Anyone here play bottle pool???

Retail1LO

Retail1LO

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LOL Have you ever even heard of it??? Ok. I'm a one-pocket player. I could care less if I ever shoot a game of pool again with the word "ball" in it. It's like chess on felt. However...someone at my local pool hall showed me a great game that uses just the one ball, the two ball, a pill bottle, and the cue ball. The one ball gets spotted on the head rail, center diamond. The two ball gets spotted on the foot rail, center diamond. Dead center in the middle of the table, the bottle gets stood on its mouth. The object of the game is to score 41 points, accomplished by either: sinking the 1 or 2 ball (worth 1 and two points respectively), playing the cue ball off both numbered balls on one shot (a carom, worth one point), or...but playing the cue ball off the 1 or 2 ball, and into the bottle (5 points). You must score 41 points and exactly 41 points, otherwise you go back to zero. You keep shooting as long as you score on your last shot. Now some intricacies. Anytime you pocket a ball, be it the 1 or the 2, that ball immediately gets spotted in its original position. If you knock the bottle over with your cue by mistake, knock it over with an object ball, knock it over with the cue ball without hitting an object ball first, or knock the bottle off the table, it's -5 points. When the bottle gets knocked over, the bottle gets stood up wherever it comes to a stop. Unless it gets knocked into a pocket, or off the table in which case it goes back to center table. However...if you knock the bottle over, and it lands on its bottom...you win the game. Now...we play that you can't sink the same numbered ball from it's spot, on consecutive shots. It keeps someone from running the same ball up and down the rail repeatedly. The real draw on this game is the caroms, kicks, and hitting the bottle. You learn a ton of angles on this game. It's also fun safing someone behind the bottle. If the cue ball goes off the table or in a pocket, it's -1 and ball behind the line. Like straight pool, any points scored on the same shot as a foul, are null and void, and still -1. You cannot lose more than 5 points on a shot. So if you scratch and knock the bottle off the table, you just lose 5 points and opponent gets ball in hand behind the line.

Try this sometime...and see if you can "break and run" 41 points off the go. I can usually put low inside English on the cue ball on the first shot, cut the cue ball into the one corner pocket, come right down broadway and knock down the bottle, and get the carom on the two for a totla of 7 points. You'll find after a while you can put together double-digit runs quite frequently...but 41 points off the break is tough.

Let me know if anyone's played this before...and if they play any differently.
 
Played it many years ago...

My dad learned this one during WWII and we used to play it at home. Too long ago to remember those rules, but oddly enough, earlier tonight I was describing it to someone at the local poolhall.

Thanks for rules, I'm gonna have to get a pill bottlle and start playing again.:D
 
Is this the game where you put a bottle in the middle of the table and two balls frozen on the foot rail?
 
See...it's funny you mention that...having two balls frozen to the same rail. From what I know, that's the proper way to play...and the way we avoid. LOL. The only reason we don't play that way is because it places the two object balls so close together, that caroms take place far more often. There's a lot more ball movement with the balls on opposite sides of the table. Otherwise...yes...same game
 
Retail1LO said:
LOL Have you ever even heard of it??? Ok. I'm a one-pocket player. I could care less if I ever shoot a game of pool again with the word "ball" in it. It's like chess on felt. However...someone at my local pool hall showed me a great game that uses just the one ball, the two ball, a pill bottle, and the cue ball. The one ball gets spotted on the head rail, center diamond. The two ball gets spotted on the foot rail, center diamond. Dead center in the middle of the table, the bottle gets stood on its mouth. The object of the game is to score 41 points, accomplished by either: sinking the 1 or 2 ball (worth 1 and two points respectively), playing the cue ball off both numbered balls on one shot (a carom, worth one point), or...but playing the cue ball off the 1 or 2 ball, and into the bottle (5 points). You must score 41 points and exactly 41 points, otherwise you go back to zero. You keep shooting as long as you score on your last shot. Now some intricacies. Anytime you pocket a ball, be it the 1 or the 2, that ball immediately gets spotted in its original position. If you knock the bottle over with your cue by mistake, knock it over with an object ball, knock it over with the cue ball without hitting an object ball first, or knock the bottle off the table, it's -5 points. When the bottle gets knocked over, the bottle gets stood up wherever it comes to a stop. Unless it gets knocked into a pocket, or off the table in which case it goes back to center table. However...if you knock the bottle over, and it lands on its bottom...you win the game. Now...we play that you can't sink the same numbered ball from it's spot, on consecutive shots. It keeps someone from running the same ball up and down the rail repeatedly. The real draw on this game is the caroms, kicks, and hitting the bottle. You learn a ton of angles on this game. It's also fun safing someone behind the bottle. If the cue ball goes off the table or in a pocket, it's -1 and ball behind the line. Like straight pool, any points scored on the same shot as a foul, are null and void, and still -1. You cannot lose more than 5 points on a shot. So if you scratch and knock the bottle off the table, you just lose 5 points and opponent gets ball in hand behind the line.

Try this sometime...and see if you can "break and run" 41 points off the go. I can usually put low inside English on the cue ball on the first shot, cut the cue ball into the one corner pocket, come right down broadway and knock down the bottle, and get the carom on the two for a totla of 7 points. You'll find after a while you can put together double-digit runs quite frequently...but 41 points off the break is tough.

