Line-up Straight pool

[mjantti]

It has been so long since I played the game of line up I don't remember it so well. Thanks Bob for giving the info on one of Worlds oldest practice games. I think I will look the game up in Byrnes Advanced book. I don't think if the game is played correctly that any player will be running 1000 but again the game is before my time. The fellow that showed me this was a strong snooker player fronm my hometown and as I remember it did help my game.

Ok. I thought you meant such a practice in which you place 15 balls spaced evenly between the head and the foot rail through the foot, center and head spot and then just shoot in any order in any pocket and after you clear the table you replace all the balls, leave the cueball where it is and continue shooting. Kind of like the line-up in snooker. Never heard the term "line-up straight pool", in here this form of practice is referred just as "line-up". For a pro this should be a quite tedious pocketing exercise and running a 1000 is just a question of stroke repetition and maintaining at least some level of focus. Actually I think after an hour or two it becomes a physical stamina exercise and how well you cope the fatigue that steps in...

 

[zook]

Do any of you guys play line-up? There is a line-up straight league not too far from my place in the summer time.

Just wondering about how the high runs would compare? I tried it at home on my little 7' table, and haven't been able to get into the 3rd rack yet, maybe just because I haven't spent much time on it yet.

For those of you that have played both, what are your high runs in each?

Just curious, Thanks

Hi everybody !

My first post on this forum.

Line up straight pool is still being played here in Quebec, Canada, mostly by people over 50 years old.

As far as I can remember Alain Martel had the highest run... around 450 balls(that was 10 years ago).

George Fels is right when he says Pierre Morin is the guy who knows the most about the history of the game.

Pierre has also written 2 books on billiards. His first book : Techniques du billard published in 1978 has a section about the strategies of this game.

However the book is in French...

here is a link from where you can write to him.

http://translate.google.com/transla...r=MORI1018&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=&swap=1

 

[mjantti]

It seems in this game you start off with a full rack and the subsequent racks are played in a way that you place all the balls in a line from head to foot short rail on the center... Couldn't find any more information with the Google, nor the diagram to place the balls.

Finnish player's run of 1050 was done with just the line-up, he didn't start with a full rack. And he didn't reposition his cueball after shooting the 15th ball, he added the balls in the line and continued shooting. Just talked with him yesterday, it took him over 3 hours and he's a damn fast shooter.

 

[zook]

It seems in this game you start off with a full rack and the subsequent racks are played in a way that you place all the balls in a line from head to foot short rail on the center... Couldn't find any more information with the Google, nor the diagram to place the balls.

Finnish player's run of 1050 was done with just the line-up, he didn't start with a full rack. And he didn't reposition his cueball after shooting the 15th ball, he added the balls in the line and continued shooting. Just talked with him yesterday, it took him over 3 hours and he's a damn fast shooter.

CueTable Help

This is how the balls are respotted (the balls are touching each others) after they all have been sinked. The strategy consists of pocketing 4 or 5 balls and then proceed to break the string to continue the run. After pocketing the last ball, try to leave the CB as shown in the diagram to keep on shooting.

 

[mjantti]

Thanks for the diagram zook, much appreciated. The "line-up" practice in here means that the balls are distributed evenly all the way up to the head cushion, no break-ups are needed. Easier of course than this one with frozen balls (no pun intended)