BILLIARDS
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. Interior view of billiard hall, Toledo, Ohio There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports: Carom billiards, played on tables without pockets, typically 10 feet in length, including straight rail, balkline, one-cushion carom, three-cushion billiards, artistic billiards, and four-ball Pool, played on six-pocket tables of 7-, 8-, 9-, or 10-foot length, including among others eight-ball (the world's most widely played cue sport), nine-ball (the dominant professional game), ten-ball, straight pool (the formerly dominant pro game), one-pocket, and bank pool
Snooker, English billiards, and Russian pyramid, played on a large, six-pocket table (dimensions just under 12 ft by 6 ft), all of which are classified separately from pool based on distinct development histories, player culture, rules, and terminology. Billiards has a long history from its inception in the 15th century, with many mentions in the works of Shakespeare, including the line "let's to billiards" in Antony and Cleopatra (1606–07), and enthusiasts of the sport include Mozart, Louis XIV of France, Marie Antoinette, Immanuel Kant, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, George Washington, French president Jules Grévy, Charles Dickens, George Armstrong Custer, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, W. C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Bob Hope, and Jackie Gleason.
- Players must be at the table within 5 minutes of starting time or the match will be a forfeit.
- All disputes must be settled at the table at that time. A match consists of the best 2 out of 3 games. (Women will play only 1 game)
- Games will be played according to the 8 ball rules outlined below.
- Game time is over 50 minutes after scheduled start. Player with the most games won or most balls pocketed in current game is declared the winner.
SOME FACTS
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Billiards was the first sport to have a world championship (1873).
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The first coin-operated billiard table was patented in 1903. The cost of a game on the first pay-for-play table: one penny.
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Before the invention of celluloid and other new-age plastics, billiard balls were made out of ivory.
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:The term scratch, as applied to a pocketing the cue ball, was derived from the penalty assessed for such a foul.
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There's another common name for a Billiard Cue. It can also be called a what? Pool Cue.
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The first shot beginning a game of pool. A legal shot that once announced can be done only immediately following
SATATISTICS
| Team | Tournament | Goals | Shots PG | Discipline | Possession% | Pass% | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Manchester City | Premier league | 99 | 18.8 | 42 1 | 68.2 | 89.7 | 7.12 |
| 2. Liverpool | premier league | 94 | 19.2 | 50 1 | 63.1 | 84.9 | 7.05 |
| 3. Bayern Munich | Bundesliga | 97 | 19.8 | 36 2 | 64.8 | 86.0 | 6.98 |
| 4. chelsea | primier league | 76 | 15.6 | 63 1 | 62.2 | 87.1 | 6.92 |
| 5. Real Mardrid | Lalija | 80 | 17.3 | 76 0 | 60.1 | 89.0 | 6.90 |
Best players
Efren Reyes
Efren Manalang Reyes OLD PLH, popularly known by the nickname "Bata", is a Filipino professional pool player. A winner of over 100 international titles, Reyes was the first player to win the WPA World Championships in two different pool disciplines. Wikipedia
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Earl Strickland
Earl "the Pearl" Strickland is an American professional pool player who is considered one of the best nine-ball players of all time. He has won over 100 championship titles and over 50 major titles. In 2006 he was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame. Wikipedia
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Ralph Greenleaf
Ralph Greenleaf was an American professional pool and carom billiards player. He was a twenty time World Pocket Billiards Champion, who dominated the sport during his heyday. Wikipedia
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Johnny Archer
Johnny Archer (born November 12, 1968 in Waycross, Georgia) is an American professional pool player. He is nicknamed "the Scorpion" (his zodiac sign is Scorpio, and one of his sponsors is Scorpion Cues). On June 8, 2009, Johnny Archer was nominated to be inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame.[1] Archer is an 11 time "player of the year" an unprecedented feat.
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Rudolf Wanderone
Rudolf Walter Wanderone, popularly known as Minnesota Fats or New York Fats, was an American professional billiards player. Although he never won a major pool tournament as "Fats", he was at one time perhaps the most publicly recognized pool player in the United States—not only as a player, but also as an entertainer. Wikipedia
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Mike Sigel
Michael Sigel is an American professional pool player nicknamed "Captain Hook." He earned the nickname from his ability to hook his opponents with safety plays. Sigel has the ability to shoot pool both left-handed and right-handed and has a high run of 339 balls in Straight Pool. Wikipedia
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