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2. Three-cushion billiards - Wikipedia

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   By 1924, three-cushion had become so popular that two giants in other cue sport disciplines agreed to take up the game especially for a challenge match. On September 22, 1924 Willie Hoppe , the world's balkline champion (who later took up three-cushion with a passion), and Ralph Greenleaf , the world's straight pool title holder, played a well ...

3. Portal:Cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of English.

4. Cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of English.

5. Comparison of cue sports - Wikipedia

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   The most popular pool games today, however, are "money-ball" games, in which a specific ball must be pocketed under particular conditions in order to win. The most popular pool game in the world (but unfortunately the one with the least consistent rules from area to area) is eight-ball , where each player attempts to pocket a particular suit ...

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. World Confederation of Billiards Sports - Wikipedia

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   There were 10 medals of cue sports in the 1998 Asian Games. Participation at the 2002 Asian Games in Pusan, Korea was in jeopardy, mostly due to financial concerns that the host city had. But, in the end, billiards sports were in competition for 10 medals. Later, they were included in the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.

8. Kaisa (cue sport) - Wikipedia

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   The players lag to decide who will be the first shooter; the player who wins the lag begins the game. [5]: 0:01–0:46 The object balls are positioned at their spots, and the cue ball of the winner of the lag is placed behind the head string, while the lag-loser's cue ball is placed somewhere between the foot (top) string and center string, [5]: 0:01–0:40 but cannot obstruct the first player ...

9. Category:Cue sports - Wikipedia

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   also: Games: Of physical skill, Of mental skill, Ball, and Pub games: Cue sports. Cue sports portal Subcategories. This category has the following 25 subcategories ...