My friend yesterday was telling me about a new way to play straight pool. Play for 10 innings. High player at the end of ten innings wins the game.
Anyone heard of this ???
Anyone heard of this ???
10 Innings ???
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Yep. I play this way with a friend sometimes. The trick is whether you count safety play as an inning. The game could be over before anyone makes a ball if the guy nails the break.
It puts an emphasis on offensive play, but if you only count offensive innings you have to keep track of all the safeties and also announce safety before you shoot. Other than that it puts a pretty unique spin and adds some pressure to the game between friends that might otherwise not be there absent gambling.
It puts an emphasis on offensive play, but if you only count offensive innings you have to keep track of all the safeties and also announce safety before you shoot. Other than that it puts a pretty unique spin and adds some pressure to the game between friends that might otherwise not be there absent gambling.
When I practice, I often will start out with a break shot and play for 10 frames (ten racks). I play total offense, no safes. If I miss I count it as a miss and continue. If I'm left with no shot, I try and pick a shot out of the stack, no matter how improbable.
At any rate, this excercise lets me get into a flow and I can also mark progress with how many misses I have in 10 racks.
What your friend might have been playing is a game called equal offense. I'll let someone else describe the rules, since I've forgotten the particulars.
Steve and I will do this as well we call it Derby City Straight Pool, its a great way to play because sometimes when you play with a friend you are coming into the table on a safety and sometimes you are coming in with a bad leave etc. which obviously is a part of the game but when you are trying to get a rhythm going it can be hurtful rather than helpful to play this way. I definitely suggest this style of play to anyone who plays with a friend unless that friend is like Thorsten or Schmidt or something along those lines lol lol as you might be sitting for a while and then the butt cramps start up etc.
Since nobody has described equal offense...it goes something like this....
Each player has 10 innings. An inning consists of at most 20 balls or points. So, you break them like 8 ball (not sure if you take ball in hand or not), and try and run until you miss, or you run all 20 balls. Obviously if you run 14, you play round a break shot and try and run the additional 6. You stop when you miss and then it is your opponents turn. There are no safes, just offense. Each player get 10 turns at the table and can run only up to 20 balls and no more. The best score you could have is then 200 pts.
I've played this way, but instead of breaking them like 8 ball, I actually set up the initial break shot like straight pool.
That's basically how it goes, I'll let someone correct any mistakes.
Each player has 10 innings. An inning consists of at most 20 balls or points. So, you break them like 8 ball (not sure if you take ball in hand or not), and try and run until you miss, or you run all 20 balls. Obviously if you run 14, you play round a break shot and try and run the additional 6. You stop when you miss and then it is your opponents turn. There are no safes, just offense. Each player get 10 turns at the table and can run only up to 20 balls and no more. The best score you could have is then 200 pts.
I've played this way, but instead of breaking them like 8 ball, I actually set up the initial break shot like straight pool.
That's basically how it goes, I'll let someone correct any mistakes.