In the thread on “fixing” 9b, there is some discussion on 10b, call shot and also 10 ball last.
Often times people think 10b must be a call shot game, as if that was always the game. Of course the Filipinos play 10b just like 9b with an extra ball, which I recalled was the original version.
This made me think about when it was the change happened. Turns out [mention]Bob Jewett [/mention] wrote an article in Billiards Digest about this very topic - 10b was played like 9b until the 2008 revision to the rules.
The only thing Bob’s article didn’t address is when the “ten ball last” version came into the WPA (presumably after that article was written - the date of which I don’t see in the web version). While many of the other inconsistencies Bob mentioned aren’t as big an issue these days, this one is.
I don’t have a huge point to this, other than to point out that these type of rule changes happen, that the rules are changed because someone thought it’s a good idea — they aren’t necessarily inherently better.
Oh, and finally, if anyone is playing 10b on the break wins, can we not call it a golden break? The 10b is blue, not yellow or gold. Maybe Blueberry Break?
