In 2018, championships were held across three continents to determine the best players in major cue sports, including snooker, pool, and English billiards...
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and pool are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard...
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Pool is a series 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...
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Cue sports techniques (usually more specific, e.g., billiards techniques, snooker techniques) are a vital important aspect of game play in the various...
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is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom...
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surrounding table-top cue sports. These events include snooker, pool disciplines and billiards. Whilst these are traditionally singles sports, some matches and...
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Cue sports have a long history in India. The game of snooker originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the latter half of the 19th...
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Revolution: Cue Sports (also known in Europe as Cue Sports: Snooker vs. Billiards and in Japan as Cue Sports: Wi-Fi Taisen Billiards) is a sports simulation...
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2018 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. The main events for this year were the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the 2018 FIFA...
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The 2018 Kremlin Cup was an international professional ten-ball pool tournament held between 17 and 21 September in Moscow, Russia. Niels Feijen defeated...
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in the al-Attiya Sports Arena of the Al-Arabi Sports Club in Doha, Qatar. The Qatari capital held the event for the eighth time in a row. The reigning...
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and the United States. It took place between 4–7 December 2018 at the Alexandra Palace in London, England and was sponsored by partypoker. The reigning...
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singles tournament at the 1998 Asian Games in Thailand took place from 7 December to 9 December at Land Sports Complex. Akio Shimada of Japan won the gold...
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Cue sports at the 2009 East Asian Games was held at the Hong Kong International Trade and Exhibition Centre from 3 to 7 December 2009. A total of 8 events...
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Retrieved 26 February 2018. "World Pool Masters: Niels Feijen wins title for second time in his career". Sky Sports. Retrieved 5 March 2018. "Shaw & Wu complete...
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Tom Dennis (snooker player) (category Cue sports biography stubs)
appearance in 1933. He also reached the final of the tournament in 1927, losing again to Davis in the final 11–20. After his final loss in 1931, he played in the...
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The 2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship was a professional nine-ball pool tournament that took place in Sanya, China from 3 to 9 December 2018. The...
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Peter Gilchrist (billiards player) (category Asian Games medalists in cue sports)
Retrieved 12 October 2019. "Games-Gilchrist on cue for more billiards glory in adopted home". Yahoo Sports. 7 June 2015. Archived from the original on 11...
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Torbjörn Blomdahl (category World Games medalists in cue sports)
Champion in three-cushion billiards, having won the titles in 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2015 and in 2019. Torbjörn Blomdahl was born in Gothenburg...
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development of Snooker players in Pakistan. The Pakistan Billiard & Snooker Federation was formed in 1958 and is the national sports governing body for Billiards...
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English billiards (category Cue sports disciplines)
simply billiards in the UK and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two cue balls (one white...
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The 2018 European Pool Championships was a professional pool championship that took place at the NH Hotel Koningshof, in Veldhoven, Netherlands. The event...
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Three-cushion billiards (category Sports originating in the United States)
tournament in Flushing, New York, in 2005, with first-place prize money up to US$25,000. The game has also seen increased coverage in cue sports publications...
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The 2018 World Cup of Pool was the twelfth edition of the tournament. The event took place in Luwan Gymnasium, Shanghai, China, from 15 to 20 May 2018. Winners...
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2012 WPA World Nine-ball Championship (category 2012 in cue sports)
September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2018. "2002 WPA World Pool Championship" (PDF). csns.ca. Cue Sports Nova. July 18, 2015. Archived from the original...
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Kim Ga-young (pool player) (category Asian Games medalists in cue sports)
Open Nine-ball Championship 2018 WPBA Grand Slam Nine-ball 2019 World Team Trophy Women's 9-Ball "Women's world pool: Amit in finals". GMA news.tv. April...
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and CueSports International. It was the fifth WPA World Ten-ball Championship; the previous championship was held in 2015. After plans for an event in both...
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Sport (redirect from Technology in sports)
(such as snooker and other cue sports), or primarily animal-supported (such as equestrian sport). The inclusion of mind sports within sport definitions...
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Jimmy White's 2: Cueball (redirect from Jimmy White's 2: Cue Ball)
version of the game, Eurogamer called it "a highly polished and playable" cue sports simulator. The reviewer did prefer the pool simulation over the snooker...
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2007 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship (category 2007 in cue sports)
Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines from 3–11 November 2007. It was the second consecutive time the tournament has been held in the Philippines...
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