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American pool is a term used in the United Kingdom, and sometimes more broadly outside North America, to refer to pool (pocket billiards) cue sports that make use of formerly American-style and now professionally world-standardised numbered billiard balls that have a standard diameter of 57 mm (2+1⁄4 in), as opposed to British-style unnumbered 56 mm (2+3⁄16 in) balls. Other "American" pool differences from British-style pool include larger pockets to accommodate the bigger balls, and diamond system markings on the rails.
The term may apply to any pool game variety using such a ball set, and is commonly applied especially to the most internationally competitive of these sports:

Eight-ball, the most commonly played form of pool (as distinct from blackball, a.k.a. British eightball pool)
Nine-ball, the leading professional variant of pool, with historical roots in the United States in the 1920s. Played globally by professional's such as Darren Appleton and Shane Van Boeing.
Ten-ball, a rotation game very similar to nine-ball, but more difficult, using ten balls instead of nine, and played called-shot
Straight pool (a.k.a. 14.1 continuous), formerly the common sport of championship competition until overtaken by faster-playing games like nine-ball
One-pocket, an extremely challenging game in which each player must make all shots into a single pocket.




See also


Cue sports#Pool (pocket billiards) games, a longer list of notable games to which this term may be applied
• Source: American Pool

American Pool (known as Billiard King in Japan) is a Sports simulation video game released for the PlayStation.




Gameplay


The game offers three game modes. Training mode lets the players learn the controls and techniques of the game while playing in trickshot-style levels. pocket Game lets players play against either the computer or a friend in five different pool games; 9-Ball, 8-Ball, Basic, Rotation and 14-1 Rack. Pool Contest is a tournament mode which they can create their own player and earn special skills.




Reception






References






External links


American Pool at MobyGames

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