What comes to your mind when you think of pool games? Clinking drinks, chill vibe, and a solid game of patience and strategy, perhaps?
Billiards or Pool games have been a club favorite across the world for generations now, so much so that several variations branched out of the parent 15 ball game and found places in international tournaments.
10-ball pool is one of the more complicated versions of the game, recognized by the World Pool-Billiard Association as an internationally acclaimed game with its own tournament called the World Ten-Ball Championship.
If you have been curious about this game and are looking for upskilling your command over pool in general, the ten-ball pool can be a good start.
What Is ten-ball Pool?
An interesting one on one rotation game, the Ten-ball pool is meant for the pros. At its core, it was developed to raise the bar of difficulty by adding the call-shot factor. That, along with a highly defined set of ten-ball pool rules, make it a sought after challenge to crack, and a favorite pool game among all formal and informal settings.
Number Of Players: 2
Ages: 18 years and above
Difficulty: Medium
Main Objective: Pocketing the ten-ball in a legal, called shot.
Why We Love It: Ten-ball pool is a game that deliberately makes winning more challenging and thereby more rewarding. The call-shot factor of the game makes every pocketed shot feel like a milestone.
History Of Ten-ball Pool
Ten-ball Pool is one of the more recent versions of the pool games family that historically dates back to the 15th century. Its ancestral versions were played as a part of royal recreation and leisure activities and consisted of no more than three balls.
Over the past centuries, the game shifted from outdoors to indoors, the ‘shove’ techniques transformed to ‘strikes,’ sophisticated cue sticks replaced wooden sticks, and the number of balls along with the rules of the game increased.
Ten-ball Pool originated from Eight-Ball Pool that was invented in 1900. However, unlike its primitive version, Nine-Ball Pool, it is a product of conscious modifications to increase the international standards of the game and was popularized only during the later part of the 20th century.
In 2008, the first-ever World Ten-Ball tournament was played in the Philippines and four more championship tournaments have followed since.
If this has got you wondering about what makes Ten-ball pool a tad bit more challenging and globally revered, find out all about it below!
