Cowboy pool, sometimes just called Cowboy, is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics. The game employs only four balls, the cue ball and three numbered balls, the 1, 3 and 5. It is played to 101 points, with points being awarded for a host of different shot types.
Famous quotes containing the words cowboy and/or pool:
“Im a cowboy who never saw a cow.”
—Johnny Mercer (19091976)
“Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me.... Its grueling. Theres nothing physically pleasurable about it. If youre doing a hard workout, youre throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again.”
—Diana Nyad (b. 1949)