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Pool tables - Find pool tables for sale including coin operated pool tables. Pocket billiards were becoming more and more popular in England in the late 1800s and early 1900s, so gambling houses called pool rooms installed the tables as another form of entertainment. These rooms were called pool rooms because people would place bets into a common fund (a pool) that would pay out the winners. (You can see where this is going) Obviously the billiards tables proved very popular. They ended up becoming the predominant entertainment at the gambling houses. Hence the name "pool room" came to refer to a place where you played pocket billiards, and therefore pocket billiards became "pool." See this site to learn about billiard tables and learning the game of pool.