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Eight-ball (often spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes in the UK or, more rarely, bigs and littles/smalls, and highs and lows) is a pool (pocket billiards) game popular in much of the world, and the subject of international professional and amateur competition. [1]

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Actua Pool

Actua Pool is a sports simulation video game developed by British company Gremlin Interactive as part of their highly successful Actua Sports series of sport simulators of the mid-to-late 1990s.

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Alex Pagulayan

Alejandro "Alex" Salvador Pagulayan (born June 25, 1976) is a Filipino Canadian professional pool (pocket billiards) and snooker player.

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American CueSports Alliance

The American CueSports Alliance (abbreviated ACS) is a non-profit league-sanctioning body for cue sports in the United States.

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American pool

American pool is a term used in the United Kingdom, and sometimes more broadly outside North America, to refer to pool (pocket billiards) cue sports that make use of formerly American-style and now professionally world-standardised numbered billiard balls that have a standard diameter of 57 mm (in), as opposed to British-style unnumbered 56 mm (in) balls.

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American Poolplayers Association

The American Association (APA) was founded in 1981 by professional pool players Terry Bell and Larry Hubbart, although with roots dating back to the National Pool League (NPL), founded in 1979.

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Andretti curse

The Andretti Curse, sometimes referred to as Andretti Luck, is a folk belief in reference to a seemingly perpetual string of bad luck the Andretti racing family has experienced in their efforts to win the Indianapolis 500.

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Andy Segal

Andy Segal (born April 14, 1968), nicknamed "the Magic Man", is a trick-shot pool champion from Huntington, New York.

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Australian Eight Ball Federation

The Australian Eight Ball Federation (or Eight Ball Federation Incorporated), formed in 1983 is the governing body in Australia for the sport of eight-ball pool, a cue sport (also standardised under the name blackball, and distinct from the American-style game of eight-ball, itself subject to international competition).

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Bank pool

Bank pool is a pool (pocket billiards) game that has as its most fundamental requirement that all scoring shots in the game must be made by a called ball off a and into a called pocket.

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Bankshot Billiards 2

Bankshot Billiards 2 is a Sports simulation video game developed by PixelStorm, as a sequel to Bankshot Billiards.

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Basic (film)

Basic is a 2003 American/German mystery-action thriller film directed by John McTiernan and starring John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, and Samuel L. Jackson.

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Big Pun

Christopher Lee Rios (November 10, 1971 – February 7, 2000), better known by his stage name Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was an American rapper.

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Big Pun discography

The discography of Big Pun contains two studio albums, one compilation album and six singles.

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Big Shot (pinball)

Big Shot is a pinball machine designed by Ed Krynski and produced by Gottlieb in 1973.

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Bill Ware

Bill Ware III born William Anthony Ware III (b. January 28, 1959, East Orange, New Jersey) is an American jazz vibraphonist.

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Billiard ball

A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker.

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Billiard Congress of America

Billiard Congress of America (BCA) is a governing body for cue sports in North America (here defined as the United States and Canada exclusively), the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA).

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Billiards and snooker at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games

Billiards and snooker were held at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games at Convention Hall, Don Chan Palace, Vientiane, Laos.

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Blackball (pool)

Blackball (sometimes written black ball or black-ball) is a pool (pocket billiards) game originating in the United Kingdom and popular in multiple countries.

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Boston (disambiguation)

Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Break Time: The National Pool Tour

Break Time: The National Pool Tour is a pocket billiards (pool) video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993 exclusively for a North American audience.

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British Universities and Colleges Sport

British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) is the governing body for university sport in the United Kingdom.

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Carom3D

Carom 3D is a 3D, freeware online sports simulation video game released by Neoact in.

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Carrom

Carrom (also spelled karrom) is a "strike-and-" tabletop game of South Asian origin.

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Championship Pool

Championship Pool is a 1993 sports simulation video game released for Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Mega Drive/Genesis, and MS-DOS.

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Chao Fong-pang

Chao Fong-pang (born September 15, 1967 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese professional pool player.

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Chinese eight-ball

Chinese eight-ball (sometimes rendered "Chinese" eight-ball, and also known as eight-ball kiss, reversed eight-ball or backwards eight-ball), is an American, two-player pool (pocket billiards) game which combines the play of eight-ball (except by shooting at the instead of the normal vice versa) with the shooting style of carom billiards games, and is thus a pool–carom hybrid game, like English billiards.

