{"id":3551,"date":"2007-11-22T00:27:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T23:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-5-pool-games\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:39:55","slug":"top-5-pool-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-5-pool-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 pool games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"Color of Money\" id=\"image3552\" alt=\"Color of Money\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/11\/color-of-money.jpg\" \/>Pool, or pocket billiards it was known a long time ago, is one of my favourite games. There&#8217;s something very soothing about smacking alabaster balls around a cloth with a big stick. Apparently, I&#8217;m in good company too. Other enthusiasts of the sport included Mozart, Louis XIV and Bob Hope. In their day however, pool involved venturing down to smoke filled pool halls where you&#8217;d probably either end up drunk as a skunk or with a pool cue through your head. If only technology had advanced enough at that time, they could have enjoyed these top 5 pool games from the safety of their PCs. Then again, if that had happened, The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Color_of_Money\">Color of Money<\/a> might have been a very different film&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carom-3d.en.softonic.com\">Carom 3D<\/a> &#8211; Use the cushions to gain points and chat to competitors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/real-pool.en.softonic.com\">Real Pool<\/a> &#8211; Very realistic 8-ball or 9-ball simulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ddd-pool.en.softonic.com\">DDD Pool<\/a> &#8211; Great graphics and lots of different venues to play in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cue-club.en.softonic.com\">Cue Club<\/a> &#8211; Try your hand against the best players on the circuit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/8ballclub-billiards-online.en.softonic.com\">8BallClub Billiards Online<\/a> &#8211; Play against players from all over the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pool, or pocket billiards it was known a long time ago, is one of my favourite games. There&#8217;s something very soothing about smacking alabaster balls around a cloth with a big stick. Apparently, I&#8217;m in good company too. Other enthusiasts of the sport included Mozart, Louis XIV and Bob Hope. In their day however, pool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-5-pool-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top 5 pool games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336707,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/336707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}