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American pool is a term used in the United Kingdom, and sometimes more broadly outside North America, to refer to pool (pocket billiards) cue sports that make use of formerly American-style and now world-standardised numbered billiard balls that have a standard diameter of 57 mm ( in), as opposed to British-style unnumbered 56 mm ( in) balls. Other "American" pool differences from British-style pool include larger pockets to accommodate the bigger balls, and markings on the The term may apply to any pool game variety using such a ball set, and is commonly applied especially to the most internationally competitive of these sports: *Eight-ball, the most commonly played form of pool (as distinct from blackball, a.k.a. British eight-ball pool) *Nine-ball, the leading professional variant of pool, with historical roots in the United States in the 1920s *Ten-ball, a rotation game very similar to nine-ball, but more difficult, using ten balls instead of nine, and played *Straight pool (a.k.a. 14.1 continuous), formerly the common sport of championship competition until overtaken by faster-playing games like nine-ball *One-pocket, an extremely challenging game in which each player must make all shots into a single pocket. ==See also== *Cue sports#Pool (pocket billiards) games, a longer list of notable games to which this term may be applied 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American pool」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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