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pool

Family of cue sports

Also known as pocket billiards · pool billiards · Pool (cue sports)

Instance of: sports discipline
Subclass of: cue sports

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Pool is a group of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. 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 of pool, and it is often thought of as synonymous with "pool".

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28 statements · 36% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Practiced by: pool player
Parent: World Confederation of Billiards Sports
World Pool-Billiard Association

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22 identifiers linking pool across the web's reference databases

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