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:
“I’m a cowboy who never saw a cow.”
—Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)
“... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)