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Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side.
List of WPA World Nine-ball Men's Championship winners; Year Winner Runner-up Final score Location 1990 Earl Strickland (USA) Jeff Carter (USA) 3–1: Bergheim, Germany 1991 Earl Strickland (USA) Nick Varner (USA) 9–7 Las Vegas, United States 1992 Johnny Archer (USA) Bobby Hunter (USA) 13–12 Taipei, Taiwan 1993
Nine-pin bowling (also known as ninepin bowling, nine-pin, kegel, or kegeln) is a bowling game played primarily in Europe. European championships are held each year. In Europe overall, there are some 130,000 players.
Traditional lawn skittles, played in Twyning Green, England, with pins resembling short candlepins. Skittles is usually played indoors on a bowling alley, with one or more heavy balls, usually spherical but sometimes oblate, and several (most commonly nine) skittles, or small bowling pins. The general object of the game is to use the ball (s ...
The U.S. Open Pool Championship, formerly the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship, is an annual professional men's nine-ball pool tournament that began in its current form in 1976. The U.S. Open is one of the most sought-after titles in nine-ball and in pool generally.
The most commonly played pool game is eight-ball, which appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is often thought of as synonymous with "pool". The game has numerous variations, mostly regional. It is the second most played professional pool game, after nine-ball, and for the last several decades ahead of straight pool.
Earl Strickland holds the record for winning the WPA World Nine-ball Championship the most times: three. (1990, 1991, 2002). Earl Strickland holds the record for the most consecutive wins: two. (1990, 1991). Albin Ouschan holds the record for the most final appearances: four. (2014, 2016, 2021, 2022).
Nine-ball: The goal is to pocket the 9 ball; the initial contact of the cue ball each turn must be with the lowest-numbered object ball remaining on the table; there are numerous variants such as seven-ball, six-ball, and the older forms of three-ball and ten-ball, that simply use a different number of balls and have a different money ball.
The World Cup of Pool is an annual international single-elimination tournament for doubles teams in nine-ball pool competition. The Philippines holds the record in tournament wins, winning the event on four occasions. In 2023, they became the first country to win the cup by entering the event unseeded.
1994 Billiard Cafe Nine-ball Open; 1994 U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship; 1993 PBT Riviera Team Championship; 1992 Hard Times One-Pocket; 1992 International Eight-ball Classic; 1992 Huebler Cup Nine-ball Open; 1992 Tokyo Open Nine-ball; 1991 Southeast Asian Games Rotation Team; 1991 Taipei Cup; 1990 All Japan Championship Nine-ball