The term Template:Gli is sometimes used to refer to all of the cue sports, to a specific class of them, or to specific ones such as English billiards; this article uses the term in its most generic sense unless otherwise noted.
The labels "British" and "UK" as applied to entries in this glossary refer to terms originating in the UK and also used in countries that were fairly recently part of the British Empire and/or are part of the Commonwealth of Nations, as opposed to US (and, often, Canadian) terminology. The terms "American" or "US" as applied here refer generally to North American usage. However, due to the predominance of US-originating terminology in most internationally competitive pool (as opposed to snooker), US terms are also common in the pool context in other countries in which English is at least a minority language, and US (and borrowed French) terms predominate in carom billiards. Similarly, British terms predominate in the world of snooker, English billiards, and blackball, regardless of the players' nationalities.
The term "blackball" is used in this glossary to refer to both blackball and eight-ball pool as played in the UK, as a shorthand. Blackball was chosen because it is less ambiguous ("eight-ball pool" is too easily confused with the international standardized "eight-ball"), and blackball is globally standardized by an International Olympic Committee-recognized governing body, the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA); meanwhile, its ancestor, eight-ball pool, is largely a folk game, like North American Template:Gli, and to the extent that its rules have been codified, they have been done so by competing authorities with different rulesets. (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 many competing amateur leagues and even professional tours with divergent rules for these games.)
Foreign-language terms are generally not within the scope of this list, unless they have become an integral part of billiards terminology in English (e.g. Script error: No such module "Lang".), or they are crucial to meaningful discussion of a game not widely known in the English-speaking world.
See the Five-pin billiards main article for the formerly Italian, now internationally standardized game; or Danish pin billiards for the five-pin traditional game of Denmark.
Template:GhatAlso the 6. The Template:Gli numbered 6; in American-style pool ball sets, it is Template:Gli green. The 6 is the Template:Gli (or Template:Gli) in a game of six-ball. It is the last ball that must be pocketed, after the remaining five object balls have been pocketed, or may be pocketed early to win the game so long as the lowest-numbered ball on the table is struck before the 6. In other games, such as eight-ball, the 6 is simply one of the regular object balls. In some American snooker ball sets, the Template:Gli is numbered 6, its point value.
Template:GhatAlso the 7. The Template:Gli numbered 7; in American-style pool ball sets, it is Template:Gli maroon, brown, or rarely tan. Some variants, for the seven-ball game, are brown with a black or white stripe. The 7 is the Template:Gli (or Template:Gli) in a game of seven-ball. It is the last ball that must be pocketed, after the remaining six object balls have been pocketed, or may be pocketed early to win the game so long as the lowest-numbered ball on the table is struck before the 7. In other games, such as eight-ball, the 7 is simply one of the regular object balls. In some American snooker ball sets, the Template:Gli is numbered 7, its point value.
Template:GhatAlso the 9. The Template:Gli numbered 9; in American-style pool ball sets, it is Template:Gli yellow. The 9 is the Template:Gli (or Template:Gli) in a game of nine-ball. It is the last ball that must be pocketed, after the remaining eight object balls have been pocketed, or may be pocketed early to win the game so long as the lowest-numbered ball on the table is struck before the 9. In other games, such as eight-ball, the 9 is simply one of the regular object balls.
Template:GhatAlso the 10. The Template:Gli numbered 10; in American-style pool ball sets, it is Template:Gli blue. The 10 is the Template:Gli (or Template:Gli) in a game of ten-ball. It is the last ball that must be pocketed, after the remaining nine object balls have been pocketed, or may be pocketed early to win the game so long as the lowest-numbered ball on the table is struck before the 10, and the 10 ball and pocket are Template:Gli. In other games, such as eight-ball, the 10 is simply one of the regular object balls.
Also ahead session.
A Template:Gli format in which a player has to establish a lead of an agreed number of Template:Gli (Template:Gli) in order to win (e.g. in a ten-ahead race, a player wins when she/he has won ten more Template:Gli than the opponent).[1]Contrast Template:Gli.
An imaginary line drawn from the desired path an Template:Gli is to be sent (usually the center of a Template:Gli) and the center of the object ball.Template:Sfnp
A type of Template:Gli used in carom billiards games. With one Template:Gli being Template:Gli (Template:Gli, British: Template:Gli) to a Template:Gli and the second object ball just slightly away from the cushion, the Template:Gli is gently grazed across the face of both balls, freezing the away ball to the rail and moving the frozen ball away the same distance its partner was previously, in an identical but reversed configuration, in position to be struck again by the cue ball from the opposite side to repeat this pattern, back and forth.[3]Compare Template:Gli.
The angle at which a ball approaches a Template:Gli, as measured from the perpendicular to the cushion.[4] The phrase has been in use since as early as 1653.[1]
In carom games, a shot in which in attempting to score, the cue ball contacts three or more Template:Gli, usually including both Template:Gli.Template:Sfnp
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A coarse woolen cloth used to cover billiard tables, usually green in colour. Sometimes called felt, based on a similarity in appearance, though very different in makeup.[1]
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1. An area defined on a billiard table by one or more Template:Gli. In the eponymous game of balkline billiards, there are eight balks defined by perpendicular balklines, in which only a set number of Template:Gli may be scored before at least one ball must leave the area.[7] In the earlier (and short-lived) "champions' game", there were four triangular balks, one at each corner, defined by single diagonal balklines. Not to be confused with Template:Gli (second definition).
2. An area defined on a billiard table, in games such as pool, snooker, English billiards and bagatelle, by a single Template:Gli (drawn or imaginary) that runs across the table near the Template:Gli (Template:Gli) end; exactly where depends upon table type and size. This balk is where the cue ball is placed in Template:Gli for lead, for making the opening Template:Gli shot, and sometimes for other purposes, depending upon the game. This usage of "balk" is strictly technical, and rarely used in practice. In pool, this area is called the Template:Gli and is divided from the rest of the table by the Template:Gli, while in snooker, English billiards and blackball it is the somewhat differently sized and delimited Template:Gli, defined by the Template:Gli. On baulk tables, which have Template:Gli inside baulk, and on pool tables with a Template:Gli in the kitchen, the actual area from which to shoot is even smaller than the baulk or kitchen, respectively – a balk within the balk.
Template:Ghat
1. A line drawn horizontally from a point on a billiard table's Template:Gli to the corresponding point on the opposite rail, thus defining a region (a Template:Gli). In the eponymous balkline billiards there are four balklines, drawn parallel to and typically 14 or 18 inches from the cushions of the table, dividing it into nine compartments or divisions, of which the outside eight are the balks, in which only a set number of caroms may be scored before at least one ball must leave the area.[7] Not to be confused with Template:Gli, though the concepts and etymologies are related. See Template:Gli (second definition).
Also cue ball in-hand.
The option of placing the Template:Gli anywhere on the table prior to shooting, in a game of pool. Usually only available to a player when the opposing player has committed some type of Template:Gli under a particular game's rules[1]Template:Sfnp (cf. the free throw in basketball by way of comparison). See also Template:Gli for the snooker definition. A common variation, used in games such as straight pool and often in Template:Gli, is ball-in-hand "behind the head string", also "behind the line" or "from the kitchen", meaning the ball-in-hand option is restricted to placement anywhere behind the Template:Gli, i.e., in the area of the table known as the Template:Gli.
Template:Ghat
Any legally strikeable ball on the table in snooker and generally British terminology.Template:Sfnp For example, in blackball,[8] if a player is playing Template:Gli, any yellow ball (or any solid, from 1 to 7, if using a solids-and-stripes ball set) can be the ball-on until they are all Template:Gli, in which case the 8 ball is the ball-on. In snooker, at the beginning of a player's turn, unless all are already potted, any Template:Gli can be the ball-on.[1]Compare Template:Gli.
A collection bin mounted below the foot end of a table, to which balls potted in any pocket will return by means of gravity-assisted gutters or troughs running from each pocket opening to the bin; these are the ball-return mechanism, which may be internal to the table or an external gutter system. Ball returns have been in use since at least the 1700s. Pockets that simply collect balls are known as Template:Gli.[1] A table without a ball return may be called a "drop pocket table", while a table featuring a ball return may be called a "gully table".Template:Sfnp Coin-operated Template:Gli have ball-return mechanisms that separate the Template:Gli from the Template:Gli so that the object balls are captured when pocketed until the game ends, then released when paid for again, while the cue ball is continually returned for continued play after Template:Gli. This type of table can use a variety of methods to distinguish the cue ball from object balls including the Template:Gli, the dense ceramic "Template:Gli" and the oversized "Template:Gli" ball. Ball return mechanisms have also been devised that use a smaller, lighter cue ball, instead of a magnetic or heavier one. There are tables that use optical sensors to distinguish a standard cue ball from object balls.[9] Some of them are also setup to return the 8 ball as well, so that pocketing it on the break does not end the game.
A derogatory term for a recreational or beginning player who "bangs" the balls without any thought for Template:Gli nor attempt to control the Template:Gli; also a reference to the predilection of beginners to often hit the cue ball far harder than necessary.[10]Compare British Template:Gli.
Also bank. Shot in which an Template:Gli is driven to one or more rails prior to being Template:Gli (or in some contexts, prior to reaching its intended target; not necessarily a pocket). Sometimes "bank" is conflated to refer to Template:Gli as well, and in the UK it is often called a double.[1][5]
A rule variant common in Template:Gli versions of eight-ball, in which the 8-ball must be pocketed on a Template:Gli (generally this would either be accomplished via a bank shot proper or a Template:Gli); shooting the 8 straight in is a loss of game. Players may agree before the game begins to invoke this rule, or one player may challenge another player (who might accept or refuse) to conclude the game in this manner after it is already under way. Playing bank-the-8 can be considered rude if many other players are waiting to use the table, since it often makes the game last considerably longer. Often on bar tables three Template:Glies while shooting for the 8 determines a loss. The same with last-pocket.
Also bar league player.
A player that predominantly plays in bars/pubs, or is in a bar-based pool league. Often used pejoratively by pool hall players to refer to a perceived lesser skill level of such players. See also Template:Gli, Template:Gli.
Template:GhatPool, almost always a variant of eight-ball, that is played by Template:Gli on a Template:Gli. Bar pool has rules that vary from region to region, sometimes even from venue to venue in the same city, especially in the U.S. Wise players thus ensure understanding of and agreement to the rules before engaging in a Template:Gli under bar rules. Typical differences between bar pool and tournament eight-ball are the lack of Template:Gli after a Template:Gli, the elimination of a number of fouls, and (with numbered ball sets) the requirement that most aspects of a shot be Template:Gli (including Template:Gli and other Template:Gli to be contacted) not just the Template:Gli and Template:Gli. Bar pool has evolved into this "nitpicky" version principally to make the games last longer, since bar pool is typically played on coin-operated tables that cost money per-game rather than per-hour. Competitive league pool played on bar tables, however, usually uses international, national or local/regional league rules, and is not what is usually meant by "bar pool". Not to be confused with the game of bar billiards.
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A distinctive size of pool table found in bars, pubs, or taverns as well as venues such as family entertainment centers, arcades and bowling alleys. These are smaller than the full-size tables found in pool halls. While typical professional and competition tables are Template:Convert, bar tables are typically Template:Convert. In bars they are almost always coin-operated. Another distinguishing factor is the cue ball; these tables capture pocketed Template:Gli to remove them from play, but selectively return a Template:Gli cue ball. The cue balls historically were differently sized or of different density so they could be mechanically separated. Because this changes the mechanics of the cue ball, these cue balls do not play as competition cue balls, and they are therefore deprecated by aficionados. However, modern bar tables typically make use of a magnetic layer inside a regulation size and weight cue ball paired with a magnet mechanism within the table's Template:Gli system that separates out the cue ball without requiring cue ball characteristics that affect play.[11] Systems that use optical sensors to distinguish the cue ball have also been introduced.[9] Pool hall players complain also that the Template:Gli used on bar tables is often greatly inferior (in particular that it is "slow" and that Template:Gli does not "take" enough), and often find that the Template:Gli are not as responsive as they are used to.[1]
Also baulk-line.[14]
A straight line drawn 29 inches (73.66 cm) from the face of the Template:Gli on a standard 6 × 12 foot snookertable.[1] Its positioning varies on other sizes of tables. Baulk lines may also be drawn on English billiards tables, and even British-style pool tables. The baulk line is an integral part of Template:Gli.[15] The baulk line's position is always determined by measurement from the baulk cushion, in contrast to the similar but different Template:Gli, the position of which is determined by the Template:Gli. Not to be confused with Template:Gli.
The flat surface of a table, exclusive of the Template:Gli.[1][12] The bed is covered with Template:Gli like the cushions. The Template:Gli of the table consists of the bed except where the cushion overhangs the bed, i.e. it is all of the bed between the cushion Template:Gli. Quality beds are made of smooth-ground slate, though very cheap tables may use particle board or plywood. The earliest beds were simply the surfaces of the wooden tables on which the game was played.
Used in snooker in reference to the position of the Template:Gli. It is "below" the object ball if it is off-straight on the Template:Gli side of the imaginary line for a straight pot (e.g. she will want to finish below the Template:Gli in order to go into the Template:Glis). This may seem counterintuitive; see Template:Gli for an explanation.
A carom billiards metaphor, it refers to an object ball positioned and being approached in such a manner that a near miss will rebound off a cushion and still score. It is as if the ball were larger than normal, making it easier to contact. Normally a ball near a rail is a big ball, but only if being approached from an angle and if all the prerequisite rails have already been contacted.
Not to be confused with the eight-ball term "the big balls", referring to the higher-numbered striped balls. In older British usage the concept was referred to as "large ball".[1] See also Template:Gli.
A pool and occasionally snooker term (inherited from carom billiards by way of "Template:Gli", above), it is a metaphor for a shot that is very difficult to miss pocketing for any of a number of reasons, most commonly: either the object ball is positioned such that a near miss on one side of it will likely cause the cue ball to rebound off the rail into the object ball and pocket it anyway; or another ball is positioned such that if the target ball does not go straight in, it is still likely to go in off the other ball in a Template:Gli. It is as if the pocket, for this one shot, had become larger. The term can also refer to the angle of shot toward a pocket, especially a side pocket; the pocket is said to be "bigger", for example, on a shot that is only a 5-degree angle away from straight on, than on a 45-degree angle shot which is much more likely to hit one of the cushion points and bounce away.
2. In certain carom billiards games such as three-cushion, a successful attempt at making a scoring billiard shot under the rules for that game (such as contacting three cushions with the cue ball while executing the billiard). A failed attempt at scoring would, in this context, not be called "a billiard" by players of such games even if it satisfied the first, more general definition.[16]
1. In the US, Canada and in many different countries and languages (under various spellings) as well as historically, generally refers to all cue sports;
2. Sometimes refers to just carom games as opposed to pool (especially in the US and Canada);
3. In British terminology, chiefly refers to the game known in the rest of the world as English billiards.
Eyeglasses specially made for cue sports, with tall lenses, set unusually high, so that when the head is lowered over the cue stick for aiming, with the nose pointing downward, the eyes can still look through the lenses instead of over them. They are especially popular among snooker players (notably, 1985 World Champion Dennis Taylor).
2. Chiefly British: The Template:Gli in a pool set, applying both to the Template:Gli typically used in blackball pool as well as the solids-and-stripes used in other pool games, such American-style eight-ball, nine-ball and straight pool.[8] In some casino ball sets, the black ball is actually striped black on white.
The useless but common practice of contorting one's body while a shot is in play, usually in the direction one wishes a ball or balls to travel, as if in the vain hope that this will influence the balls' trajectories; the term is considered humorous.[1]See also Template:Gli.
Template:Ghat
The bottle used in various games to hold numbered Template:Gli, it is employed to assign random spots to players in a roster (such as in a tournament), or to assign random balls to players of a game (such as in kelly pool and bottle pool).[1]Template:Sfnp[16]
1. Chiefly British: The half of the table from which the Template:Gli is taken. This usage is conceptually opposite that in North America, where this end of the table is called the Template:Gli. Contrast Template:Gli.See also Template:Gli.
2. Chiefly American: Exactly the opposite of the above – the Template:Gli end of the table. No longer in common usage.
A type of Template:Gli formed between the thumb and forefinger, creating a loop for the cue to pass through. Principally used in carom billiards, the term is French for 'curled'.[21]
1. Also break shot or break off, as a noun. Typically describes the first shot in most types of billiards games. In carom games it describes the first point attempt, as shot from an unvarying Template:Gli and Template:Gli placement; in many pool games it describes the first shot, which is used to separate the object balls that have been Template:Gli together;[1]
In straight pool, the last object ball left on a table before the remaining fourteen balls must be racked so the player at the table may continue their run. It is called the "break ball" because it is common for players to try to leave this ball in such a position that they may easily pot it and billiard off of it to break open the rack of fourteen balls and continue their run.
To take one's two-piece cue stick apart. When done before a game's conclusion, it may indicate that the game is conceded.[1] Different leagues have different rules on this matter.
Either the player's hand or a Template:Gli used to support the shaft end of the cue stick during a shot. Also the particular hand formation used for this purpose (there are many).[1][16]
The hand used by a player as a Template:Gli during a normal shot that does not involve a Template:Gli. The bridge hand is usually a player's non-dominant hand.[1]
Also the brown.
In snooker, the highest-value Template:Gli, worth four points.[24] It is placed on the Template:Gli.[24][18] In some (especially American) snooker ball sets, it is numbered "4" on its surface.
The bumper on the bottom of a cue, usually made from rubber, which insulates the Template:Gli from contact with the floor and greatly reduces noise. The bumper was first patented in 1880.[1]
1. To seal the pores of a wooden cue's Template:Gli by rubbing vigorously with some material. Leather is commonly employed for the task, as is paper money.
2. To similarly vigorously rub the edge of a Template:Gli (especially a new one) to fortify it against Template:Gli and ensure that it is perfectly flush with the Template:Gli.
3. A Template:Gli maintenance tool, most commonly a cylindrical glass rod, used for smoothing minor nicks in the shaft. This is sometimes done after swelling the wood at the nick site with some moist application.
Named after their innovator, legendary cuemaker George Balabushka, bushka rings are decorative bands of material incorporated into pool cues, commonly just above the Template:Gli area, in the form of ebony and ivory blocks, or sometimes other materials, alternating in a checked pattern.[25]
Collusion between matchplay opponents who prearrange the winner of a match on which other people's money is wagered, in order to guarantee a payday.[1]
A players' auction at a pool tournament. Each player is called and players and spectators bid on the player. The highest bidder(s) pays their bid to the calcutta, and by doing so invest in that player's success. If a player wins or places in the tournament, those who "bought" the player receive a percentage of the total calcutta payout, usually tracking the percentage payout of the tournament prize fund. Typically, players have the option of purchasing half of themselves when the high bid is won by a third party. Like Template:Gli and Template:Gli, usually not capitalized.
