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Five-pins
Five-pins, or five-pin billiards, is a carom billiards discipline associated especially with Italy and governed internationally within cue-sports competition. The table has no pockets and carries five small pins arranged in a cross at its center, while players use a cue ball, an opponent's ball, and a red object ball. Points are awarded through prescribed caroms and by legally knocking down pins,...
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Balkline
Balkline is a discipline within carom billiards played on a pocketless table that features dividing lines drawn across its surface. Adopted in competitive tournament play in 1883, the game was specifically designed to counter the repetitive nursing technique used in straight-rail billiards, where players could score indefinitely by keeping the balls trapped in a corner. The rules dictate that at l...
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