The out of snooker kicks are probably the best highlight shots in rotation pool, because the players shoot at 20% options. In potting play, they'll only play sub 50% difficulty shots when the shot offers a reasonable shot-to-nothing type safety backup.
So yes, these are often the best shots we get to see in rotation events and I'm sure game formats that contain them will survive. But I'd rather see exceptional offensive potting shots than miraculous, with a handfull of luck, escapes. Such offensive shots have been almost entirely removed from consideration in current game formats.
btw: Is payball like Shell Out, a snooker game where you get money per point scored with multiple players?
Colin
Payball is usually played on a 5x10 snooker table with tight pockets (3 in often)...
...you rack up the colours in a triangle, and shoot them in order...money on every ball..
..double on the black ball....if you make a ball, everybody in the games pays you...
....most games are double for a run-out.
The old rules of nine ball apply...and there is no sense in playing safe.
Your game Shell Out, I suspect, is what Canucks call Follow and USA calls Points.
...pay by the point, you pay for what you leave...only the player following you collects.
.....once again, safeties are useless, 'cause if you make a man sell out, it is someone
else who gets paid.
When I was a kid, I was a bit too aggressive as a snooker player.....
...four of us decided to play follow one day....we put the 3 'D' colours and the cue ball in
a pocket and draw for order.....I picked the cue ball, so I break...the guy who drew the
brown ball will be paying me....
....so I smacked 'em wide open and fluked a red ball.....I'm in the mid 70s and it looks like
a table clearance coming up.....the guy who drew the brown ball taps me on the shoulder...
...he says " Excuse me , who are you FOLLOWING?
I thought about it, started laughing and racked 'em up and broke safe....
....what the hell, we WERE playing 'follow'.
