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  2. Three-cushion billiards - Wikipedia

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    Three-cushion billiards is a difficult game. Averaging one point per inning is usually national-level play, and averaging 1.5 or more is world-class play. An average of 1 means that for every turn at the table, a player point success rate is 50%.

  3. List of world three-cushion billiards champions - Wikipedia

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    The first three-cushion billiards tournament took place at Mussey’s Billiard Hall in the United States in 1878. The winner was Leon Magnus, who received a cash prize of $75 (equivalent to $2,274 in 2023). However, fans of cue sports were not immediately taken with the new sport of three-cushion billiards.

  4. UMB World Three-cushion Championship - Wikipedia

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    The UMB World Three-cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). Until 1953 it was organized by the UIFAB (Union Internationale des Federations d'Amateurs de Billard).

  5. Cue sports at the World Games - Wikipedia

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    Cue sports, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball (a pool discipline) and snooker, were introduced as World Games sports for men and (in the case of nine-ball) for women also at the World Games 2001 in Akita. [1]

  6. Three-Cushion World Cup - Wikipedia

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    The Three-Cushion World Cup is an international tournament series in three-cushion billiards, which is held every year since 1986 between three and ten times a year. History [ edit ]

  7. Three-cushion billiards at the 2022 World Games – Men's 3 ...

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    The men's singles three-cushion billiards competition at the 2022 World Games took place from 13 to 17 July 2022 at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  8. Carom billiards - Wikipedia

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    Three-cushion billiards retains great popularity in parts of Europe, Asia, and Latin America, [1] and is the most popular carom billiards game played in the US today. UMB, as the governing body of the sport, had been staging world three-cushion championships since the late 1920s. [22]

  9. Efren Reyes - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, Billiards Digest magazine named Reyes the Player of the Year. [60] The following year, when Reyes was ranked number one on the United States' Pro Billiards Tour, the June 1996 issue of the magazine featured a poll of "billiard cognoscenti"—pro players, billiards writers, industry insiders and the like—to pick the best in billiards ...