Any instance of a player having to say what they are about to do. For example, in straight pool a player must call the pocket in which a ball is intended to be potted. More formal terms, used in rule books and instructional materials, include Template:Gli and Template:Gli. Contrast Template:Gli, Template:Gli.
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Applies specifically to games that enforce "Template:Gli/call-safe" rules, which require the player to either call the ball and pocket, or call a Template:Gli on every shot. After a legal shot, where a called ball is not pocketed as designated, the incoming player has the option to pass the shot back to the player who missed the called shot. If a player calls "safe", then after a legal shot, the incoming player must accept the next shot, and may not pass the shot back to the player who called "safe".[27] A call-shot/call-safe nine-ball example: Player A calls the Template:Gli, the 3 ball in this case, in the corner pocket but misses the shot. The Template:Gli rolls down table and comes to rest behind the 5 ball leaving no clear path to the 3 ball for the incoming player B. Since player A did not call "safe", incoming player B may elect to pass the shot back to player A (who must shoot).
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Describes any game in which during normal play a player must call the ball to be hit and the intended pocket; "eight-ball is a call-shot game."[16] Sometimes referred to as "call[ed]-pocket", "Template:Gli rules", etc., to distinguish it from the common North American Template:Gli practice of requiring every aspect of shots to be called, such as Template:Gli, Template:Gli, and Template:Gli to be contacted (this is sometimes also ambiguously referred to as "call-shot", but more accurately termed "call-everything" or "call-it-all"). Commonly in bar rules terminology, call-shot indicates how the shot will be made as compared to call-pocket which means simply that the ball must go into that pocket, details unnecessary. Though games with called shots technically require all shots to be called, obvious shots are seldom actually called, though such implied called shots must still be made. See also Template:Gli.
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1. Carom came into use in the 1860s and is a shortening of carambola, which was earlier used to describe the red object ball used in many billiards games.[1] In modern usage, the most general meaning of the word refers to any type of strike and rebound,[30] (a Template:Gli) off a cushion or especially a ball.
2. More specifically, short for a carom shot, a Template:Gli in British terminology, in which a point is scored in carom billiards games by careening the cue ball into the two object balls.[16]
3. In pocket games as a general class, carom or carom shot is sometimes used more loosely, between the above two definitions, to refer to clipping an object ball with the cue ball to attempt to send either or both to desirable locations, not necessarily scoring in the process. In games in which pocketing the cue ball is a goal (e.g. Russian pyramid), carom can refer to sending the cue ball into a pocket after contacting an object ball (called a Template:Gli in English billiards, it nevertheless scores points; but it is a foul in snooker, called an Template:Gli, and in pool, called a Template:Gli).
4. Short for carom billiards, as in "I do better at carom than at pool." Sometimes pluralized in this sense as caroms.
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One of the main classes of cue sports, possibly the oldest, and certainly the dominant competitive form until well into the 20th century. It is played on a table without pockets, and scoring is generally done by driving a Template:Gli into contact with one Template:Gli, then having the cue ball contact one or more Template:Gli before contacting another object ball; however, there are numerous variations, some of which involve additional objects, such as upright Template:Gli as targets or Template:Glis. Carom balls are usually larger than pool balls, and most often supplied in sets of three, though some games such as yotsudama require four. Historically the most popular carom games in the modern era were straight rail and cushion caroms, followed by balkline billiards, in turn supplanted by three-cushion billiards which remains a major competitive world sport and is the dominant cue sport in many countries. Some games, such as English billiards, are hybrids between carom and pocket billiards.
Template:GhatCarrom is a table-top game of India, sometimes played with a small cue stick though more often with the fingers, in which small disks are slid on a game board to knock other disks into pockets cut into the corners of the board. It is ancestral to several other games, including novuss, pichenotte, pitchnut, crokinole, and Chapayev. Its historical relationship to billiards games is unclear.
A set of pool balls divided into Template:Glis (Template:Glis) of red and yellow balls (typically unnumbered, aside from the black 8-ball) instead of stripes and solids. Most often used for the game of blackball (British-style eightball pool).
Also center string.
The (usually unmarked) line bisecting the centers of the two Template:Gli (and of the Template:Gli if any) and the Template:Gli. It thus runs widthwise (i.e. the short way) across the center of the table. Its intersection with the Template:Gli, running lengthwise down the middle of the table, defines the position of the center spot.
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In snooker, English billiards and other British usage, a Template:Gli of 100 points or more, which requires Template:Gli at least 25 balls consecutively, in snooker, but can be earned via a combination of scoring techniques in English billiards, etc. A century also means scoring 100+ points in a single turn in straight pool. A century of centuries is the achievement of 100 or more century breaks in a career, a feat few players have performed to date. See also Template:Gli.
A powdered substance placed on a cue's Template:Gli to increase its friction and thereby decrease slippage between the tip and Template:Gli. Cue "chalk" is not chalk (calcium carbonate), but a compound of silica and aluminium oxide. Chalk is sold in compressed, dyed (commonly blue) cubes wrapped on five sides with a paper label, and is applied (properly) in a manner similar to lipstick on the mouth. Chalk is essential to shots involving Template:Gli; failure to use it frequently during a game is likely to lead to Template:Gli.Template:Sfnp Modern cue chalk was co-invented by pro player William A. Spinks and engineer William Hoskins.[31][32]See also Template:Gli, often incorrectly referred to as "Template:Gli".
To aim at an object ball such that it will enter one side or the other, rather than the center, of a pocket (and possibly striking the Template:Gli of the pocket then rebounding into the pocket). This permits the cue ball to strike the object ball at a different Template:Gli than the most obvious one. Cheating the pocket is employed for Template:Gli, to allow a ball to pass another partially obscuring the path to the pocket, and to prevent Template:Gli on dead-straight shots in cases where draw is not desirable (or may not be dependable, e.g. because of distance from the pocket or Template:Gli).[33] The amount of pocket cheatability available varies widely by game, due to equipment differences. Pool has wide and thus very "cheatable" pockets, while snooker and Russian pyramid have pockets barely wide enough to admit a ball and therefore little room for error or for pocket-cheating.
Also checkside or check. A type of Template:Gli imparted to the Template:Gli to make it rebound off a Template:Gli at a shallower angle than it would if the spin had not been used. Normally played when the natural angle is no good to the player for the next shot.Template:Sfnp
Sometimes known as a "Chesney Allen", a slight indentation in the table's slate which can add behavioral aspects to any ball passing over it. Tables containing a chesney are legal for match play, but are generally avoided by serious and professional players.
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A situation where the Template:Gli is directly in front of another ball in the line of the shot such that the player is Template:Gli by it, having to Template:Gli over it awkwardly with the likelihood of a Template:Gli looming if the object ball is inadvertently touched.[34] The term is most common in the game of snooker but is also used in US parlance.
Known as a Template:Gli in British terminology.
A type of Template:Gli used in carom billiards games. With one object ball Template:Gli (British: Template:Gli) to a Template:Gli and the second object ball a few inches away from the cushion, the cue ball is gently rebounded off the frozen ball, not moving it, but with just enough speed to meet the other object ball, which rocks in place but does not change position. Developed to thwart the restrictions emplaced by the Template:Gli.Template:Sfnp[35]
To maneuver a ball on a shot so that it will be favorably positioned for later play into a particular pocket, even at the expense of sacrificing position or the inning to achieve that result.[6]
To play a shot using a more difficult application of stroke and speed to achieve a certain desired position for the next shot, even at the expense of or sharply increasing the likelihood of a miss.[6]
2. Chiefly American. Describing a shot in Template:Gli: the Template:Gli of an Template:Gli in a manner such that the target object ball does not Template:Gli any other object ball, and is not Template:Gli, Template:Gli, Template:Gli, or Template:Gli in, and without Template:Gli, though it may hit the Template:Gli, and depending upon local bar-rules may be allowed to contact either of the cushions, not just at the knuckle, that run into the target pocket. Usage example: "The 7 in that corner, clean". Usage can be narrower, to indicate clean other than as already specified, e.g. "bank the 7 in that corner, clean".
1. Sufficient space to legally execute a shot, without a Template:Gli (Template:Gli), e.g. from striking a Template:Gli. Usage examples: "I wonder if I really have clearance for the 8"; "I bet you can't clear the 6 and make that shot." Can apply to any shot situation, including vertically: "a long Template:Gli that has to clear three balls."
3. A type of maneuver, the Template:Vanchor or Template:Vanchor, in which the Template:Gli ball is used to move one or more balls out of the way (directly or some by subsequent impact) then continue on to a desired destination. E.g., in a game of nine-ball, if the 1 and the 7 were clustered together along a cushion with the 9 behind them near a pocket, and the cue ball could strike the 1 full face with a result of the 1 heading off the 7 toward the top rail and the 7 rebounding quickly across the table from the cushion, the cue ball, with Template:Gli could retain enough post-impact momentum to continue forward and pocket the 9 as long as both the 1 and the 7 were cleared out the way first. In a game like eight-ball, a clearance shot might also be used at the end of an inning to move some problem balls that are blocking an otherwise easy Template:Gli, and leave the cue ball in a Template:Gli position, in hopes of having a better layout to work with in the next inning. Template:Gli shots are among the most common clearance approaches, especially for very short distances of intended cue ball travel past the initial contact. "Clearance" is essentially the opposite of "Template:Gli", though the latter term is largely confined to carom billiards.
Phenomenon in which two balls, (usually the Template:Gli and an Template:Gli) have some foreign material – typically often residual cue-tip Template:Gli or dirt picked up from unbrushed Template:Gli – between the balls at the Template:Gli, resulting in the struck object ball being thrown offline from the expected trajectory, and often also affecting the post-impact behavior of the cue ball. Cling is an exaggerated form of Template:Gli, caused by momentary but unusually gripping friction imparted by the chalk or other residue. Also known as Template:Gli, or in the UK, Template:Gli (sense 2). A typical precaution against cling is to ask for the cue ball and/or object ball to be cleaned by the referee in order to remove chalk that is already on the ball prior to the shot; and (including in non-refereed games) players cleaning the cue ball personally after gaining Template:Gli. The table cloth can also be brushed between matches. When conditions seem ripe for clings (e.g. visibly dirty balls) some skilled players resort to pre-emptively using (and compensating for) Template:Not a typo, a general anti-throw technique. However, no precaution can ward against cling resulting from chalk transferred from the cue tip to the cue ball during a single shot. Coincidental cling can therefore cause unpredictable play and occasionally lead to rudimentary shots being missed at even the highest levels of the game.[36][37] "Cling" (and derived words like "clung", "clinger", "clinging", etc.) may be used as a mass noun, less commonly as a count noun, as a verb, and rarely as an adjective ("cling is annoying", "two clings in one frame", "they clung", "unintentional cling shot", respectively). See Template:Gli for snooker-specific notes.See also Template:Gli, sense 2.
Also loop bridge.
A bridge formed by the hand where a finger (normally the index finger) is curved over the cue stick and the other fingers are spread on the cloth providing solid support for the cue stick's direction. A closed bridge is less common in snooker play than in other games.Template:SfnpCompare Template:Gli.
The baize cloth covering the tables playing surface and rails, usually made from wool or a wool-nylon blend. In use since the 15th century, cloth is traditionally green-coloured, chosen for its evocation of grass. Sometimes cloth is improperly referred to as "felt." The properties of the cloth used to cover a table, as well as environmental conditions that can affect it—notably humidity, the degree it has been stretched when installed, and its level of cleanness—have a profound effect on play.[38]See also Template:Gli.
Two or more object balls that are touching or are close together. Rarer uses of the term include the intended action of a Template:Gli, and a Template:Gli of points.[38]
A term applied especially in snooker for a type of double off three cushions, e.g. around the Template:Gli and into a Template:Gli. Such a shot is very difficult to make and would not normally be played as anything more than a Template:Gli.
The protector of the Template:Gli of the cue on the joint end of the Template:Gli and Template:Gli (i.e., the butt collar and shaft collar respectively). Most modern cues use collars of steel and/or other materials, but carom billiards cues usually have a collarless wood-on-wood joint,[39] as do "Template:Gli".
Although the full term includes "ball" after the colour, they are most commonly referred to with the omission of "ball", just stating the colour (e.g. "he's taken five blacks with reds so far").
Also combination shot, combo.
Any shot in which the cue ball contacts an object ball, which in turn hits one or more additional object balls (which in turn may hit yet further object balls) to send the last-hit object ball to an intended place, usually a pocket.[16] In the UK this is often referred to as a Template:Gli.
In snooker, when a player offers the Template:Gli to their opponent, even though balls remain on the table. An accepted concession formally concludes a frame, although the opponent reserves the right not to accept the concession, in which case the frame will continue. A player typically concedes a frame when they Template:Gli. Conceding a frame before the snookers required stage is regarded as unsporting conduct that will incur a warning from the Template:Gli. If the player has already been warned, they will be penalised the following frame.
1. Template:GhatThe point on each of two balls at which they touch at the moment of impact.[16]
2. The point on the Template:Gli at which the Template:Gli hits it on the shooting stroke. If this point is not dead-center on the ball, Template:Gli will be imparted to the ball.
A type of Template:Gli in the middle of a safety exchange that is not intended to put the opponent in a difficult situation regarding their next safety, but rather played so as to not leave an easy Template:Gli on. A typical example in snooker, which sees the most shots of this kind, is a slow Template:Gli into the Template:Gli.
Any of the four Template:Gli in each corner of a pool or snooker table. They have 90-degree apertures and as such are cut deeper than center pockets, which have 180-degree apertures.
A type of Template:Gli shot used in English billiards in which two coloured balls are positioned on either side of the mouth of a snooker table pocket but not touching and, thus placed, can be successively contacted and scored off over and over by the cue ball without moving them. The cradle cannon's first known use was by Walter Lovejoy in 1907. The unofficial record using the shot is held by Tom Reece who in 1907, over the course of a month, scored 499,135 points using the cradle cannon before stopping without missing. This feat prompted the Billiards Association to outlaw the shot. The official record is held by William Cook with 42,746 points scored.Template:SfnpCompare Template:Gli.
Deviation of a ball from its initial direction of travel. Often the result of a poor-quality table and may be an artifact of the Template:Gli, the Template:Gli, a ball with uneven weight distribution, or simply the floor the table stands on being uneven. It should not be confused with the Template:Gli of the cloth.
A set of paired balls in the game of cribbage pool that have a combined number value of 15. For example, the 8 ball and the 7 ball added together equal 15 and thus constitute one cribbage if pocketed in succession.[40]
The corner formed by the rails on a carom billiards table. In modern straight rail rules, only three Template:Gli may be made while both Template:Gli are inside the boundaries of the crotch before one ball must be driven away. The boundaries of each of the four crotch areas are measured by drawing a line from the first Template:Gli on the Template:Gli to the second diamond on the Template:Gli.[16]
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The phenomenon that (Template:As of no first-time winner of the World Snooker Championship has successfully defended the title the following year since it moved to the Crucible Theatre in 1977.
1. Noun:Also cue stick. A stick, usually around 55 to 60 inches in length with a tip made of a material such as leather on the end and sometimes with a joint in the middle, which is used to propel billiard balls. Lightweight, shorter cues are sometimes also used in billiards-related disc games, including novuss and some forms of carrom, crokinole/croquignole, and pichenotte/pitchnut.
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2. Noun: Sometimes "cue" is short for Template:Gli.
Chiefly British: The posture and timing used by players on their shots, often indicative of how they play in their shot selection. A fast, natural player would tend to be more aggressive whereas a less naturally gifted player might have a slow action and tend to be more conservative on the table. It is widely thought that better snooker players get lower to the table with their chins on the Template:Gli, have a straight back leg, their elbow hinging in line with the shot, and a straight follow-through after the Template:Gli has been struck.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Also cue-ball, cueball.
The ball in almost any cue sport, typically white in colour, that a player strikes with a cue stick.[16] Sometimes referred to as the "white ball", "whitey" or "the rock".[41] In Russian pyramid, the cue ball is usually red, but any ball can be used as a cue ball, with the exception of the dynamic pyramid variant. For more information, see the billiard ball main article.
1. A portable device for holding cues upright and at the ready for immediate use. The most common types are either weighted and placed on a table top, with semicircular cut-outs into which cues may lean, or clamping varieties that firmly affix to a table and which have clips or holes into which cues are placed for added security.
A chiefly British term describing the amount of control a player can retain when playing shots with heavy Template:Gli and great pace; "it took tremendous cue power to get onto the 2 ball having been relatively straight on the 1".
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A formed tip, usually made of leather, that is affixed to the end of the cue stick that comes into Template:Gli with the cue ball.[16]
The elastic bumpers mounted on all Template:Glis of a billiards table, usually made from rubber or synthetic rubber, off which the balls rebound.[16] Before the advent of vulcanized rubber manufacturing in the mid-19th century, cushions of early billiard tables were often simply cloth stuffed with straw, cotton, or other fibers; they were not very elastic, but simply quieter than bare wooden boards. The existence of cushions and rails dates to the era of outdoor ground billiards, the courts for which were often bounded by short wicker or wood fences, sometimes padded. For specific modern cushion parts, see: Template:Gli, Template:Gli, and Template:Gli.
Technically, any shot that is not a center-to-center hit, but almost always employed when describing a shot that has more than a slight degree of angle.[16]
A semicircle with an <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />11+1⁄2-inch (291 mm) radius, drawn behind a snooker table's Template:Gli, centred on the middle of the line, and resembling the upper case letter "D" in shape. The "D" is also used in English billiards and sometimes also in blackball and other pool games played on British-style tables.[16] The size of the "D" is typically scaled down on smaller tables.
When two or more Template:Gli are Template:Gli or nearly frozen to each other, such that Template:Gli contact with one object ball, without the necessity of great accuracy, will almost certainly pocket an intended object ball in the Template:Gli. The most common form of dead arrangements are the dead combination or dead combo (a Template:Gli in which contact with the first object ball will pocket another one), and the dead kiss, in which contact with the first object ball will pocket it off of another one. See also Template:Gli.
2. A ball that has been used for some time, with a dirty surface, as opposed to a slick new (or highly polished used) ball.[26] A Template:Gli dead ball will transfer more spin to other balls it comes into contact with, and not be as Template:Gli on the cloth. Even Template:Gli angles may be affected because of the Template:Gli or Template:Gli (British: Template:Gli) effect, and professional players often ask a referee to clean a ball, mid-game.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Others may actually be more used to dead balls and prefer them.[26]
In Template:Gli, a Template:Gli played after the result of the match has already been determined, e.g. "Lindrum crossed the winning line at 76–38 on the second Thursday, ending at 94–49 ahead after the completion of the dead frames.";[44] "Rea showed his best form ... to win the final 'dead' frame".[45]
A Template:Gli that has either lost a degree of elastic resiliency or is not firmly attached to the wooden Template:Gli; or a rail that is not firmly bolted to the table frame. In all three cases, the result is that balls rebound from the cushion with less energy than is normal.
