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Check out the floor plan for the upcoming World Pool Championships!! 🤩 It's a poolplayers paradise! 🌴🎱

Congratulations and Good Luck to all of the teams and players competing in this years World Pool Championship. For those of you who wish to follow along at home here is a link to Compusport! You can download the app to your mobile device.
https://compusport.us/

8-Ball WPC Championship:
One Hit Wonders
Shots 'N' Buckets

9-Ball WPC Championship:
We're Out
The Misfits

Ladies Championship:
Beaches Be Trippin'

Jack & Jill Championship:
You Fix It

Team Captains Championship
Reef Donkeys

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If you have commented "Sign me up" or "Put me on the list", you have NOT been added to the list of players. The spots are filling quickly!

Make sure to check out the new session. If you used to play or never have and want too come on out!

Trophies, wildcard draw, grand/mini slams, updates to our local league and more. Hope to see you there!

Teams forming in Clay & St Johns Counties, Florida! Build a team and register with us for the Fall 2022 session. Don't have a full roster?... Contact us, we may have some players looking for a team to join. And please share, share, share. The more the merrier!

Interesting story of how Pool "Billiards" Came to be. (I have read many but this is close to the consensus)

Hear the word billiards, and chances are you don't imagine people knocking balls around a croquet pitch by hitting them with maces.

But interestingly enough, billiards didn't start out on a table. It's a game with an interesting history and a loyal following today. So how did billiards move indoors? Why do we call them pool tables now?

We'll reveal all this and more in our fascinating look at the history of billiards and pool.

First Things First - Is Billiards the Same as Pool?
For the sake of clarity, let's answer this question first.

Today, in the United States, the two terms are often used interchangeably. Pool is the far more common word. The simple answer is yes; they both refer to the same game.

The origins of pool are in the world of gambling. People would pool their money when making wagers on the outcome of a game. Anyone taking part could win the entire pool if they, or the player they bet on, won the game.

People would assemble to make bets on horse races in poolrooms. To keep the punters busy, the pool room owners installed billiard tables. The name pool stuck for billiards, and billiards went into obscurity.

Billiards: The Origins Story
Let's first examine the question, 'When was billiards invented?'. The history of billiards begins with a game called ground billiards in France in the 14th century. However, the origin of the word billiards is a little obscure.

Two French words vie for the title of root word. Either 'billette', meaning the mace stick used to bash the balls around, or 'bille', meaning the balls themselves. The word cue almost certainly comes from a French word meaning tail - think of how it looks when you bend over to take a shot.

The use of this word reflects that by the 17th century, billiards in its more recognizable form were well established. Billiards can rightly be called a game of kings. A the end of the 15th century, King Louis XI of France was the first to stop by at his local pool table store and pick up the latest model.

This early model had a central hole - more like a putting green. What it did have, though was the familiar velvet covering. Why is it traditionally green? - To reflect the fact that its roots were in a lawn game.

During the Tudor period, the billiards table began to look a lot more like it does today. An early form of padded edging kept the balls in place. The six pockets as we know them today also became a feature.

Little billiard player Jean Balukas pots the balls in billiard game and smiles in...HD Stock Footage CriticalPast is an archive of historic footage. The vintage footage in this video has been uploaded for research purposes, and is presented in unedited form....

Just 1 WEEK left to enter the nation's most prestigious amateur pool tournament! 🏆 Entry window closes June 15.

👉 https://poolplayers.com/us-amateur-championship/

Looking for any and all... Local or not what are some things on a wish list that you would like to see implemented in a Pool Hall.