Pool or pocket billiards a matter of perspective
After sitting at my local pool room and listening to two gentlemen debate whether they play pool or pocket billiards, I got to thinking about this wonderful game we play and the meaning behind these names and how they relate to the game.
If I asked you what the goal of any pool game is I would get a wide range of answers from, to win, to pocket balls, to get another shot. I submit to you that the true goal of pool be it eight ball, nine ball, one pocket, straight pool, or one of the many other games played on pocketed or pocket less tables is to carom the cue ball off the object ball to a desired location, resulting in the ball you caromed off of being pocketed, played safe, or played to an advantageous position. As you are caroming or billiarding the cue ball to a desired location on a pocketed table, I think the term pocket billiards is as much an appropriate name for our game as its slang cousin pool.
So then the stated goal of pocket billiards/pool is to carom the cue ball of an object ball to a desired location resulting in pocketing the object ball and having position on the next carom or playing a safety. I see this as the difference between just running a rack or perfectly executing each shot one at a time resulting in running a rack.
It is a matter of perspective.
Bern
Happy New Year to all, may 08 bring you everything you desire and work hard to achieve
After sitting at my local pool room and listening to two gentlemen debate whether they play pool or pocket billiards, I got to thinking about this wonderful game we play and the meaning behind these names and how they relate to the game.
If I asked you what the goal of any pool game is I would get a wide range of answers from, to win, to pocket balls, to get another shot. I submit to you that the true goal of pool be it eight ball, nine ball, one pocket, straight pool, or one of the many other games played on pocketed or pocket less tables is to carom the cue ball off the object ball to a desired location, resulting in the ball you caromed off of being pocketed, played safe, or played to an advantageous position. As you are caroming or billiarding the cue ball to a desired location on a pocketed table, I think the term pocket billiards is as much an appropriate name for our game as its slang cousin pool.
So then the stated goal of pocket billiards/pool is to carom the cue ball of an object ball to a desired location resulting in pocketing the object ball and having position on the next carom or playing a safety. I see this as the difference between just running a rack or perfectly executing each shot one at a time resulting in running a rack.
It is a matter of perspective.
Bern
Happy New Year to all, may 08 bring you everything you desire and work hard to achieve
