Making 9-ball more interesting

[Celtic]

The real question is how can we make a game where it is more interesting for the casual viewer?

You play 8-ball.

 

[Nature Boy]

Want to make 9-ball more interesting? Raise the fukcing bet! :bash::grin:

Exactly! Close the thread!!

 

[blah blah]

I had friends over on Saturday. After dinner, the pool players went in the garage to play pool. The non pool players sat in the living room and talked.

At one point, the non pool players started thinking of ways to make pool more interesting. (I did not encourage this). Top recommendations included:

--pockets with little moving gates that opened and closed, like on a miniature golf course, and
--trap doors in the floors that dropped the players into a holding tank in the basement.

Poolplayers need to spice up pool for their own enjoyment (alternative rules, as the original poster suggests). Non poolplayers should NEVER be allowed to try to make the game more entertaining.

 

[pdcue]

"As for the 3, 2, and 1 cushion ideas,
anyone wanting to play any or all of these belongs in an institution
for the billiardly derainged."

That's not insulting huh? Don't even bother replying, based on what you just said, your level of dipsh*t is far beyond me.

Its so very refreshing to hear from someone who is commited
to his principles - like not insulting people.

Dale

 

[Andrew Manning]

I had friends over on Saturday. After dinner, the pool players went in the garage to play pool. The non pool players sat in the living room and talked.

At one point, the non pool players started thinking of ways to make pool more interesting. (I did not encourage this). Top recommendations included:

--pockets with little moving gates that opened and closed, like on a miniature golf course, and
--trap doors in the floors that dropped the players into a holding tank in the basement.

Poolplayers need to spice up pool for their own enjoyment (alternative rules, as the original poster suggests). Non poolplayers should NEVER be allowed to try to make the game more entertaining.

Excellent post.

Golf is boring as hell to watch on TV. Did they therefore monkey with the rules to make it hold the viewer's attention better? No, their game has a dignity which rules out such shenanigans, and relies on the fact that millions upon millions of amateurs love to play the game, thus creating a market for watching it.

Pool needs the same thing. The onus for making pool a more popular sport therefore lies with the owners and would-be owners of pool halls. Market your business, and make playing the game into an attractive entertainment option for a broad customer base. Get more people playing more regularly. Foster "love of the game". The industry will make more money top to bottom, there will be more TV exposure, and everyone who loves or cares about the game will benefit. Changing the game into something the players agree is poor imitation of the game they love is counterproductive in the utmost.

-Andrew

 

[Luxury]

I just think that if there were no safeties allowed and the pros had to shoot all kinds of banks and thin cuts and trick shots every time it would be soooooo much less boring to watch. Ball in hand on all misses is the way to go imo.