WThe American CueSports Alliance is a non-profit league-sanctioning body for cue sports in the United States. They produce national billiards tournaments on an annual basis, in areas such as eight-ball and nine-ball.
WThe Australian Eight Ball Federation, formed in 1983 is the governing body in Australia for the sport of eight-ball pool, a cue sport.
WBaize is a coarse woollen cloth, similar in texture to felt, but more durable.
WThe Baltimore Bullet is a 1980 American comedy film based on the adventures of two pool hustlers in the United States.
WBankshot Billiards also known as backspin billiards is a cue sports simulation video game developed by Canadian studio PixelStorm, and published by Oberon Media for Windows. Billiards was released in October 2004 worldwide, and re-released in 2006 in the United States. The game featured various simulations of pool games, including 8-ball, 9-ball and trickshots. The game featured 9 different versions of pool, and customisable tables.
WCarlo Biado is a Filipino professional pool player.
WBoccette is a billiards-type game played in Italy. A variation of the game of five-pins, it is played on a pocketless (carom) billiard table with nine balls. Cue sticks are not used; the balls are manipulated with the hands directly, as in finger billiards.
WDanish billiards or keglebillard, sometimes called Danish five-pin billiards, is the traditional cue sport of Denmark, and the game remains predominantly played in that country. It makes use of a 5 × 10 ft six-pocket table, three billiard balls, and five pins, which are considerably larger than those used in the similar and internationally standardized game of five-pin billiards.
WEightball Tasmania, formed in 1983 is the governing body in Tasmania, Australia for the sport of Eightball pool, a cue sport.
WKamui Tips is a Japanese manufacturer of cue tips for billiards and pool. According to the company, the tips are produced by founder Masato Hiraoka in his workshop in Hiroshima. The company and its products are named after the mythological Kamuy.
WLe multicolore is a game of chance from France and Catalonia that features characteristics of both roulette and bagatelle. In the game, a ball is rolled into a basin-shaped wheel, which is divided into twenty-five shallow cups. Each cup is assigned one of five colours, with a value ascribed. The game consists in predicting on which colour the ball will rest.
WMoori Kobo is a Japanese manufacturer of billiards and pool cue tips. Originally fabricated by hand by founder Hideo Moori in his home outside Tokyo, they are now produced in a factory. The tips are exclusively made from vegetable-tanned pig skin, and consist of several thin layers bonded with an adhesive.
WAlbin Alois Ouschan is an Austrian pool and billiards player. Ouschan was the 2016 WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner, as well as the runner up in 2014. He also won the 14.1 Continuous European championship the same year. Ouschan is a multiple time Austrian champion in 8-ball, tenball and straight pool.
WSeven Billiard Tables is a 2007 Spanish film by Gracia Querejeta. She also co-wrote the story with David Planell. In 2008, this film was nominated for nine Goya Awards, Spain's most prestigious film awards. It won two awards, including the Best Actress award.
WThe Union Mondiale de Billard is the world governing body for carom (carambole) billiard games.