With just two days to go until April Fool’s Day, the World Snooker Tour (WST) has announced that the white cue ball will be replaced with a neon green version at this year’s World Championship. That's ...

John Hamel remembers the precise moment it hit him. Driving through his hometown of Revere, Mass. on a warm summer day in 2005, he noticed a nail salon to his left. He drove a little farther and saw ...

It’s magnets! Seriously. There’s a layer of iron underneath the cue ball that gets nudged and pulled by a strong magnet inside the pool table so that it gets put on a completely different track from ...

You'll find a pool table in many a bar and basement, but are you brave enough to pick up the cue stick? Knowing how to hold your own in a game of pool is great for social situations with friends who ...

The Cue Ball Group, a Boston-based venture capital firm headquartered in Faneuil Hall, was named one of the best small companies in America by Forbes. Cue Ball—which employs 12, counts 21 companies in ...

In a billiards parlor in Hoboken, New Jersey, Andy “Magic Man” Segal leans over the back table, angles his stick in the air, and stabs downward. The cue ball jumps in the air and lands on the felt, ...

Brad is a List & Features writer who tends to write about TV shows & triple-A, multiplayer-focused games. Brad holds a 1st Class BA degree in Digital Marketing. 8-Ball Pool allows the player to change ...

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If you've ever played pool on a table that takes quarters and also aren't particularly good at pool, you have probably landed the cue ball in the pocket. Repeatedly. And even though the stripes and ...