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    The Ultimate Cue Sport for Everyone
    Pool is a popular and diverse family of cue sports that can be played by anyone, anywhere. It involves using a cue stick to hit a cue ball and pocket other balls on a table with different rules and variations.
    Etymology

    The etymology of "pool" is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that "pool" and other games with collective stakes is derived from the French poule (literally translated "hen"), in which the poule is th… See more

    History

    With the exception of one-pocket, games typically called "pool" today are descended from two English games imported to the United States during the 19th century. The first was English billiards which became American f… See more

    Equipment

    Pool is played on a six pocket table. Modern pool tables generally range in size from 3.5 by 7 feet (1.07 by 2.13 m), to 4.5 by 9 feet (1.37 by 2.74 m).
    Under World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) official equi… See more

    Game types

    These are games descended from the early 19th century games of pyramid pool and fifteen-ball pool which required balls to be racked due to the large number of them on the table. Of the other pyramid traditions of Continenta… See more

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