Also decider or deciding rack. The frame that decides the winner of a match when two opponents are tied (at a draw) on an equal number of frames, with just one remaining. The total number of frames in a match is set at an odd number to allow the final frame to act as a tie-breaker – a decider – in the event of the match reaching this frame.
1. Displacement of the Template:Gli's path away from the parallel line formed by the cue stick's direction of travel; occurs every time Template:Gli (Template:Gli) is employed. The degree of deflection increases as the amount of Template:Not a typo applied increases. It is also called squirt, typically in the United States, or cue-ball deflection. The physics of the squirt or deflection phenomenon has been analyzed in other contexts, such as with ice-hockey pucks.[46][47]
2. Also object-ball deflection: same as Template:Gli.
Also deliberate fault. A shot, especially common in straight pool and in some variants of blackball (but not WEPF/EPA rules[8]), in which a player intentionally commits a Template:Gli with the object in mind of either leaving the opponent with little chance of Template:Gli or simply to avoid shooting where no good shot is presented and to do anything else would give the opponent an advantage. It is often referred to in straight pool as a "back scratch."
To move a ball (usually deliberately) from a safe position, e.g. close to the middle of a Template:Gli or in a Template:Gli, so that it becomes Template:Gli.
1. File:Pool table diamond samples2.jpgA manufacturer's sample board showing various styles of Template:Gli inlays for billiard tables
One of a number of identical markings, usually inlaid into the surface above the rail cushions, used as target or reference points. Three equally spaced diamonds are normally between each pocket on a pool table. On a carom table, the pockets themselves are replaced by additional diamonds. Diamonds get their name from the shape of the markings traditionally used; though many today are round, square, etc., these rail markings are still referred to as "diamonds". They are also referred to as Template:Gli, especially in British English. (See also Template:Gli.)
2. An artistic pool term for a category of trick shots; artistic pool is divided into eight disciplines, and APTSA tournaments present both discipline-specific and all-around awards.[48]
An indentation in the Template:Gli of the table, especially at the Template:Gli where the Template:Gli is often tapped into secure position during Template:Gli. In extreme cases, the indentation may actually be in the slate Template:Gli of the table, from excessive tapping over many years, and can cause unexpected Template:Glis. A Template:Gli is used to intentionally create minor divots for all of the balls in a rack.
Template:Ghat
1. A widespread term in US parlance describing missing a relatively easy shot—often in the face of pressure. Can be used in many forms: "I dogged the shot"; "I hope he dogs it"; "I'm such a dog."[6][49]See also Template:Gli, Template:Gli.
2. Same as Template:Gli shot (chiefly Southern US, colloquial).
Also double-century break.
In English billiards, a Template:Gli of 200–299 Template:Gli (i.e. double a Template:Gli).[50] Larger multi-centuries are regularly achieved. Rare in amateur play, triple centuries are routine (and quadruples not uncommon) at World Professional Billiards Championships; 2007 winner Mike Russell shot four triples in the final round alone, while of sixteen competitors, three shot quadruple centuries (one once, one twice, and Russell three times). Quintuple centuries are rare even at the professional level, with only the 494 shot by nine-time world champion Russell (who has more such titles than any other player in history as of 2007) coming close in that event.[51]Template:As of Peter Gilchrist holds the world record, with a tredecuple century of 1346 consecutive points.[52]
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A tournament format in which a player must lose two Template:Gli in order to be eliminated.[16]Contrast Template:Gli.
An illegal shot (Template:Gli) in which the cue stick's Template:Gli contacts the Template:Gli twice during a single Template:Gli. Double hits often occur when a player shoots the cue ball when it is very close to an Template:Gli or Template:Gli, because it is difficult to move the cue stick away quickly enough after the cue ball rebounds off the cushion or object ball.[1][16]
A situation in which two moving balls strike each other. Often happens when a ball strikes a second ball that is close to a rail, and it rebounds back into the first ball; usually but not always unintended.[6][49]
A pool table where two shims have been placed on the sides of each pocket (in the Template:Gli beneath the cloth), making the pockets "tighter" (smaller). Such tables are "tougher" than unshimmed or single-shimmed tables.
Sometimes called a snake shot. A carom billiards shot, common in three-cushion billiards, where the cue ball is shot with Template:Gli at a relatively shallow angle down the rail, and spins backwards off the adjacent rail back into the first rail.[16]
A form of team play in which two players compete against another team of two players in any given Template:Gli or Template:Gli. In a doubles game, the first player from the breaking team is the only one who shoots during the opening Template:Gli, with control of the table passing to a member of the opposing team at the end of that inning, then upon the end of the opponent's inning to the doubles partner of the original player, and next to the second opponent, play proceeding in this doubly alternating manner until concluded. Also Template:Gli (chiefly British).Contrast Template:Not a typo.
A shot played slowly and with heavy Template:Gli and Template:Gli so that the Template:Gli can be struck firmly but with a lot of the pace taken out, allowing more control than just a gentle tap that would travel as far. Also called "Drag Draw".
1. Also known as Template:Gli, a type of spin applied to the Template:Gli by hitting it below its Template:Gli, causing it to spin backwards even as it slides forward on the cloth. Back spin slows the cue ball down, reduces its travel, and narrows both the Template:Gli after contact with an Template:Gli, and Template:Gli off a Template:Gli. There are several variant terms for this, including "bottom" and "bottom spin" in the US and "screw" in the UK. Draw is thought to be the first spin technique understood by billiards players prior to the introduction of leather tips, and was in use by the 1790s.[1]See illustration at Template:Gli.
A shot in which the Template:Gli is struck below its equator with sufficient Template:Gli to make it reverse direction at the moment of contact with an Template:Gli because it is still Template:Gli.[1] When the object and cue balls are lined up square, the reversal will be directly backwards, while on a cut shot, the effect will alter the Template:Gli angle. It can also refer to any shot to which draw is applied, as in "draw it off the foot rail just to the left of the center diamond". See illustration at Template:Gli.
Netted or cupped pockets that do not return the balls to the foot end of the table by means of a gutter system or sloped surface beneath. Instead, they must instead be retrieved manually.[16]
1. (noun): Derived from "sitting duck", usually referring to an Template:Gli sitting close to a Template:Gli or so positioned that is virtually impossible to miss. Same as Template:Gli (US, colloquial), Template:Gli (UK).
To intentionally lose a game, e.g. to disguise one's actual playing ability.[10] An extreme form of Template:Gli. See also Template:Gli.See also Match fixing for the synonym "tank", used in sports more generally.
eight-ball, an originally American and now internationally standardized professional version, also subject to competitive team play in numerous leagues. It is the most-played form of competition pool in the world, though not for professionals, among whom nine-ball dominates. Uses a set of Template:Gli and Template:Gli numbered balls. Ball-and-pocket are Template:Gli for each shot, with Template:Gli (Template:Gli) resulting in Template:Gli for the opponent, anywhere on the table.
blackball a.k.a. British-style eight-ball pool, an originally British variant, also favoured in many Commonwealth countries, and parts of Continental Europe, with amateur and professional leagues. The two names reflect slightly variant rulesets, which differ primarily in handling of Template:Gli (Template:Gli). Shots are not Template:Gli. Uses a set of Template:Gli and Template:Gli balls. Template:Gli usually consists of minor local variations on one of these two standardised rule sets.
Most forms of Template:Gli are variants of eight-ball, although rules may vary from venue to venue even within the same city. These variants arose primarily to drag out the game on coin-operated tables ("Template:Gli"). In North America, many casual recreational players are unaware any other form of pool exists beyond bar pool.
Chiefly American: Also known as Template:Gli, Template:Not a typo (which is usually not capitalized)[54] is Template:Gli placed on the Template:Gli when hit with the cueTemplate:Gli to the left or right of the ball's center. English has a marked effect on Template:Gli rebound angle off Template:Gli (though not off Template:Gli), and is thus crucial for gaining Template:Gli; it can also be used to "Template:Gli" an object ball slightly off its otherwise expected trajectory, to Template:Gli, and for other effects. "English" is sometimes used more inclusively, to colloquially also refer to Template:Gli and Template:Gli. In combination one could say bottom-right English, or like the face of a clock (4 o'clock English).[16] The British and Irish do not use this term, instead preferring "Template:Gli". See illustration at Template:Gli.
1. File:Snooker cue and extensions.pngA snooker cue with two attachable extensions
Any mechanical aid that serves to extend the length of the player's cue, normally added to the end of the Template:Gli either by clipping around the end or screwing into the base. Though extensions are used for pool, it is more common in snooker because of the significantly larger table size.
2. In a tournament where players get limited time to make their shots (common in televised matches), an extension is extra time granted before making a shot; players have a limited number of extensions in each Template:Gli.
Also cushion face.[18]
The protrusion of the playing edge of the Template:Gli from the Template:Gli over the Template:Gli of the table.[18] The furthest-protruding point of the face is known as the Template:Gli of the cushion. The Template:Gli of the table is the space between the faces (technically, the noses) of the cushions.[18]
File:Pocket facings comparison.jpgA comparison of the pocket facings of (left to right): an American pool table (side pocket); a British-style snooker table (corner pocket); and a Russian pyramid table (side pocket)
The facings of a Template:Gli are the portions of the rail Template:Glis that line the Template:Gli of the pocket. Facings vary widely by game. Pool facings are flat and angled rather wide, on pockets notably larger than the balls, to act much like the backboard in basketball, in that a shot can be directed into the facing to cause it to angle off the facing into the pocket. They are reinforced with plastic shims between the cushion rubber and the Template:Gli, to reduce wear and tear. Snooker facings are curved and not angled, providing a smooth transition between the rails and the pockets, which are not much wider than the balls, thus preventing any backboard effect (snooker shots must be almost perfectly straight in). The facings in Russian billiards are even more challenging, being straight and angled inward rather than outward, which results in the Template:Gli of the pocket, barely wide enough to accept a ball, rejecting any but the most accurate shots.
1. Verb, passive, intransitive: For a ball to be pocketed. "The 8 ball fell early, so the game was over quickly."
2. Noun: The curved edge cut into the table Template:Gli at which the hole of the Template:Gli actually begins inside the pocket Template:Gli.Template:Sfnp The fall may be a sheer drop, as on tournament-standard snooker tables, or have a beveled, down-sloping rim, as on pool tables. A ball is, of course, much more likely to Template:Gli when there is no bevel. How far into the pocket the fall begins is one factor that determines "Template:Gli" or difficulty.
2. Producing lively action; said of Template:Gli or of the balls, in addition to the above, cloth-related definition.[55]
3. Unusually accepting of balls; said of pockets; see Template:Gli (sense 1) for more information.
"Template:Gli" is the direct opposite of "fast" in all of these usages.
Also feather shot.
A very thin Template:Gli in which the cue ball just brushes the edge of an object ball. "Feather" by itself can be both noun and verb (e.g. "feathering the ball").Template:Sfnp[16]See also Template:Gli.
2. A person who loses money gambling and keeps coming back for more;
3. Sometimes, a poor player;
4. As a verb, either to hit the balls hard with no intention in mind other than to get lucky and perhaps scatter the balls a bit more ("hit-and-hope"), or to shoot hard at the Template:Gli with the same intention ("smash-and-pray"). Compare Template:Gli and Template:Gli; contrast Template:Gli (sense 3) and Template:Gli.
A Template:Gli where the rules are blatantly, intentionally violated; in contexts where this qualifies as unsportsmanlike conduct, a stiffer penalty may apply (e.g. loss of Template:Gli) than normal for a foul.
In snooker, a situation during a Template:Gli in which the first line of the remaining Template:Gli grouped together, where the original Template:Gli was, are in a straight horizontal line. This has implications when opening the pack, as a Template:Gli contact off the top cushion will usually cause the cue-ball to stick to the red and fail to develop a potting opportunity.
A shot that has an ostensibly positive outcome for the player, although it was not what the player intended. Examples of flukes include an unexpected Template:Gli off several Template:Gli or other balls having missed the pocket aimed for, or a lucky Template:Gli position after having missed a shot. Many players are apologetic after a fluke. In many games, flukes result in a loss of turn, although some rule sets (most notably those of snooker, nine-ball and related games, and the eight-ball rules of the American Poolplayers Association and its affiliates) count flukes as valid, point-making shots. Compare Template:Gli and Template:Gli; contrast Template:Gli (sense 3) and Template:Gli.
The forward rotation of the Template:Gli that results from a Template:Gli. Also known as Template:Gli or top, follow is applied to the Template:Gli by hitting it above its Template:Gli, causing it to spin more rapidly in the direction of travel than it would spin by merely rolling on the cloth from a center-ball hit. Follow speeds the cue ball up, and widens both the Template:Gli after contact with an Template:Gli, and Template:Gli off a Template:Gli. See illustration at Template:Gli.
A shot in which the Template:Gli is struck above its equator with sufficient Template:Gli to cause the cue ball to travel forward after it contacts an Template:Gli. When a cue ball with follow on it contacts an object ball squarely (a center-to-center hit), the cue ball travels directly forward through the space previously occupied by the object ball (and can sometimes even be used to pocket a second ball). By contrast, on a cut shot, a cue ball with follow on it will first travel on the Template:Gli after striking the object ball, and then arc forward, widening the Template:Gli angle.[16]See illustration at Template:Gli.
Chiefly American: The half of the table in which the Template:Gli are Template:Gli (in games in which racked balls are used). This usage is conceptually opposite that in British English, where this end of the table is called the Template:Gli. Contrast Template:Gli.
The point on the table surface over which the apex ball of a rack is centered (in most games). It is the point half the distance between the Template:Gli' second diamonds from the end of the racking end of the table. The foot spot is the intersection of the Template:Gli and the Template:Gli, and is typically marked with a cloth or paper decal on pool tables.[16]Contrast Template:Gli.
An imaginary line running horizontally across a billiards table from the second diamond (from the foot end of the table) on one long rail to the corresponding second diamond on the other long rail. The foot string intersects the Template:Gli at the Template:Gli. It is rarely drawn on the table.[16]
A powerful Template:Gli with a high degree of Template:Gli on it; usually when the Template:Gli being hit is relatively close to the Template:Gli and is being hit very full;[16] also known as "prograde top spin" or "prograde follow" (when referring to the action on the shot rather than the shot per se), and as a "jenny" in Australia.
Template:Ghat
A violation of a particular game's rules for which a set penalty is imposed. In many pool games the penalty for a foul is ball-in-hand anywhere on the table for the opponent. In some games such as straight pool, a foul results in a loss of one or more points. In one-pocket, in which a set number of balls must be made in a specific pocket, upon a foul the player must return a ball to the table. In some games, three successive fouls in a row brings the loss of a game. In straight pool, a third successive foul results in a loss of 16 points (15 plus one for the foul).[16]
Possible foul situations (non-exhaustive):
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Also free shot.
A situation where a player has Template:Gli, leaving the opponent Template:Gli. In UK eight-ball this would normally give the opponent the option of one of two plays: (1) Template:Gli with Template:Gli; (2) being allowed to contact, or even Template:Gli, a ball other than one from their set from the snookered position (although the black may not be potted), with the loss of the first shot. In addition, some variations of the game allow the player to pot one of the opposition's balls, on the first visit only, without the loss of a "free shot".
In snooker, it allows a player to call any ball as the ball they would have wanted to play, potting it for the same number of points, or the opponent can be put back in without the same privilege, having to play the ball snookered on. The definition of snooker on this occasion means the opponent cannot strike both extreme edges of the Template:Gli (or a cluster of touching balls).
To dedicate a set amount of money that a gambling match will be played to; no one may quit until one player or the other has won the "frozen up" funds.
Chiefly American: A resting ball that is in actual contact with a Template:Gli or with one or more other balls is said to be "frozen" (or, colloquially, "froze") to that cushion or the touching ball(s).Template:Sfnp[16](For frozen combination/combo, frozen kiss, etc., that is almost impossible to miss, see the more common variants under Template:Gli). The chiefly British "Template:Gli" is equivalent to "frozen", but only applied to frozen/tight to a cushion, not to another ball. For situations in which the Template:Gli is frozen to an Template:Gli, different rule sets have different approaches. In some, the cue ball must be addressed with the cue at an angle at least 45 degrees divergent from an imaginary line running through the center of the balls, to minimize chances of a Template:Gli. In snooker (and some British pool rules), this is called a Template:Gli, and the cue ball must be shot away from the object ball without the latter moving.
Also full-ball.
A type of Template:Gli between two balls from which no or little angle is created between their paths; the contact required to Template:Gli a straight shot. It is commonly used in reference to how much of an Template:Gli a player can see with the Template:Gli: "Can you hit that full?".
1. Play, from the opening Template:Gli until one player has won (or the game has been halted for some reason by a referee). Games are the units that make up Template:Gli, Template:Gli (in some senses of that term) and Template:Gli. Essentially the same as Template:Gli, except with regards to straight pool, which is a multi-Template:Gli game.
2. An identifiable, codifiable set of rules. Pool is not a game, but a class of games. Nine-ball is a game.
3. There are also slang usages, such as "to have game" (to be a good player, as in "he['s] got game") and "to be game" (to be willing to play or to gamble, as in "yeah, I'm game, so let's see what you've got"). But these usages are not particular to cue sports.
To give a Template:Gli to an opponent where they have to win a specified number fewer games than the other player in order to triumph in the Template:Gli.[56] The name refers to posting games on the scorekeeping mechanism known as a Template:Gli or Template:Gli, though the phrase may still be employed when no actual use of the particular device is available or intended.
An agreement between two players in a tournament, one of whom will advance to a guaranteed money prize if the match is won, to give a certain percentage of that money to the loser of the match. Also known as a Template:Gli.[6]
In the carom games, any shot where the result is all the balls near each other; ideally, in position for the start of a Template:Gli on the next stroke.[16]
Also outside gearing Template:Not a typo, etc.: Precise application of Template:Not a typo to counter the effects of Template:Gli (Template:Gli of the Template:Gli from its expected Template:Gli path), by applying counter-Template:Gli in the direction opposite to that which would increase the friction- and rolling-curve deflection of the object ball from the desired path. Gearing spin can also be used as a hedge to minimize the effects of imminently predicted Template:Gli (also known as Template:Gli or, in British and especially snooker terminology, Template:Gli). "Gearing" outside Template:Not a typo is not a type or style of outside spin, but an subjectively judged amount of it – enough to cause the cue ball rotation to affect the object ball's rotation in a desired way through momentarily prolonged contact, like two gears interacting. This is relative to specific playing conditions, including the shot angle and force, whether other compensation mechanisms are being used such slit over-cutting to thwart throw, and the cleanliness condition of the balls. The term gearing outside Template:Not a typo is technical jargon rather than player slang; it was introduced by billiards-focused physicist and mechanical engineer David G. Alciatore in the 2000s.[36][42][43]See Template:Gli for additional information.
