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2. Comparison of cue sports - Wikipedia

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   The beds and cushions of all kinds of billiard-type tables (carom, pool, and snooker) are covered with a tightly-woven cloth called baize, generally of worsted wool, although wool-nylon blends are common and some 100% synthetics are in use. Baize is principally a Commonwealth term, with "cloth" being preferred in North American English.

3. Cue sports - Wikipedia

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   The cloth used in upscale pool (and snooker) halls and home billiard rooms is "faster" (i.e., provides less friction, allowing the balls to roll farther across the table bed), and competition-quality pool cloth is made from 100% worsted wool. Snooker cloth traditionally has a nap (consistent fiber directionality) and balls behave differently ...

4. Billiard table - Wikipedia

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   The thickness of this cloth determines the table's speed (lack of friction) and responsiveness to spin, thicker cloths being longer lasting but slower and less responsive. The nap of the cloth can affect the run of the balls, especially on slower shots and shots played with sidespin applied to the cue ball. A snooker table traditionally has the ...

5. Bumper pool - Wikipedia

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   Typically, bumper pool tables are smaller than a regulation pool table. [2] [clarification needed] The table has two pockets, placed opposite one another, located at the center of two of the rails. [2] The surface of the table has the same cloth covering as a standard pool table. Two bumpers flank each pocket. [2]

6. 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.

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