Here is an interesting video on Chinese 8-ball by one of the top players. Gareth Potts was a top player of English 8-ball and has won some big heyball events.
Chinese 8-ball (Heyball) explained
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Lot of great information. Thanks for sharing!
9ft snooker table. Same cloth and pockets.
i've watched enough to know i have zero desire to ever play it. tough? yeah but boring as hell to sweat.
here is a snooker sized table with snooker sized balls 1-15
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You can cinch those but same old flaw: you can't do anything with the rock. Makes for the lamest defense in cue sports.
He said snooker pockets, snooker cloth but pool sized balls
In the 70s many rooms had the one 10 footer and some even had a billiard table as well; probably part of a table package. Friends and I used to play 8 ball on 'em. I got hooked on the challenge. Got to hitting the pockets and the friends lost interest. They make good practice for sure. Learned basically a ball goes where it goes.
I used to tune on a snooker table every day then go gamble on a pool table. Really got your eyes well calibrated!
(anybody) I have been watching the youtube shorts featuring english eight ball or black ball and one thing I saw is that they use a shot clock and a game clock. I have been curious how that would work, seems better than just a shot clock.
Hu
I'm pretty sure the pockets are tighter.
outrider1
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An old friend showed me he could play "Chop Stcks" pool using 2 house cues years ago, he could actually play it very well!
We have a heyball table at our room…the pool size balls make the pockets feel tight, but the slate fall is much more generous than snooker.
I watched some of the "Championship of the Americas" (or similar title) that was held in Quincy, IL, last July. Corey Deuel won it.
There are both shot clocks and match clocks. When the match clock is winding down, the player who is ahead can game the clock by slow play and safety play. If the match is tied at the end of regulation, they play a shootout. Nothing is call shot. Nick Varner played in Quincy, and he really enjoyed the game. He said he had not quite figured out how the pockets worked.
I thought the Quincy event was streamed, but I can't find it on YouTube now. Here is a different event....
There are both shot clocks and match clocks. When the match clock is winding down, the player who is ahead can game the clock by slow play and safety play. If the match is tied at the end of regulation, they play a shootout. Nothing is call shot. Nick Varner played in Quincy, and he really enjoyed the game. He said he had not quite figured out how the pockets worked.
I thought the Quincy event was streamed, but I can't find it on YouTube now. Here is a different event....
In theory, snooker pockets are supposed to match physical 3-D templates.
What I noticed with the heyball tables is that if you wanted to run a ball down the rail, the ball had to be within a couple of millimeters of the rail when it got to the pocket. That's a small pocket.
Flakeandrun
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Middle pockets are cavernous. The corners tight as a nuns…
Love playing Chinese 8ball. No one calls it heyball. They say 黑球 or a couple other words. Heyball is such a bad name.
There's a bunch of guys it seems - pocket nazis - pocketstapo lol. Me, I was too undisciplined. Yeah I bore down on the snooker table by myself but go out and play time I just wanted to free wheel - showoff. The effect was similar to weed. 15 minutes, no sweat. Then poof.