Ten-ball
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Ten-ball is a modern pocket billiards (pool) game. It is a rotation game very similar to nine-ball, but more difficult, using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "money ball".
Ten-ball is preferred over nine-ball by some professionals[1] because it is slightly harder to pocket any balls on the break shot with the more crowded rack, opponents cannot win the game by pocketing the 10 ball early (such as on the break or on a combination shot), and performing a string of break-and-runs on successive racks becomes increasingly difficult to achieve (statistically). There is a possibility that ten-ball will eventually eclipse nine-ball as the most popular professional tournament game.[2]
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[edit] Racking
The ten balls are racked as a triangle as in the game of eight-ball, with the 1 ball positioned on top of the rack, the 10 ball positioned in the middle of the rack, and the other balls placed in random order, with the apex ball on the foot spot.
[edit] Play
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Most of the same rules apply as in nine-ball,[clarify] with the exception that legally pocketing the 10 ball when it is not the last ball on the table does not result in a win. (If this occurs the 10 ball is spotted on the foot spot of the table.)
[edit] History
The nominal first World Ten-ball Championship (previously, for six years, the event has existed but been known as the Florida Open Ten-ball Championship) was held on May 23, 2007, in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Players slated for competition were unspecified as of early March 2007, but were expected to represent Asia (including Japan, Korea and the Philippines), Europe (including Germany, Sweden, Finland, and Italy), North America (including the US and Canada), and South America (unspecified as of early March 2007). The rules sanctioning organization is the United States Professional Poolplayers Association (UPA). Rather unusually for professional pool, the tournament matches were played on home billiard room, mid-size 8 ft by 4 ft tables instead of the professional, pool hall 9 ft by 4.5 ft standard size. The genesis of the event was said to be "demand for more skill in competitive games as requested from the top pro players around the world" by event sponsor Dragon Promotions's president, Cindy Lee.[1] The winner of this inaugural event was Shane Van Boening of the United States.
The World Pool-Billiard Association announced[3] on February 12, 2008 that it would stage its own inaugural World 10-Ball Championship, with a prize pool of $400,000 (US) in Manila, on October 6 through October 12.
[edit] References
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- ^ a b "Predator World 10-Ball Championship Announced" (Dragon Promotions press release), as reported by AZBilliards, February 27, 2007; accessed March 5, 2007
- ^ 9 Ball - A Funeral Whose Time Has Come. AZ Billiards.com. Retrieved on December 7, 2007.
- ^ 10-Ball World Championship 2008 announced. World Pool-Billiard Association. Retrieved on June 4, 2008.
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