How to get others interested in more than just 8-ball and 9-ball?

There are guys trying to pique interest in 1-pocket, bank pool and straight pool here in Nova Scotia. There's a 1-pocket tourney on Sat and looks like they're getting players coming out. I'd be more interested in the bank and straight pool myself even tho I've never played
 
Bob Jewett said:
Many rating systems have divisions like A, B, C or 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. When you assign spots based on those ratings, you get seriously unfair matches. A high 4 against a low 4 is a whole division apart, more or less. A low 6 against a high 5 should be an even match, but it's not.

A system like FargoRate has maybe 50 levels of "5", say from 400 to 450. That means that with FargoRate you have "finer grain" ratings that allow more accurate estimates of differences of ability.

In terms of spots in handicapped events, usually the steps are pretty coarse, say from 5-4 to 5-3 games as the step. At straight pool, you can change the target score by a single ball, say from 100-73 to 100-72 to get very "fine grain" changes in the handicap.

It's a trade off between being easier to run and being fairer.
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Thanks for the explanation
 
Bavafongoul said:
It is a dwindling game of interest. Most patrons want to participate, or observe, a faster pace of play at a pool hall.
3 cushion is a wonderful game but the majority of pool players think of it as kick shots while it’s actually much more.

Regardless, finding a 5x10 table nowadays is getting harder and when you do, it’s usually a American snooker table.
1 pocket and bank pool have a following but it’s audience isn’t expanding and seems to get smaller year over year.
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Color me lucky we have wide variety of pool billiards available locally

I have never played too much billiards but the room closest to me has an antique Brunswick. It sat idle for years with a torn felt. A strong local pool and billiards player started working there and got them to recover the table. he turned some guys onto the game now at least during the day when the old guys are there you cant get on the table. Mind you its lie the same 4 or five guys but the table is being played regularly.

My schedule doesn't allow me to play in the 41/1 league at another local room but its limited to 16 players still I think and it can be tough to get a spot
 
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