Best billiards game

9 & 8 Ball tournaments, and the Hopkins Cue Skills Challenge for practice and evaluation.
 
You can search for it here on the forum. There is a complete set of rules posted. In my opinion it is a great way to rate your own skill level. It will help you get a good idea of where you rate as a player; A,B,C, Pro level, etc...
 
I would like to get into 1 pocket but nobody around here plays that game. I really like playing cut throat.
 
wjpjr said:
If you ever get into playing one pocket all other games are boring..
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I playedf 1 pocket for a little while and found it to be incredibly boring.

9-ball and 10-ball for me.
 
Icon of Sin said:
I playedf 1 pocket for a little while and found it to be incredibly boring.

9-ball and 10-ball for me.
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This probably sounds dumb but how do you play 10 ball?
 
mikev_wvufan said:
This probably sounds dumb but how do you play 10 ball?
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Not dumb at all...I asked the same question not long ago. 10 ball isn't played everywhere. Basically, it's the same as 9 ball, using 10 balls. The reasoning is that adding another ball lessens the breaking skills of some 9 ball players.
 
You mentioned breaking skills, I break half diamond to the right with high english. 8 ball I do well in breaking 9 ball I suck. Do you have any advice?
 
mikev_wvufan said:
You mentioned breaking skills, I break half diamond to the right with high english. 8 ball I do well in breaking 9 ball I suck. Do you have any advice?
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Mike - Buy Joe Tucker's Ranking Secrets DVD and I'll guarantee that you will improve your 9-ball breaking success. Just so you know, I have no affiliation with Joe and/or his DVD production company.

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mikev_wvufan said:
You mentioned breaking skills, I break half diamond to the right with high english. 8 ball I do well in breaking 9 ball I suck. Do you have any advice?
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Not really, since I'm just a beginner myself. Last Tuesday I was doing a lot of 9 ball racking for a young guy I know, classed "master" in tourneys.
He varied his cue ball placement and english depending on whether the rack was straight or twisted right or left...the goal being to make a corner ball hit a corner pocket on the end being broken from. Of course, I was "twisting" the racks according to his directions...but he had it down to pocketing a ball on the break a bit more than 9 out of 10 times. I tried to understand what he was doing, but I'm just not smart enough to pick it up, let alone do it...:confused:
 
My favorite game was a version of carom we used to play on a regular 9' table. It was the best thing to ever happen to my ball positioning skills. I loved odd games that allowed my friends and I to develope skills while playing different games. We played bank or kick 9-ball or 8-ball. Combo 9-ball. Games where you could only use center ball hit or draw, or center ball or top. Odd games that forced you to test your limits of your abilities are my favorite.
 
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