Pool is a sports cue that is played on a table with six pockets along rail , where the ball is stored.
Some of the more popular swimming variants include eight balls, black balls, nine balls, ten balls, seven balls, a straight swimming pool, a pocket, and a bank pool.
There is also a hybrid game that combines billiard pool and carrom aspects, such as a four-ball bill of America, a cowboy pond, and a bottle pool.
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Etymology
The etymology of the "pond" is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that the "pool" and other games with collective bets are from French poule (literally translated "hen"), where poule are prizes collected; the alternative can come from the verb to the pool in the sense of merging objects or pegs. The oldest use of the word "pool" to describe a game of billiards as it was made in 1797 in the Virginia newspaper. The OED defines it as generally "one of the various types of billiards for two or more players" but goes on to note that the first specific meaning of "a game in which every player uses a white ball with a distinctive color to pocket the ball of another player in a certain order, the winner takes all bets submitted at the start of the contest "are now outdated, and other specific definitions are all for games originating in the United States.
In the United States, although the original "pool" game is played on an endless pocket pool table, the term is then attached to all new pocket pool games as the sport gets more popular, and so outside the sports signaling industry, which has long liked the more formal term < i> billiards pocket , common name for sport remains pool . The definition of OxfordDictionaries.com does not even give the outdated meaning found in the print edition, and simply refers to a typical game "using two sets [of each of seven colored and numbered balls... with one black balls and white balls "on the table with pockets.
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Tools
The pool is played on a six pocket table. Modern pool tables generally range in size from 3.5 feet (1.07 m) to 7 feet (2.13 m), up to 4.5 feet (1.37 m) to 9 feet (2.74 m).
The ball ranges from 2.25 inches (57.15 mm) in diameter to 2.375 inches (60.33 mm) in diameter. Based on the WPA/BCA equipment specifications (see below) , the weight may be from 5.5 to 6 oz. (156-170 g) with a diameter of 2.25 inches (57.15 mm), plus or minus 0.005 inches (0.127 mm). Modern modern coin-operated billiard tables generally use one of three methods to differentiate and return the ball to the front of the table while the ball is numbered back to the inaccessible container until it is paid again: the billiard balls are bigger and heavier than the other, or more, balls solid and heavier, or have a magnetic core.
The modern billiard cushion generally has a length of 58.5 inches (148.6 cm) for a temporary pool cue before 1980 designed for a straight swimming pool and has an average length of 57.5 â €
Game type
Eight-sphere
In the United States, the most played game is eight balls. The goal of the eight balls, which are played with a rack full of fifteen balls and balls, is to claim a lawsuit (ordinary or solid lines in the US, and red or yellow in the UK), pocket them all, then legally bagging 8 balls, while deny the opponent the chance to do the same with their suit, and without submerging the ball 8 by accident. In the UK this game is usually played in pubs, and is played competitively in leagues on both sides of the Atlantic. The most prestigious tournaments include World Open sponsored and approved by the International Pool Tour. The rules vary greatly from place to place (and between continents in such a way that an English-style eight-ball pool/black ball is really considered a separate game in its own right). North American swimming pools are increasingly settled in World Pool-Billiard Association International Standardized Rules. But the eight eighth ball (also known as " bar pool "), usually played on smaller tables, operated with coins and by way of "winner keeping table", can differ significantly even between two places in the same city. The growth of local, regional and national amateur leagues can alleviate this confusion in the end.
Nine-balls
Nine balls use only balls 1 through 9 and ball cues. This is a rotational game: The player on the table must make legal contact with the lowest numbered ball on the table or the breach called. The game was won by nailing nine balls legally. The nine-ball is a dominant professional game, although in 2006-2008 there were some suggestions that this could change, for the sake of ten balls. There are many touring and local and regional tournaments are contested with nine balls. The World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) and its affiliate in the United States, Billiard Congress of America (BCA), publish the World Standard Rules. European professional circuits have applied the rule changes to make it more difficult to achieve a legal break.
The biggest nine ball tournaments are the independent US Open Nine-Ball Championship and World WMA World Championships for men and women. Men's professionals have a somewhat fragmented schedule of professional ball tournaments. The United States Professional Pool Players Association (UPA) has been the most dominant association in the 1990s and 2000s. The current contested event is the annual Mosconi Cup, which brings together European and US teams that invite each other in one on one and scotch doubles game nine balls for several days. The Mosconi Cup game was played under a stricter European rule, in 2007.
Three balls
The variant uses only three balls, generally played in such a way that the player in turn keeps shooting until all the balls are pocketed, and the player to do it in the shot least wins. The game can be played by two or more players. Divided with several common offenses for both nine and eight balls.
One-pocket
One pocket is a strategic game for two players. Each player is given one of the corner pockets on the table. This is the only pocket where he can legally pocket the ball. The first player who pocketed most of the ball (8) in his pocket won the match. This game requires a much more defensive strategy than an offensive strategy, unlike an eight ball, nine ball, or straight pool. Often, capable players choose to place the ball near their pocket instead of trying to really pocket them. This allows them to control the game by forcing their opponent to be in defense rather than taking a low percentage shot which can lead to the loss of the game. This low percentage shoot is known as a "flyer" by a single pocket fan.
Bank pool
The bank pool can be played with a full rack (can be an old game ), but more often played with nine balls (often called "nine-ball banks"). The balls are tortured in a nine-ball formation, but not in any particular order. The purpose of the game is simple: to be the first player to donate five balls in any order (eight balls when played with a full rack). Penalties and offenses are the same as the one pocket in which the player commits an offense should see the ball for any offense. This should be done before shooting incoming players.
The governing body
As a competitive sport, the set is organized internationally by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), which has a multi-national regional affiliation comprising All Africa Pool Association (AAPA), Asian Pocket Billiard Union (APBU, including the Middle East), Billiard Congress of America (BCA, Canada and USA), Confederation Panamerica of Billiards (CPB, Latin America and Caribbean), European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF, Russia and Near East), and Oceania Pocket Billiard Association (OPBA, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands) WPA represents a swimming pool in the World of Sports Confederation Billiard, which in turn represents all forms of gesture sports (including billowing karom and snooker) at the International Olympic Committee.
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