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Chitra Magimairaj

Chitra Magimairaj (born 7 April 1973, Bangalore), is an Indian professional player of snooker, English billiards, and pool.

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Cool Pool

Cool Pool, also marketed as 3D Ultra Cool Pool is a 3D pool computer game by Sierra.

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Cowboy pool

Cowboy pool (or simply cowboy) is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics.

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Crazy Eights (disambiguation)

Crazy Eights is a card game for two to seven players.

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Cue Club

Cue Club, or International Cue Club is a sports simulation video game developed by Bulldog Interactive and released for Microsoft Windows on 10 November 2000.

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Cue Club 2

Cue Club 2 is a sports simulation video game developed by Bulldog Interactive.

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Cue sports

Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.

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Cue sports at the 2002 Asian Games – Eight-ball singles

The men's eight-ball singles tournament at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan took place from 2 October to 3 October at Dongju College Gymnasium.

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Cue sports at the 2006 Asian Games

The cue sports of snooker, English billiards, and three-cushion carom for men, as well as eight-ball and nine-ball pool for both men and women, were contested at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 4 to December 11.

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Cue sports at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's eight-ball singles

The men's eight-ball singles tournament at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha took place from 7 December to 9 December at Al-Sadd Multi-Purpose Hall.

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Cue sports at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's eight-ball singles

The women's eight-ball singles tournament at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha took place from 8 December to 9 December at Al-Sadd Multi-Purpose Hall.

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Cue sports at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's eight-ball singles

The men's eight-ball singles tournament at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou took place from 13 November to 15 November at Asian Games Town Gymnasium.

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Cue sports at the 2010 Asian Games – Women's eight-ball singles

The women's eight-ball singles tournament at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou took place from 14 November to 18 November at Asian Games Town Gymnasium.

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Cue sports at the 2013 Bolivarian Games

Cue sports (Spanish: Billar), for the 2013 Bolivarian Games, took place from 18 November to 22 November 2013.

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Dallas West

Dallas West (born 1941, Rockford, Illinois) is an American pool player and was inducted into the Billiards Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1996.

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Darebin Falcons

The Darebin Falcons represent the Darebin Women's Sports Club.

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Darren Appleton

Darren "Dynamite" Appleton (born 8 February 1976) is an English pool player.

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Dennis Orcollo

Dennis Orcollo (born January 28, 1979), sometimes called Dennis Orcullo, is a Filipino professional pool player, nicknamed "Surigao" (after a province in the Philippines) and "RoboCop".

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DJ Speedy

DJ Speedy, also known as Harvey Miller or "Gangsta Nerd" is a successful music producer that has worked with major entertainment industry acts all the way from Beyoncé, Nelly, Kelly Rowland to Nelly, Rich Boy, Bun B, Muprhy Lee, Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy and beyond.

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Doomsday Book (film)

Doomsday Book (lit. "Report on the Destruction of Mankind") is a 2012 South Korean science-fiction anthology film directed by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung.

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Doug Heveron

Doug Heveron (born March 29, 1961) is an American race car driver from Liverpool, New York.

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East Point's Greatest Hit

East Points Greatest Hit is a 1999 album by Dungeon Family associate Cool Breeze.

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Efren Reyes

Efren Manalang Reyes, (born August 26, 1954), nicknamed the Magician and Bata, is a Filipino professional pool player.

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Eight-ball (disambiguation)

Eight-ball (or 8-ball, Eightball, 8 Ball, eight ball, 8ball, etc.) may refer to.

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EOne Music discography

The E1 Discography has produced more ''Billboard'' hits than any other independent record label.

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FC Porto (billiards)

Futebol Clube do Porto is a professional billiards team based in Porto, Portugal, founded in 1950.

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Fintona

Fintona is a village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

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Fly on the Wall (video)

Fly on the Wall is a video by AC/DC, released in 1985.

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FooBillard

FooBillard is a free and open-source, OpenGL-based sports simulation video game.

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Francisco Bustamante

Francisco Bustamante (born December 29, 1963, Philippines) is a Filipino professional pocket billiards (pool) player from Tarlac, Central Luzon and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion, nicknamed "Django", after the lead character of the film of the same name, interview with Bustamante and sometimes also called "Bustie", especially in the United States.

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Franziska Stark

Franziska Stark (born 4 July 1961) is a German pool player.

