2 Pocket One-Pocket 9 or 10 footers

ceebee

ceebee

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Anybody play on a 2-pocket Pool Table? There were 2 of these tables at a place in Joplin, but I never got to play on them.

Anybody have a preference of 9 or 10 foot One-Pocket tables?
 
The Golden Cue, in Joplin. I believe they played what they called short end one pocket. I remember playing Ronnie Oxford on those tables back in the 90's. I don't know if J-Town billiards is still around but they too have a short end one pocket table.
 
I saw them at J-Town in Joplin, looked like a real game to be played on those tables.

Do you think the tables would get used much use, in a Pool Room that had lots of one-pocket players?
 
Bleh, pocketing balls as a safe is a great move when used well. I love the multi-rail kicks and banks in One Pocket, but meh, the holes are part of the game.
 
I do think that one pocket players are very traditional in the equipment they play on. At the time I was in Joplin, I never played one pocket, and those tables were in fact the first experience I had playing the game. It is a very different game than traditional one pocket, there is no up table game. The break shot is one that you can consistently make the ball and actually run out. So as one pocket is a game I enjoy, it is not one that play consistently enough to answer your question if true one-hole players would use the table.
 
ceebee said:
Anybody play on a 2-pocket Pool Table? There were 2 of these tables at a place in Joplin, but I never got to play on them.

Anybody have a preference of 9 or 10 foot One-Pocket tables?
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I played on those tables in Joplin twice.

They were on the left as you went in the door.

Balls were racked at the end with no pockets. You could one rail the corner ball to your pocket. Great game.

I have often wondered what it would be like to rack the balls at the end with pockets. Could be a very interesting game.

Bill S.
 
Seems like there'd be some different strategy to it... harder to advance those uptable
wedge games since balls cannot be nudged into the hole. There's also no fear of side pocket scratches making all balls on the long rails playable... I guess that would be more fair vs one guy gets an unlucky
roll and a ball sits just south of his side pocket, making it almost unshootable.

I dunno if the game could be considered more pure or less pure on a 2-pocket table.
 
I know the folks played a game of "up-table one-pocket" on those 2-pocket tables in Joplin. You could actually shoot the Straight Pool break shot & make a ball on the break.

I never understood that modification to the one-pocket game at all.
 
I never like the idea of those tables. Seems to me it would change the dynamics of the game
 
The tables you are referring to are not One Pocket tables. These tables (one is still in use at the pool room on Main Street, in Joplin) were made for a game that was popular back in the forties, and fifties, called Corners. The rack is at the head of the table, and the only two pockets are at the foot. There used to be one here in Springfield, when I was a teenager, but has long since vanished. :)

P.S. With the exceptions noted, the game is played similar to One Pocket.
 
bstroud said:
I played on those tables in Joplin twice.

They were on the left as you went in the door.

Balls were racked at the end with no pockets. You could one rail the corner ball to your pocket. Great game.

I have often wondered what it would be like to rack the balls at the end with pockets. Could be a very interesting game.

Bill S.
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Had two tables downtown DC (13 and G NW) many, many years ago. Poolroom since gone but they played OnePocket and the balls were racked at the foot end

Someone said changes the game with less pockets and points. So true. Easy to bank one rail or two rails where normally a pocket or point would be in the way. No need for outside spin to make it work on the one railers. Took skill away from the game imo

Also the balls were purple and orange. No numerals. :eek: Shades of BB!!

Lots of OnePocket in DC since the fifties
 
Something interesting about that "Corners" article...

In the 60's, pool died. Instead of 3 pool halls, Nevada had one. All of the old-timers and most high school kids stopped playing. The high school moved a mile away from the square. After a while, there were very few good players.
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In a way that's kind of encouraging. I'd sort of though of pool as being at its height in the 30's,
and assumed in the 60's pool was at least still pretty healthy.
But it sounds like it totally died (in that area at least) in the 60's and then made a
comeback (maybe from the Color of Money?) which means no matter how bad your area
sucks for pool and no matter how much it seems to dying, a resurgence is possible.
 
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