| Billiards and Snooker at the 2011 SEA Games | |
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Billiard and snooker at the 2011 SEA Games are held at Jakabaring Billiard Arena, Palembang.
| Billiards and Snooker at the 2011 SEA Games | |
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Billiard and snooker at the 2011 SEA Games are held at Jakabaring Billiard Arena, Palembang.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carom 1 cushion singles | Mã Minh Cẩm Vietnam | Francisco Dela Cruz Philippines | Nguyễn Thanh Long Vietnam |
| Efren Reyes Philippines | |||
| Carom 3 cushion singles | Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện Vietnam | Dương Anh Vũ Vietnam | Reynaldo Grandea Philippines |
| Efren Reyes Philippines | |||
| 8 ball pool singles | Dennis Orcollo Philippines | Ricky Yang  Indonesia | Nguyễn Phương Thảo Vietnam |
| Muhammad Zulfikri Indonesia | |||
| 9 ball pool singles | Ricky Yang Indonesia | Irsal Nasution Indonesia | Francisco Mertado Philippines |
| Do The Kien Vietnam | |||
| English billiard singles | Peter Gilchrist  Singapore | Praprut Chaithanasakun Thailand | Kyaw Oo Myanmar |
| Nay Thway Oo Myanmar | |||
| English billiard doubles |  Thailand Praprut Chaithanasakun Thawat Sujaritthurakarn |  Myanmar Kyaw Oo Nay Thway Oo |  Singapore Peter Gilchrist Ang Boon Chin |
 Vietnam Nguyễn Thanh Bình Phạm Hoài Nam | |||
| Snooker singles | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Thailand | Ang Boon Chin Singapore | Thor Chuan Leong  Malaysia |
| Win Khaing Min Aye Myanmar | |||
| Snooker doubles |  Malaysia Thor Chuan Leong Chong Tin Sam | Singapore Lim Chun Kiat Ang Boon Chin | Myanmar Win Khaing Min Aye Win Ko Ko |
| Thailand Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon Noppon Saengkham |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 ball pool singles | Iris Ranola Philippines | Amanda Rahayu Indonesia | Angeline Magdalena Ticoalu Indonesia |
| Hoe Shu Wah Singapore | |||
| 9 ball pool singles | Iris Ranola Philippines | Rubilen Amit Philippines | Hoe Shu Wah Singapore |
| Huỳnh Thị Ngọc Huyền Vietnam |
* Host nation (Indonesia)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Philippines (PHI) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | Vietnam (VIE) | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 3 | Thailand (THA) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 |  Indonesia (INA)* | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Singapore (SIN) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Malaysia (MAS) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Myanmar (MYA) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 10 | 10 | 20 | 40 | |
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions.
Nine-ball is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white cue ball to pocket nine colored billiard balls, hitting them in ascending numerical order. An individual game is won by the player pocketing the 9-ball. Matches are usually played as a race to a set number of racks, with the player who reaches the set number winning the match.
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A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various particular ball properties such as hardness, friction coefficient, and resilience are important to accuracy.
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The Union Mondiale de Billard is the world governing body for carom (carambole) billiard games.
The World Straight Pool Championship is a pool competition, that was held up until the game of Nine-ball became popularized in America. It was the most prestigious straight pool tournament up until the early 21st century, tournaments like the American 14.1 Straight Pool Championship and the European Pool Championship 14.1 that are still held annually, have gained prominence in recent years. During the tournament's early years, it was the only global professional title for straight pool. The event was revived in 2006, in part to restore the game's popularity in the United States. The World Straight Pool Championship was sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. The tournament continued unsanctioned from 2011 to 2019. Ralph Greenleaf & Willie Mosconi are the most successful players having both won the tournament on 19 occasions. The oldest player to win the tournament is Irving Crane at 59 years old at the time of his victory. The youngest player to win the tournament is Ralph Greenleaf at 20 years old at the time of his first victory.
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