Abbreviation: GA. In carom billiards, the number that indicates the overall relation between the points and innings (points ÷ innings = GA) a player has made throughout the whole tournament. E.g., 125 points in 56 innings is a GA of 2.232. Higher numbers indicate better players. See also Template:Gli.
Also gentleman's call.
An informal approach to the "call-everything" variation of Template:Gli, common in Template:Gli. Obvious shots, such as a straight-on or near-straight shot for which the shooter is clearly aiming and which could not be mistaken for another shot, need not be called. Template:Gli, Template:Gli, Template:Gli and Template:Gli are usually less obvious and generally must be called, though this may depend upon the mutual skill level and shot selection perception of the players. An opponent has the right to ask what the shooter's intention is, if this is unclear.
A common aiming method in which a phantom ball is imagined Template:Gli to the object ball at the point where an imaginary line drawn between their centers is aimed at the desired target; the center of cue ball may then be shot at the center of the "ghost" ball (i.e., to precisely take the place of where that ball is imagined to be) and, ideally, impact the object ball at the proper Template:Gli.[6] The ghost-ball method of aiming results in misses where adjustment is not made for Template:Gli.
Describes the propensity of a player losing small sums of money at gambling to suddenly sharply increase the stakes; often continuing to lose until broke. Compare Template:Gli.Template:Gli and pretending to "go off" (only to handily win the raised-stakes bet) is a classic hustling technique; see also Template:Gli.
When potting both the Template:Gli and Template:Gli on the break results in an automatic loss of frame. A non-standard rule, it is nonetheless used in some professional events.
Colloquial term for an unusually large, heavy Template:Gli made of the same phenolic resin or other modern, resilient plastic as the Template:Gli. "Grapefruit" cue balls are frequently found on older coin-operated Template:Gli that do not have magnetic Template:Gli mechanisms. As with excessively dense, ceramic "Template:Gli" cue balls, the ball return works because the cue ball is considerably heavier than, and thereby distinguishable from, the object balls. Unlike "rocks", grapefruit balls are not prone to excessive equipment wear and tear. But because of their unusually large size, they have a very strong effect on the Template:Gli and thus on the accuracy of Template:Gli. Their weight also has a notable effect on play, as they are somewhat more difficult to Template:Gli (Template:Gli), Template:Gli and Template:Gli compared to standard and Template:Gli, but not to the extent of the much less resilient rock balls. Like rocks, grapefruits do generate a large amount of Template:Gli.
1. Nearly table-length distance between the cue ball and target object ball, or between an object ball and target pocket, i.e. a potentially difficult shot due to distance ("you sure left me a lot of green on that one")
2. The Template:Gli covering the table ("oh no, you just ripped the green")
3. The Template:Gli ("that was a great shot on the green")
4. Money ("I won a lot of green last night from that wannabe hustler")
Also the green.
In snooker, the Template:Gli that is worth three points, being the second-least valuable colour behind the Template:Gli.[57] It is one of the Template:Gli, and is placed on the Template:Gli.[57][14] In some (especially American) snooker ball sets, it is numbered "3" on its surface.
Same as Template:Gli, predominantly in British terminology, i.e., in eight-ball either of the set of seven balls (Template:Gli or Template:Gli) that must be cleared before Template:GliTemplate:Gli. Generally used in the generic, especially in rulesets or articles, rather than colloquially by players.[8]
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A shot aimed so that the center of the cue ball is in line with the edge of the object ball, eclipsing half of the ball. "Hit it just a little thinner than half-ball." Assuming a Template:Gli does not occur, the shot will impart post-contact momentum on the object ball in a direction 30° (which is , where is the fraction of object ball eclipsed: <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄2 in this case) off the direction of the cue-ball's pre-contact momentum. Also notable because the carom angle the cue ball takes is more consistent than at other Template:Glis.
In snooker and English billiards, a Template:Gli that is approximately 3 metres long and used with a Template:Gli of about the same length, used for shots that cannot be reached with normal rests and cues.[58]
In snooker and other British usages, a Template:Gli of between 50 and 99 points (100 points or more being called a century), which requires Template:Gli at least 12 consecutive balls (e.g. the last three reds with at least two blacks and a pink, followed by all the colours).
Modification of the rules and/or scoring of a game to enable players of variable abilities to compete on a more even playing field.[16] Examples of handicapping include Template:Gli and giving Template:Gli to an opponent. In league play, common forms of handicapping include awarding compensating Template:Gli to a lesser-skilled team, or using numerical player ranking systems to adjust final scores between opponents of different skill levels. A player's handicap is such a numerical rank. See Handicapping main article for more general information on sports handicapping.
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Said of a ball, to come to rest partially over the edge of a Template:Gli's Template:Gli but still resting on the table Template:Gli.[59] Because of ball curvature, if the very bottom of the ball is not over the sharp rim or beveled slope (depending on table type) of the pocket's fall, the ball will not drop into the pocket. As much as approximately 49% of a ball's diameter can be hanging over the sharp drop of a standard snooker table fall, but considerably less on a typical pool table, with beveled falls. A ball hanging in the pocket – a "Template:Gli" – is nearly unmissable[59] (though Template:Gli by Template:Gli the Template:Gli into the pocket right after the Template:Gli is a common mistake). Can be used in a transitive sense in reference to player action: "You hung that one right on the edge".
1. Literally, a Template:Gli, but generally used in the phrases Template:Gli – Template:Gli (Template:Gli) the Template:Gli off another ball – and Template:Gli – using the cue ball to pot another ball – the two types of legal shots that pocket balls in games in which the term is used at all, which is very few today. The term principally survives in English billiards, in which both types of shots are Template:Gli-scoring. Formerly, a large number of different games made use of the two types of hazards as point scorers or losers in various ways (thus their suggestive names). The term ultimately derives from holes or pockets in the table to be avoided, in very early forms of billiards.Template:Sfnp
2. In golf billiards, an area of the table (sometimes marked) that a player will be penalized for entering if their ball does not leave. Derives from the use of the term in the outdoor game of golf.Template:Sfnp
Chiefly American: The half of the table from which the Template:Gli is taken. This usage is conceptually opposite that in British English, where this end of the table is called the Template:Gli. Contrast Template:Gli.See also Template:Gli.
The intersection of the Template:Gli and Template:Gli, which is usually not marked on a table with a spot decal or other mark, unlike the Template:Gli, though some pool halls mark both spots so that racking can be done at either end of the table, and wear on Template:Gli from racking and breaking is more evenly distributed.[16]Compare Template:Gli.
A line, sometimes imaginary (especially in American pool), sometimes drawn on the cloth, that runs horizontally across the table from the second Template:Gli (from the Template:Gli) on one Template:Gli to the corresponding second diamond on the other long rail.[16] In most pool games, the opening break shot must be performed with the center (base) of the cue ball behind the head string (i.e. between the head string and head rail). The head string intersects the Template:Gli at the Template:Gli, and delimits the Template:Gli (and, in European nine-ball, the outer boundary of the Template:Gli). The head string's position is always determined by the diamonds, in contrast to the similar but different Template:Gli, the position of which is determined by measurement from the Template:Gli (Template:Gli).
2. With Template:Gli, as in "I shot that high left", meaning "I shot that with follow and with left Template:Gli". Derives from the fact that one must aim above the Template:Gli's equator, i.e. "high" on the ball, to impart follow. "With" is optional (e.g. "I shot that with high left" or "I shot that high left"). Contrast Template:Gli.
3. In snooker, same as "Template:Gli", as in "she'll want to finish high on the black to allow position on the red".
Template:Ghat
A series of successful shots (a Template:Gli) that is lengthy for the player's skill level. The exact implication is dependent upon context, e.g. "my high run at three-cushion is 15", "Jones had the highest run of the tournament", "that was a pretty high run you just did", etc. Used congratulatorily, it may be phrased "good run", "great run", "nice run", etc. See also Template:Gli.
Also the hook.
In snooker, a type of Template:Gli that has only since the 2010s been endorsed by the WPBSA to allow its use in major tournament play. It is a normal rest with the head in line with the Template:Gli, but the last foot or so of the shaft is curved. This allows players to position the curved end around an obstructing ball that would have otherwise left them Template:Gli on the Template:Gli and in need of a Template:Gli or Template:Gli with Template:Gli, which would have less control.
A pejorative term for an improper rack in which the balls are not properly in contact with their neighbors, often resulting in a poor spread on the break.
Describes a ball rolling along a rail in contact or near contact with it, or making multiple successive contacts with the rail.[1]Template:SfnpSee Template:Gli.
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To play for money and lull a victim into thinking they can win, prompting them to accept higher and higher stakes, until beating them and walking off with more money than they would have been willing to bet had they been beaten soundly in the beginning. The terms hustler, for one who hustles, and hustling, describing the act, are just as common if not more so than this verb form. See also Template:Gli, Template:Gli, Template:Gli, Template:Gli, Template:Gli.
As in many other sports, "illegal" means causing or likely to cause a Template:Gli (the opposite being Template:Gli). (See Template:Gli for specific examples of usage.)
2. In snooker, the ability to place the Template:Gli anywhere inside the boundaries of Template:Gli. This occurs at the start of a Template:Gli, and after the cue ball has been Template:Gli or forced off the table.
A player's (or Template:Gli team's) turn at the table, usually ending with a failure to score a Template:Gli or to Template:Gli a ball, depending on the game, a Template:Gli, a Template:Gli or with a win.[16] In some games, such as five-pins and killer, a player's inning is always limited to one shot, regardless of the intent and result of the shot. Usually synonymous with Template:Gli, except in Template:Gli format. The term is sometimes used to mean both players'/teams' visits combined, e.g. when referring to the inning in which a memorable shot occurred.
(Chiefly British.) In a Template:Gli situation in snooker, a shot played by the player defending the lead, where they play the Template:Gli in such a way as to try to slowly Template:Gli (Template:Gli) it, so that if it misses, at least it is over the pocket and difficult to obtain the required snooker from.
Cueing and timing the balls well; in good form, where Template:Gli (Template:Gli), Template:Gli and clarity of thinking seem to come easily.[66] A player who had not been doing well but then suddenly picks up (as happens during the course of many matches) may be said to catch a stroke.Template:ClarifySee also Template:Gli.
A ball that is easily made from many positions on the table but which is left untouched while the rack is played, so that in the event the player gets out of position, the shooter has an insurance shot. Typically an insurance ball will be in or near the Template:Gli of a pocket.
In snooker, a phrase used to describe a situation in which the player has an easy Template:Gli and where in general the balls are in a position to go on to make a sizeable Template:Gli. Compare Template:Gli (sense 4).
in a two-person game, the non-shooting player is referred to as being "in the chair". This terminology likely originates from the fact that many high level billiards events require the non-shooting player to sit in a designated chair while their opponent is at the table.[67]
In a tournament, to Template:Gli high enough to receive a payout. E.g., in a tournament that pays from 1st down to 5th places, to be at least 5th place is to be in the money.[6]
When a particular ball is given as a Template:Gli in nine-ball, designating that ball in turn means that it must be made in rotation, when it is the lowest numerical ball remaining on the table, and cannot be made to garner a win earlier in the game by way of a combination, carom or any other shot. For example, if a player is Template:Gli the 8 ball, they only win by making that ball after balls 1 through 7 have been cleared from the table. The phrase is not common in the U.S.
Linen made from flax, and produced in Ireland, which is often used to wrap the gripping area of the Template:Gli of a cue.
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When a player is on the receiving end of a devastating Template:Gli where it is very difficult, or near impossible, to make a legal hit on an object ball.[68]
The interlocking connection between the butt and shaft ends of a two-piece cue stick.[16] Usually connects via means of a steel or wooden Template:Gli, and may be protected by a Template:Gli of metal or some other material, or may connect wood-on-wood.[39]
Also jump shot.
Any shot where the Template:Gli is intentionally jumped into the air to clear an obstacle[16] (usually an Template:Gli, even in games with non-ball objects, e.g. bottle pool). Jump shots must be performed by hitting the Template:Gli into the table's surface so that it rebounds off the Template:Gli; scooping under the cue ball to fling it into the air is deemed a foul by all authoritative rules sources. A legal jump shot works by compressing the cue ball slightly against the Template:Gli under the cloth, causing it to spring upward when the downward pressure of the cue is released. Some billiard halls and even entire leagues prohibit all jump (and usually also Script error: No such module "Lang".) shots, out of fears of damage to the equipment, especially the cloth. Specialized Template:Gli exist to better facilitate jump shots; they are usually shorter and lighter, and with harder tips, than normal cues. Jump shots that go through or into objects rather than over them are common in trick shot (artistic pool and artistic billiards) competition.
A rare and very difficult trickTemplate:Gli that turns into a Template:Gli upon landing. Requires precise application of Template:Gli in addition to the precise application of ball pressure to effectuate the jump. Jump draws are fairly often seen in professional trick shot competition.
A rare and extremely difficult trickTemplate:Gli that turns into a Script error: No such module "Lang". upon landing. Requires very precise application of Template:Gli in addition to the precise application of ball pressure to effectuate the jump.[26]
1. A shot or ball that allows a player to obtain Template:Gli on another ball hard to play position to.[6]
2. A shot or ball that is the "key" to Template:Gli.
3. The 14th Template:Gli in a rack of straight pool that, when proper position is achieved on, allows easy position play, in turn, on the last (15th) object ball for an intergame break shot.
1. Short for Template:Gli. Also used as a verb, "to kick [at]" (US).
2. Same as Template:Gli (US) and Template:Gli. Chiefly British: Exaggerated Template:Gli of ball trajectories on impact, generally due to Template:Gli stuck on one of the balls. Kick is the bane of snooker players, even at top professional levels, and is why they so frequently ask a referee to clean a ball. Because of the comparatively light weight of snooker balls, and much smaller margins of error due to Template:Gli sizes on a very large table, the Template:Gli effect of a kick can cause a seemingly easy snooker shot to miss widely. Even if the kick was mostly vertical, due to Template:Gli (Template:Gli) or Template:Gli (Template:Gli) rather than Template:Gli, and the shot was Template:Glited, a kick often results in balls visibly jumping upon impact, resulting in a great loss of cue ball momentum, which can wreck the shot's Template:Gli and leave the player with poor options. On even medium-distance shots, however, an outright miss is more likely.[70] Noun, verb, and rare adjective usage as per "cling". (See Template:Gli for less snooker-specific notes.)
A shot in which the Template:Gli is driven to one or more Template:Gli or Template:Gli before reaching its intended target—usually an Template:Gli.[16] Often shortened to "kick" in North American usage, though this word by itself has a very different meaning in British usage (see entry above, sense 2).
An instance of contact between balls, usually used in the context of describing an Template:Gli contacting another object ball (e.g. "the 2 ball kissed off the 12 ball"), or in snooker the cue ball making contact with some object ball after the initial contact with a Template:Gli. If the player's intention was to cause two object balls to kiss (e.g. to pocket a shot ball by ricocheting it off a stationary one), it is often called a Template:Gli.[16]Compare Template:Gli; contrast Template:Gli.
The area on the table behind the Template:Gli.[16] The origin of the term has been the subject of some speculation but the best explanation known is that in the 1800s, many homes did not have room for both a billiard table and a dining room table. The solution was a billiards table that had a cover converting it into a dining table. Kept in the dining room, play on such a table was often restricted by the size of the room, so it would be placed so that the head rail would face the connected kitchen door, thus affording a player room for the backswing without hitting a wall. A player was therefore either half or sometimes fully (literally) "in the kitchen" when breaking the balls.[1]See also Template:Gli.
One of two jutting points or curves of the Template:Gli of the Template:Gli on either side of each Template:Gli where cushion and pocket meet, forming the Template:Gli of the pocket. The knuckles are the intersection of the outer edge of the cushions, parallel to the Template:Gli, and the pocket Template:Gli. The knuckles are protrusive and comparatively sharp on a pool table, the facings of which can be used like a basketball backboard to rebound a ball into a pocket. On billiard tables for snooker, English billiards and various other games, the knuckles are rounded, and thwart the backboard effect. The curvature of snooker and English billiards knuckles are determined by Template:Gli produced by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.[18]Russian pyramid tables also have pointed knuckles, but the facings are angled inward, so the knuckles cannot be used as a backboard. The knuckle is also known as a Template:Gli, Template:Gli or Template:Gli, depending on area and the company one keeps. See illustration at the Template:Gli entry.
Also the lag (noun), lagging, lag for the break, and lagging for the break.
To determine the order of play, players (representing only themselves, or sometimes teams) each near simultaneously shoot a ball from the Template:Gli (or in British games, from the Template:Gli) to the Template:Gli and back toward the Template:Gli. Whichever shooter's ball comes to rest closest to the bottom rail gets to choose who Template:Gli.[71] It is permissible but not required for the lagged ball to touch or rebound off the bottom rail, but not to touch the side rails. Lagging is usually a two-party activity, though there are games such as cutthroat in which three players might lag. In the case of a tie, the tying shooters re-lag. The lag is most often used in tournament play or other competitions.
In hard-break games like nine-ball and eight-ball the winner of the lag would normally take the break, while in soft-break games like straight pool would likely require the loser of the lag to break, since breaking would be a disadvantage. See also Template:Gli.
Also last pocket.
A common rule in informal Template:Gli, especially bar/pub eight-ball, in which the Template:Gli must be Template:Gli (Template:Gli) in the same pocket as the shooter's last Template:Gli (each player may be said to eventually "own" a pocket, for the duration of the game, in which their 8 ball shot must be played if they have already run out their Template:Gli). The variant is not extremely common in the United States or the UK, but is near-universal in much of Latin America (where two Template:GliTemplate:Gli are permitted when attempting the 8 ball shot and count as simple fouls, with only a third scratch constituting a loss of game). Last pocket is also common in North Africa. Last-pocket rules require careful Template:Gli, and frequently result in Template:Gli and Template:Gli with the 8 ball.
An organization that promotes competitive, usually team, amateur cue sports, most commonly pool, especially eight-ball and nine-ball, although there are also well-established snooker leagues. Some leagues, many of which are decades old, are entirely local and either informal or incorporated, and may use their own local rules or may have adopted more widely published rulesets, such as those of the WPA. Other leagues are organized on a multi-regional or even international level, and may be non-profit or for-profit enterprises, usually with their own fine-tuned rule books. Despite differences, the largest leagues are increasingly converging toward the WPA rules, with the exception of the APA/CPA, which retains rules much closer to US-style Template:Gli. At least four major pool leagues hold international championships in Las Vegas, Nevada annually (APA/CPA, BCAPL, VNEA and ACS/CCS). Some leagues also offer Template:Gli tournaments, Template:Gli events, artistic pool competition, and other non-team activities. (See Category:Cue sports leagues for a listing of articles on various leagues.)
