One pocket
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I would rather watch one pocket than any other game. When two high level players are playing each other, I find little else in life as compelling.
kollegedave
10 balls?
One-pocket with 9 balls is a good game.
One-eyed Jesse from Detroit showed me a great break for this game.
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It's just an odd break with 9 balls, I know the break, scratch that, I believe I know the break you are talking about.
10 balls leaves the formation just like a normal 15 ball rack, and you can do 1 of 3 breaks that make the game incredibly fun and fast paced.
10 balls leaves the formation just like a normal 15 ball rack, and you can do 1 of 3 breaks that make the game incredibly fun and fast paced.
aaaaaand, now because of this thread I'm watching 1 pocket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3iTwhVF3yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3iTwhVF3yo
I would much rather watch 1p than watch NASCAR.
You have to understand the game of one pocket to appreciate it. Theres an opening, mid, and end game to it. Each requires different strategies and approaches. Its a very in depth game and to the casual observer, it looks like they're pushing balls around playing nothing but safeties. I didn't appreciate and understand one pocket until I read ''Winning One Pocket'' by Eddie Robin. I highly recommend the book.
I don't think that helps to sell the game.
Jeff Livingston
Could you tell me another game that is more popular than soccer?
And, like one-pocket, kicking is an important skill...
...and you get to use you head once in a while.
The only team sport I ever liked.
Non-soccer?
Nothing better than watching your kid stand in a field for two hours.
Makes me wanna go play some 1-Pocket.
Jeff Livingston
If god had wanted man to play one pocket, he'd have made tables with only one pocket.
Jeff Livingston
Rumor is .... in the beginning he did, but then he wanted me to scratch more, so he added more pockets.
Straight pool is my favorite game by a very slim margin to one pocket, but I'd far rather watch 1 pkt than straight pool for any length of time.
Now.... 9 and 10 ball? Geeezuss, those are redundant monotonous games. Ironically, perhaps the most creative part of those games are the safety aspects of them. The very thing most don't enjoy about 1 hole. Go figure.
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Actually, according to George Fels, there used to be 5 x 10s with only two pockets at the foot of the table.
Actually, according to George Fels, there used to be 5 x 10s with only two pockets at the foot of the table.
Joplin, Missouri had two of them...very different thinking in that game.
Actually, according to George Fels, there used to be 5 x 10s with only two pockets at the foot of the table.
Was that in the current issue of BD? I think I saw that somewhere.
OK, so one pocket players can count to two.....but it that takes a day away from playing the game.
OOps, wrong thread.
Jeff Livingston
If you are talking about two guys in the pool room who don't know what they are doing ad every ball end up up the table then Yes.
If they are some of the new bread of players who are aggressive and creative and will shoot, there is nothing better.
To each his own. Me, I find the rotation games very boring. They guy doesn't get good on the next shot, there is no chance taken in the way of making a difficult shot, just another safety. Excecuting safties takes skill no doubt about it, but still boring IMO.