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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Straight Rail Billiards as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
In straight billiards, a player scores a point and may continue shooting each time his cue ball makes contact with both other balls. Although considered a difficult and subtle game, some of the best players of straight billiards developed the skill to drive both balls into a corner and from that position were able to score a seemingly limitless number of points.
Straight rail billiards has quite a rich history around here.
The straight rail billiards definition was entered on 4/9/2006 and was updated on 10/24/2007 9:50:00 AM. It is a cue sport term that is related to cue sport game names. It was entered in to the database by the Billiards Forum Editor.the term Straight Rail Billiards has some origin and/or history information on file. The first straight rail billiard tournament was held in 1879 where Jacob Schaefer, Sr. scored 690 points, or separate strokes, in one single turn.
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