kelly pool

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What does kelly pool mean?

A pocket billiards game using numbered markers, called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls. Players draw peas at random from a shake bottle, which assigns to them the correspondingly numbered pool ball, kept secret from their opponents, but which they must pocket in order to win the game.

Where does kelly pool come from?

Reportedly invented by Calistus "Kelly" Mulvaney in 1893.

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