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Dutch pool player Niels Feijen at the 2008 European Pool Championship A player setting a rack
Pool is a group of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of the many different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. Eight-ball is the most frequently played discipline of pool, and it is often thought of as synonymous with "pool".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pool” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.