Let me know if anyone's played this before...and if they play any differently.
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Sounds like skittles which is played on snooker table. Personally I can't stand any game where you have to score exactly a certain amount of points. I think it is a rule that is added to allow weaker players a chance.
 
Used to play it all the time back in the sixties!! OMG that's a long time ago... When we were bored with straight pool, eight ball or shitty eight we'd play bottle pool, it's actually a fun game and helps you learn the cue ball path after impact with the object ball..
Dan
 
Sounds alot like the game "cowboy" except with a bottle on the table and the scoring is slightly difrent.In cowboy you have the 1,3 and 5 balls on the table.The 1 on the center of the head string,the 5 in the center of the table and the 3 on the spot.You acumilate points equal to the number of the ball you pocket(after pocketing a ball it goes imediatly back to its original spot) until you get to exactly 90 points,caroms count as one point as well,going over is a foul.For points 91-100 you must carom from one of the balls into another one,each carrom is worth one point.For the final point 101 you have to scrach coming off the 1 ball.If you commit a foul during youre turn you lose all points earned during that turn. Its a great game if you are playing with serveral people and you all want to compete against each other without someone having to set out.
 
Played it a few times. You need to have everybody understand the rules, though. I played with a guy who insisted on the rules being the ones for bottle billiards, not bottle pool.
 
The 60"s

quedup said:
Used to play it all the time back in the sixties!! OMG that's a long time ago... When we were bored with straight pool, eight ball or shitty eight we'd play bottle pool, it's actually a fun game and helps you learn the cue ball path after impact with the object ball..
Dan
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Yea, I used to play this back in the 60's too!! It did give you the q-ball control. There was a lot of movement on whitey.

Thanks for the Memories. Rep for you.
 
My favorite game growing up on a snooker table. Below are the rules.

TYPE OF GAME
Bottle Pocket is among the few games that combine the objectives of Carom Billiards and Pocket Billiards. It is a unique game in the it uses a leather "shaker bottle" in addition to normal pocket billiard balls.

PLAYERS
Two, or more, individuals or teams.

EQUIPMENT USED
Object balls numbered 1-2, plus the cue ball, and a "shake" bottle.

OPENING SETUP
The opening setup of the game has the 1-ball frozen to the foot cushion one diamond from the left foot pocket, the 2-ball frozen to the foot cushion one diamond from the right foot pocket, and the shaker bottle placed upside down on the center spot.

OBJECT OF THE GAME
To score 31 points before your opponent(s).

SCORING
Shooter can only score on legal strokes. Points can be scored by either pocketing a numbered ball (point value of ball sunk), by caroming both numbered ball with the cue ball (1 pt), caroming the cue ball off an object ball and knocking the bottle over (5 pts). If the cue ball caroms off of an object ball and knocks the bottle so it stands base down (right side up) on the bed of the table the shooter automatically wins the game.

It is possible to get up to 9 points per inning by sinking both object balls, caroming off of both object balls, and knocking the bottle over (on the same stroke).

If a player scores more than 31-points his score will become the amount he went over 31 by, and his inning is over. (Example: shooter starts with 30 and sinks the 2-ball on a legal shot - his turn is over and he now has 1 point.)

OPENING THE GAME
The game starts with the first shooter having cue ball in the kitchen. At least one of the objects balls must be hit for a legal opening shot (the bottle can not be legally struck before an object ball is contacted). Failure to execute a legal opening shot allows option of accepting table as it sits after the shot or having the opening player open the game again.

RULES OF PLAY
Shooter continues at table until: he fails to execute a legal shot, contacts the bottle with an object ball (before the cue ball, after contacting an object ball, contacts the bottle), drives the bottle off of the bed of the table, or exceeds 31-points.

It is a foul to upset the bottle with an object ball.

It is a foul if the cue ball contacts the bottle before the cue ball has contacted an object ball.

An object ball must be contacted on each stroke, and either the object ball, another object ball, or the cue ball, must reach a cushion after the cue ball object ball contact. Failure to do so is a foul.

SPOTTING THE BOTTLE
The bottle is "spotted" before the next shot anytime it is knocked over. This is done by placing the bottle upside down as close to where the opeing came to rest as possible,

If the bottle came to rest off of the table it is spotted on the center spot. If the center spot is blocked then spot on the head spot; if the head spot is blocked then spot on the foot spot; if the foot spot is occupied then keep out of play until the center spot is open.

ILLEGALLY POCKET BALLS
Are spotted (without additional penalty) as described below.

JUMPED OBJECT BALLS
Are spotted (without penalty) as described below.

CUE BALL AFTER SCRATCH OR JUMPING OFF TABLE
Shooter's inning is over, a fould is marked, and incoming player will put cue ball in play from kitchen.

SPOTTING OBJECT BALLS
Any pocketed balls are spotted, prior to the next shot, in the position they occupied at the start of the game. If that spot is blocked then the center spot is used, if the center spot is blocked then the head spot is used. If both balls need to be spotted then the 1-ball is spotted first.

PENALTY FOR FOULS
One point is deducted from offending player's score.

LOSS OF GAME
The game is lost if a player fouls in three consecutive inngs.
 
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