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    Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is...
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  • The World Nine-ball Championships are held annually, and are sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association. Events have been held for boys and women...
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  • The WPA World Nine-ball Championship is an annual professional nine-ball pool tournament contested since 1990. The championship is sanctioned by the World...
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  • (For the same reason, the glossary's information on eight-ball, nine-ball, and ten-ball draws principally on the stable WPA rules, because there are...
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  • Nine-ball (or nine-ball, 9 ball, 9-ball and other variant spellings) is a pool (pocket billiards) game, played with nine object balls, of which the 9 ball...
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    professional pool game, after nine-ball, and for the last several decades ahead of straight pool. The game of eight-ball arose around 1900 in the United...
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    popular include: eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. Eight-ball is the most frequently played...
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    Pool Championship, formerly the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship, is an annual professional men's nine-ball pool tournament that began in its current...
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    possible. In nine-ball, the basic principles are the same as detailed in the eight-ball section above, but only balls 1 through 9 are used; the 1 ball is always...
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    four-ball Pocket billiards (or pool), played on six-pocket tables of seven, eight, nine, or ten-foot length, including among others eight-ball (the world's...
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    Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "money ball". Although...
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  • Asian Nine-ball Tour (also known as the Guinness Asian 9-Ball Tour or San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour for sponsorship reasons) was an annual series of nine-ball...
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  • conducts pool leagues and tournaments in the disciplines of eight-ball and nine-ball with a unified ruleset. The organization was founded in 1981 by professional...
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  • Amita, who longs for more independence from her mother; security hacker Nine Ball; street hustler and pickpocket Constance; and profiteer Tammy, a housewife...
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  • dominated Eklent Kaci, 13–4, to win the 42nd U.S. Open Pool Championship in Nine-ball pool. Shaw also appeared representing Europe at the Mosconi Cup, winning...
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  • professional Snooker player Lin Yiyang (played by Leo Wu) and a famous Nine-ball athlete Yin Guo (played by Zhao Jinmai) met on a rare snowstorm night...
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    object ball (four-ball uses an extra object ball, usually blue). Pool balls are used to play various pool games, such as eight-ball, nine-ball, and straight...
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  • 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 annual...
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    Efren Reyes (category WPA World Nine-ball Champions)
    his numerous titles, Reyes is a four-time World Eight-ball champion, the 1999 WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner, a three-time U.S. Open winner, a...
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    involves a somewhat more significant amount of luck than either nine-ball or eight-ball, because of the disproportionate value of pocketing balls on the...
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  • WPA World Nine-ball Championships, and the 2007 World Cup of Pool. Gomez was the first qualifier to reach the final of the WPA World Nine-ball Championships...
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    Shane Van Boening (category 9-Ball players)
    of all time. Van Boening has won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and has won the US Open Nine-ball Championship on 5 occasions, along with over 100...
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    Marboys Nine-ball Open 2024 Reyes Cup 2024 Hanoi Open 9-Ball Championship 2024 Shanghai Zen and Yuan8 Open Nine-ball 2024 Ibalong Festival Nine-ball Championship...
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  • play full-time on the WPBA Tour, and has been nicknamed the "Queen of Nine-Ball". Pan was named WPBA Rookie of the Year in 2006 and finished the season...
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    eight-ball champion aged 14. Alcaide made his first breakthrough reaching third place at the Spanish Open in 1998. Later during the 2001 WPA World Nine-ball...
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  • tournament the current discipline is Ten-ball, however for the Women's tournament it is played in the discipline of Nine-ball. The All Japan Championship is currently...
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    lowest numeric ball was not played into a pocket. The major competitive game nine-ball and its variants (six-ball, seven-ball, and ten-ball) are rotation...
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    eight-ball, ten in nine-ball, six in straight pool and three in ten-ball) since 1999, including eighteen (four in eight-ball, five in nine-ball, six in straight...
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  • Championship, WPBA U.S. Open 9-ball Championship, and the All Japan Championship. When she won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, she had held every...
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  • plot follows the trio as they hustle pool halls and make their way to a nine-ball tournament in Atlantic City. The film received a generally positive critical...
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