ten-ball
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Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "".
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- Sport.name
- Ten-ball
- Sport.image
- Ten-ball rack.jpg
- Sport.caption
- A valid ten-ball rack; the 1 is at the apex on the , and the 10 (the ) is in the center. The remaining balls can be in any position.
- Sport.union
- World Pool-Billiard Association
- Sport.first
- 1960s
- Sport.contact
- No
- Sport.team
- single competitors or doubles
- Sport.mgender
- Yes
- Sport.equipment
- Cue sports equipment
- Sport.glossary
- glossary of cue sports terms
- Sport.region
- Worldwide
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- sports discipline
- Subclass of
- game of skill
- Sport
- cue sports
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Racking
- Play
- References
- Further reading
Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "".
Although the game has existed since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen since the early 2000s as a result of concerns that nine-ball has suffered as a result of flaws in its fundamental structure, particularly the ease with which players can often make balls from the break. The World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) standardized rules for ten-ball are very similar to those for nine-ball, but with key changes to increase the difficulty of the game. In contrast to nine-ball, it is slightly harder to any balls on the with the more crowded , the initial shooter cannot instantly win the game by pocketing the 10 on the break, all shots must be , and performing a string of on successive racks is statistically more difficult to achieve.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ten-ball” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.