Why is no one playing one ball one pocket?

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ChrisBanks

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One of the most fun games, best gambling games, the action is fast, exciting, and has provided some of the most intense competition for spectators.

Yet you won't find one god damn person playing the game, let alone anyone that's ever heard of it.

Although magically, once per year, you will find many people playing it at Super Billiards Expo.
 
ChrisBanks said:
One of the most fun games, best gambling games, the action is fast, exciting, and has provided some of the most intense competition for spectators.

Yet you won't find one god damn person playing the game, let alone anyone that's ever heard of it.

Although magically, once per year, you will find many people playing it at Super Billiards Expo.
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I agree, i seen a few guys here in baltimore play 1 ball, but i believe people just dont gamble in pool no more like they use to do and also nowadays pool players just dont jump up and play anybody that walks through the door, they need a life time back round check and i think the reason alot of people wont gamble at 1 ball 1pocket is its way to fast for them, they rather play a whole game of 1pocket with the NUTS instead of takeing a chance and getting beat by 1 ball!
 
I've played it before. The main problem I see is a difference in rules.

Where you start, what's allowed on the first shot (can you go for your hole) If you scratch does the player get BIH behind the line, or do you spot a ball and now need2

Type in the rules you play by, and the starting position of the balls plz.

ChrisBanks said:
One of the most fun games, best gambling games, the action is fast, exciting, and has provided some of the most intense competition for spectators.

Yet you won't find one god damn person playing the game, let alone anyone that's ever heard of it.

Although magically, once per year, you will find many people playing it at Super Billiards Expo.
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There can be a variety of rules.

Generally you will have the object ball placed frozen on the foot rail, at the middle diamond.

The breaker gets ball in hand behind the head string. If the breaker pockets the ball into his pocket on the break, he loses the game.

On subsequent fouls, an additional ball will be spotted. So the player who committed the foul will now need 2 balls, and the other player will still only need 1.

And the rest of the game follows the general one pocket rules, nothing very complicated.

I know there are many variations in the rules, some minor, some drastic. The game is alot of fun in any combination of rules!

I have seen it played where a foul is a loss of game, all sorts of things, but it's always a great game.
 
one Handed

I played it a lot in Socal in the 60's/70's and even played quite a bit one handed.

It is a great game to practice the end game in one pocket. I used to encourage the 9 ball players to try it to learn more about one pocket.

I play out of Hard Times, Sacramento, and while there is a lot of one pocket played, it is small action. I am lucky to get $50 a game once or twice a week and I am pretty loose at matching up.

There is just not much gamble around here anymore, even if you take the worst of it.
 
I was sitting with SVB at a North Dakota State University football game and he said it is a great way to improve your one pocket game, and then went on to mention playing Chris Gentile and him playing it for cash.


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robsnotes4u said:
I was sitting with SVB at a North Dakota State University football game and he said it is a great way to improve your one pocket game, and then went on to mention playing Chris Gentile and him playing it for cash.


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See what an endorsement the game has! Yet the popularity of this game remains ever so low.

And on a coin-op bar table, you have the possibility of getting 15 games for $1.00!
 
I started a thread about it on OnePocket.org some time back. Not a whole lot of comment, if I remember right.
 
One ball one-pocket

Wrote a column on this a couple of years ago. Here's how we used to play it at Bensinger's, decades back: OB on the foot spot, CB in the jaws of the back pocket on your own side (this was on a 5' x 10' table). Cutting the ball in "backwards" for the outright win was allowed, but pretty risky. Any foul cost you the game. Freddy the Beard and I used to compete cheap at this ALL the time. GF
 
I like to play champions this game -- spot two balls to start the game.
They go to two, I go to one. Alternate break. You can't shoot at your hole on the break by either the classic drawing off the inside of the head ball or banking the bottom ball one rail at your hole.

And yes, you can really learn/work on your end game with this.
 
I've started to play this a little after last years SBE. There was a couple people playing 500/700 a game one ball one pocket but with very specific rules.

Ball frozen to rail to start and cue ball in hand behind line. Cant shoot at pocket first shot. Make the ball in any other pocket you lose, scratch you lose, don't hit the ball you lose. If it was in the jaws you could launch that ball and cue ball off table to restart game lol. Very interesting there were some very strong Dominican players that were playing this and last pocket 8 ball very very well.
 
super195v said:
I've started to play this a little after last years SBE. There was a couple people playing 500/700 a game one ball one pocket but with very specific rules.

Ball frozen to rail to start and cue ball in hand behind line. Cant shoot at pocket first shot. Make the ball in any other pocket you lose, scratch you lose, don't hit the ball you lose. If it was in the jaws you could launch that ball and cue ball off table to restart game lol. Very interesting there were some very strong Dominican players that were playing this and last pocket 8 ball very very well.
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Seems strange you lose by scratching but you restart game if you scratch by jumping both balls off the table.
 
I watched Billy and SVB playing some 2-ball 1-pocket in Tunica for (I believe) $1000 a game.

It was fascinating. At one point I watched NO ONE pocket a ball for 45 min. Just brilliant safety after brilliant safety. The spot was that Billy had the break (which was both ball lined up on the foot spot , but had to break safe. He had to only pocket one ball. SVB had to pocket 2 balls. Not sure of any other rules they had.

***As an aside, since I'm a 1-pocket newbie, can someone please explain how to attempt an offensive shot when 2 balls are racked on the foot spot? I think if you do it correctly, you can make a ball in your pocket and bank the other one close to it. I've heard it's possible, but don't know how to do it.

Anyway, I'm going to try this 1-ball 1-pocket with my best friend to see if we can improve our end game.
 
Yeah the rules were very strange to be honest. I'm sure someone on here was around that huge group of people at the expo and can explain what the exact rules were.
 
Hahaha...

zmfb23 said:
Its only 50 cents a game where im from. If walked into a place and saw it was $1.50 a game i would punch the owner in the face lol
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Then don't come to Cali....

lol

Jaden <--------Doesn't hardly ever play coin op bar box pool....
 
super195v said:
Yeah the rules were very strange to be honest. I'm sure someone on here was around that huge group of people at the expo and can explain what the exact rules were.
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Those guys were playing with almost completely different rules. I remember they were playing that your pocket is the corner pocket diagonal to your opponents pocket. So it would be on the other end of the table. Very interesting!
 
super195v said:
I've started to play this a little after last years SBE. There was a couple people playing 500/700 a game one ball one pocket but with very specific rules.

Ball frozen to rail to start and cue ball in hand behind line. Cant shoot at pocket first shot. Make the ball in any other pocket you lose, scratch you lose, don't hit the ball you lose. If it was in the jaws you could launch that ball and cue ball off table to restart game lol. Very interesting there were some very strong Dominican players that were playing this and last pocket 8 ball very very well.
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I think that is the same way SVB described it to me


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Yeah they played one person had a corner like to the right of the frozen ball when looking from break area. The other player had the opposite corner on the other side of the table. Very Very interesting game to watch and they play for big cash
 
It's played here in NYC, but mostly by Dominican rules which can be somewhat confusing.
 
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