I play pool with my girlfriend.  I hate it, but she seems to have fun beating me.
Ha! This is known as billiard sports, which is played with a cue stick used to strike billiard balls around a table.
cool.  I wonder who invented the game of pool?
bone balls were in common use in Europe, elephant ivory was favored since at least 1627 until the early 20th century; the earliest known written reference to ivory billiard balls is in the 1588 inventory of the Duke of Norfolk. Dyed and numbered balls appeared around the early 1770s. By the mid-19th century, elephants were being slaughtered for their ivory at an alarming rate, just to keep up with the demand for high-end billiard balls – no more than eight balls could be made from a single elephant's tusks. The
Comparison of cue sports
Carom billiards and pocket billiards (pool) are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiard table bounded by rubber attached to the confining of the table.
"Carom or carambole billiards" (often simply called "billiards" in many varieties of non-British English) is a type of billiards in which the table is bounded