Pool

Pocket billiards" redirects right here. For different makes use of, see Pocket billiards (disambiguation).

Pro participant David Alcaide on the world Pool Masters 2007
Pool, also bigger officially known as pocket billiards (in general in North the united states) or pool billiards. (typically in Europe and Australia), is the family of cue exercises movements and games carried out on a pool desk having six receptacles referred to as wallet alongside the rails, into which balls are deposited as the essential intention of play. Famous versions encompass eight-ball and nine-ball. An out of date term for pool is six-pocket.