The cue ball's position after a shot. "Good" or "bad" in reference to a leave describe respectively and advantageous or disadvantageous position for the next shot, or to leave an incoming opponent Template:Gli.[66][16]See also Template:Gli; compare Template:Gli, Template:Gli.
As in many other sports, "legal" means not causing or likely to cause a Template:Gli (the opposite being Template:Gli). A legal hit is one in which the requirements for a non-foul hit are met (e.g., in nine-ball, the lowest-numbered ball on the table was hit by the Template:Gli first, and at least one Template:Gli was Template:Gli, or any ball reached a Template:Gli, after the hit on the first object ball.). A legal shot is one in which no foul of any kind was involved (e.g. there was not a Template:Gli by the cue, the player's Template:Gli hand did not move a ball, etc.). A legal stroke is one in which the cueTemplate:Gli obeyed the rules (e.g. the shooter did not perform an illegal Template:Gli by scooping under the cue ball with the cue Template:Gli). A legal ball is a Template:Gli, an object ball at which it is permissible for the player to shoot. And so on. The term can be used in many ways consistent with these examples ("legal pocket" in one-pocket, "legal equipment" under tournament specifications, etc.).
A player is said to be a "lemon", "lemon man", or "playing on the lemon" when they intentionally play below their true ability in order to attract more gambling action and win more money. Players who fall for the ruse would be less likely to gamble with the lemon if they showed their full ability at all times.
To allow an opponent to stop playing a set for money in exchange for something. If a player is winning a set by a wide margin, with $100 on the line, the player could say, "I'll let you out now for $75." This is usually meant to save pride.
The act of playing a devastating Template:Gli that leaves the opponent in a situation where it is very difficult, or near impossible, to make a legal hit on an object ball.[65]See also Template:Gli.
A Template:Gli bank shot from one end of the table to the other (i.e. across the Template:Gli). Long banks are considerably more difficult, because of the smaller margin for error due to distance and angle widening, than Template:Gli banks and short cross-corner banks from the same end of the table.
Chiefly British:Template:Gli played up and down the longer length of the table off a Template:Gli and into a Template:Gli, as opposed to the more common bank across the short length into a Template:Gli or corner.
2. With Template:Gli, as in "I shot that low left", meaning "I shot that with draw and with left Template:Gli". Derives from the fact that one must aim below the Template:Gli's equator, i.e. "low" on the ball, to impart draw. Contrast Template:Gli.
The forerunner of the cue was the mace, an implement similar to a light-weight golf club, with a foot that was generally used to shove rather than strike the cue ball.[73] When the ball was Template:Gli against a Template:Gli, use of the mace was difficult (the foot would not fit under the edge of the cushion to strike the ball squarely), and by 1670 experienced players often used the tail or butt end of the mace instead.
2. In Template:Gli, a Template:Gli where a number of object balls are placed in a row to form a line, sometimes near a Template:Gli, or in a line and the cue ball is shot into the balls so as to reverberate between them while traveling and hit each one of the object balls in series, issuing a machine gun-like sound.[75]
A Template:Gli that, due to embedded iron content, is responsive enough to a strong magnet that a modern coin-operated Template:Gli with a magnetic Template:Gli can distinguish and separate the cue ball from the Template:Gli. Magnetic cue balls are usually the same standard size as the object balls in the set, and near regulation weight, typically 0.5 to 1 ounce (14–28 g) heavier than the object balls. As such they do not suffer the playability problems of either excessively dense, ceramic "Template:Gli" or notable oversized "Template:Gli" cue balls, and demonstrate only minimal Template:Gli. Magnetic balls are standard equipment in some leagues, including the VNEA. Magnetics come in three construction types of iron embedded in the same phenolic resin or other modern, resilient plastic that the Template:Gli are made of: a solid metal core (prone to being off-center and not rolling true); small metal bars distributed around the interior of the ball (the most common, and less prone but not immune to balance defects); and tiny metal filings throughout the material (the most consistent, only made by one manufacturer, and expensive).
3. To indicate where something is to be done. To "mark the pocket" means to indicate which pocket you intend to sink an Template:Gli. Contrast Template:Gli.
Also Script error: No such module "Lang". shot. A steep curve or complete reversal of cue ball direction without the necessity of any rail or object ball being struck, due to extreme Template:Gli imparted to the cue ball by a steeply elevated cue.[16] Its invention is credited to François Mingaud. Compare Template:Gli.
1. The overall competition between two players, two pairs of players or two teams of players, usually consisting of a predetermined number of Template:Gli[8] or Template:Gli (sometimes organized into Template:Gli). There are also specialized match formats where the game number is not predetermined; see Template:Gli and Template:Gli for examples.
2. To agree to rise to a higher wager, as in "$100? Yeah, I'll match that" (i.e., basically equivalent to "call a raise" in poker).
The ball required to guarantee victory in a match. Sometimes used figuratively to mean the last difficult ball required (chiefly British and usually used in multi-frame matches, particularly snooker).
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In snooker, the highest Template:Gli attainable with the balls that are Template:Gli; usually 147 points starting by Template:Gli fifteen Template:Glis, in combination with Template:Glis, and clearing the Template:Glis. Also called a 147 (one-four-seven). In six-red snooker, the maximum break is only 75 points, due to fewer red balls and thus fewer black-scoring opportunities. See also Template:Gli.
A special stick with a grooved, slotted or otherwise supportive end attachment that helps guide the cue stick – a stand-in for the Template:Gli hand. It is usually used only when the shot cannot be comfortably reached with a hand bridge. In American English, often shortened to bridge or called a bridge stick;[16] the term Template:Gli is also common.
An entire class of different mechanical bridges exist for snooker, called Template:Gli(see that entry for details), also commonly used in blackball and English billiards.
Mechanical bridges have many derogatory nicknames, such as "Template:Gli", "crutch", "granny stick", and "sissy stick", because of the perception by many amateur players that they are evidence of weak playing skills or technique (the opposite is actually true).[40]
Small mechanical bridges, that stand on the table surface instead of being mounted on sticks, exist for disabled players who do not have or cannot use both hands or arms.
A stroke in which the cue's tip glances or slips off the cue ball not effectively transferring the intended force.[16] Usually the result is a bungled shot. Common causes include a lack of Template:Gli on the Template:Gli, a poorly groomed cue tip and not stroking straight through the cue ball, e.g. because of Template:Gli. Sometimes played intentionally to avoid a Template:Gli when the Template:Gli is very close to an Template:Gli or Template:Gli. Also the distinctive metallic sound made when a miscue occurs.
In snooker, a Template:Gli calls a miss when a player Template:Gli by failing to hit the Template:Gli and the referee decides that the player has not made a good enough attempt to hit the ball. The miss rule gives the opponent the option to have the referee replace the balls to their original positions and make the player take the shot again. A miss usually occurs when a player makes an unsuccessful attempt at escaping from a snooker. It is a controversial rule aimed at formally discouraging Template:Gli. In professional snooker, a referee will almost always call a miss on any foul where the player misses the ball on, regardless of how close the player comes to hitting it. If a player is called for a miss three times in a single visit while not snookered, they forfeit the frame; to avoid this, players almost always play an easy hit on their third attempt, even if it is likely to leave a chance for the opponent.
In professional snooker, the modern era is the period from 1969 to the present day. The BBC launched its Pot Black series in 1969 and the World Snooker Championship reverted to a knockout tournament format in the same year. The modern era has seen increasing professionalisation of the sport, more television and media coverage, greater numbers of tournaments, and higher prize money.
Said of a tournament in which the Template:Gli of money to pay out to the winner(s) contains sponsor monies in addition to competitor entry fees. Often used as an adjective: "a money-added event". See also Template:Gli.
Name for the ball that when legally pocketed, wins the game, or any ball that when made results in a payday such as a "Template:Gli" in the game of Chicago. If a money ball is illegally pocketed, it usually results in a loss of game, or a Template:Gli.
A game (often actually a Template:Gli) the outcome of which is the subject of gambling by the players and/or by Template:Gli. Participants may use the phrase "this is a money game" to indicate to others that they take the contest more seriously than a casual game and, e.g., are unwilling to make sportsmanlike compromises or do not appreciate distractions. A clear illustration of the latter is in the "two brothers and a stranger" hustling scene in the film The Color of Money.
The table reserved for Template:Gli or, by extension, the best table in the house. This table is typically of better quality and regularly maintained, and may have Template:Gli that are unusually Template:Gli. Money tables in popular venues may be outright reserved for major Template:Gli.
Also mushroomed tip.
Leather of the cueTemplate:Gli overhanging the Template:Gli because of compression from innumerable repeated impacts against the Template:Gli without proper maintenance of the tip. It must be trimmed off, or it will cause Template:Gli and inaccuracies, as it is not backed by the solid ferrule and thus will compress much more than the tip should on impact.Template:SfnpSee also Template:Gli.
Also mushroom shaver, mushroom cutter.
A sharp-bladed Template:Gli used to trim the Template:Gli portion off a Template:Gli and restore it to its proper shape.
A directional pile created by the short fuzzy ends of fibers on the surface of Template:Gli projecting upward from the lie and which create a favorable and unfavorable direction for rolling balls.[1] The convention in most billiards games in which directional nap cloth is used is to brush the cloth along the table in the same direction of the nap, usually from the end that a player Template:Gli. In snooker and UK eight-ball especially, this creates the effect of Template:Gli in the direction of the nap, the most-affected shot being a slow roll into a Template:Gli against the nap. It is commonly referred to in the fuller term "nap of the cloth." When nap is used in relation to woven cloths that have no directional pile, such as those typically used in the U.S. for pool tables, the term simply refers to the fuzziness of the cloth.[78]
2. Adjective: In pool, a shot is said to be natural if it does not require adjustments, such as a Template:Gli angle, side spin, or unusual force. A natural Template:Gli, for example, is one in which simply shooting straight into the Template:Gli at medium speed and with no spin will send the object ball directly into the target pocket on the other side of the table.
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The dominant professional pool game. It is a Template:Gli game, in which the lowest-numbered Template:Gli must be hit first (though balls may be pocketed in any order, such as with a Template:Gli or Template:Gli). The game ends when the Template:Gli is legally pocketed, either as the last remaining object ball, or early as long as the lowest-numbered ball was struck first.
Someone who wants too high a handicap or refuses to wager any money on a relatively fair match; a general pool room pejorative moniker. Probably derived from "nitwit".
The furthest-protruding edge of the Template:Gli of the Template:Gli over the Template:Gli of the table. The dimensions of the Template:Gli are thus defined by the measurements lengthwise and widthwise between the cushion noses (though specifications may simply refer to the cushion face for short in that context).[18] The height of the nose from the bed determines the cushion profile. The corners (sharp on pool tables, rounded on snooker tables) formed by the nose at the entrance to the Template:Gli are called the Template:Gli, Template:Gli, or Template:Gli. The difference between the noses and the knuckles of the cushions is that the former run the entire length of the cusion, while the latter are the points or curves formed where the cushion meets the pocket. The edge of cushion on the inside of the pocket Template:Glis is the Template:Gli.
Template:Ghat
In carom billiards games, when all the balls are kept near each other and a cushion so that with very soft shots the balls can be "nursed" down a rail, allowing multiple successful shots that effectively replicate the same ball setup so that the nurse shots can be continued almost indefinitely, unless a limit is imposed by the rules.
Excessive use of nurse shots in straight rail by players skilled enough to set them up and pull them off repeatedly at will is what led to the development of the balkline and one-cushion game variations, and repetitive shot limitation rules in English billiards.[79]
Usage notes: When speaking very generally, any ball other than the cue ball is an object ball. In narrower contexts, this may not be the case. For example, when playing eight-ball, one might not think of the 8 ball as an object ball unless shooting for the 8.
Also on the lemon, laying down the lemon.
Disguising the level of one's ability to play; also known as Template:Gli or Template:Gli (though the latter has a broader meaning).[80][81]Compare Template:Gli.
As a result of the opening Template:Gli shot (the "snap"), usually said of winning by Template:Gli the Template:Gli ("won on the snap", "got it on the snap", etc.) Employed most commonly in the game of nine-ball where pocketing the Template:Gli at any time in the game on a legal stroke, including the break shot, is a win.[1][82] Sometimes used alone as an exclamation or exhortation, "On the snap!"[10]See also Template:Gli.
1. Competition between an individual player and an individual opponent, as opposed to team play, Template:Gli, and other multi-player variants.
2. A team play format in which an individual player from the home team plays a Template:Gli against an individual player from the visiting team, and then is finished for that Template:Gli.[77](Same as Template:Gli, definition 2.) Several large leagues use this format, including APA/CPA and USAPL. (Contrast Template:Gli.)
To shoot without taking enough warm-up strokes to properly aim and feel out the stroke and speed to be applied. One-stroking is a common symptom of nervousness and is a source of missed shots and failed position.[6]See also Template:Gli, Template:Gli.
4. A description of a layout of balls that, because it is so spread out, makes it easy for a good player to Template:Gli and win, due to lack of problematic Template:Gli balls.
A bridge formed by the hand where no finger loops over the shaft of the cue. Typically, the cue stick is channeled by a "v"-shaped groove formed by the thumb and the base of the index finger.
A description of play in carom billiards games in which the balls remain widely separated rather than Template:Gli, requiring much more skill to score Template:Gli and making Template:Gli effectively impossible, and making for a more interesting game for onlookers.[26] Most skilled players try to gather the balls as quickly as possible to increase their chances of continuing to score in a long Template:Gli.
In eight-ball and related games, describes the situation in which neither player has yet claimed a Template:Gli (Template:Gli) of balls. Often shortened to simply open: "Is it still an open table?" "Yes, it's open."
1. A specific ball number followed by "out" refers to a Template:Gli in nine-ball or other rotation games where the "spot" is all balls from that designated number to the money ball. To illustrate, the 6-out in a nine-ball game would allow the player getting Template:Gli to win by Template:Gli pocketing the 6, 7, 8 or 9 balls.
2. Short for Template:Gli, especially as a noun: "That was a nice out."
Hitting the Template:Gli with too large of a Template:Gli angle; hitting the object ball too thin. It is a well-known maxim that overcutting is preferable to Template:Gli in many situations, as it more often leaves the table in a disadvantageous position on the miss than does an undercut. See also Template:Gli.
Also pills, tally balls and shake balls.
Small, round markers typically numbered 1 through 16, which are placed in a Template:Gli for various random assignment purposes, such as in a tournament roster, to assign order of play in a multiplayer game, or to assign particular balls to players in games such as kelly pool.[1][16]
1. In Template:Gli, a Template:Gli made when the Template:Glis are about two or three inches apart; parallel to, and close to a Template:Gli. The object balls remain nearly stationary, and the player can then play a shot that reverses the striking order of the Template:Gli against to object balls.[86]
See Template:Gli.[6] Used by itself often with "low" and "high": "that's a low-percentage shot for me", "I should really take the high-percentage one".
1. A bolt-threaded protrusion inside the Template:Gli of the cue, usually protruding from the Template:Gli and screwing into the Template:Gli rather than vice versa. Most modern cues make use of metal pins and Template:Gli, but carom billiards cues usually have a wooden pin, and a collarless wood-on-wood joint.[39]
Also the pink.
In snooker, the second-highest value Template:Gli, being worth six points.[87] It is placed on the Template:Gli.[87][14] In some (especially American) snooker ball sets, it is numbered "6" on its surface.
Also piquet.
Either a Script error: No such module "Lang". shot with no Template:Gli (Template:Gli), or a shot in which the cue stick is steeply angled, but not held quite as near-vertically as it is in full Script error: No such module "Lang"..Template:Sfnp[84]
Using knowledge of the game and one's own abilities and limitations to choose the manner of shooting and the particular shot from an array presented, that has a degree of likelihood of success. This often requires a player to forego a shot that if made would be very advantageous but does not have a high likelihood of success, in favor of a safety or less advantageous shot that is more realistically achievable.[6]
Also playing surface.
The area of the table on which the balls roll, i.e. the table surface exclusive of the Template:Gli and the tops of the Template:Gli. The playing surface is defined by the measurements lengthwise and widthwise between the cushion noses (though specifications may simply refer to the cushion Template:Gli for short in that context).[18]Artistic pool and other forms of trick shots sometimes call for shots to go beyond the bounds of the playing surface, e.g. a Template:Gli off the table into a boot on the floor, in Mike Massey's classic "boot shot". The playing surface is what is used, not the entire table, when describing the approximate size of billiard tables of all kinds (e.g. "an 8 × 4 foot pool table").
1. (noun) An opening in a billiards table, cut partly into the Template:Gli and partly into the Template:Gli and their Template:Gli, into which balls are shot (pocketed or Template:Gli). Pockets may drop into a leather or cloth net, a solid cup, or a Template:Gli mechanism. The Template:Gli of the pocket have a cushion Template:Gli; the Template:Gli or Template:Gli is where this facing meets (in a pointed or curved fashion) the cushion that bounds the playing surface of the table.
Billiards-style pockets also feature in some distantly related tabletop games like carrom, novuss, pichenotte, pitchnut, air hockey, and the historical bagatelle family of games. Historically related to the holes in golf, the basic concept of a ball-capturing target or hazard is a feature of many other games, including pinball, cornhole, skeeball, and (in an elevated fashion) basketball.
2. (verb) To send a ball into a pocket, usually intentionally.
Template:Ghat
1. Describes the propensity of Template:Gli to more easily accept an imperfectly aimed ball shot at a relatively soft speed, that might not fall if shot with more velocity ("that ball normally wouldn't fall but he hit it at pocket speed"). The less sensitive to shot-speed that a pocket is, the "Template:Gli" it is said to be.[63]
2. Describes the velocity of an Template:Gli shot with just enough speed to reach the intended pocket and drop. "Shoot this with pocket speed only, so you don't send the cue ball too far up-table."
A rigid, flat piece of material such as plastic that outlines the exact angles and curvature of the Template:Gli of the Template:Gli at a Template:Gli, the width of their separation across the pocket opening (the Template:Gli of the pocket) and the depth into the jaws where the pocket drop is. The templates thereby determine the size and other playing aspects of the pocket. Such standardization is used especially in snooker and English billiards, for which the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association presently issues pocket templates.[18] These proprietary templates are tightly controlled, and only provided to approved venues and manufacturers. Each table requires two pairs of templates, as the specifications for Template:Gli and Template:Gli (Template:Gli) pockets are entirely different.[89]Template:Sfnp For each pocket type, one template is used to determine pocket width and other horizontal aspects, while the other measures the Template:Gli of the cushions including any Template:Gli, the Template:Gli of the pocket, and other vertical aspects.[89]See also Template:Gli, Template:Gli.
A term used to indicate balls that are Template:Gli to each other, or close enough, such that no matter from which angle they are hit, the combination will send the outer ball in the same predictable direction.
"Are the 2 and 7 pointing at the corner? Okay, I'll use that duck to get position way over there."
