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The game [[snooker]] is played on a table with pockets just like billiards, but is considered to be its own discipline of cue sport. | The game [[snooker]] is played on a table with pockets just like billiards, but is considered to be its own discipline of cue sport. | ||
| + | ''Pocket billiards'' is also a slang term for men who play with themselves while fully dress. | ||
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Revision as of 21:11, June 20, 2007
Pocket billiards is the term for a collective of games played on a billiard table having 6 pockets along the cushions, in which the aim is to knock the balls into the pockets.
The term Pocket billiards is now generally not used. Instead, pool is used to describe billiards' many forms. There are numerous different types of pocket billiards games, for example eight-ball, nine-ball and straight pool.
The game snooker is played on a table with pockets just like billiards, but is considered to be its own discipline of cue sport.
Pocket billiards is also a slang term for men who play with themselves while fully dress.