I absolutely LOVE playing pool! Going to a calm bar and having a drink and playing a game of pool is one of my favorite things to do.
I agree! I know it as billiards though.
Yes, billiards. I'm from Delaware and we call it pool around here. Either way, I'm down to play!
Billiard table
A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pocket billiards, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly-woven worsted wool called baize), and surrounded by vulcanized rubber cushions, with the whole elevated above the floor. More specific terms are used for specific sports, such as snooker table and pool table
player in this country, bar none. I'm so good I can't even get a game unless I give it away first."
Allen was known as a "one pocket specialist."
Billiards Congress of America Hall of Famer Eddie Kelly said, "Ronnie Allen was the best one pocket player I ever played."
At a well-known annual pool event held in Johnston City, Illinois, it was in 1972 that Ronnie Allen grabbed the microphone before a standing-room-only crowd and