Remember the guy who tried to rewrite bar pool rules?
Man did that goof get lit-up.
Basically bar pool isn't pool, it's just another game at the bar.
Twice in the last couple months guys in bars have tried to tell me they
play "gentlemen's pool", call every kiss & rail, no safeties, no ball-in-hand.
I had to explain to them that the only game you call every kiss & rail with no safeties
is bar pool which is not pool.
Nothing gentlemanly about scratching on purpose so your opponent has to lag for the 8-ball.
Bar pool is hillbilly pool.
Personally I won't play bar pool.
In Parker, Colorado they call split shots when two balls are close together and either
one could go in..."Imma gonna split-em"
One time I made the other ball and sat down, my opponent said I made the ball, it
was a split shot, so I got up and kept shooting.
I said "a split shot huh" dumbest thing I've ever heard.
In the last 15-years many bars have adapted to BCA rules, even APA rules in APA
type bars, which is fine with me, but bar pool as we know it is a shitshow.