Your Favorite Ring Game

Your Favorite Ring Game?

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One where I have the nuts.In my case for example in a 3 man ring game it means one of the opponents can't see and the other one has no arms and he is not the spitting road dawg pool player of course




























Ok and my real answer is:


9-Ball Ring Game
- First player to 10 points wins
- Points on the 5 and 9

10-Ball Ring Game
- First player to 10 point wins
- Points on the 5 and 10

Samiel said:

What is your favorite ring game?

At my local poolhall, I'm almost always semi-bored and don't have the discipline to just practice! [...]

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This one, FARGO FLIP, is kinda popular around here

http://myweb.cableone.net/fargopage/fargoflip.htm

My favorite is pea pool for multiple players. 2 balls per person (ie 4 people 8 balls). Everyone draws a pea # 1-8 & keeps their number secret. Draw for order and break an 8-ball rack. Every shot must be a clean called bank shot. Rotation banks. If you make your ball which is a secret from your oponents everyone gives you $5.00. If you make someone elses ball by chance they give you $2.00. If you bank 4 balls in a row everyone gives you $5.00. We have played with 6 people before. Very fun game for all skills.

My favorite is $2.00 on the 5, $5.00 on the 9 in 9 ball with 4 or more players

3 players and 3 and 6 are $2.00 balls...

Guys at the hall love to play Chicago....rotation, all 15, pays out on certain balls and points, with partners, 4 players......

fun

We just play for fun here in Erie,PA...We'll play 9-ball with $1-$2 on the 5, and $2-$5 on the 9 ball. Honest effort, NO intentional safe shots, and whoever made the 5 ball in the previous game goes second. Pay after each rack also. I've played with up to 4 guys including myself. You don't find "ring games" very often anymore, but once in a while they will get stirred up.

1.00 on the 5 ball
1.00 on the 7 ball
2.00 on the 9 ball


Honest effort 9 ball ring game. If you foul, the incoming player can make you shoot again. You draw from the pill bottle for the order of play and redraw every half hour or hour.

I also enjoy a full rack bank game ring game where each ball is worth two dollars...same as above. The most you will lose each game is 30.00

Really Fun Game!

I enjoy a Chicago style game we call 1 & 3. It can be played with two, three, or four players. I suppose you could play with more, in a cut-throat style but its more fun as I will explain, this way.

All 15 balls are racked. I sure wish I had the patience to put an image up for you guys but .... the balls are racked as follows.

1 on top, 5 and 8 behind it, 15 in the middle, 10 & 12 behind the 15 to complete a small triangle in the middle of the rack, 3 ball in the center last row, and 2 & 4 on the corners. The order of the other balls doesn't matter.

Each game starts with NO PARTNERS.

There are 7 points to be made. They are ... the 3 - 5- 8 - 10 -12 -15 and game. (the cumulative total of the balls face value count as a point)

Now... the 1 ball is the partner ball. While its not worth a point, it does assure the person making the ball of at least one point (we call it "a way")

If the same person who makes the 1 also makes the 3, then partners go to the next money ball (the 5) Again, if that same person makes the 5 it goes on to the next one.

If the same person who makes the 1 makes all the money balls, he goes alone and everyone pays him whatever you assign to the point value.

Once partners are made, you may have to re adjust the order of play so that the partners do not follow each other. So on occasion, someone skips a turn.

Who ever makes the 15 ball also breaks the next game, which as I said, restarts with NO PARTNERS. The previous partner of the person making the 15 racks for the new game.

Each time there is a "NO HIT" you must pay the kitty one point. This can go to pay the table time, or if there isn't any time, you spit the kitty at the end of the night.

You do not have to hit a rail on the hit, you can jump the cue ball off the table so long as a hit is made it is ok.

Any scratch is cue ball in hand behind the head string. This does not count "no hits" .

If the cue ball scratches, and the next numbered ball is behind the headstring, it is spotted.

Now, if one team makes 4 points, and the other team makes 3 in a given game, then each player on the team with 3 points, pays each of the 2 players on the other team "one way" or one point. If one team makes all the points, then the other two players each pay 7 ways to the two winners.


A tip for playing 3 persons (which is cut throat) that makes figuring out the payout easy. Simply make believe you are starting each game down 7 points .... each time you make a pay ball, you go UP 3 points.

So, if you make 2 pay balls in a game (six points) you start out down 7, you now end up paying one way.

That sound complicated for 3 handed games, but it really isn't.

Golf. Nothing more fun at $5 and $1 per hickey.

I guess we're weird in my area, all 9 ball ring games are 3-6-9 rather 5-9.
The asian version where the person who sells out pays is funny. We usually just make him rack.

Anyone try poker pool? It's a decent pastime with 3 players and can work with 1 or 2 more.

3 ball, 2 tie all tie and double the bet, with about 6 players, it can get real big fast $1000 pots. Dosent matter if there is a champion in the game and B players it levels it out its just a even gamble-almost.

i played in a 5 handed game with out doubling the bet on the tie the other night i was the 2nd strongest of the 5 players the only 2 of who lost was me and the guy who can give me the 8, the weak players got the cash, when the post get big in the double the last bet format then not rattling for $$$ becomes a factor and favors the experienced players.

SAMIEL: I said rotation but I meant you could bank any ball on the table. My bad guys

Chicago (read above for rules) a lot of old timers play it at Bird Bowl here in Miami.
10 ball - no points. Money on the 5 and 10, honest attempts.
Captains One Pocket
Pill Pool! Dollar to the kitty.

I like the Hot nine ring game 5 on the five and 10 on the nine and the nine spots if not the last ball to be made so you can play shape to shoot another combo or carom at the nine and continue to do so as long as you make a good hit and a ball. The place Richard Black started making cues at Derita Billiards in Charlotte NC had this game one night a week with six players, they were chosey about players and a real strong local player begged for months to get in. When they were short a player one night they let him in and he went busted for $480.00 before he got to shoot, now thats Hot Nine Ring Game. He didn't want in again either.

Leonard

PS I was told the record was four or five nineballs made in one game by the same player

10 & 10 . 10 on the 5 and 10 on the 9! Several good ring game players here. I can almost make a living off this game if I get behind the the right players and get a few good rolls. I won about 500 jelly beans one day last week in this game.