8 × 0.9 m) or 7 × 3.5 ft (2.12 × 1.06 m) varieties, [4] with 7 feet being the regulation size for league play. The table has pockets just larger than the balls and rounded, as in the game of snooker , whereas the international-style (or "American-style") table has pockets significantly wider, with ...

4. Bumper pool - Wikipedia

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   The surface of the table has the same cloth covering as a standard pool table. Two bumpers flank each pocket. [2] The remaining bumpers are arranged in a cross in the center of the table, with one line of the cross in line with the pockets. [2] At the center of the cross, there is an open space just large enough to allow a ball to pass through.

5. Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Eight-ball - Wikipedia

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   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).

7. Carom billiards - Wikipedia

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   The billiard table used for carom billiards is a pocketless version and is typically 3.0 by 1.5 metres (10 ft × 5 ft). [ 5 ] Most cloth made for carom billiard tables is a type of baize that is typically dyed green and is made from 100% worsted wool with no nap , which provides a very fast surface allowing the balls to travel with little ...