Three Cushion
Daniel Sanchez has won the Three Cushion Billiard World Cup. Read all about it in the excellent Billiard Pulse blog here.
What is Three Cushion Billiards? Wikipedia says:
The game is so difficult that even the top players cannot always manage to score a point each time they shoot. Three cushion billiards is played on a table with no pockets. The correct size for the table is ten feet by five feet. Other carom games are sometimes played on smaller tables. There are two cue balls (white and yellow) and a red object ball. Each player shoots his own cue ball during a game. Carom billiards is one of the few billiard games in which players do not share a cue ball.
The object of the game is score more points than your opponent. To score a point your cue ball must contact both of the other two object balls, and at least three cushions (rails). However, three cushions must be struck before the cue ball contacts the second ball. A player may contact all the rails first, or use any combination of ball and rails as long as all three cushions are struck before the second object ball is touched by the cue ball. For example, to score a point, you can hit any three rails in succession, then the white object ball, then the red object ball. If you score a point, you may continue.
You learn some thing new every day!
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