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2. Cue stick - Wikipedia

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   A player using a cue stick to push a billiard ball forward to move an object ball A pool cue and its major parts. [1]: 71–72 [2]A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards.

3. Cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Cheap cues are generally made of pine, low-grade maple (and formerly often of ramin, which is now endangered), or other low-quality wood, with inferior plastic ferrules. A quality cue can be expensive and may be made of exotic woods and other expensive materials which are artfully inlaid in decorative patterns.

4. George Balabushka - Wikipedia

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   He was an innovator in cue construction, cue finishes and cue design. [1] Balabushka's cues were not the elaborately decorated attempts at building art that became a mainstay of the cue market starting in the 1980s and onward. [1] Rather, most Balabushka cues are relatively plain and without grand ornamentation flourishes. [5]

5. Comparison of cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Carom billiards and pool are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiard table bounded by rubber cushions attached to the confining rails of the table.

6. Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

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   Pool is 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. Eight-ball is the most frequently played discipline ...

7. Cue sports techniques - Wikipedia

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   When a sliding cue ball contacts an object ball dead-on (a center-to-center hit), the cue ball and object ball are of the same mass, and neither follow nor draw is on the cue ball at the moment of impact, the cue ball will transfer all of its momentum to the object ball and come to a complete stop; this is a stop shot. If the sliding cue ball ...