Official 10Ball Rules Published by WPA

The World Pool-Billiard Association has announced publishing the Official World Rules for 10-ball pool. According to the WPA announcement, the game of 10-ball pool has grown popular in several countries worldwide. To avoid disputes and/or misunderstandings and to promote uniformity of the pool game rules, the World Pool-Billiard Association has released the Official World Rules for the game of Ten Ball.

In addition to the publication of the official WPA 10-ball pool rules, the World Pool-Billiard Association has revealed its plans to produce the first World Ten Ball Championships, which will be sanctioned by the organization. 

About the WPA

The World Pool-Billiard Association is an intercontinental non-profit organization that unites all continental pool-billiards associations including the Billiard Congress of America, European Pocket Billiard Federation, etc. The WPA was formed to promote pool-billiard as an Olympic sports and to set a unified set of rules for pool and billiard games.

Click for a shortened version of official 10ball rules.