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Ten-ball is a modern pool game. It is a game very similar to nine-ball, but more difficult, using 10 balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the nine as the "".
Ten-ball is preferred over nine-ball by some professionals as a more challenging discipline than nine-ball, because it is slightly harder to any balls on the with the more crowded , the initial shooter cannot instantly win the game by pocketing the 10 on the break, all shots must be , and performing a string of on successive racks is statistically more difficult to achieve.
Although the game has existed for a long time, its popularity has risen in recent years as a result of concerns that nine-ball has suffered as a result of flaws in its fundamental structure (particularly the ease with which players can often make balls from the break). The World Pool-billiard Association (WPA) World Standardized Rules for 10-ball are very similar to those for nine-ball, but with key changes to ensure the difficulty of the game and its marketability as an alternative to nine-ball.
Ten-ball (or ten-ball, 10 ball, 10-ball and other variant spellings) is a pool (pocket billiards) game, played with ten object balls, of which the 10 ball is the game-winning ball. It may also refer to:
- 10 ball, the pool (pocket billiards) ball numbered "10", and colored with a blue stripe
- 10-ball, a ten-dimensional -ball in mathematics