Glossary of cue sports terms Glossary of cue sports terms The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: "carom (or carambole) billiards" referring to the various games played on a billiard table without ; "pool (pocket billiards)", which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and "snooker", played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool. There are also hybrid pocket/carom games such as English billiards. The term "" is sometimes used to refer to all of the cue sports, to a specific
World Series of Snooker 2008/2009 two. Table Matches: Table Matches: World Series of Snooker 2008/2009 The World Series of Snooker was played for the first time in the 2008/2009 season. Although there was a previous incarnation of the event organised by Matchroom Sport, that ran in the 1987/88 season, and from 1990/91 until 1992/93. It was a series of five non-ranking tournaments spread over Europe, where top professional players performed against regional wildcard players. The series consisted of four tournaments plus a "Grand Final" for which the winner earned €50,000. The winner of each tournament received five points, the runner-up three and losing semi-finalists one