A tight, Spandex glove covering usually most or all of the thumb, index finger and middle finger, worn on the Template:Gli as a more convenient and less messy alternative to using Template:Gli, and for the same purpose: a smooth-gliding Template:Gli.
Skilled playing in which knowledge of ball speed, angles, post-impact trajectory, and other factors are used to gain Template:Gli (i.e. a good Template:Gli) after the target ball is struck. The goals of position play are generally to ensure that the next shot is easy or at least makeable, and/or to play a Template:Gli in the advent of a miss (intentional or otherwise).Script error: No such module "labelled list hatnote".
1. (verb, chiefly British) To sink a ball into a pocket.[16]See also Template:Gli (verb).
2. (noun, chiefly British) An instance of potting a ball ("it was a good pot considering the angle and distance of the shot").
3. (noun) Pooled money being played for, in Template:Gli or tournaments, as in poker and other gambling activities. This very old term derives from players placing their Template:Gli into a pot or other receptacle before play begins.
A tactic employed in UK eight-ball pool in which a player Template:Gli and Template:Gli one of the balls in a favorably lying set, then plays safe, leaving as many of their well-placed balls on the table as possible, until the opponents commits a Template:Gli or leaves a chance that the player feels warrants an attempt at Template:Gli.
A British term for someone with little experience or understanding of the game, who may be skilled at Template:Gli individual balls but does not consider tactics such as Template:Gli or Template:Gli; "he's a potter, not a player." Compare U.S. Template:Gli.
A deliberate Template:Gli that leaves the balls in a Template:Gli position, reducing the risk of giving a Template:Gli-winning chance to the opponent. The miss rule in snooker was implemented primarily to discourage the professional fouls.
Template:Ghat
The Template:Gli side of a Template:Gli. To "aim for the profession side of the pocket" is to slightly Template:Gli a difficult corner-pocket Template:Gli, to Template:Gli, rather than Template:Gli, especially in nine-ball. Erring too much in this direction is "missing on the professional side of the pocket." It is so called because experienced players understand that on a thin cut, overcutting the object ball to a corner pocket will far more often leave the object ball in an unfavorable position, i.e. along the Template:Gli for the incoming opponent than will an undercut, which often leaves the object ball sitting in front of or nearby the pocket it had been intended for on a miss.[91][92][93]
By contrast, in eight-ball, except when both players are shooting at the Template:Gli, the incoming player after a miss is shooting for different object balls, so this maxim does not apply, and the opposite may be good strategy as, if the object ball stays near the pocket through an undercut, it is advantageously positioned for a subsequent turn and may block the opponent's use of the pocket.[11]
As an adjective or compound noun: push-out.
A rule in many games (most notably nine-ball, after and only after the break shot), allowing a player to "push out" the cue ball to a new position without having to contact any ball, much less pocket one or drive it to a Template:Gli, but not counting any pocketed ball as valid (other foul rules apply, such as Template:Gli, Template:Gli the cue ball, etc.), with the caveat that the opponent may shoot from the new cue ball position or give the shot back to the pusher who must shoot from the new position. In nine-ball particularly, and derived games such as seven-ball and ten-ball, pocketing the Template:Gli on a push-out results in that ball being Template:Gli (which can be used to strategic advantage in certain circumstances, such as when the break leaves no shot on the Template:Gli, and failure to hit it would give the incoming player an instant-win Template:Gli on the money ball).Template:Clarify
Any Template:Gli shot in which a player's Template:Gli stays in contact with the Template:Gli for more than the momentary time commensurate with a Template:Gli shot.Template:Sfnp[16] In the game of snooker, it is considered a push if the cue strikes the cue ball more than once in a given shot (a Template:Gli) or if the cue stick, cue ball, and Template:Gli are all in contact together during a shot (if the cue ball and Template:Gli began Template:Gli together, the player must shoot away from that object ball without moving it and the Template:Gli rule applies).
1. For a player to place money for a wager in an openly visible spot (typically on the hanging light above the table, thus the origin of the phrase); this demonstrates that the money is actually present and obviates any need to demand its production from the loser's pocket. "You want to play for 500? Put it up!"
2. To stake a particular amount of money on a gambling player. "I'll put up another 2000, but you'd better win this time."
3. On a coin-operated Template:Gli, to place one or more coins on the Template:Gli, or on the Template:Gli of the table under the Template:Gli, as a marker of one's place in line (UK: on queue) to play. "You didn't put your quarters up." And alternative is to put one's name on a list, e.g. on a chalkboard.
1. A geometric form, usually aluminum, wooden or plastic, used to assist in setting up balls in games like eight-ball, nine-ball, and snooker. The rack allows for more consistently tight grouping of balls, which is necessary for a successful Template:Gli shot. In most games a triangle-shaped rack capable of holding fifteen balls can be employed, even if the game calls for racking less than a full ball set, such as in the game of nine-ball. For further information, see the Rack (billiards) main article.
2. Used to refer to a racked group of balls before they have been broken.
3. In some games, refers to a single Template:Gli.
The act of setting up the balls for a Template:Gli shot. In tournament play this will be done by the Template:Gli, but in lower-level play, players either rack for themselves or for each other depending on convention.
Chiefly American: In pool games, when a player racks the object balls, and the Template:Gliing opponent does not pocket a ball on the break, and the person who Template:Glied the game commences to run out all of the remaining object balls without the breaker getting another visit at the table. This is similar to a Template:Gli, with the key difference being that the person executing the "rack and run" did not break the balls in that game.
An outgrowth of the Template:Gli concept, a racking template is a Template:Gli tool used in place of a traditional rigid ball rack for pool or snooker balls, consisting of a very thin, e.g. Template:Convert,[95] sheet of material such as paper[96] or plastic[95] with holes into which Template:Gli settle snugly against one another to form a tight rack (Template:Gli). The template is placed, stencil-like, in racking position, with the lead ball's hole directly over the center of the Template:Gli. The balls are then placed onto the template and arranged to settle into their holes, forming a tight rack. Unlike with a training template, the balls are not tapped to create divots, and instead the template is left in place until after the break shot at which time it can be removed (unless balls are still sitting on top of it). Manufacturers such as Magic Ball Rack insist that racking templates are designed "to affect the balls to a minimum".[95] Although Magic Ball Rack implies development work since 2006,[95] other evidence suggests invention, by Magic Ball Rack's founder, in mid-2009, with product announcement taking place in September of that year.[96]See also Template:Gli.
Also (uncommonly) cushion rail.[18]
The sides of a table's frame upon which the elastic Template:Gli are mounted and in which the Template:Gli (Template:Gli) are inlaid (on tables that possess them). The term is often used interchangeably with Template:Gli.[16]
to disturb balls that favor your opponent sufficiently as such that the new rearrangement or layout of balls might end up favoring you or when your shot goes wild and rearranges the balls into an unpredicted pattern, necessitating both players having to replan their strategy.
Template:Ghat
1. In snooker, any of the 15 balls worth one point each that can be potted in any order. During the course of a Template:Gli a player must first Template:Gli a red followed by a Template:Gli, and then a red and colour, etc., until the reds run out and then the Template:Gli six colours must be cleared in their order. Potting more than one red in a single shot is not a foul – the player simply gets a point for each red potted. Red balls are never numbered "1" on their surface, even in (primarily American) sets in which the Template:Gli are numbered with their values.
The person in charge of the game whose primary role is to ensure adherence by both players to the appropriate rules of the game being played. Other duties of the referee include Template:Gli each frame, re-spotting balls during the course of a game, maintaining the equipment associated with the table (e.g. keeping the balls clean), controlling the crowd and, if necessary, controlling the players. Formerly sometimes referred to as the Template:Gli.
Template:Ghat
1. In snooker, the abandonment of a Template:Gli upon agreement between the players, so that the balls can be set up again and the frame restarted with no change to the score since the last completed frame. This is the result of situations, such as trading of Template:Gli, where there is no foreseeable change to the pattern of shots being played, so the frame could go on indefinitely.
In snooker, a situation where the scores are tied after all the balls have been Template:Gli, and the Template:Gli is Template:Gli and the first player to pot it wins. The players toss for the first shot, which must be taken with the Template:Gli in Template:Gli. A Template:Gli battle typically ensues, until an error allows a player to pot the black, or a Template:Gli or a difficult pot is made.
Template:Gli on the Template:Gli that causes it to unnaturally roll off a Template:Gli (contacted at an angle) against rather than with the ball's momentum and direction of travel. If angling into a cushion that is on the right, then reverse Template:Gli would be right Template:Not a typo, and vice versa. The angle of deflection will be steeper (narrower) than if no Template:Not a typo were applied. The opposite of Template:Gli, which has effects other than simply the opposites of those of reverse Template:Not a typo.
1. A style of game play in which as many players are allowed to join as the participants choose, and anyone can quit at any time.Template:Sfnp The term, most often used in the context of gambling, is borrowed from poker. The folk games three-ball and killer are usually played as open ring games, as is Kelly pool.
2. By extension, a multi-player game that anyone may initially join, but which has a fixed roster of competitors once it begins, is sometimes also called a ring game. Cutthroat is, by its nature, such a game. A famous regular ring game event of this sort is the six-player, US$3000-buy-in ring ten-ball competition at the annual Derby City Classic.[97]
3. A nine-ball ring game is played by more than two players and has special rules. Typically, the players choose a random method for setting the order of play, with the winner breaking. Safeties are not allowed and there are two or more Template:Gli – usually the five and nine.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
A pool table spread in which the balls are extremely easily positioned for a run out, and where little movement of the cue ball on each shot is necessary to obtain position on the next.[98]
A highly skilled hustler making money gambling while traveling.[6] Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler was a road player. One of the most notorious real-life road players is Keith McCready.
1. (Transitive, "to rob") Playing an opponent for money who has a very low chance of winning based on disparity of skill levels.
2. (Intransitive, "to be robbed") Usually unwittingly playing an opponent for money who has a very high chance of winning based on disparity of skill levels.
3. (Intransitive, "to be robbed") Used humorously in exclamations when a shot that looks like it would work did not, as in "Oh! You got robbed on that one!"
Colloquial term for an unusually hard, heavy Template:Gli made of ceramic instead of the phenolic resin or other modern, resilient plastics most billiard balls are made of. "Rock" cue balls are frequently found on older coin-operated Template:Gli that do not have magnetic Template:Gli mechanisms. As with oversized "Template:Gli" cue balls, the ball return works because the cue ball is considerably heavier than, and thereby distinguishable from, the Template:Gli. Because of their brittle material, rocks wear out faster that normal cue balls, are prone to chippings, and due to their density also shorten the lifespan of the object balls and the cloth. Their weight has a strong effect on play, as they are difficult to Template:Gli (Template:Gli), Template:Gli and Template:Gli, and generate a large amount of Template:Gli, compared to standard and Template:Gli, but do not reduce Template:Gli accuracy like grapefruit balls.
1. Describes lucky or unlucky "rolls" of the cue ball; "I had good rolls all night; "that was a bad roll."[99] However, when said without an adjective ascribing good or bad characteristics to it, "roll" usually refers to a positive outcome such as in "he sure got a roll".[6]
A gentle tap of the Template:Gli with the intention of getting it as tight as possible behind an Template:Gli, in the hope of a Template:Gli. It is most common in the game of snooker, and is often results in a Template:Gli in many pool games, where after the cue ball has contacted a legal object ball either any ball must contact a Template:Gli or any object ball must be Template:Gli. A roll-up can be legal in such games when the object ball used for the tactic is very close to a cushion, so that either it or the cue ball lightly touch the cushion after ball-on-ball contact.
A term in croquet and other forms of ground billiards for a Template:Gli, sense 3: hitting an Template:Gli with Template:Gli; originally spelled the French way, Script error: No such module "Lang"., into the late 19th century. In croquet, unlike similar games, this triggers a special situation, the croquet stroke: the shooter may take Template:Gli, placing their own ball against the opponent's ball that was struck, so that the balls are Template:Gli, then step on the player's own ball to keep it place or slow its movement, and strike it, sending most or all of the energy of the hit into the opponent ball, driving it far away, while leaving the player's own ball in place or rolling slowly to a desired location.[100]
1. Descriptive of any game in which the Template:Gli must be struck in numerical order. Billiard researcher Mike Shamos observes that it would be more intuitive to call such games "'series' or 'sequence'". The term actually derives from the set-up of the game Chicago, in which the balls are not racked, but placed numerically around the table along the Template:Gli (and must be shot in ascending order).Template:Sfnp Other common rotation games include 15-ball rotation, nine-ball, and ten-ball
1. A multi-Template:Gli division of a Template:Gli, as used in some league and tournament formats. For example, in a match between two teams of five players each, a 25-game match might be divided into five rounds of five games each, in which the roster of one team moves one line down at the beginning of each round, such that by the end of the match every player on team A has played every player on team B in Template:Gli fashion.
2. A level of competition elimination in a tournament, such as the quarter-final round, semi-final round and final round.
A tournament format in which each contestant plays each of the other contestants at least once.[16] In typical Template:Gli team play, round robin format means that each member of the home team plays each member of the visiting team once. This format is used by BCAPL, VNEA and many other leagues. Contrast Template:Gli.
Describing a shot that requires one or more balls to be played off several Template:Gli, such as an elaborate Template:Gli or a Template:Gli shot; "he'll have to send the cue ball round the angles to get good position."
A British term (especially in snooker) for the Template:Gli of a group of balls when another ball is sent into them, typically with the intent of deliberately moving them with the Template:Gli to Template:Gli them.
In English billiards, running a coup is when a player, from Template:Gli, directly pockets the cue-ball when no ball(s) are out of Template:Gli. If the ball first makes contact with the flat of a cushion and then (indirectly) enters a pocket, this is not regarded as running a coup.Template:Sfnp
Also running side spin, running spin.Template:Gli ("Template:Not a typo") on the Template:Gli that causes it to roll off a Template:Gli (contacted at an angle) Template:Em rather than Template:Em the ball's natural momentum and direction of travel.[6] If angling into a cusion that is on the right, then running Template:Not a typo would be left Template:Not a typo, and vice versa. The angle of deflection will be wider than if no Template:Not a typo were applied to the cue ball; but more importantly, because the ball is rolling instead of sliding against the cushion, the angle will be more consistent. For this reason, running Template:Not a typo is routinely used. Also called running Template:Gli in British terminology. Contrast Template:Not a typo.
1. Describing a ball that is in a position that makes it very difficult to Template:Gli.
2. Describing a situation a player has been left in by the opponent, intentionally or otherwise, that makes it difficult to pot any Template:Gli. See also Template:Gli.
1. An intentional defensive shot, the most common goal of which is to leave the opponent either no plausible shot at all, or at least a difficult one.
2. A shot that is called aloud as part of a game's rules; once invoked, a safety usually allows the player to pocket their own object ball without having to shoot again, for strategic purposes. A well-played safety may result in a Template:Gli.
A Template:Gli in which the object is to leave the incoming player with no shot or a very difficult shot, such as is normally employed in the opening break of straight pool.[1]Cf. Template:Gli.
To disguise the level of one's ability to play in various ways such as using a Template:Gli; intentionally missing shots; making an uneven game appear "close"; purposefully losing early, inconsequential games. Sandbagging is a form of Template:Gli, and in Template:Gli leagues, considered a form of cheating, as it is used to obtain a low handicap so that a skilled player can later use this rating to improper advantage in more important competitions. The term "sandbag" is often applied to other rated tournaments, including chess and Scrabble; the technique was used in the 2012 Olympics by badminton players, resulting in several disqualifications.[101]See also Template:Gli and Template:Gli.
A form of Template:Gli (Template:Gli) play in which the two team members take turns, playing alternating shots during an Template:Gli (i.e., each team's inning consists of two players' alternating Template:Gli, each of one shot only, until that team's inning ends, and the next team begins their alternating-shot turn, or the Template:Gli ends.) Effective scotch doubles play requires close rapport between team partners, especially as to advantageous cue ball position for the incoming player; whether the pair may directly communicate with each other during their inning varies by rule set. Like "Template:Not a typo", "scotch" is usually not capitalized in this context. The term is also used in bowling, and may have originated there.
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Also score-board, score board.
A usually wall-mounted device for keeping Template:Gli between two or more players in Template:Gli-based games or in Template:Gli. The most common type, mostly used for snooker and straight pool, consists of two or more pointers sliding on board-mounted rails to indicate 1s and 10s marked on the board. Some carom billiards clubs provide digital scoreboards for each table. Other scoring methods include wall-mounted Template:Gli, in-rail Template:Gli, and over-table Template:Gli.
Also score-keeper, score keeper. Person who keeps score for others while they play. A designated scorekeeper is common in league play (often the team captain, or a player who is simply not playing at that moment) and in professional tournaments. A scorekeeper may also be used in high-stakes Template:Gli, as depicted in the film The Hustler.
Also score rack.
A wall-mounted, usually wooden rack with several numbered shelves to hold each player's pocketed balls, used for keeping Template:Gli between players of games in which points are awarded by the numerical values on the balls. Scoring racks remain common in places where rotation and related games are popular, e.g. Mexico, but are rare where these games have mostly died out. Also known as a Template:Gli. Sometimes ambiguously called a Template:Gli or Template:Gli.
Also score wheels.
Rotating wheels numbered 0–9 mounted into a Template:Gli of the Billiard table, and used for keeping Template:Gli between two or more players in Template:Gli-based games or in Template:Gli. They are typically a pair of wheels, representing 10s and 1s, for at least two players. Such wheels are sometimes also used to create wall-mounted Template:Gli.
An abrasive Template:Gli used as a grinder to roughen the Template:Gli to better hold Template:Gli after it has become hardened and smooth from repeated impacts with the Template:Gli. Template:Gli serve the same purpose, but are used differently. Similar to a Template:Gli, but shallower and less rough.
To be able to clearly see a path to a pocket or object ball without any other obstacle interfering, usually as a straight shot: "The 3 ball is hanging in the pocket, but I can't see it because the 9 ball is in my way."
To bungle a shot in a manner that leaves the table in such a fortuitous position for the opponent that there is a strong likelihood of losing the game or match.[6]Contrast Template:Gli.
Template:GhatAlso semi-Script error: No such module "Lang". shot. A moderate curve imparted to the path of the Template:Gli by an elevated hit with use of Template:Gli (Template:Gli); or a shot using this technique. Also known as a Template:Gli (US) or Template:Gli (UK) shot. Compare Script error: No such module "Lang"..
1. Principally US: One or more Template:Gli, usually in the context of gambling. See also Template:Gli (a.k.a. ahead session) for a more specialized usage.
2. Principally British: Any of a group of pre-determined Template:Gli played in a Template:Gli too long to be completed within a single day's play. A best-of-19-frame match, for example, is generally played with two "sessions", the first composed of nine frames, the second of ten. This term is generally used only in the context of professional snooker, as matches at the amateur level are rarely played over more than nine frames. Longer matches can be split into three or four sessions.
