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Billy Incardona (born December 2, 1943) is an American professional pool player. "Pittsburgh Billy" was inducted into the One Pocket Hall of Fame in 2007 for his outstanding contribution to the legacy of the game of one pocket. [1] In addition to playing pool, Incardona is a professional broadcaster for pocket billiards competitions around the ...
Hayden W. Lingo (1907-1973), often cited as "the man who invented the billiards game of One Pocket", [1] was a prominent early proponent of the game, and a top player in the United States in the 1940s through the 1960s.
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.
The Omaha Club was established in 1883 by business and professional men as a private male-only social club. [1] After several temporary locations, the first permanent building, an Italian Renaissance design by architect Thomas Rogers Kimball was opened on New Year's Day 1895 at the northwest corner of 20th and Douglas Streets. [ 2 ]
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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 ...
His victories in the game include the Galveston World Classic One Pocket (2009) and the US Open One-pocket Championship (2000, 2011) and the Derby City One-pocket event (1999, 2004–2007 and 2014). One-pocket was the main game featured in the 2007 film, Turn the River , the story of a female pool hustler who plays high-stakes pool.
Cowboy pool (or simply cowboy) is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics. The game employs four balls, the cue ball and three others, numbered one, three, and five.