Pool (sports)

Pool (also known as pool billiard) is a American game played on a pool table. It is also popular for some time in Belgium, Netherlands and especially among young people. Pool is one of the species pool table. This includes snooker and Carom billiards (in Netherlands referred to as billiards).

Pool is played on a pool table, where in each corner and in the middle of the long sides a hole (pocket) is. The balls must be shot in the pockets, as is the case in snooker .

A standard set of pool balls is numbered from 1 to 15, with the numbers 1 to 7 the ' whole ' either solids (balls in one color) are called, number 8 the black ball is and the numbers 9 to 15 the ' half ' or stripes (white side with a coloured band) are.

There are multiple game variants. These are the three most popular:


 * 8-ball
 * 9-ball
 * either 14.1 straight pool

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[hide] *1 8-ball  ==8-ball[ Edit] == 8-ball is played with 16 balls: one cue ball (the white) and 15 numbered balls. The numbers 1 to 7 is called the whole balls (solids), the numbers 9 to 15 is called the half balls (stripes). The black ball is the 8-ball. There is played with two players. The objective of the game is that one player clear all the balls and the other player the half balls. The 8-ball is finally outplayed. A pool table on which played in pool hall the coin to Gorinchem.==9-ball[ Edit] == 9-ball is played by two players with 10 balls: one cue ball (the white) and 9 colored balls, the numbers 1 through 9. One should always be the first to hit the lowest numbered ball on the table. The player does not pocket to nominate. If one the 9-ball pot correctly, one has won. ==straight pool (14.1)[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Straight-pool is the original form of pool billiards which gradually was supplanted by the variants 8-ball and 9-ball where the risk of a missed shot usually is higher. It is played by two or more players with 16 balls, one cue ball (the white) and 15 color balls: the numbers 1 to 15. The goal is as many balls to pots. Each correctly pocketed ball is worth 1 point. One plays to a pre-agreed number of points. ==The pool table<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Pool tables have a rectangular playing field that two times as long as wide. The size of a table is expressed in feet and is not prescribed, except for professional tournaments where tables 8-or 9voets should be used.The sizes of the actual playing field are slightly smaller than the "footprint" <p lang="en" len="34" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The height depends on the pool table. ==Other game variants<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Competition and major tournaments<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="117" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Pool is except as a leisure activity played in leagues and tournaments on amateur and professional level.
 * 2 9-ball
 * 3 straight-pool (14.1)
 * 4 the pool table
 * 5 Other game variants
 * 6 notes
 * 7 Players
 * CoBiCa (2 to 6 players)
 * 7-ball
 * 10-ball
 * One Pocket
 * Lottery Pool (2 to 7 players)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Netherlands, the national and regional team competition organized from the KNBB (Categories). Rural point of view there are 4 divisions:

<p lang="en" len="55" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The national competition is played on weekends.
 * Eredivisie
 * First Division
 * Second Division (North/South)
 * Third Division (North/South/East/West)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There below is the regional competition. The country is divided into regions, for example, West4 the region of Zeeland and West Brabant at Tilburg. Each region has one or more classes. Per season 2013/2014 State regional competition separate from the rural, and promotion is no longer possible.

<p lang="en" len="57" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The regional competition will be organised during the week.

<p lang="en" len="106" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also organizes the KNBB the individual national ranking tournaments and the NK for the various game modes.

<p lang="en" len="60" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some of the most important tournaments at world level:


 * WPA World Eight-ball Championship
 * WPA World Nine-ball Championship
 * World Straight Pool Championship
 * World Pool Masters Tournament
 * The World Cup of Pool
 * The US Open Nine-ball Championship
 * The International Challenge of Champions
 * The Mosconi Cup