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71Northern Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association — or NIBSA is the national governing body for Snooker and Billiards in Northern Ireland, appointed by the Sports Council for Northern Ireland, Sport NI. The aims of the association are to develop and promote the sport at grass roots level in… …
72Rack (billiards) — A rack is the name given to a frame (usually wood or plastic) used to organize billiard balls at the beginning of a game. Rack may also be used as a verb to describe the act of setting billiard balls in starting position in billiards games that… …
73World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association — The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA, also known as the World Snooker Association or simply World Snooker for short) is the governing body of world snooker and English Billiards. It is sometimes mistakenly assumed that… …
74Edward Lee (billiards) — Edward Lee is an American former professional carom billiards player from New York City. Although three cushion billiards was popular in the United States at that time, most of the American players competed in a separate World Championship staged …
75Eddy Merckx (billiards player) — Eddy Merckx (born Reet, Belgium, 4 September 1968) is a Belgian professional three cushion billiards player.In the year 2006, he beat Nikos Polychronopoulos 3 ndash;1 to win the world title in three cushions billiards. In 2007, he added the… …
76Balk (billiards) — A balk is an area on a billiard table defined by balklines. In games such as English billiards, pool or bagatelle, a balkline is drawn across the table near one end, behind which lies the balk, where the cue balls are placed in lagging for lead… …
77English billiards — noun A hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table, for two players or teams. Syn: billiards …
78pocket billiards — noun A family of billiards games played on a specific class of billiards table, having six receptacles called pockets (or holes ) along the rails, in which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Syn: pool …
79carom billiards — noun A family of billiards games generally played on cloth covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds, typically having as the objective to score points or counts by caroming ones own cue ball off both the opponents cue… …
80World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association — Logo Die World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (kurz: WPBSA) ist der Weltverband für Profi Spieler in den Billardvarianten Snooker und English Billiards. Gegründet wurde der Verband 1968, damals noch unter dem Namen Professional… …
