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  2. Comparison of cue sports - Wikipedia

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    The international standard for carom billiard tables is a playing surface (measured from rail cushion to rail cushion) of 2.84 by 1.42 m (112 by 56 in, or 9.32 by 4.66 ft), +/- 5 mm, though many (especially American) tables for amateur use are 10 x 5 ft (3 by 1.5 m). The slate beds of profession-grade carom tables are usually heated to stave ...

  3. Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

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    Although skittle pool is played on a pocketless carom billiards table, the term pool later stuck to all new games of pocket billiards as the sport gained in popularity in the United States, [8]: 186 and so outside the cue sports industry, which has long favored the more formal term pocket billiards, the common name for the sport has remained pool.

  4. English billiards - Wikipedia

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    English billiards, [1] called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two cue balls (one white and one yellow) and a red object ball are used. Each player or team uses a different cue ball.

  5. World Billiards Championship (English billiards) - Wikipedia

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    The World Billiards Championship is an international cue sports tournament in the discipline of English billiards, organised by World Billiards, a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). In its various forms, and usually as a single competition, the title is one of the oldest sporting world championships ...

  6. International Pool Tour - Wikipedia

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    The tour attracted the top pool players in the world. It differed from the many nine-ball tournaments, as all IPT events were eight-ball matches. [2] The company was based in Hinsdale, Illinois. [3] Many pool enthusiasts were initially skeptical, but the first event was successful, and at the time was the biggest tournament in billiards history ...

  7. Russian pyramid - Wikipedia

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    Russian pyramid game setup, with the object ball s in a triangle rack at the foot of the table, and the cue ball in front of (up-table of) the head string (baulk line).. Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiards (Russian: ру́сский билья́рд, russky bilyard), is a form of billiards played on a large billiard table with narrow pockets.

  8. NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Sunday, December 15

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    2. Not meeting expectations or failing. 3. A quick way to skim or browse something. 4. Names of popular artists with a specific letter missing.

  9. Balkline - Wikipedia

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    Balkline is the overarching title of a group of carom billiards games generally played with two cue balls and a red object ball on a cloth-covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, pocketless billiard table. The object of the game is to score points, also called counts , by a player striking their cue ball so it makes contact with both the opponent's cue ...