I love playing billiards at home for fun!
Billiards is another name for pool, right? I'm not very good at playing pool. 
It is! They also refer to it as "cue sports" but they both mean the same thing-a sport where a table on which billiards-type games can be played.
Okay, so I know you break, and then you're either solids or stripes, and then you try to get the 8-ball last, right? 
Yep! they call that "eight-ball." It's very universally known type of game.
Oh, so that's just one type of game. What other kinds of games can you play on a pool table? 
There's three-ball, but I'm actually not sure what the rules are. There's also Blackball, which is popular in Ireland.
Interesting! I had no idea there were other games. I thought it was all just "pool". Are there competitive pool leagues?
Valley National 8-Ball League Association
The Valley National 8-Ball League Association (VNEA) is one of the world's largest amateur pool (pocket billiards) leagues. , there are nearly 100,000 individual members in some 1,400 weekly local leagues playing in over 10,000 pool halls, bars and other venues in around 400 different cities, towns and suburbs in 36 U.S. states, and abroad.
The organization was founded in the United States in 1979 by equipment manufacturer Valley-Dynamo as the Valley 8-Ball League Association. It was later known as
attendant at his uncle's billiards hall, where he started learning the various cue sports. Because he was not tall enough to reach the pool table, he played while standing on Coca-Cola cases that he moved around. At night, while he was dreaming of playing pool, the pool table was his bed.
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