Just wondering if that is a game people make, or would it be to hard.
One pocket on a 5 x 10 snooker table.....
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I think it would be pretty cool w/ snooker balls, but pool balls are too tuff IMO. Damn near impossible to shoot a (pool) ball down the rail into hole.
Black-Balled said:
You're not kidding. I was trying to roll a pool ball down the rail of a snooker table by hand, and couldn't get it to fall. Those pockets are tough from all angles but rolling down the rail seems to be almost impossible - maybe if you put the right english on it it would work.
I was in Charlotte in 1985 (I think) when Nick won the Rob's Roost tournament. Several days that week he came into Mother's Billiards and would practice with regular pool balls on a 6 X 12 foot snooker table. He would fire balls in from everywhere and had people looking on in awe.
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I watched Ronnie Allen in the late 70's play one hole on a 5x10 in Kansas City and seen him run out 1 time on it. Great game to watch and sweat.
I watched Ronnie Allen in the late 70's play one hole on a 5x10 in Kansas City and seen him run out 1 time on it. Great game to watch and sweat.
If it is a 5 x 10 table with snooker pockets then they should have a set of snooker balls , you just need 15 balls , as long as they are keeping track of the balls they have made they could just use the reds.
I think there were 5 x 10 pool tables with squared pockets , i think they were the standard in some areas years ago. i never saw one , i played snooker on a 5 x 10 snooker table as a kid.
There was a guy from Milwaukee in Dallas years back that loved to gamble playing 9-ball on a 5 x 10 snooker table. Not many wanted too.
There are 5x10 pool tables with pool style pockets. The 9x4.5 didn't come around as a standard untill later, as the southern standard was 8x4 and north was 10x5. SO they met in the middle and got 9x4.5. Greenleaf still holds the record for balls ran on a 5x10 in straight pool if I'm not mistaken
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the Rack in DETROIT - 5x10 one pocket got the most action - Cornbread Red was arguably the best of all time - sometimes he gave good 9ball players 1 side to his 1 pocket - Freddy Salem said he would play anyone in the world 1pocket on a 5x10 {including Ronnie Allen} but Red could give him 9/7 - the action was fantastic there in the 70's - Billy Johnson played Paul Bruesloff 10/8 two ahead - i had a piece of a piece of a piece of a side bet and won 1500 [Billy won 100,000] - i once offered a guy 10/8 for 5,000 a game[i had 9 barrels] he told me to get a stakehorse,he didn't play for chump change! i saw Marvin Henderson win 110,000 in a 2 ahead giving 10/8 - i feel he was the best black allround player that ever lived - [i have a little trouble respecting players who now play race to9 for $50 and strut like they're Nick the Greek] they have no idea what action was like
the Rack in DETROIT - 5x10 one pocket got the most action - Cornbread Red was arguably the best of all time - sometimes he gave good 9ball players 1 side to his 1 pocket - Freddy Salem said he would play anyone in the world 1pocket on a 5x10 {including Ronnie Allen} but Red could give him 9/7 - the action was fantastic there in the 70's - Billy Johnson played Paul Bruesloff 10/8 two ahead - i had a piece of a piece of a piece of a side bet and won 1500 [Billy won 100,000] - i once offered a guy 10/8 for 5,000 a game[i had 9 barrels] he told me to get a stakehorse,he didn't play for chump change! i saw Marvin Henderson win 110,000 in a 2 ahead giving 10/8 - i feel he was the best black allround player that ever lived - [i have a little trouble respecting players who now play race to9 for $50 and strut like they're Nick the Greek] they have no idea what action was like
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Yes it's a game a lot of people play. I've seen it a lot on 6 x12 snooker tables. There are some players who specialize in this game, they might lose to one player on a regular table and then beat the same player easily on the snooker table. As I recall NYC's "Gypsy" excelled at one pocket on a 6 x12 snooker table, even using pool balls.
One pocket on 5 x 10
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I have played and seen others play one pocket several times on a 10 x 5. Yes it is hard, but the better player still usually wins. On a regular table one can bank a ball toward your your pocket that is near the point on your opponents pocket. On a snooker table on the other hand one can't easily or reliably bank a ball off the snooker bend on the long rail, because the snooker bend is curved and a ball banked off of it would not bank straight across, but towards the short rail. In order to bank off the long rail, for example, one must first make sure that the object ball is not on the snooker bend, but past it. Aside from that the game is about the same as an a regular pool table, but the small differences that exist make for a more interesting and challenging game.:smile:
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bchilton
Years ago I did a lot of Practice with pool Balls on a 5 X 10 snooker table. I wish there was a Snooker with in reasonable distances of my home. Snooker is a great game. If you cab pocket pool balls on a snooker table, a regular table looks like Basketball Hoops.
In the Thread about Greenway Pool Hall I tell about watching St Louie Louie, Handsome Danny, Fly Boy, Mezz and and a bunch more old road players in a $ 100/$ 200 Pay Ball game on a snooker table.
BTW The key to making a rail shot on a snooker table is "POCKET SPEED" Easier said than done.
All true. I grew up in Oak Park, MI and went to the Rack now and then in the early 70's. The first time I went through the doors, Paul Bruesloff was playing Freddy Salem $10,000 a game one-pocket on a 5x10 snooker table. My eyes popped out of my head.
And so there is no confusion, the Rack also had a 5x10 pool table that saw a lot of action. Mike Sigel and Hubbard showed up 3 years in a row for Mike to play Cornbread 1-pocket on that 5x10 pool table. Mike took the cheese each time if I remember right. He was young but a machine.
pt109, who are you? you can PM me if you feel more comfortable. My name is Dave Gross. I moved from Detroit in 1976.
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Just wondering what dug this up from the depths.
A little side note, I showed the boys the game a few days back, I told them we would play 10-1, they got 4. The end rail bank the 9 year old played made me weak in the knees, the little bugger..
A little side note, I showed the boys the game a few days back, I told them we would play 10-1, they got 4. The end rail bank the 9 year old played made me weak in the knees, the little bugger..