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Posted By: Glenn

Pool is the game we are all familiar with and is sometimes mistakenly referred to as billiards. An actual billiard table has no pockets; the object in billiards is not to sink balls into pockets (which, again, are nonexistent), but rather, in a single shot, to make successive contact between the cue ball and several rails of the table followed by contact with one of the billiard balls.