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Since I cannot understand the language if anything is amiss, oh well.. I just found this and thought it was worth a few minutes of time. Perhaps Jay Helfert or one of our Philippine members can help explain this. It sure looks very interesting!!!


Below is another one that is live streaming as I type this::

 
Can’t figure out for certain what the game
Is but damn that looks fun!


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They were all having so much fun was what got my interest. No worries about racking or cleaning the cue ball either.. Money on the rail every game!! The live stream quality was excellent. We can all learn something from these guys...
 
I love these matches. The closest I can find to what it is called is "Brasil Sinuca." I think sinuca translates as "snooker" but it's a catch all term. Like how pool can include the various games we play. There are a few game types, this 3 ball being one type. I think the object of the game is to pot the last ball. It results in a lot of safety play, and the pockets are tight enough that the ball often needs forced in at many angles. Really fun games to watch, lots of money on the line, and there are a lot of them on youtube.

Apparently part of their colonial era introduced snooker tables, but these are an adaptation made locally. I've heard the tables are all over, like in every corner bar and shops.
 
Tables look extremely tight and soooo slow. Brutal. It reminds me a bit of pyramid, the way you have to smash the shots in, because the pockets don't take the ball when you roll it. Looks like you also have to hit the corners on the diagonal, and the pockets probably won't take shots along the rails. The slowness of the cloth and it probably having nap, the rolling of balls is probably not adviced, anyway. It looks like the worst kind of cloth used for English pool tables. Let me tell you, that cloth is absolutely BRUTAL to play on. It's impossible to really play good pool on it, in my opinion. Any kind of spin gets eaten up before you reach rails. To get the spin to take you need to hit balls very hard and drawing from long distance with the kind of balls they are using here has got to be very challenging, if not impossible. I will say, playing on this cloth will make you better at simple patterns, because forcing anything is very difficult. Unfortunately, it also tends to make you raise up on shots, drop the elbow etc to get enough power. The raised pocket castings looks to be damaging on any level cue...This video gives a good view of the pockets.

From watching, I can tell that you don't need to contact a rail for a legal shot. It also looks like position takes a back seat to cinching the balls, but sometimes they do appear to be trying to break balls off the rails etc. With all due respect, these players do not look like elite caliber, so it's hard to tell what the optimal strategy of the game is.
 
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I really thought I had seen it all in pool.. Guess my 55 plus years should have included some international pool.. Things are way, way different in other places.. Nothing wrong with that as shown by these videos... The live stream yesterday featured backers, woofers, gamblers and rail birds... I did not see any roosters but I might have missed them!!
 
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I really thought I had seen it all in pool.. Guess my 55 plus years should have included some international pool.. Things are way, way different in other places.. Nothing wrong with that as shown by these videos... The live stream yesterday featured backers, woofers, gamblers and rail birds... I did not see any roosters but I might have missed them!!
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Here's a game you may not have seen, I think maybe it's the most exotic game played on a pocket table, though it's mostly a type of bililards:
I'm kind of fascinated by games which have their own "custom" type of table.
 
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Quesports said:

Since I cannot understand the language if anything is amiss, oh well.. I just found this and thought it was worth a few minutes of time. Perhaps Jay Helfert or one of our Philippine members can help explain this. It sure looks very interesting!!!


Below is another one that is live streaming as I type this::

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This reminds me of some videos from South America that were posted here a year or two ago that I was hoping to come across again. My memory is a little fuzzy on them but the tables and setting were similar as I recall. What I remember most is that they were firing in spot shots or something similar at 100 mph over and over on those tough tables and some of the guys in them could shoot real straight. It might have been the opening shot to the game or something similar because the shot would come up repeatedly.

I know it isn't a lot to go on but not very many pool videos from South America ever get posted either so that should make it easier and it might have been the last ones from there that were posted here. Can anybody point me to those videos or the thread?
 
this is "Sinuca", "Sinuca Brasileira" or "Brazilian Snooker. Here
is Steve Davis playing it.

"Sinuca" is indeed a catch all term for different variants of pool played in Brazil. I'm no expert but did play pool occasionally many moons ago at a club called "Big Small" in Sao Paulo - big balls, small pockets and as someone already said you have to hit the balls hard like in pyramid.
 
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