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Gerda Hofstatter

Gerda Hofstatter (born 9 February 1971 in Friesach, Austria), nicknamed "G-Force", is a professional pool player and nine-ball champion.

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Glossary of cue sports terms

The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom (or carambole) billiards referring to the various games played on a billiard table without; pool (pocket billiards), which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.

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Golden Cue

The Golden Cue Billiard Lounge (also known as Golden Cue Billiards and Sports Pub) is the only extant billiard hall in Albany, New York,Directories confirm that the Golden Cue is the only pool hall in Albany:,. The only thing close is a "complete dining and entertainment megaplex" called Jillian's which has some pool tables among various other entertainments.

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Golf (billiards)

Golf billiards (also referred to as simply golf in clear context, and sometimes called golf pool or golf pocket billiards) is a pocket billiards game usually played for money.

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Heavy D discography

The discography of Heavy D consists of eight studio albums, two compilation albums and 14 singles.

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Holiday camp

A holiday camp is a type of holiday accommodation that encourages holidaymakers to stay within the site boundary and provides entertainment for them between meals.

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International Pool Tour

The International Pool Tour was a professional sports tour created in 2005 by Kevin Trudeau and hosted by Rebecca Grant.

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International Speed Pool Challenge

The International Speed Pool Challenge is a pool (pocket billiards) tournament held in the United States since 2006.

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IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship

The IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship was an eight-ball tournament held in Reno, Nevada by the International Pool Tour.

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Jasmin Ouschan

Jasmin Ouschan (pronounced yaz-MEEN ocean,; born 10 January 1986) is an Austrian professional pool player from Klagenfurt, Carinthia.

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Jean Balukas

Jean Balukas (born June 28, 1959) is an American pool player from Brooklyn, New York, and ranks among the stellar players in the history of the sport.

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Jimmy Wetch

Jimmy Wetch (born April 23, 1968 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American professional pool player nicknamed "The Kid".

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Joe McDoakes

Joe McDoakes is the protagonist of a series of 63 black and white live action comedy one-reel short subjects released between 1942 and 1956.

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Jonni Fulcher

Jonathan (Jonni) Fulcher (born 22 September 1974 in Inverness, Scotland) is a top-ranked British professional contender in a variety of pocket billiard disciplines who currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland and competes throughout the world.

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Joon Lee

John Lee (born March 23, 1972), better known by his Korean name, Joon Lee (Korean: 이준), is a Korean American rapper, singer, songwriter, DJ, and most notably one-third of the South Korean R&B/hip-hop trio, Solid.

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Keith McCready

Keith McCready (born April 9, 1957) is an American professional pool player, nicknamed Earthquake.

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Kelly pool

Kelly pool (also known as pea pool, pill pool, keeley, the keilley game, and killy) is a pocket billiards game played on a standard pool table using fifteen numbered markers called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls.

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Kim Ga-young

Kim Ga-young (born 13 January 1983 in Seoul; sometimes referred to in the Western media as Ga-young Kim and nicknamed "Little Devil Girl") is a South Korean female professional pool player who plays on the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) tour.

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Kuo Po-cheng

Kuo Po-cheng (born January 15, 1978) is a Taiwanese professional pool player, nicknamed "the Little Monster".

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Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell

Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell is an American musician, songwriter, audio engineer, record producer and owner of Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Lee Vann Corteza

Lee Vann Corteza, also spelled Lee Van Corteza, (born 1 March 1979 in Davao City, Philippines) is a Filipino professional pool player.

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List of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories characters

A number of the recurring characters appear during the various missions or cutscenes in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, set in 1998.

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List of international sports federations

This is a list of international sports federations, each of which serves as a non-governmental governing body for a given sport and administers its sport at a world level, most often crafting rules, promoting the sport to prospective spectators and fans, developing prospective players, and organizing world or continental championships.

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List of people from Ilfracombe

Ilfracombe is a town on the North Devon coast.

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List of people from Leicester and Leicestershire

This is a list of notable people born in Leicester, England, or in the county of Leicestershire, educated there, or otherwise associated with the city or county.

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List of sports

The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category.

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List of sports governing bodies in Wales

The governing bodies of sports in Wales perform an organisational, regulatory or sanctioning function at a national level in Wales, some tracing their history to the 19th Century.

