A few weeks ago, one of our better local players challenged Rudy Luat to play some two-rail banks (much to his backer's eventual sorrow). They played a race to five, open-breaking a nine-ball rack. I cannot recall ever seeing the game played before. Anybody else got stories about oddball games? GF
Offbeat Games
- Thread starter George Fels
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George Fels said:
There is a bank game where you get so much for every rail. I saw some guys play for 50 a rail, it was pretty good.
What's that game that Willie Jopling loves? You know the one where the object is to scratch off the object ball. He told me he showed the game to Efren at DCC, and Efren mastered it almost immediately.
jay helfert said:
Hell, I like to know the name as well. I have been playing it all along and never knew. lol
Also called "Irish Billiards".
.....also called 'Scratch Pool'.
Poker... each player the more the better is dealt a hand of 5 cards (kept private)
A = 1 ball
2 = 2 ball
ect
J = 11 Ball
Q= 12 ball
K = 13 ball
the 14 and 15 are open balls used continue your turn and/or to get shape and are spotted immediately after they are sunk.
if the player at the table sinks a ball matching a card or cards in his hand he plays them.. anyone else holding the same card discards that card and draws 2 more cards.
you win when you have no cards in your hand
works great when you have alot of people with varying degrees of skill
there is no safety play.. you don't know what you have to hide him from..
its a fun game with groups...
A = 1 ball
2 = 2 ball
ect
J = 11 Ball
Q= 12 ball
K = 13 ball
the 14 and 15 are open balls used continue your turn and/or to get shape and are spotted immediately after they are sunk.
if the player at the table sinks a ball matching a card or cards in his hand he plays them.. anyone else holding the same card discards that card and draws 2 more cards.
you win when you have no cards in your hand
works great when you have alot of people with varying degrees of skill
there is no safety play.. you don't know what you have to hide him from..
its a fun game with groups...
I have a few buddies who love to play carom 8-ball. You have to carom every ball in and call your shots. If the 8 is the last ball on the table, it has to be banked atleast 3 rails. Nice way to get your $1's worth on a barbox.
jay helfert said:
I have played one similar though you don't ever strike the cue ball..except for the break
there are two cue balls one on the head spot one on the center spot.. standard 8 ball rack
you must shoot the first cueball into the second to break the rack
from that point on you stroke the object ball but you must hit a cueball first (there are two on the table) and carom into the pocket.
other than that standard 8 ball rules.
it is a fun little game. and teaches carom angles like nothing else I have seen...
15:1 8 ball
the stripes player must pocket the 15 in the right side pocket (standing at the head of the table) and the solids player must pocket the 1 ball in the left side pocket..immediately before the 8
standard 8 ball rules apply..
either ball pocketed out of turn is spotted one diamond towards the foot of the table on the side it must be sunk
you did ask for oddball games LOL
the stripes player must pocket the 15 in the right side pocket (standing at the head of the table) and the solids player must pocket the 1 ball in the left side pocket..immediately before the 8
standard 8 ball rules apply..
either ball pocketed out of turn is spotted one diamond towards the foot of the table on the side it must be sunk
you did ask for oddball games LOL
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No, Jay, we taught him that game here in Chicago - and two days later, he was playing it with Hopkins for $200 a rattle. GF
What about Cribbage?
I never hear too much about this game anymore but I used to play it frequently as a youngster. Rack all 15 balls and the player scores a point when he pockets 2 balls totaling 15 (the 15 ball counts as a point by itself). Every ball has a partner: 14 & 1, 13 & 2, 12 & 3 etc. (the 15 ball is shot last). If you make the first ball of the two and don't make the 2nd one, then the one you made gets spotted and the other player shoots. You play to 15 points. I think it's a great game. Anybody else ever play this??
I never hear too much about this game anymore but I used to play it frequently as a youngster. Rack all 15 balls and the player scores a point when he pockets 2 balls totaling 15 (the 15 ball counts as a point by itself). Every ball has a partner: 14 & 1, 13 & 2, 12 & 3 etc. (the 15 ball is shot last). If you make the first ball of the two and don't make the 2nd one, then the one you made gets spotted and the other player shoots. You play to 15 points. I think it's a great game. Anybody else ever play this??
In-off
Also called "In-Offs." Efren learned it in Chicago at the Billiard Cafe many years before DCC.
the Beard
1 Pocket Ghost said:
Also called "In-Offs." Efren learned it in Chicago at the Billiard Cafe many years before DCC.
the Beard