Principally British: In snooker, if a player wins a Template:Gli without the need for the final session to be played, then they are said to have won the match "with a session to spare". For example, if a player wins a best-of-25-Template:Gli match split into three Template:Gli (two sessions of eight frames and one of nine) by a margin of say, 13 frames to 3, the match will be completed after the first two sessions, with no need to play the third.
A predetermined number of games, usually played for a specified sum of money. Contrast Template:Gli (a predetermined number of wins). Informally, sets may refer to gambling more generally, as in "I've been playing sets all day", even when the format is actually races or single games.
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1. (Of a player or referee) to place the balls (and other items, if applicable, such as Template:Gli) properly for the beginning of a game: "In eight-ball, properly setting up requires that the rear corners of the rack not have two stripes or two solids but one of each." For most games this is in a Template:Gli pattern, but the term is applicable more broadly than "rack", e.g. in carom billiards and in games like bottle pool. Contrast Template:Gli.
2. (Of the game equipment) arranged properly for the beginning of a game: "set up and waiting for the break", "an improper set-up"
3. (Of a player, passively and specifically) to have good Template:Gli – to be in a favorable position for making a shot or other desired play ("is set-up on the 9", "could be set-up for the corner-pocket after this shot")
4. (Of a player, passively, generally, and chiefly US) to be in a favorable position for, and with a Template:Gli conductive to, a long Template:Gli (UK: Template:Gli) or complete Template:Gli: "a crucial miss that left their opponent really set-up"; compare (chiefly British) "Template:Gli"
5. (Of a player, actively) to use Template:Gli to move one or more specific balls to specific locations with a specific goal in mind, usually Template:Gli (Template:Gli) a specific ball or getting an easy Template:Gli, but possibly a Template:Gli, Template:Gli or Template:Gli; in short, to get Template:Gli: "She set up on the 9-ball with a careful draw shot." The meaning can be inverted to indicate poor play on the part of the other player: "Oops, I just set you up for an easy win when I missed like that."
6. (Of a table Template:Gli) comparatively easy to completely Template:Gli, e.g. because of a lack of Template:Gli or Template:Gli: "looks like a nice set-up for a quick out", "this table's totally set up for you"
7. (Of Template:Gli position more specifically): having good Template:Gli – comparatively easy to use to some advantage, such as continuing a Template:Gli (UK: Template:Gli) or playing Template:Gli: "The cue ball's set up for an easy side pocket shot."
8. (Of a shot or strategy) the result of Template:Gli (careful or reckless): "Playing the 6 off the 8 was a great set-up to win", "That follow shot was a terrible set-up for the 6-ball."
9. (Of a hustler) to successfully convince a Template:Gli that one is not a very skilled player and that gambling on a game will be a good idea: "That guy totally set me up and took me for $200." Such a hustle is a setup or set-up.
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A variation of nine-ball but played with only seven balls, and the Template:Gli as the Template:Gli or "Template:Gli". An additional difference from nine-ball-style rules is that the 7 must be pocketed in a specific side of the table (each player being assigned one at the beginning of the game). Some custom 7 balls are manufactured for this game, using a black- or white-striped maroon ball instead of a solid maroon one. The game had notable professional play on ESPN's televised tournament series Sudden Death Seven-ball, 2000–2005.
The upper portion of a Template:Gli which slides on a player's Template:Gli and upon which the Template:Gli of the cue is mounted at its terminus.[16] It also applies to the main, unsegmented body of a Template:Gli.
A highly abrasive Template:Gli used to shape an unreasonably flat new Template:Gli, or a misshapen old one, into a more usable, consistently curved profile, most commonly the curvature of a nickel or dime (or equivalently sized non-US/Canadian coin) for larger and smaller pool tips, respectively. Similar to a Template:Gli, but deeper and rougher.
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1. Verb: To perform some act or make some utterance with the intent to distract, irritate or intimidate the opponent so that they do not perform well, miss a shot, etc.[6] Most league and tournament rules forbid blatant sharking, as a form of unsportsmanlike conduct, but it is very common in Template:Gli.
3. Noun: A very good player. This usage is common among non-players who often intend it as a compliment and are not aware of its derogatory senses (above).[6]
Chiefly British:Same as Template:Gli (senses 1, 2). The term appears in lyrics from The Mikado (1884) in relation to billiards, and developed from sharper (in use by at least 1681, but now obsolete) meaning "hustler" but not specific to billiards.Template:SfnpSee also card sharp for more etymological details and sources.
Also short stop, short-stop.
A second-tier professional who is not (yet) ready for World Championship competition.[2][102] It can also be applied by extension to a player who is one of the best in a region but not quite good enough to consistently beat serious Template:Gli and tournament pros. The term was borrowed from baseball.
Also shot to nothing. A predominantly British term for a shot in which a player attempts a difficult Template:Gli but with Template:Gli in mind, so that in the event of missing the pot it is likely that the opponent will not make a meaningful contribution, and will probably have to reply with a safety. The meaning refers to lack of risk, i.e. at no cost to the player ("for nothing" or coming "to nothing"). Compare Template:Gli.
One of the two Template:Gli one either side of a pool table halfway up the Template:Gli. They are cut shallower than Template:Gli because they have a 180-degree aperture, instead of 90 degrees. In the UK the term Template:Gli or middle pocket are preferred.
Either of the two longer Template:Gli of a billiards table, bisected by a Template:Gli and bounded at both ends by a Template:Gli. Also called a long rail.
Also sidespin, side-spin, side.Template:Gli placed on the Template:Gli when hit with the cueTemplate:Gli to the left or right of the ball's center; usually called Template:Gli in American usage. See Template:Gli, in its narrower definition, for details on the effects of side spin. See illustration at Template:Gli.
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".Also single elimination. A tournament format in which a player is out of the tournament after a single Template:Gli loss.[16]Contrast Template:Gli.
Also single table set-up.
In the final stages of a tournament, primarily snooker events, where other tables are removed, to use one single table for the final, or later rounds of the tournament.
Some events, such as the Snooker Shoot Out, are played throughout using a single table format.
Any shot that intentionally accounts for the elasticity of the cushions to allow a ball to bank past an otherwise blocking ball. The moving ball will sink in to the cushion very near the blocking ball giving it sufficient space to get past it or Template:Gli off the back side of it.
An upright object resembling a miniature bowling pin, cone or obelisk. Skittles, as employed in billiards games, have been so-called since at least 1634.[1] One standardized size, for the game five-pins, is 25 mm (1 in.) tall, with 7 mm (0.28 in.) round bases,[103] though larger variants have long existed for other games such as Danish pin billiards. Depending upon the game there may be one skittle, or several, and they may be targets to hit (often via a Template:Gli) or obstacles to avoid, usually the former. They are also sometimes called Template:Gli, though that term can be ambiguous. Because of the increasing international popularity of the game five-pins, which originated in Italy, they are sometimes also known by their Italian name, birillo (plural birilli), even in English. Skittles are also used as obstacles in some artistic billiards shots. Flat, thin rectangular skittles, like large plastic dominoes, approximately 6 in. tall by 3 in. wide, and placed upright like obelisks on the table in specific spots, are used as targets or Template:Glis (mostly the latter) in the now-rare and principally Australian games devil's pool (ten white and two black pins)[104] and victory billiards (one black pin, also featured in several scenes of the 1992 sci-fi/pool film Hard Knuckle).[105] Skittles as used in billiards games date to ground billiards (13th century or earlier) played with a Template:Gli, and hand-thrown games of bowls from at least the same era using the same equipment. Ball games using a recognizable form of skittle are known from as early as ca. 3300 BCE in Ancient Egypt.[106]
The heavy, finely milled rock (slate) that forms the Template:Gli of the table, beneath the Template:Gli. Major slate suppliers for the billiards industry are Italy, Brazil and China. Some cheaper tables, and novelty tables designed for outdoor use, do not use genuine slate beds, but artificial materials such as plastic-coated particleboard (some brands include Slatron and Permaslate), or medium-density fiberboard.[107][108]
A stroking technique in which a player releases their gripping hand briefly and re-grasps the cue farther back on the Template:Gli just before hitting the cue ball.[109]Cowboy Jimmy Moore was a well-known practitioner of the slip stroke.
2. Also sloppy. Descriptive of any game where the rules have been varied to allow luck shots not normally allowed or where no Template:Gli rules apply.
Pocket openings that are significantly wider than are typical and thus allow shots hit with a poor degree of accuracy to be made that would not be pocketed on a table with more exacting pocket dimensions.[93]
1. Describes a billiard table with loosely woven, dirty, too-new or worn-out Template:Gli (baize), upon which the balls move slower and shorter distances.[38]See Template:Gli for more information.
2. Producing dull, sluggish action; said of Template:Gli or of the balls, in addition to the above, cloth-related definition.[55]
3. Unusually rejecting of balls; said of pockets; see Template:Gli (sense 1) for more information.
"Template:Gli" is the direct opposite of "slow" in all of these usages.
A variant of Template:Gli, but played with unnecessary force, in hopes that the undesirable ball layout on the table is sufficiently re-arranged by careening balls that something good will result for the shooter (even if it is simply a bad Template:Gli for the incoming player).
The effect of shooting regulation-weight Template:Gli with an old-fashioned over-weight Template:GliTemplate:Gli, such that the cue ball moves forward to occupy (sometimes only temporarily), or go beyond, the original position of the object ball, even on a draw or stop shot, because the mass of the cue ball exceeds that of the object ball. Players who understand smash-through well can use it intentionally for position play, such as to nudge other object balls nearby the target ball. Smash-through also makes it dangerous in Template:Gli (when equipped with such a cue ball) to pocket straight-on Template:Gli with a Template:Gli instead of by Template:Gli because of the likelihood of Template:Gli the cue ball.[11]
A two-piece cue constructed to resemble a Template:Gli, with a near-invisible wood-to-wood Template:Gli.Template:Sfnp The subterfuge often enables a hustler to temporarily fool unsuspecting Template:Gli into thinking that they are an unskilled Template:Gli with no regard for finesse or equipment quality. Many Template:Gli players also use cheap but solid sneaky petes as their Template:Gli cues.
2. (verb) To leave the opponent (accidentally or by means of a Template:Gli) so that a certain shot on a preferred Template:Gli cannot be played directly in a straight line by normal cueing. It most commonly means that the object ball cannot be hit easily, because it is hidden by another ball or, more rarely, the Template:Gli of a Template:Gli (see Template:Gli). It can also refer to the Template:Gli or another significant Template:Gli on the object ball, blocking an otherwise more straightforward shot, even if an edge can be seen. A common related adjective describing a player in this situation is snookered.[15] Also known as "Template:Gli", for which the corresponding adjective "hooked" is also common. See also Template:Gli.
3. (noun) An instance of this situation (e.g. "she's put him in a difficult snooker"). A player can choose a range of shots to get out of a snooker; usually a Template:Gli will be implemented but Template:Gli are often preferred, and in games where it is not a Template:Gli, Template:Gli may be employed that often yield good results for skilled players. "Snooker" is used loosely (when used at all; "hook" is favored) in the US, but has very specific definitions and subtypes (such as the Template:Gli) in blackball.[8]See also Template:Gli.
A stage in a Template:Gli of snooker where the points difference between the players exceeds the maximum number of points remaining on the table. The trailing player may either Template:Gli the frame at this stage or attempt to overcome the points deficit by securing penalty points from Template:Gli, typically by placing the leading player in Template:Gli. The number of snookers required is usually calculated as the number of four-point penalties that—in addition to the maximum points remaining on the table—would enable the trailing player to win the frame outright or tie the scores and force a Template:Gli. E.g., a player who trails by 42 points with 35 points remaining is said to "require two snookers" because two four-point fouls, in addition to the remaining 35 points, would enable that player to win the frame by one point. If the Template:Gli or Template:Gli is the lowest-valued ball remaining on the table, the number of snookers required is calculated in terms of five- or six-point penalties respectively. A Template:Gli can also help a trailing player overcome a points deficit. When a player can at best tie with the points remaining on the table, the Template:Gli will no longer apply the Template:Gli should either player fail to escape from a snooker. The miss rule still applies at the snookers required stage if a player misses a ball while not snookered.
A Template:Gli in which the Template:Gli (Template:Gli) is disturbed as little as possible within the bounds of a Template:Gli shot, in order to force the opponent to have to break it up further. A soft break is desirable in some games, such as straight pool, in which breaking is a disadvantage; and forbidden by the Template:Gli rules of other games such as nine-ball and eight-ball.
Abbreviation: SA. In carom billiards, the number that indicates the relation between the points and innings (points ÷ innings = SA) a player has made in a single match. E. g. 40 points in 10 innings is a SA of 4.000. Higher numbers indicate better players. See also Template:Gli.
Template:Gli (object-ball Template:Gli away from the Template:Gli path of the Template:Gli), induced by ball-against-ball friction being increased by a slow-speed shot prolonging the short length of time the two balls are in contact. A faster, harder shot can be used to avoid this effect, as it reduces the contact time and also reduces the object-ball friction on the Template:Gli so that Template:Gli it has picked up from the impact has less wheel-like, path-curving effect. Speed-induced throw can also be countered to some extent with Template:Gli (Template:Gli) or Template:Gli (Template:Gli), which help resist the object ball's inclination to pick up side-spin that will alter its path (Template:Gli).[42][43]See Template:Gli for more details.
Also Template:Not a typo:Template:Gli (object-ball Template:Gli away from the Template:Gli path of the Template:Gli), induced by ball-against-ball friction being increased by Template:Gli (Template:Not a typo) Template:Gli that is in the same direction as the natural throw angle of the object ball, which also induced a small amount of rolling curve to the path of that object ball.[42][43] (Technically, an intermediary spinning object ball can also induce some throw on the final object ball, though an intentionally spun cue ball can have more much side spin and thus a more noticeable effect.) Application of precise opposite spin (Template:Gli) can counter this effect along with that of Template:Gli. See Template:Gli for more details.
1. Also split shot and split hit. In pool, a type of shot in which two Template:Gli are initially contacted by the Template:Gli simultaneously or so close to simultaneously as for the difference to be indistinguishable to the eye.[16] In most sets of rules it is a Template:Gli if the split is one in which one of the object balls is a (or the only) legal target (Template:Gli) and the other is not; however, such a split is commonly considered a legal shot in informal Template:Gli in many areas if it is Template:Gli as a split and does appear to strike the balls simultaneously.
1. spot, a: In pool games such as nine-ball, a specific Template:Gli given (e.g., "what spot will you give me?").
2. spot, a: In snooker, any of the six designated points on the table on which a Template:Gli is replaced after it has left the playing surface (usually after it has been Template:Gli).
6. spots:Script error: No such module "anchor".Also spot balls, spotted balls, the spots.Chiefly British. In a numbered pool ball set, the Template:Gli of seven balls, other than Template:Gli, that are a solid colour with the number on the ball inside a small white spot on the otherwise solid-coloured surface. Also referred to as Template:Gli; chiefly American colloquialisms are Template:Gli, Template:Gli and Template:Gli, while alternative British terms include Template:Gli and Template:Gli. Contrast Template:Gli.
1. In pool, return an illegally pocketed object ball to the table by placement on the Template:Gli or as near to it as possible without moving other balls (in ways that may differ from ruleset to ruleset).[16]
2. In snooker, to return a Template:Gli to its designated spot on the table. Also called re-spot.
3. In nine-ball, the giving of a Template:Gli to the opponent where they can also win by making a ball or balls other than the 9 ball (e.g. "she spotted me the seven ball").
4. In eight-ball, one-pocket and straight pool, the giving of a handicap to the opponent where they have to make fewer balls than their opponent does.
Any shot in which the cue ball or an object ball has to squeeze by (just miss with almost no margin for error) another ball or balls in order to reach its intended target.[110]Template:Clarify
Same as cue-ball Template:Gli.[6]Squirt has also been applied metaphorically in sports journalism and the gaming press to describe the escape of a ball or puck from player control.[113][114] However, it remains primarily a cue-sports technical term, and does not appear to be frequently used as jargon in football, hockey, or other sports.
2. (verb) To provide part or all of a player's stake for a gambling session in which one is not a player,[1] i.e. to be a Template:Gli for the player. Same as Template:Gli.
1. To intentionally hide one's "Template:Gli" (skill); "he's on the stall."[115]
2. To intentionally play slowly so as to irritate one's opponent. This form of Template:Gli has been eliminated from many tournaments with a shot clock, and from many leagues with time-limit rules.
In the UK, a long-distance shot played to Template:Gli a ball close to a Template:Gli with heavy Template:Gli, so that when the Template:Gli hits the Template:Gli it bounces off but then stops due to the counteraction of the spin. It is not common in competitive play, being more of an exhibition shot.
The lamentable practice of not following through with the Template:Gli straight, but veering off in the direction of the shot's travel or the side Template:Gli is applied, away from the proper aiming line; a common source of missed shots.
A shot played with Template:Gli, but not quite enough to completely stop the Template:Gli, allowing for a little Template:Gli. It is played so that a Template:Gli can be controlled more reliably, with a firmer strike than for a slow roll. It is widely consideredScript error: No such module "Unsubst". as one of the most difficult shots in the game to master, but an excellent weapon in a player's armory once it has been.
A shot that only a novice or fool would take. Usually because it is a guaranteed Template:Gli or other Template:Gli, or because it has a low percentage of being pocketed and is likely to leave the opponent in good position.
A (principally American) term in eight-ball for either of the set of seven balls (Template:Gli or Template:Gli) that must be cleared before Template:Gli the 8 ball. Borrowed from card games. Generally used in the generic, especially in rulesets or articles, rather than colloquially by players. See also Template:Gli for the British equivalent.
A player skilled at very thin Template:Gli, and shots in which a ball must pass cleanly through a very narrow space (such as the Template:Gli between two of the opponent's Template:Gli with barely enough room) to avoid a foul and/or to pocket a ball.[117] Such shots may be referred to as "surgery", "surgical shots", "surgical cuts", etc. (chiefly US, colloquial). See also Template:Gli (US) or Template:Gli (UK).
File:Hilfsqueue the swan.pngUsing a "swan" rest to raise the cue stick over obstructing ballsAlso swan rest. A type of Template:Gli, similar to a Template:Gli in that the head is raised by longer supporting legs, but instead of a selection of grooves on the top for the Template:Gli to rest in there is only one, on the end of an overhanging neck, so that a player can get to the Template:Gli more easily if the path is blocked by two or more obstructing balls. Also known as the Template:Gli.[8]
A flaw in the table, such as lack of leveling, loose Template:Gli at the Template:Gli of a Template:Gli, a divot in the Template:Gli, etc., that causes a ball, especially a slow-moving one, to not roll or settle as expected.
