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    Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to pocket as many object balls...
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    dominant professional game), ten-ball, straight pool (the formerly dominant pro game), one-pocket, and bank pool Snooker, English billiards, and Russian...
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    different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. Eight-ball...
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  • World Straight Pool Championship is a top-level competition for straight pool, also known as "14.1 continuous". In 1910, Jerome Keough invented straight pool...
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    Rack (billiards) (redirect from Rack (pool))
    equilateral triangle. Triangular racks are used for eight-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, bank pool, snooker and many other games. Diamond-shaped frames are...
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  • full hit. straight eight Also straight eight-ball. Same as bar pool. Not to be confused with the games of straight pool or straight rail. straight up To play...
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  • Willie Mosconi (category Straight pool world champions)
    he won the World Straight Pool Championship nineteen times. For most of the 20th century, his name was essentially synonymous with pool in North America –...
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  • Open Straight Pool Championship was a pool tournament held in the United States, and one of the few featuring the discipline of straight pool. After...
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  • difficult, using ten balls instead of nine, and played called-shot Straight pool (a.k.a. 14.1 continuous), formerly the common sport of championship...
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  • most often refers to the straight pool (14.1 continuous pool) championship, the oldest of the events. Though "U.S. Open Pool Championship" as a stand-in...
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  • Killer or killers is a multi-player folk variant of straight pool in which each player is assigned a set number of "lives" and takes one shot per inning...
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    Billiard ball (redirect from Pool ball)
    object ball, usually blue). Pool balls are used to play various pool games, such as eight-ball, nine-ball, and straight pool. These balls, the most widely...
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    Russian pyramid (redirect from Russian pool)
    begin with fifteen numbered white balls racked in a pyramid pack, as in straight pool, eight-ball, and blackball. Players may pocket any object balls on the...
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    Billiard table (redirect from Pool table)
    British-style pool). Another case is the outline of the triangle rack behind the foot spot where the balls are racked in straight pool, since the outline...
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  • Steve Mizerak (category Straight pool world champions)
    2006) was an American pool player, who was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Mizerak is considered one of the best straight pool players of all time, dominant...
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    Eight-ball (redirect from 8-ball pool)
    second most played professional pool game, after nine-ball, and for the last several decades ahead of straight pool. The game of eight-ball arose around...
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    to modern games such as eight-ball, blackball, straight pool, and Russian pyramid. Along with black pool, it was one of the progenitor cue sports of snooker...
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    Mike Sigel (category Straight pool world champions)
    in 9-Ball and Straight Pool and has a high run of 339 balls in Straight Pool. Mike Sigel is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all...
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  • LoreeJon Ogonowski-Brown (category Pool biography stubs)
    performed her first three trick shots at age 6 in Chicago at a men's World Straight Pool tournament. At age 11, she became a pro player with the Women's Professional...
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  • International Straight Pool Open formerly known as the American Straight Pool Championship is a prestigious professional straight pool (also known as...
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  • amateurs women Pool blackball chinese eight ball eight-ball men nine-ball women nine-ball team nine-ball pyramid ten-ball straight pool Snooker men women...
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  • globally. IPT Ultimate 14.1 Straight Pool, April 29, 2008: the IPT decided to feature an undercard match of 14.1 straight pool, which marked the first time...
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  • run by the EPBF. Current disciplines include 8-ball, 9-Ball, 10-Ball, Straight pool, and team events), and for different age and ability ranges, with events...
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    Allen Hopkins has earned titles in such varied events as the 1977 World Straight Pool Championship, the 1978 and 1981 U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships, the...
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    Shane Van Boening (category Straight pool world champions)
    Weekly News, Straight Shooter, November 16, 2005. Retrieved June 12, 2007 Archived September 27, 2018, at the Wayback Machine InternationalPoolTour.com[usurped]...
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    Mika Immonen (category Straight pool world champions)
    Mika Immonen (born 17 December 1972) is a Finnish professional Hall of Fame pool player, nicknamed "The Iceman." Immonen was born in London, England, and...
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    Nick Varner (category Straight pool world champions)
    Eight-ball, Straight Pool, One Pocket and Bank Pool. Varner is one of the few players to be inducted into the BCA, One Pocket and Bank Pool Hall of Fame...
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    Jean Balukas (category American pool players)
    completely dominated women's professional pool during the 1970s and 1980s. Balukas won five WPBA World Straight Pool Championship titles, the WPBA World 9-Ball...
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    compared with pool cues. Typical carom cues are 140–140 cm (54–56 in) in length and 470–520 g (16.5–18.5 oz) in weight – lighter for straight rail, heavier...
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  • an earthquake was in progress. He held the World Champion title in straight pool in 1971, 1974 and 1978. In 1994, Martin was inducted into the Billiard...
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