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List of world eight-ball champions

This article is a list of professional world champions in the pocket billiards (pool) cue sport known as eight-ball, and its variations.

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Luc Salvas

Luc Salvas (born November 21, 1962) is a Canadian professional pool player.

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Luther Lassiter

Luther Lassiter (November 5, 1918 – October 25, 1988),MyFamily.com Inc.

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Lynette Horsburgh

Lynette Horsburgh (born 1974) is a Scottish-English semi-professional, world champion pool and national champion snooker player, as well as an international-class player of English billiards.

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Magic 8-Ball

The Magic 8-Ball is a toy used for fortune-telling or seeking advice, developed in the 1950s and manufactured by Mattel.

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Magic discography

This is the discography of Magic, an American hip hop recording artist.

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Marcus Chamat

Marcus Chamat (pronounced shuh-mat) (born 6 May 1975, in Borlange, Sweden) is a professional eight-ball and nine-ball pool player.

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Mark Selby

Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player.

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Marsaskala

Marsaskala (M'Skala, Wied il-Għajn), sometimes spelt Marsascala (M'Scala), is a sea-side village in the South Eastern Region of Malta that has grown around the small harbour at the head of Marsaskala Bay, a long narrow inlet also known as Marsaskala Creek.

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Michaela Tabb

Michaela Tabb (born 11 December 1967, in Bath, England) Retrieved 28 April 2009 is a Scottish snooker and pool referee, notable for establishing significant milestones for women officials in professional snooker.

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Midnight Pool

Midnight Pool (Hamaru Billiards in Japan) is a sports simulation video game by Gameloft.

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Mike Massey

Michael Massey (born April 9, 1947), professionally known as Mike Massey, is an American professional pocket-billiards (pool) player, best known as a trick-shot artist since the late 1970s, who has given substantial visibility to the sport by traveling the globe to perform exhibitions and compete in a variety of disciplines.

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Mr. Fifteen Balls

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Nick Varner

Nick Varner (born May 15, 1948 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American pool player who was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1992.

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Nine-ball

Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a contemporary form of pool (pocket billiards), with historical beginnings rooted in the United States and traceable to the 1920s.

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North herts premier pool league

The North Herts Premier Pool League is a UK Eight ball pool league covering Hertfordshire in the southeast of England.

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One-pocket

One-pocket (sometimes spelled one pocket or 1-pocket) is a pocket billiards game.

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Pitchnut

Pitchnut is a wooden tabletop game of French Canadian origins, similar to carrom, crokinole and pichenotte, with mechanics that lie somewhere between pocket billiards and air hockey.

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Pool (cue sports)

Pool is a cue sport played on a table with six pockets along the, into which balls are deposited.

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Pool Party (video game)

Pool Party is a sports simulation video game for the Wii, published by SouthPeak Games and developed by HyperDevbox Japan.

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Pool Revolution: Cue Sports

Pool Revolution: Cue Sports (also known in Europe as Cue Sports: Snooker vs. Billiards and in Japan as Cue Sports: Wi-Fi Taisen Billiards) is a sports simulation video game video game published by Hudson Soft for the Wii's WiiWare service.

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Pro–am

Pro–am (or pro/am, pro am, ProAm; a contraction of professional–amateur) is a mix of professional and amateur competition within a sport, or collaboration between professionals and amateurs in a scientific discipline such as astronomy.

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Rack 'Em

Rack 'Em is a sports simulation video game developed by Artech Digital Entertainments, Inc. and published by Accolade.

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Rack (billiards)

A rack (sometimes called a triangle) is a piece of equipment that is used to place billiard balls in their starting positions at the beginning of a billiards game.

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Ray Argall

Ray Argall ACS (born May 31, 1957) is best known as a cinematographer and director for both film and television.

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Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1990–1991

The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 29, 1990, and May 18, 1991, the sixteenth season of ''SNL''.

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Ronato Alcano

Ronato (Ronnie) Alcano (pronounced al-kah-no) (born 27 July 1972 in Calamba City, Laguna, Philippines), is a Filipino professional pool player, nicknamed "Ronnie Calamba" and "the Volcano".

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Ronnie O'Sullivan

Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan, (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player.

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Rotation (pool)

Rotation, sometimes called rotation pool or 61, is a pocket billiards game, requiring a standard pool table, and triangular rack of fifteen pool balls, in which the lowest-numbered on the table must be always struck by the cue ball first, to attempt to numbered balls for.

