we called pill pool and kelly pool the same thing although maybe they were not. but were referred as such.
i still have an old pill pool bottle with the pills still. i dont know how o it is as it came with one of my tables.
we played it some in the poolrooms but it died out quickly as players found out guys teamed up and helped each other make their pill ball. or wouldnt make each others.
not as bad as those teaming up playing indian poker.
The way it was usually played in our old pool hall was that every player drew a set number of pills (usually 2 or 3) depending upon the number of players).
Then they played a ring game of 15-ball rotation.
If a shooter made a ball with another person's pill number, the person with that pill number had to pay the shooter a set amount of money (they usually played $0.25 a pill, but sometimes higher).
If a shooter made a ball with his own pill number, EVERYBODY in the game had to pay him the set amount of money.
