Pyramid Pool ?

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Scrolling through Charles Ursitti's "History of Pool" website, I was able to understand most of the game formats used in world championships. I knew 61up referenced 15 ball rotation and most of the tournaments past 1914 were 14:1. There were two pieces of information that I didn't understand. One was a difference noted between Continuous Pool and 14:1. Second a game named in the 1882 tournament called Pyramid 8-ball and later (1888) referred to as just plain Pyramid Pool. Can anyone enlighten me ?
 
1ab said:
Scrolling through Charles Ursitti's "History of Pool" website, I was able to understand most of the game formats used in world championships. I knew 61up referenced 15 ball rotation and most of the tournaments past 1914 were 14:1. There were two pieces of information that I didn't understand. One was a difference noted between Continuous Pool and 14:1. Second a game named in the 1882 tournament called Pyramid 8-ball and later (1888) referred to as just plain Pyramid Pool. Can anyone enlighten me ?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Pyramid+Pool
 
Thank you...That clears one part of it, but what difference could be between continuous pool and 14:1 ?
 
SlickRick_PCS said:
How did you do that? :)
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1ab said:
Thank you...That clears one part of it, but what difference could be between continuous pool and 14:1 ?
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Continuous pool was the championship game before Jerome Keogh invented 14.1 continuous. Prior to that 15 ball was the championship game. 15 Ball had been played like rotation (61 pool) but then went to 1 point per ball up to a certain amount of points. Players would run out the rack then re-rack all 15 balls and hit a break shot. If they made something they got to continue - continuous pool. The luck factor of these break shots led Keogh to invent the idea of leaving the last ball out for a break shot, thus inventing 14.1 continuous.
 
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