Play Online: Anywhere, Anyone, Anytime!
Play online with your friends anywhere in the world with Pool Pro Online 3 for the iPhone and iPod touch! View lobbies of available players and chat with opponents in real-time through 8-ball, 9-ball and Snooker games. Earn scratch to unlock table felts, cue sticks, and new pool halls!
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Fun Facts
- The first known mention of a form of the word "billiards" appears in Edmund Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1591, where he speaks of "all thriftless games that may be found ... with dice, with cards, with billiards."
- The sport is almost exclusively referred to as "pool", due to a perhaps unfortunate association with the "poolrooms" where gamblers "pooled" their money to bet remotely "off-track") on horse races. Because these venues often provided billiard tables, the term "pool" became synonymous with billiards.
- The word snooker also has military origins, being a slang term for first-year cadets or inexperienced personnel
- The origin of all billiard games is an outdoor game similar to croquet, used to be played in France on the 14th century. Due to the game popularity among royalty as well as common people and thanks to the capriciousness of the European weather, the billiard game was born as an indoor game. Billiard was played on a table covered with green felt in order to resemble the lawn on which the ancestor game was played.
- The first public pool hall in history was built in England during the end of the 18th century.
How to Play
FINE TUNING
The Fine Tuning bar at the bottom center of the screen provides more precision aiming. Slowly swipe left or right over the bar to move the cue stick in smaller increments.
SHOOTING
Touch the cue stick icon at the lower right side of the screen and drag down to set the amount of power for your shot. Release to initiate the shot, or slide your finger away from the icon to cancel.
ENGLISH
The angle and precise position in which the cue ball will be struck can be set by touching the ENGLISH icon in the upper left corner of the screen. When an overlay of the cue ball appears touch the spot where the cue stick will make contact. The resulting spin allow for much greater control over the path of the ball.
Features:
- Choose from 3 game types: 8-ball, 9-ball and Snooker!
- Chat with opponents in real-time!
- Wager in-game cash against other players!
- Spending your winnings on table felts, cue sticks, and new pool halls!
- Check out your ranking on the Global leaderboard!
- Share your achievements with your friends with Facebook connect!
Tips & Tricks:
- Try a game of Snooker. Many people have never heard of the game, but it often requires more strategy and forethought than 8 Ball or 9 Ball.
- Don't forget about the English Button. Difficult shots can be made much easier with the proper use of English.
- Playing Online can potentially earn you much more Scratch than the single player games.
- Hone your skills quicker by playing with Guidelines off.
- Don't be afraid to chat in the lobbies and make new friends!
- In single player games, you can earn extra Scratch by playing smart. You get this extra Scratch even if you lose!