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Rubilen Amit

Rubilen "Bingkay" Amit (born October 3, 1981) is a Filipino female professional pocket billiards (pool) player.

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Russian pyramid

Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiard (ру́сский билья́рд, russky bilyard) or pyramid billiards, is a cue sport that has several differences from Western pool, although game play is still dominated by attempts to billiard balls.

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S.L. Benfica (billiards)

Sport Lisboa e Benfica is a semi-professional billiards team based in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Shawn Budd

Shawn Budd (born 2 March 1974 in Sydney, Australia), is a professional snooker and pool player that has won major snooker and pool tournaments in Australia, New Zealand, England and America.

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Shawn Reaves

Shawn Reaves (born February 5, 1978) is an American actor.

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Side Pocket 3

is a Japan-exclusive pocket billiards video game for the Sega Saturn, which was also released later for the PlayStation.

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Soleternity

Christopher McGill, professionally known as Soleternity, is a record producer, music composer, and mix engineer from Rockford, Illinois.

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Solid (band)

Solid (Korean: 솔리드) is a South Korean R&B/Hip-Hop trio.

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Speed pool

Speedball also called speed pool is a solitary pool game.

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Sport in Ireland

Sport in Ireland plays an important role in Irish society.

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Sporting CP (billiards)

Sporting Clube de Portugal is a professional billiards team based in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 1930.

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St. Mark's College (University of Adelaide)

St Mark's College is a co-residential college in North Adelaide, South Australia.

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Steve Davis Snooker

Steve Davis Snooker is a sports simulation video game developed by CDS Software, and published by CDS Software in 1985, with a budget release in 1988 published by Blue Ribbon Software.

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Steve Davis World Snooker

Steve Davis World Snooker is a sports simulation video game developed by Binary Design, and published by Artworx Software.

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Stickmen (film)

Stickmen is a 2001 New Zealand film directed by Hamish Rothwell and starring Robbie Magasiva.

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Straight pool

Straight pool, also called 14.1 continuous or simply 14.1, is a type of pool game.

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Super Monkey Ball Deluxe

Super Monkey Ball Deluxe is a platform video game developed and published by Sega.

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Swiss-system tournament

A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format which features a set number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than in a round-robin tournament.

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Tammy Cantoni

Tammy Cantoni (born 25 August 1972) is an Australian semi-professional pool and snooker player.

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Ten-ball

Ten-ball is a modern pool game.

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The Futuristiks

Mike & Keys (formerly known as The Futuristiks) are an American hip hop production and songwriting duo from Los Angeles, California that consists of Money Mike (born Michael Ray Cox, Jr.) and J-Keys (born John Groover, Jr.).

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The Hood Internet

The Hood Internet is a Chicago-based production duo specializing in mashups of hip hop (from the mainstream to the underground) with indie rock.

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The Reverse Peephole

"The Reverse Peephole" is the 12th episode of the ninth season of the television comedy series (the 168th overall), Seinfeld.

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The Rock 'n' Roll Express

The Rock 'n' Roll Express is a professional wrestling tag team consisting of professional wrestlers Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton.

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The Snap Magazine

The Snap Magazine (originally titled Make It On the Snap, and not to be confused with several later magazines using the word "Snap" in their titles) is an American pool (pocket billiards) periodical that was published in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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The Ultimate Fighter 3

The Ultimate Fighter 3 was on the third season of the mixed martial arts reality television series The Ultimate Fighter.

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This Might Be the Day

This Might Be the Day is the third studio album by American rapper MJG.

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Three-ball

Three-ball (or "3-ball", colloquially) is a folk game of pool played with any three standard pool and.

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Tin Men

Tin Men is a 1987 American comedy film written and directed by Barry Levinson, produced by Mark Johnson, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, and Barbara Hershey.

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Tipton, Missouri

Tipton is a city in Moniteau County, Missouri, United States.

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Torbjörn Blomdahl

Torbjörn Blomdahl (born 26 October 1962 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish professional carom billiards (and to a lesser extent pool) player from Helsingborg, Sweden.

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Tyler Edey

Tyler Edey (born February 29, 1980) is a Canadian pocket billiards player.

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U.S. Open

The term U.S. Open or US Open is applied to "open" United States-hosted championships in a particular sport (or non-sport organized competitive gaming activity), in which anyone, amateur or professional, American or non-American, and generally, male or female, may compete.

