How about as simply a challenge between friends trying to learn.
Frustrating as He// but a real challenge.
Don't see anything wrong with challenges.
Might fail but .. so what?
Another one of those posts that make you cringe but here goes: idea for game variation
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Frustrating as He// but a real challenge.
Don't see anything wrong with challenges.
Might fail but .. so what?
I dont think the OP was intending for his variation to be anything more than something to play around with in the pool room, not to be introduced into tourneys or anything. At least that's not how I took it.
Nothing wrong with mixing it up some, in my opinion. Of course, our group had already played it years ago, so there is that...
Nothing wrong with mixing it up some, in my opinion. Of course, our group had already played it years ago, so there is that...
No reason not to play horse. Instead of taking shots with a basketball, take shots on a pool table. Might add a sheet of typing paper for kids and raw beginners to land the cue ball on. More advanced players could put paper money down for the cue ball to land on. A dollar, a five or a ten would work nicely for more advanced players.
I think the horse game was mentioned in one of the old instructional books I had. I don't remember how they wanted to play it but I think what I suggest here would work. Bring fives, lots of fives!
Hu
I played the rule before where you have to say where the next ball is going, but in 9 ball. It's often brought about by someone that was smacking balls all over the place getting lucky and trying to show off how good he was to others. Then I ask if he would play some games with calling the ball and pocket for the next shot or next two shots. You find out very quickly who can actually play and who is bullshitting with that game.
I run into a lot of students who have played for multiple years and have never played anything but eight ball.
Where I learned to play, we played:
14.1
14,1 scotch doubles
14.1 call position
reverse pool (14.1 but OB scratches into a pocket off the cue ball)
six ball
nine ball (often with extra money balls)
one pocket
cribbage
cut throat
partners 15-ball rotation, 1 and 5 are partners, called "money ball" in that room
proposition bets and games
3-cushion
straight rail
"3-cushion uniards" -- only two balls and you have to kiss after 3 cushions
carom fancy shots (artistic billiards)
snooker, sometimes with fewer reds
pink ball (like six ball but every ball pays)
golf
English Billiards
propositions bets and games
I've probably forgotten a few games. We did not play eight ball.
Where I learned to play, we played:
14.1
14,1 scotch doubles
14.1 call position
reverse pool (14.1 but OB scratches into a pocket off the cue ball)
six ball
nine ball (often with extra money balls)
one pocket
cribbage
cut throat
partners 15-ball rotation, 1 and 5 are partners, called "money ball" in that room
proposition bets and games
3-cushion
straight rail
"3-cushion uniards" -- only two balls and you have to kiss after 3 cushions
carom fancy shots (artistic billiards)
snooker, sometimes with fewer reds
pink ball (like six ball but every ball pays)
golf
English Billiards
propositions bets and games
I've probably forgotten a few games. We did not play eight ball.
Back when I started it was close to 90% eightball, playing for fun or cheap gambling. One particular honey hole, I could find twenty a game eight ball on a bar table every night, fifty a game a couple times a week. I was in hog heaven but while this was a six or eight table room it was a side room to a business that I think lost their license. One night I came and it was closed without warning. A sweet deal for a few years though!
Cutthroat was just between friends and it was a given that the other two players would gang up on me. No problem, I was shooting at ten balls, a target rich environment, while they were shooting at five.
Gambling might be nine ball, almost always Texas Express rules. Once in awhile "old school" nine ball. Ten ball was rarely played and even if ten balls were racked, it was usually still played with Texas Express nine ball rules. I liked any version of ten ball on a coin op table because it eliminated the six ball game played anytime nine ball was played. I hated winning a nine ball game only to break dry much of the time playing six ball. Oddly enough, after years of playing 9/6 ball I played a guy that played the six ball first. I liked this much better! If I lost the six ball I could still break even winning the nine ball game. Funny how our mind can work. No difference in wins and losses but nine last seemed far better!
The old geezers would play golf or straight pool sometimes and I often watched them while sitting at the counter talking when I was alone. Nobody of my generation played either game regularly although I played golf a few times with the old guys when I was invited to try it. It was mostly a closed group of guys 50-60 years older than me though.
I watched straight pool once in awhile but never learned to play it. I also practiced a lot on a snooker table. When I roped in a friend to play, I played a very simplified version. Me getting points for snookering them would have went over like a lead balloon!
Hu
Cutthroat was just between friends and it was a given that the other two players would gang up on me. No problem, I was shooting at ten balls, a target rich environment, while they were shooting at five.
Gambling might be nine ball, almost always Texas Express rules. Once in awhile "old school" nine ball. Ten ball was rarely played and even if ten balls were racked, it was usually still played with Texas Express nine ball rules. I liked any version of ten ball on a coin op table because it eliminated the six ball game played anytime nine ball was played. I hated winning a nine ball game only to break dry much of the time playing six ball. Oddly enough, after years of playing 9/6 ball I played a guy that played the six ball first. I liked this much better! If I lost the six ball I could still break even winning the nine ball game. Funny how our mind can work. No difference in wins and losses but nine last seemed far better!
The old geezers would play golf or straight pool sometimes and I often watched them while sitting at the counter talking when I was alone. Nobody of my generation played either game regularly although I played golf a few times with the old guys when I was invited to try it. It was mostly a closed group of guys 50-60 years older than me though.
I watched straight pool once in awhile but never learned to play it. I also practiced a lot on a snooker table. When I roped in a friend to play, I played a very simplified version. Me getting points for snookering them would have went over like a lead balloon!
Hu