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This category is for the cue sport known as English billiards, a hybrid of pocket billiards and carom billiards, played in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other Commonwealth countries The main article for this category is English billiards .
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) is the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards. It is headquartered in Bristol , England. Founded as the Professional Billiard Players Association (PBPA) in 1946, with Joe Davis as chairman, it was revived in 1968 after some years of inactivity and renamed the ...
"U.S. Open Pocket Billiards Championship" as a proper noun most often refers to the straight pool (14.1 continuous pool) championship, the oldest of the events. Though "U.S. Open Pool Championship" as a stand-in for an official event name most commonly refers to the nine-ball event, it may, depending upon context, refer to any of six different ...
The United States Billiard Media Association (USBmA) was organized in January 2007 [19] to elect "billiard media members to the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame Board". [19] This media-focused suborganization also lists other goals in its materials, including "elevating the visibility and status of billiards in the media at large" as ...
The World Billiards Championship is an international cue sports tournament in the discipline of English billiards, organised by World Billiards, a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). In its various forms, and usually as a single competition, the title is one of the oldest sporting world championships ...
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English billiards, [1] called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two cue balls (one white and one yellow) and a red object ball are used. Each player or team uses a different cue ball.
American-style eight-ball arose around 1900, derived from basic pyramid pool. [1] In 1925, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company began offering ball sets specifically for the game using unnumbered yellow and red balls (in contrast to the numbered solids and stripes found in most pool ball sets), a black eight ball, and the white cue ball.