3 things you would change about pool

[Renegade4006]

I play in both NAPA and APA leagues. I prefer the rules structure used in NAPA, so:
- Play 8-ball as a call pocket game, no slop (I'm looking at you APA)
- 9-Ball, call the 9 (again, APA)
- ban cell phone use while playing. Use of a cell phone while at the table (unless an emergency situation) results in loss of turn and ball in hand to your opponent.

 

[fastone371]

Would you rather play svb winner break or alternate break?

It doesn't matter, if we aint playing a race to 1 I have no chance at winning.

 

[fastone371]

It's basically a 3" pocket you can slam from down the rail.

But you can slam balls down the rail with the current pockets, your aim just must be very good. If you line up 3 balls frozen together on the rail you can slam the rear ball and make the front ball on most every table.

 

[straightline]

But you can slam balls down the rail with the current pockets, your aim just must be very good. If you line up 3 balls frozen together on the rail you can slam the rear ball and make the front ball on most every table.

The idea is the 3" aperture.

 

[Chicagoplayer]

This has to be the most entertaining thread I have read in some time. Love it!

I would add "get ESPN to cover pool, *8 ball or 9 ball'" So much more skill and enjoyable to watch than cornhole or darts.

ESPN won’t pay for production costs.
The women used to pay ESPN to air their events.

 

[middleofnowhere]

1. Put all the bar boxes into a mountainous sized pile and set them ablaze, never to return.

Since that represents maybe 90 percent of pool played, it would be the end of all pool so to speak. Bar pool and leagues saved the game from total extinction.

 

[ribdoner]

What is this obsession with ball in hand only in the kitchen? Allows for ticky-tacky intentional fouls when opponent has balls only in the kitchen. Totally disagree. Fouls are to be punished not rewarded in certain circumstances.

leads to more creative, strategic play and fewer "cosmo" outs

 

[erriep]

ban the white ball : it's racist
ban the pockets : they're always too big , no pocket = problem solved
ban 13 object balls : carom rocks !

 

[Swighey]

1 - Make all new cloth play like broken in cloth. Very few people enjoy the first week of new cloth and it's really a different game

2 - Alternate break for everything. To come in line with all major sports, closer matches, increase fairness and to reduce overall importance of the break shot and reward overall ability more

3 - 4 inch pockets as maximum size for all professional play and 4.5 standard for amateur. Misses create pressure and excitement

Honorable mention to using chess clocks to manage match times and slow play. Ie each player starts with 30 mins and add 30 secs every time the players swap chairs. Better than a shot clock and can be run without a ref

What about your 3?

1. New cloth every day might be better
2. No brainer. Matchroom will revert to alternate break, just give it some time.
3. More or less.

 

[BobPA]

1. No Magic Rack in 9-ball - makes it too easy for anyone to consistently make a ball on the break
2. Jumping is allowed with a full length cue only
3. Classic colored balls
4. Make 10-ball the premier discipline

 

[tim913]

- No safeties allowed, all offense
- No jump shots allowed
- Every table must have a structural support pole in the way like a lot of basements I’ve played in

 

[Mensabum]

this^^^^^^^^

Hello Fatboy!!?

 

[Mensabum]

1. Put all the bar boxes into a mountainous sized pile and set them ablaze, never to return.
2. Return the rules of all disciplines to their original set. The ridiculous and constant changing of RULES in the last 25 years and calling it “format” changes is ludicrous.
3. Make 14:1 the game that defines what a champion is again. If it’s not appealing to the average dullard with the attention span of a gnat then that’s on them, let them gravitate to corn hole or something.

You said what I didn't have the balls to bro!! Thank you.

 

[Mensabum]

Folks, too many of you live in some sort of pool-crazed fantasy land. Just deal with 'what is' today and you'd be better off. I'm bowing out of this with three things: 1.bar-boxes are never going away, 2. 14.1 is never making a comeback. and 3.FargoRate is here to stay. Deal with it.

C'mon Gar... Imagination is all that some of these guys have left. Reality is just too painful. Especially if your plumbing don't work no mo.

 

[Mensabum]

Careful what you wish for. The fact that we can turn on one of ESPN's one million channels and find cornhole but not pool doesn't seem right. And as much as I love straight pool and one hole, we're never going to see it on TV because peoples' attention spans aren't long enough. Doing this would be like pulling the plug on a sport that's already on life support. If we're ever going to see the game we love grow and thrive it's going to have to be in a way that's faster paced than either of those games. I hate it but that's the reality. Adapt or die.

Sad but true.

 

[Mensabum]

Also whoever made the 5 purple in the new dark set needs to be drawn and quartered

I had a dream about that guy getting hit by a bus?!?

 

[Mensabum]

Because they don't play much if any straight pool. Rotation games such as 9 and 10 ball, you only need approximate position most of the time. In straight pool you need more exact position on the key ball and break ball, which often needs more cheating the pocket.

Learning how to read the rack taught me how to play. How balls interact on contact, caroms, frozen throws etc ... You don't see any of that in rotation games. Straight pool reminds me of 'Rush,' the thinking man's band. You either loved em or hated em.

 

[Mensabum]

C

I would ban people complaining about a topic when they can just ignore the thread and not reply

Can't you just feel the love in this room??

 

[Mensabum]

No league
No women
You can only play for money, $100 a set minimum

No women?? OMG Please dude.

 

[Mensabum]

What is this obsession with ball in hand only in the kitchen? Allows for ticky-tacky intentional fouls when opponent has balls only in the kitchen. Totally disagree. Fouls are to be punished not rewarded in certain circumstances.

They get spotted.