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Nine-bawl
The nine-bawls bein racked: the 1-bawl a the apex centered ower the foot spot, the 9-bawl at center, the other bawls placed randomly, an all bawls touching.
Heichest govrenin bodyWarld Puil Association
1920s
Characteristics
ContactNo
Team memberssingle competitors or doubles
Mixed genderYes
EquipmentCue sports equipment

Nine-bawl (English: Nine-ball, at times scrieved as 9-ball) is a cue sport an kynd o puil. The gemm's oreegins kin be fand in the Unitit States. It is played on a rectangular table covered wi a coloured cloth (or "baize"), wi pockets at ilka o the fower corners an in the middle of ilka lang side. Uisin a cue stick an nine coloured baws, players maun strike the white baw(or "cue baw") tae pot o pocket the remainin baws in the richt order. Baws is nummert ane til nine bein pottit in ascendin order. An individual gemm (or rack), is won bi the player pocketin the nummer nine baw (kent as the 9-baw.) Matches is uisual played as a race tae a set number o racks, wi the winner bein the player tae rax the set number o racks won.

The game is organised bi the Warld Pool Association an the Women's Professional Billiard Association wi the European Pocket Billiard Federation the noo, China Billiards & Snooker Association an United States Professional Pool players Association rinnin regional events. The maist prestigious nine-baw toornament is the WPA Warld Nine-ball Championship, first bein haudit in 1990 wi the first taw events bein won by Earl Strickland. Key figures in the game include Efren Reyes, Francisco Bustamante an Thorsten Hohmann, wi Strickland haein won the warld championship the maist times, daein sae three times. The game is aften associatit wi hustlin an gamblin, wi toornaments aften haein a "buy-in" amount tae become a participant.

Nine-baw haes been played wi varied rules, wi games sic as ten-baw, seiven-baw an three-baw bein derivit fae the gemm. Whiles uisually a singles sport, the game kin be pleyed in doubles, wi pleyers competin alternate shots. Examples o toornaments featurin doubles include the Warld Cup of Pool, Warld Team Championship an the Mosconi Cup.

History

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A photie shawin the brak box uised on the Euro Tour. This box limits the areas that a brak can be pleyed fae.

Nine-ba is a kynd o pocket billiards game, foondit in the 1920s in Americae.[1][2][3] The game wis foondit as a deriviative game, designit uisin the same equipment as in eight-baw, that wis foondit bi Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company in the aerlie 1900s.[4][5][6][7]

Kenspeckle culture

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The sport haes featurt in kenspckle culture, specifically in the 1956 novel an 1961 film the Hustler,[8][9] an 1984 novel an 1986 film the Color of Money.[10] A gemm dedicatit tae the later film atween Earl Strickland an Efren Reyes wis haudit in 1996, cried the "Color o Money II".[11][12]

References

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  1. ↑ "The History of Billiards". Archived frae the original on 9 Februar 2007. Retrieved 10 November 2006.
  2. ↑ "Sports history - Billiards". Archived frae the original on 23 Februar 2002. Archived 2007-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "WPA 9-Ball Game Rules". Archived frae the original on 17 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  4. ↑ Shamos, Mike (1999). The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards. New York: Lyons Press. ISBN 1-55821-797-5.:24, 89–90
  5. ↑ Jewett, Bob (Februar 2002). "8-Ball Rules: The Many Different Versions of One of Today's Most Common Games". Billiards Digest Magazine: 22–23.
  6. ↑ Hickok, Ralph (2001). "Sports History: Pocket Billiards". Archived frae the original on 5 December 2006. Retrieved 13 December 2006. Archived 2007-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Shamos, Mike (1995–2005). "A Brief History of the Noble Game of Billiards". Billiard Congress America. Archived frae the original on 27 Januar 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2006.
  8. ↑ Rossen, Robert (1972). Three Screenplays: All the Kings Men, The Hustler, and Lilith. New York, Anchor Doubleday Books. LCCN 70-175418.
  9. ↑ "Review: Hustler, The". preview.reelviews.net. Retrieved 7 Januar 2020.
  10. ↑ "'The Color of Money': Three Men and a Sequel". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 7 Januar 2020.
  11. ↑ "'Bata' Reyes, Strickland in $100,000 duel". Manila Standard Today. 27 November 1996. p. 15.
  12. ↑ Billiards, Revised and Updated. Google Books. Mey 2005. p. 4. ISBN 9781461749929. Retrieved 7 Januar 2020.
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  • Official website
  • Pro9 — website detailing the many nine-ball tournaments held within the British Isles and beyond
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