1. Failure to hit any legal Template:Gli at all with the Template:Gli. In most sets of rules, this is a Template:Gli like any other. However, in some variants of Template:Gli a table scratch while shooting for the Template:Gli is a loss of game where other more minor fouls might not be, as is Template:Gli on the 8 ball (neither result in a loss of game in professional and most amateur league rules).
2. By way of drift from the above definition, the term is also applied by many league players to the foul in more standardized rules of failing to drive a (any) ball to a Template:Gli, or to Template:Gli a legal object ball, after the cue ball's initial contact with an object ball.
3. Uncommonly, and by way of entirely different derivation ("scratch off the table"), it can also mean knocking the cue ball (or more loosely, any ball) completely off the table.
Subjective assessment of the rapidity with which balls move on the billiard table's Template:Gli (baize). Balls roll faster and farther on "Template:Gli" tables with tightly woven, broken-in, clean cloth as they experience less friction than with "Template:Gli" cloth that is dirty or is fuzzy because of a loose weave and cheap material or because it is wearing out. The terms may be used comparatively, as in "this is a really fast table", or "I don't like cloth this slow". Fast cloth can make Template:Gli (Template:Gli) shots somewhat less effective, as there is less purchase for the Template:Gli's Template:Gli. On the other hand, Template:Gli and Template:Gli are easier on fast cloth because it is so comparatively smooth.[38] Sometimes called Template:Gli.
Also hand talc.
White talcum powder placed on a player's Template:Gli to reduce moisture so that a cue's Template:Gli can slide more easily. Many establishments do not provide it as too many recreational players will use far more than is necessary and transfer it all over the table's surface, the floor, furniture, etc. Venues that do provide it usually do so in the form of compressed cones about 6 inches tall. Some serious players bring their own, in a bottle or a porous bag that can be patted on the bridge hand. Many players prefer a Template:Gli. Talc is frequently mistakenly referred to as "Template:Gli", despite not being made of chalk.
The imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the impact line between the cue ball and an object ball. The cue ball will travel along this line after impact with an object ball if it has no vertical spin on it (is sliding) at the moment of impact on a non-center-to-center collision. See also Template:Gli and Template:Gli.
To purposefully lose games in order to gain a better draft selection or to be more competitive in the future. This is usually performed when a team is out of or unlikely to take part in a league's postseason.
The profile of the shaft of the cue as it increases in diameter from the tip to the joint. A "fast" or "slow" taper refers to how quickly the diameter increases. A "pro" taper describes a shaft that tapers rapidly from the joint size to the tip size so as to provide a long, untapered stroking area.
A Template:Gli with fine, sharp points used to roughen the Template:Gli to better hold Template:Gli after it has become hardened and smooth from repeated impacts with the Template:Gli. Tappers are firmly tapped on or pressed against the tip. Template:Gli serve the same purpose, but are used differently.
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An amateur multi-player (and often gambling) game, played with three Template:Glis, Template:Glied either in a triangle or a straight line toward the Template:Gli from the Template:Gli. The game is played by each player trying to Template:Gli all three balls (the same player remaining at the table until this is done) in as few shots as possible and without incurring any Template:Glis. Luck plays a more significant role in this game than usual, due to the possibility of pocketing two or even all three balls on the Template:Gli.
The three-foul rule describes a situation in which a player is assessed a defined penalty after committing a third successive foul. The exact penalty, its prerequisites and whether it is in place at all, vary depending on the games. In nine-ball and straight pool, a player must be the told they are on two fouls in order to transgress the rule, and if violated, results in a loss of game for in former, and a special point penalty of a loss of fifteen points (plus one for the foul itself) in the latter together with the ability to require the violator to rerack and rebreak. In WEPF eight-ball, it is a loss of game if a player commits a third foul while shooting at Template:Gli. In snooker, three successive fouls from a non-Template:Glied position result in forfeiting the Template:Gli. Repeat fouls from a snookered position are quite common – Dave Harold holds the record in a competitive match, missing the same shot 14 successive times.
The normal phenomenon, present to some degree on all Template:Glis, whereby the object ball is pushed in a direction slight off the pure "Template:Gli" contact angle between the two balls. Throw is caused by the friction imparted from the first, moving ball sliding or rotating against the second, stationary ball.[16]Same as object-ball Template:Gli. While throw is most easily observed between the Template:Gli and an object ball, it also happens between two or more object balls, which is one of the factors that makes Template:Glis challenging.
The amount of this deflection of an object ball from its expected path is increased by several things, including by dirty or pitted balls that briefly grip each other more, by a thick cut-shot angle that provides for extended friction between the balls (cut-induced throw), by slow ball-contact speed (speed-induced throw) for the same reason, by Template:Glis for the same reason, and by the object ball being impacted by a ball that is rapidly Template:Gli (spin- or Template:Gli-induced throw), which causes the object ball to roll in a curve more toward that throw direction. Throw is reduced by higher-speed impact, by Template:Gli or Template:Gli (bottom or top spin), and by side-spin counter to the direction of the natural throw. Skilled players thus often shoot cut shots with a small amount of Template:Gli – gearing outside English – to neutralize the cut-induced throw that widens the shot away from the Template:Gli, though other techniques may be required instead or in combination with that, depending on the desired cue-ball position at the end of the shot.[42][43]
A shot in which the Template:Gli is driven first to one or more Template:Gli, then hits an Template:Gli and Template:Gli back to the last rail contacted. It is a common shot in carom games, but can be applied to such an instance in any relevant cue sport. In pool, it is most often used as a form of short-distance Template:Gli.
Describing a ball that is Template:Gli because it is in close proximity to one or more other balls, and would need to be Template:Gli before it becomes Template:Gli.
1. Describing a situation where a Template:Gli is made more difficult, either by a Template:Gli being partially blocked by another ball so that not all of it is available, or the Template:Gli path to the Template:GliTemplate:Gli involves going past another ball very closely.
2. Script error: No such module "anchor".Describing pockets that are themselves narrower than average, making for a more challenging table.
3. Chiefly British: A resting ball that is in actual contact with a Template:Gli is said to be "tight" to that cushion. The chiefly American term "Template:Gli" means the same thing, except that it can also apply to a ball in contact with one or more other balls rather than with a cushion.
Any shot in which the cue ball moves another ball to a different position and then rebounds off one or more rails to contact the object ball again (normally in an attempt to Template:Gli it or score a Template:Gli).[16]
A small clamping Template:Gli used to firmly hold and apply pressure to a replacement Template:Gli until the glue holding the tip to the Template:Gli has fully dried.
1. Chiefly British: The half of the table in which the Template:Gli are Template:Gli (in games that use racked balls). This usage is conceptually opposite that in North America, where this end of the table is called the Template:Gli. In snooker, this is where the Template:Glis are racked, nearest the Template:GliTemplate:Gli; this is the area in which most of the game is usually played. Contrast Template:Gli.
2. Chiefly American: Exactly the opposite of the British usage above – the Template:Gli end of the table. No longer in common usage.
This technique involves all three balls being grouped in close proximity at the top end of the table and scoring with a succession of short-range pots and cannons. A typical starting point is with the red placed on its spot, object white on or near the centreline somewhere between the spot and the top cushion, and the cueball posed nearby to pot the red or make a gentle cannon. If the pot, then it should be played so as to leave the cueball in a good position for the next shot. If the cannon, then the purpose is to disturb the object white as little as possible and finish clear to pot the red that has been left near the corner pocket. Then in potting the red the cueball must again be left in a good position for the next shot, and so on. This form of play makes it possible to compile really big breaks in relatively short time.
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In snooker, the situation in which the Template:Gli is resting in contact with an Template:Gli. If the object ball is a ball that may legally be hit, then it is allowable to simply hit away from it and it counts as having hit it in the shot. If that ball moves, then a Template:Gli must have occurred, in which case it is a Template:Gli. This rule is sometimes applied to British pool as well as snooker. In American-style pool, and in carom billiards, a less stringent definition of a push shot applies; see Template:Gli.
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A thin sheet of rigid material in the size and shape of a physical ball rack (e.g. a Template:Gli for nine-ball), with holes drilled though it, which is used to make permanent Template:Gli in the cloth of the table, one at a time for each ball in the Template:Gli pattern, by placing the template on the table, and then a ball in one of the holes in the template by tapping it sharply from above to create the cloth indentation. The holes are spaced slightly closer than the regulation ball width of 21⁄2 inch (57.15 mm) apart, so that when the balls settle partially into their divots, the outer sides of these indentations create ball-on-ball pressure, pushing the balls together tightly. The purpose of the template is to do away with using a physical rack, with racking instead being performed simply by placing the balls into position, and the divots aligning them into the tightest possible formation automatically. This prevents accidental loose racks, and also thwarts the possibility of cheating by manipulating the ball positions while racking. The European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF, Europe's WPA affiliate organization) has adopted this racking technique for its professional Euro-Tour event series.[118]See also Template:Gli, Template:Gli.
1. A rack in the form of an equilateral triangle. There are different sizes of triangles for Template:Gli different games (which use different ball sizes and numbers of balls),[16] including the fifteen ball racks for snooker and various pool games such as eight-ball and blackball. A larger triangle is used for the twenty-one ball rack for baseball pocket billiards.[16] The smallest triangle rack is employed in three-ball(see illustration at that article) but is not strictly necessary, as the front of a larger rack can be used, or the balls can be arranged by hand. Script error: No such module "labelled list hatnote".
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An exhibition shot designed to impress either by a player's skill or knowledge of how to set the balls up and take advantage of the angles of the table; usually a combination of both. A trick shot may involve items otherwise never seen during the course of a game, such as bottles, baskets, etc. being placed on or around the table.
A rule in blackball[8] whereby after an opponent has Template:Gli and thus yielded Template:Gli, if the incoming shooter Template:Gli a ball on the first shot, (s)he is still allowed to miss in a later shot and take a second shot Template:Gli (from Template:Gli or from Template:Gli, or if the opponent potted the cue ball, from anywhere)—even on Template:Gli, in most variants. Also called the "two visits" rule; i.e., the two penalty shots are considered independent Template:Gli to the table, and the limiting variants discussed at Template:Gli below cannot logically apply.
In blackball,[8] a penalty conceded by a player after a Template:Gli. The incoming opponent is then allowed to miss twice before the faulting player is allowed another Template:Gli. Many local rules state the Template:Gli from the D (see Template:Gli) or Template:Gli (or if the opponent potted the cue ball, from anywhere) nature of the second shot is lost if a ball is potted on the first shot, that it is lost if the ball potted in the first shot was that player's last Template:Gli (Template:Gli in their Template:Gli), and/or that there is only ever one shot on Template:Gli after a fault. See Template:Gli for more detail on a sub-rule that may apply (and eliminate the variations discussed here).
A three cushion billiards shot in which the cue ball first strikes two cushions before hitting the first object ball then hits a third cushion before hitting the second object ball. So called because the shot opens up like an umbrella after hitting the third rail. Umbrella shots may be classified as inside or outside depending on which side of the first object ball the cue ball contacts.
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1 To hit the object ball with not enough of a cut angle; hitting the object ball too full or "fat". It is a well-known maxim that Template:Gli is preferable to undercutting because of the principle of the "Template:Gli". May be used as a noun: "That was a bad undercut."
2. On snooker and English billiards tables, to trim back (usually by filing and sanding, not actually cutting) the underside of the protruding Template:Gli of the Template:Gli, a.k.a. the Template:Gli of the cushion, from where the cushion starts to curve into the Template:Gli until it ends inside the pocket Template:Gli.[89] The result is a cushion Template:Gli at the knuckle that angles inward toward where the base of the Template:Gli meets the Template:Gli of the table, instead of one that is perpendicular to the bed.[89] At this point behaves more like a triangular pool cushion profile, with its "backboard" effect, than an upside-down L-shaped snooker cushion profile. Undercut knuckles make for an easier pocket to Template:Gli balls in from an angle – a "faster Template:Gli" – because they raise the Template:Gli between cushion and ball to above the centre of the ball,[89] reducing the tendency of the ball to be rebounded away. Also used as a noun: "The amount of the undercut has a major effect on pocket playability."
Inadvertent Template:Gli placed on the cue ball by a failure to hit it dead center on its horizontal axis. It is both a common source of missed shots and commonly overlooked when attempts are made to determine the reason for a miss.Template:Sfnp In UK parlance this is usually called 'unwanted side'.
A British term describing when a ball is Template:Gli on the Template:Gli and a player sends the Template:Gli to hit both the Template:Gli and the rail at nearly the same time; the object ball, ideally, stays tight to the rail and is thus "velcroed" to the rail. Template:Gli is often employed to achieve this effect, hitting slightly before the ball. The movement of a ball just next to the rail (but not the shot described to achieve this movement) is called Template:Gli in both the UK and the US.
One of the alternating turns players (or Template:Gli teams) are allowed at the table, before a shot is played that concedes a visit to their opponent (e.g. "he ran out in one visit"). Usually synonymous with Template:Gli as applied to a single player/team, except in Template:Gli format.
1. A one-piece or two-piece item of wall-mounted furniture designed to store cue sticks and sometimes other accessories such as the Template:Gli (Template:Gli), balls, Template:Gli, etc., when not in use. May consist of two small pieces of wood, or be an elaborately decorative large work of carpentry. Contrast Template:Gli.
An Template:Gli positioned near a Template:Gli so that another object ball shot at that pocket will likely go Template:Gli the warrior, even if aimed so imperfectly that if the warrior had been absent, the shot likely would have missed. Usually arises when a ball is being Template:Gli to the pocket.
1. Term for object balls in the game of Chicago that are each assigned as having a set money value; typically the 5, 8, 10, 13 and 15.Template:Clarify
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Principally British: In snooker, if a player wins all of the required Template:Gli in a Template:Gli without conceding a frame to their opponent, for example, if a player wins a best-of-nine-frames match with a score of 5–0, this is referred to as a "whitewash". The term is based on a similar term used in the card game of "Patience" in the UK. However, it is not used in the context of a 1–0 winning scoreline in a match consisting of a single frame.
When a ball is given as a Template:Gli it often must be called (generally tacit). A wild handicap means the ball can be made in any manner specifically without being called.
Either of the balls on the lateral extremities of a racked set of balls in position for a break shot; the two balls at the outside of a 15-ball rack in the back row, or the balls to the left and right of the 9 ball in nine-ball's diamond Template:Gli-shaped opening set up position.[119] In nine-ball it is seen as a reliable sign of a good Template:Gli (which is normally taken from close to either Template:Gli in the Template:Gli) if the opposite wing ball is Template:Gli. See also Template:Gli.
Shooting at an object ball that is already in motion ("on the wing") at the moment of shooting and cue ball impact; it is a Template:Gli in most games, and usually only seen in trick shots and in speed pool.
Also winner, largely obsolete. A shot in which the Template:Gli is used to Template:Gli another ball.[16][72] In snooker and most pool games doing this is known as Template:Gli, Template:Gli or Template:Gli the targeted ball. The term derives from early forms of billiards where this hazard winning the player points, while Template:Gli cost the player points. Whether the ball is an Template:Gli or an opponent's cue ball depends upon the type of game (some have two cue balls). The move will score Template:Gli in most (but not all) games in which Template:Gli (as such) apply, such as English billiards (in which a "red winner" is the potting of the Template:Gli and a "white winner" the potting of the opponent's cue ball, each worth a different number of points).[72]Contrast Template:Gli.
British term referring to the base or metaphorical "feet" of a ball that rattles in the Template:Gli of a Template:Gli before eventually dropping. Usually said of an Template:Gli for which the intention was to Template:Gli it.[119]
1. File:Booches interior.jpgA scoring wire at Booches in Columbia, Missouri, with a sign stating "please do not use this wire"Also scoring wire, score wire. Actual wire or string with multiple beads strung (like an abacus) used for keeping Template:Gli. Beads may be numbered or, more commonly, are in series of nine small beads representing 1s punctuated by larger beads representing 10s. Scoring strings are usually strung over the table, above the lights, but may be mounted on the wall.
Template:Gli are a type of Template:Gli used, where a weaker player will be given a certain number of points before the start of the game.[56]
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A covering of leather, nylon string, Template:Gli or other material around the area of the butt of a cue where the cue is normally gripped.[116]
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↑ESPN2 broadcast of 2007 International Challenge of Champions, first semi-final (September 12, 2007). Thorsten Hohmann v. Niels Feijen. In-context commentary on rack 7 of second set by pool pro Allen Hopkins. "He's hitting everything like he's got the cue ball on a string."
↑ abESPN Classic broadcast of 1995 Gordon's 9-Ball Championship (August 14, 2007), second semi-final. (Loree Jon Jones vs. Gerda Hofstatter). Direct definition of "on the hill" for viewers and two in-context uses of "hill-hill" in commentary by pool pro Vicki Paski.
↑ESPN Classic broadcast of 2002 BCA Open 9-ball Championship, final (May 16, 2002). Charlie Williams v. Tony Robles. In-context commentary on rack 8 by pool pro Mike Sigel. Rebroadcast and viewed March 27, 2009.
↑ESPN2 broadcast of 2007 World Summit of Pool, final (September 17, 2007). Alex Pagulayan v. Shane Van Boening. In-context commentary on rack 11 by pool pro Charlie Williams. [Following a safety] "He put Shane in jail here; this is a tough shot."
↑ESPN broadcast of 2008 BCA GenerationPool.com Women' 9-Ball Championship, final (aired July 19, 2008). Ga-Young Kim vs. Xiaoting Pan. In-context commentary on rack 10 by pool pro Ewa Mataya Laurance: "The field has gotten so much stronger; there are no easy matches anymore—you know—your first match you have to play jam up."
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↑ESPN broadcast of 2007 WPBA Great Lakes Classic, second semi-final. Helena Thornfeldt vs. Ga-Young Kim. In-context commentary on rack 10 by pool pro Dawn Hopkins.
↑ abFSN New York broadcast of 2006 Mosconi Cup (August 21, 2007). Team USA members (Johnny Archer and Corey Deuel) vs. Team Europe members (Thomas Engert and David Alcaide). In-context commentary on rack 7 by pool pros Jim Wych and Jerry Forsyth: "You try and overcut it a little bit if you miss it...if you hit it thick you'll sell out...this is called missing it on the pro side."
↑MSG Plus broadcast of day 3 of the 2008 Mosconi Cup. Mika Immonen vs. Rodney Morris. In-context commentary by pro player and pool writer Jerry Forsyth on rack 4: "What a beautiful layout for Immonen. He could not have asked for a better pattern to play. The first five balls are all down at the same end of the table; he doesn't need to make the cue ball do a lot of work; this is a road map". Rebroadcast on April 5, 2009
↑ESPN Classic broadcast of 1995 Gordon's 9-Ball Championship (August 10, 2007), first semi-final. (Jeanette Lee (quoted) vs. Vivian Villarreal). In-context commentary by pool pro Vicki Paski on rack six: "there's good rolls and bad rolls..."
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