Pea Pool

Ralph Kramden

Ralph Kramden

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Pea Pool with 2 or 3 players? Rack and play with 10 balls.

Rack the 1 in front. The 2 & 3 balls on the corners. The 10 in the center.

Only use pea numbers 1 through 9. Each player has a secret ball number.

The 10 ball is wild and has no pea number.

You win by either pocketing your own ball or the 10 ball.


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Do you have any other games using the shake bottle?
 
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We play useing the whole rack and 15 peas each player(from 2-? players) gets a pea. play rotation you pay when someone makes your ball,
if someone makes their own ball everyone pays them and round ends. We also pay money for scratches or bad hits that goes into a kitty and is paid to the next person that makes his own ball. Good game for 3-7 players.
 
More Pea Pool

Another variation. Full rack any order. Everyone pulls one pea out of the bottle. Keep the number to yourself. Shoot until you pocket your ball. If another player makes your ball, redraw a new one from the bottle. Here's the catch. You can shoot balls in any order, however you always have to hit the object ball that is closest to the cue ball. Makes for some interesting position play. Great game for a group.
 
One popular game is called "31" and played by multiple players.
Each player draws a pea and it is kept secret. The object is to play the balls in rotation. The ball value is added to your pea. You want to pocket balls and add their value to your pea number to get to 31 or as close to it without going over as possible. If you go over, you busted and are out of the game. Next player now shoots.

Let's say that you get to a count of 29 and cannot take the next lowest ball on the table without going over 31 then you declare that you're shooting for the next player in turn. What ever you make goes to his count until he cannot take the next ball without busting. At this point you two compare your count. If he has 31 he wins the game, if he gets 30 you're out and he continues to shoot for the next guy in turn. If you're tied then he is out and you shoot for the next person. This continues until either someone gets 31 or no one can take any more balls without busting.

A strategy used is to make a ball early to total 15 or 16 with your pea since in rotation 15 come up naturally. Like pocketing the 1,2,3,4,5=15 and 4,5,6,=15 and 7,8=15. Drawing the 15 or 16 pill would be good fortune. (best to check that all the pills are in the bottle before a new game starts). In the course of the game you want to conceal what you're trying to make so that you do not give away what pill you have. This will come in handy when someone is shooting for you, they may wind up pocketing the ball you need to win the game.
 
Short explanation on how we play it....

Rack all 15.

3 players, each pulls 5 peas from the bottle.

4 players, each pulls 4 peas, peas 1-16 are used. The one ball becomes #16 and is spotted immediately after being pocketed.

Balls are pocketed in rotation, safes allowed, 3 foul rule in effect, at the start of your inning, you can push out 2 times, on the third push or foul, you pay everyone.

You get paid by everyone if you pocket one of your balls, you get paid by only one person if you pocket their ball.

Who ever sells out pays everyone also!

Real fun game!!
 
Quatsch83 said:
Why is it called a pea? Are peas just papers with numbers written on them?
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The peas (or pills) are small round balls, each one with a flat side, that are numbered 1 through 16.

The peas are shaken in a leather (or plastic) bottle with a small end that allows 1 pea at a time to exit.

Whatever number pea you pull is your ball number and kept secret until pocketed.

We usually pull 2 peas, keeping one private and showing the second one to determine the batting order for each player.
 
ceebee said:
So exactly how does one "sell out"?
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When he says, "sell out" I think he means a player who doesn't show his pea number to any other player that pocketed his ball.

If his ball is pocketed by another player and he doesn't declare it, he not only pays that player, but has to pay all players in the game.
 
I haven't heard those rules....

I'd like to see the game of "Kelly Pool" on TV, with a TWIST. Have the audience interfaced with the players by allowing paramutual gambling on each match. It would be like having 6 race horses running for a finish line, the kick would be this... the finish line can be anywhere on the track, because the finish lines are numbered (i.e Kelly Pool Rules, the player who makes his ball first is considred the winner & is paid by all players)

In the event that a player doesn't make his/her ball, the player to make the last ball gets the Break Off. There are other rules to be used & modified, the idea is to take the game & share the gambling interests with the railbirds or the audience.
 
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