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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. Carom billiards - Wikipedia

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    Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the ...

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

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    Three-cushion billiards men's singles at the 2022 World Games; Venue: Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex, Birmingham, United States: Dates: 13–17 July 2022: Competitors: 16 from 15 nations: Medalists

  5. 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.

  6. 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]

  7. Christian Rudolph (billiards player) - Wikipedia

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    At the age of nine years Christian was practicing in the two father-operated billiard-halls in Cologne. [2] Rudolph practices three hours a day at the table and one hour at the gym. He ignored the typical entry into the game of carom billiards, starting with straight rail, and played three-cushion from the beginning on. Rudolph still lives (as ...

  8. Category:Three-cushion billiards competitions - Wikipedia

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    T. Three-cushion billiards at the 2001 World Games – men's singles; Three-cushion billiards at the 2005 World Games – men's singles; Three-cushion billiards at the 2009 World Games – men's singles

  9. 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).