Articles of category "Billiards competitions"

The term "pool" commonly denotes pocket billiard games, such as straight pool, one-pocket, 8-ball, and 9-ball. The term "pool" derived from "poolrooms," that is places where people gambled on horse races. Since many rooms regularly had billiard tables, pool turned out to be synonymous with billiard games by association. The terms "pocket billiards" and "pool" are now exchangeable. Learn more about variations of pool and the major pool competitions.

The sport of snooker is one of the most widely-watched sports on the British Islands where it is played by more than 4 million people. Snooker competitions attract vast spectator audience; the final game of Snooker World Championship in 2005 was watched by a record figure of 7.8 million viewers on the BBC.