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2. Glossary of cue sports terms - Wikipedia

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   The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.

3. Billiard room - Wikipedia

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   The billiard room at Schönbrunn Palace, c. 1855 /1860, chromolithograph after a watercolour by Franz Heinrich. A billiard room (also billiards room, or more specifically pool room, snooker room) is a recreation room, such as in a house or recreation center, with a billiards, pool or snooker table (The term "billiard room" or "pool room" may also be used for a business providing public ...

4. Eight-ball - Wikipedia

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   Country or region. Worldwide. 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).

5. 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 ...

6. Valley-Dynamo - Wikipedia

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   Website. Official website. Valley-Dynamo, Inc. is a gaming and sporting goods manufacturing company. It has been the dominant manufacturer of coin-operated pool tables in North America for over 6 decades, [1] and produces the US-ubiquitous Valley brand and decreasingly common Dynamo brand (once a competitor). The company also manufactures other ...

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

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   A player shooting a kick shot. The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen usually unnumbered object balls) on a small pool table with six pockets. It originated in the United Kingdom ...