Pool tournament/winners choice/8-Ball or 9-ball / you call the game!
This Tuesday I was in Texarkana, AR. Roadie-ing around and at Shooters the tournamnet was best 2 out of 3 winner of the flip calls the game 8-ball or 9-ball, it was alternate breaks/ so the next rack was 8-ball or 9-ball / you call it/ the last game was the same.
It was a very unusual format, but it was very entertaining and was cause for much strategy.
Say you win the flip you call the game/ next game incoming breaker calls the game / then third game if need be / you call it again, winner of the flip had a great advantage.........well my reasoning for the first game was to play 8-ball if I won the flip, I would rather my opponent run 8 balls rather than break in the 9 and win off the break in 9-ball.
If I won the flip and won the 8-ball game my second game of choice would be 9-ball, because I could then make the 9 on the break and game over.
I pretty much had all my opponents playing 8-ball, where as the weaker players played 9-ball trying for the break win, sound reasoning.
It was different, never played a tournament like that, but I figured it out right quick what the best strategy should be.
I lost my first match, then won 7 matches straight, only to lose the last match, I made the 9-ball hill/hill and scratched
....oh well /had much fun, also had a draw for a break and run 10 ball rack among the players in the tournament/ carie-okie was going but I never heard the first song sang, I was so into the tournament, tuesday nights is free pool all day /night long.
Shooters is a very nice poolroom in Texarkana, never seen so many TV's, even gotum in the restroom, and the largest big screen I have ever seen , must be a 30 by 50, I kid you not!, or larger?
I just thought I would mention the format of this tournament, it is something different and yet entertaining with strategy in mind.
David Harcrow
This Tuesday I was in Texarkana, AR. Roadie-ing around and at Shooters the tournamnet was best 2 out of 3 winner of the flip calls the game 8-ball or 9-ball, it was alternate breaks/ so the next rack was 8-ball or 9-ball / you call it/ the last game was the same.
It was a very unusual format, but it was very entertaining and was cause for much strategy.
Say you win the flip you call the game/ next game incoming breaker calls the game / then third game if need be / you call it again, winner of the flip had a great advantage.........well my reasoning for the first game was to play 8-ball if I won the flip, I would rather my opponent run 8 balls rather than break in the 9 and win off the break in 9-ball.
If I won the flip and won the 8-ball game my second game of choice would be 9-ball, because I could then make the 9 on the break and game over.
I pretty much had all my opponents playing 8-ball, where as the weaker players played 9-ball trying for the break win, sound reasoning.
It was different, never played a tournament like that, but I figured it out right quick what the best strategy should be.
I lost my first match, then won 7 matches straight, only to lose the last match, I made the 9-ball hill/hill and scratched
....oh well /had much fun, also had a draw for a break and run 10 ball rack among the players in the tournament/ carie-okie was going but I never heard the first song sang, I was so into the tournament, tuesday nights is free pool all day /night long.Shooters is a very nice poolroom in Texarkana, never seen so many TV's, even gotum in the restroom, and the largest big screen I have ever seen , must be a 30 by 50, I kid you not!, or larger?
I just thought I would mention the format of this tournament, it is something different and yet entertaining with strategy in mind.
David Harcrow