Does Stalev still play pool these days?
Don't know about pool, but he co-owns one of largest billiard halls in Moscow and plays pyramid from time to time.
Does Stalev still play pool these days?
Don't know about pool, but he co-owns one of largest billiard halls in Moscow and plays pyramid from time to time.
Will do!
I guess there will be video with not just with rules comparison, but also with the examples of how small rule changes completely change the pace of the game.
Bizarrely, most of the Accu-Stats matches have Stalev on the losing end. His best recorded match, by far and large, is the one against Charlie Williams from 2001 Derby City. I think Accu-Stats still carries it.
Can you tell me anything about the rules for the game that has a yellow ball, a red ball, and 2 green balls?
I'd love to try these games but no tables around. I wonder if playing on a 6x12 snooker table with 16 3C balls would make a reasonable approximation?
I've watched a lot on youtube, and it's obviously an extremely difficult game. Like snooker, I like watching really good players that make it look easy, when it's anything but easy!
Yellow-red-green game is custom and even has no name (yet?) - it was a sponsored match to try it out. New games are always emerging in pyramid community, but few have gotten traction so far.
The rules are about points: red - 3 points, green - 2 points, white/yellow - 1 point, white pocketed with a bank shot - 2 points.
Regarding using snooker table to play pyramid - I thought about different options and basically none of them work as expected.
Many pyramid shots are about power and cushion compression, but this doesn't work on snooker cushions, because they are round.
You can get the idea of caroms into tight pockets if you use real 68mm pyramid balls on a snooker table - just don't hit hard, since cushions are made for 52mm balls and can send bigger one flying. But other than that - no way around pyramid cut pockets - even pocket reducers can't give similar feel.
But if you have some extra space you can get a small 6-7 feet pyramid table with pockets cut for 3C balls. I guess 9 feet table already can be used with full sized balls.
I’d put the level needed for American Pool at a 2. Chinese 8 ball at a 4. Snooker a 9 and my version of Russian Pyramid at a 10. Potting a 2.5 inch ball into a 3.5 inch snooker pocket is great feeling. I play about 1 game a day, then back to Snooker.
Another question, if I may. On one of the videos the commentator said something about the length of the cues, and that players didn't care for such long cues but it was all that was available. Which made me wonder why shorter cues aren't available.
curiously, it looks like 160cm being kind of standard, but some pyramid cue makers do smaller cues on request...Today there is a movement to use 150-155cm cues for people of height 170-180cm. And still - almost no way to buy one.
Fun fact is that some people in pyramid community push to use lighter balls which are slightly smaller - by 1mm (1/25 of an inch)!
After pros tried to play them - they said "ah, smaller balls, but same pocket - now it's too easy". And that's from going from 4mm (1/6 inch) ball-pocket size difference, to 5mm (1/5 inch).