1470: Earliest documented record of a billiard table, said to be owned by King Louis XI of France.

1873: Year that billiards recorded its first world championship, the first sport to have one.

4: Number of balls played in the first billiard table ever made, which had only one pocket, in 1765 in England.

15: Number of colored balls used in billiards, composed of 7 ?solid," 7 ?striped? and a black 8-ball.

2: Number of years that Francisco ?Django? Bustamante won the German 9-Ball (1990-1991). He also won the Japan Open (1992), the Camel Pro Billiards Series Championship (1998), and the World Pool Masters (2001), among others.

4: Number of international victories in billiards of Dennis Orcollo in 2008 alone. He won the San Miguel Beer-Quezon City 9-Ball Championship, the Japan 9-Ball Open, the Qatar International Open 9-Ball Championship and the Guinness 9-Ball Tour.

10: Estimated number of championships won by Filipino-Canadian billiards champion Alex Pagulayan as of 2007.

13: Age of Rubilen Amit, the country?s first woman world pool champion, when she first learned how to play billiards.

$60,000: Amount won by world-renowned billiards champ Efren ?Bata? Reyes in the World Professional 9-Ball Championship in Cardiff, Wales in 1999.

4.8 million: Number of Filipinos who regularly watch billiards on television, according to a Social Weather Stations survey conducted in February 2009

Compiled by Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
Sources: Billiard Congress of America website, internationalpooltour.com, alexpagulayan.com, Inquirer Archives