25th Sea Games, Laos. Vientiane 2009

Billiards or billiard may refer to a variety of skilled game cue sport games including pool, carom billiards and snooker. At its basic these are games where a cue stick is used to hit balls around a cloth covered table which has rubber cushions and pockets to pot the balls. It may also have a more specific meaning for example in relation to the following games: Carom billiards played on a pocket less table where the object is to score points caroming your cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and hitting the object ball(s) on a single shot.

English billiards where there is two cue balls (originally both white, but more recently one white, one yellow) and an object ball. Each player or team uses a different cue ball and tries to pot the object ball. Pocket billiards or pool games such as nine-ball or Indian finger billiards, a board game similar to carom billiards. Billiards and cue sports were incorporated into the Asian Games in 1998.

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regulation (full-size) table is 12 ft × 6 ft (3.6 m x 1.8 m). It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours yellow (2 points), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6) and black (7).

List of Events: On the program of the 25th SEA Games, Laos. Vientiane 2009
MENS
* Snooker Singles Best of 7 frames
* Snooker Doubles Best of 5 frames
* English Billiards Singles Best of 5 frames - 100 + points
* English Billiards Doubles Best of 5 frames - 100 + points
* One Cushion Carom Singles 150 + points or 25 innings
* 8-Ball Pool Singles Race to 9 racks
* 9-Ball Pool Singles Race to 11 racks
* 9-Ball Pool Doubles Race to 11 racks
WOMENS
* 8-Ball Pool Singles Race to 7 racks
* 9-Ball Pool Singles Race to 7 racks

Competition Venue

Convention Hall, Done Chan Palace

Don Chan Palace located in Vientiane Laos, along the Mekong River within easy reach to the city's Embassies, main business district, major cultural sites and ancient temples. Providing elegant accommodations, the hotel is ideally situated near traditional markets and local areas of interest and just 12 minutes from Wattay International Airport.