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Cushion Billiards

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Definition: Sport played on a table with cushions or "rails" but with no pockets. The majority objective for cushion billiards games is to make the balls strike one another on the table, making for a challenge as the balls make smaller targets than pockets, besides finding more diverse locations than the billiard table's corners.
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I like Cushion Billiards, and find it strengthens the regular pool skills as well.

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