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2. Cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Bar or tavern tables, which get a lot of play, use "slower", more durable cloth. 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 ...

3. Billiard table - Wikipedia

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   A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards , pool , pyramid or snooker ) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate , that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly woven worsted wool called baize ), and surrounded by ...

4. Comparison of cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Pool, also called "pocket billiards", is a form of billiards usually equipped with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls), played on a pool table with six pockets built into the rails, splitting the cushions. The pockets (one at each corner, and one in the center of each long rail) provide targets (or in some cases, hazards) for ...

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6. Baize - Wikipedia

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   Snooker, in which understanding nap effects is part of the game, uses the nappy variety, while pool and carom billiards use the napless type. For gaming use, baize is traditionally dyed green, in mimicry of a lawn (see Cue sport, "History" ) , though wide variety of table colours have become accepted.

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