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Valley National 8-Ball League Association

The Valley National 8-Ball League Association (VNEA) A one-page flyer distributed by the organization at events.

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Virtual Pool

Virtual Pool is a 3D, first-person sports simulation video game series with computer simulations of cue sports which was developed by Celeris.

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Virtual Pool (video game)

Virtual Pool (assigned the retronym Virtual Pool 1 after the release of sequels) is a 3D, first-person sports simulation video game released by Interplay Productions in.

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Virtual Pool 2

Virtual Pool 2 (acronymed to VP2) is a 3D, first-person sports simulation video game developed by Celeris and released by VR Sports on behalf of Interplay Productions in.

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Virtual Pool 3

Virtual Pool 3 is a 3D, first-person sports simulation video game, developed and released for the PC and PlayStation by Celeris.

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Virtual Pool 4

Virtual Pool 4 is a sports simulation video game developed and published by Celeris as an entry in the Virtual Pool franchise, a sequel to Virtual Pool 3.

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Virtual Pool 64

Virtual Pool 64 is a 3D first-person sports simulation video game that was developed by Celeris and released for the Nintendo 64 by Crave Entertainment on December 17, 1998, in North America, and in Europe on February 26, 1999.

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Virtual Pool Hall

Virtual Pool Hall is a sports simulation video game developed Celeris and published by Interplay Productions as an entry in the Virtual Pool franchise, an improvement and sequel to Virtual Pool 2 and PC sequel to Virtual Pool 64.

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Virtual Pool: Tournament Edition

Virtual Pool: Tournament Edition is a sports simulation video game developed by Celeris and published by Global Star Software as an entry in the Virtual Pool franchise, a spin-off sequel to Virtual Pool 3.

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Wake County, North Carolina

Wake County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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William A. Spinks

William Alexander Spinks Jr. (1865–1933) was an American professional player of carom billiards in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Women's cue sports in Australia

Women's cue sports in Australia is a sporting topic that has received some Australian media coverage since the early 20th century.

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Working men's club

Working men's clubs are a type of private social club first created in the 19th century in industrialised areas of the United Kingdom, particularly the North of England, the Midlands, Scotland and many parts of the South Wales Valleys, to provide recreation and education for working class men and their families.

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World Championship Snooker 2003 (video game)

World Snooker Championship 2003 (Or, "WSC" 2003) is a sport simulation video game, released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC on 27 June 2003.

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World Championship Snooker 2004 (video game)

World Snooker Championship 2004 (Or, "WSC" 2004) is a sport simulation video game, released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC on 25 June 2004.

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World Eightball Pool Federation

The World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) is an international pool (pocket billiards) governing body overseeing international (principally British, Commonwealth, and continental European) tournaments and rankings in eightball pool (a game similar to eight-ball but played with red and yellow unnumbered balls instead of the stripes and solids numbered balls).

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World Firefighters Games

The World Firefighter Games is an international sporting event that welcomes all full-time, part-time and volunteer structural firefighters and bush firefighters, and aviation fire services and military emergency response personnel and their immediate direct family from all across the globe.

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World Snooker Championship 2007 (video game)

World Snooker Championship 2007 is a sport simulation video game, and is available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and as World Snooker Challenge 2007 for the PlayStation Portable.

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World Snooker Championship video games

The World Snooker Championship (WSC) has a series of video games based on snooker featuring licensing from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association from 2001 to 2011.

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WPA World Eight-ball Championship

The WPA World Eight-ball Championship (W8BC) is a professional eight-ball pocket billiards (pool) tournament that is sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association.

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WSC Real 11: World Snooker Championship

WSC Real 11: World Snooker Championship (Or, WSC Real 11) is a sport simulation video game, released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 15 April 2011, and PC on 1 April 2011.

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Wu Jia-qing

Wu Jia-qing (born February 9, 1989 in Taiwan) is a professional pool player.

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Yim Pil-sung

Yim Pil-sung (born May 13, 1972) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

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1985 Indianapolis 500

The 69th Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 26, 1985.

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2011 WPA World Eight-ball Championship

The 2011 WPA World Eight-ball Championship was the most recent annual professional eight-ball championship, organized by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), and held 19–26 February 2011 at the Fujairah Exhibition Centre of the Al Diar Siji Hotel in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

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8

8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-ball

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