Rack your own or opponent racks for you?

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Rack your own or opponent racks for you?

  • Rack your own

    Votes: 41 60.3%

  • Opponent racks

    Votes: 21 30.9%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Doesn't matter either way

    Votes: 6 8.8%
  • Total voters
    68
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a_susie_cue

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What do you prefer in any game? Rack your own or opponent racks for you.
 
I like rack your own. That way there is no one to blame, but me for a lousy break. LOL! It keeps people from thinking their opponent is putting the rack on them. Of course you can always run up against someone who consisitently makes one of the side balls due to them being loose, (that's when you check their racks) but all in all I like the rack your own.
 
Watch the Joe Tucker DVD. Rack your own. Check your opponents or my favourite, spot 9's on the break.
 
I kinda wish there's a "3rd party" or maybe "sardo" option here.
For important games, the fairest rack will be from an impartial 3rd party. If it's not an important game then you just play it the same way as with any buddy on a friday night... whoever isn't breaking gets to rack. When I play with a friend, instead of checking all his racks and being an ass about it I just break normally and if the balls don't move he's a gentleman and reracks, and I do the same for him.
 
It's all mental baby

I like opponent racks(in a winner breaks format) for the simple reason that it's just one more reminder that he/she just lost the last game. :D
 
Rack your own 9/10 ball spots in the bottom corners. 8-ball rack your own. I just can't trust anyone anymore to give me the rack I can give myself..............

Eric.
 
a_susie_cue said:
What do you prefer in any game? Rack your own or opponent racks for you.
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Grady says that the dumbest thing that you can do is let the guy who is trying to beat you, rack your balls for you. Because out of everyone else in the room, he is the one who DEFINITELY doesn't want you to pocket a ball. Makes sense, huh?
 
Like others have said, rack your own. The 9/10 on the break should not count, IMO. Anything else just opens the door for either intentional shadiness or, more often, simple laziness, IMO.

Rack for each other, IMO, is equivalent to...

- Chalk each other's cue in pool
- Tie each other's shoes in basketball
- Tee up each other's ball in golf
- Hold the football for the other team's field goal in football
- ...

I'm sure there are better analogies than I came up with, but I think I made my point. LOL. Even if everyone is assumed to be a great sportsman, it's just human nature that most people will try at least a tiny bit harder for a good rack in rack-your-own.
 
Before watching Joe's DVD, my answer would have been rack my own... so as to avoid a slug rack.

Now I prefer for my opponent to rack... and if I don't have a FBT, I ask for a re-rack. (Those who have bought Joe's DVD will understand what FBT means.)
 
Rack your own. i used to let others do it but there is a guy here in town who is know as Texas rack because thats what you get...:mad:
 
cigardave said:
Before watching Joe's DVD, my answer would have been rack my own... so as to avoid a slug rack.

Now I prefer for my opponent to rack... and if I don't have a FBT, I ask for a re-rack. (Those who have bought Joe's DVD will understand what FBT means.)
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D'oh! I have the book, and I don't know what FBT is. I guess I'll need to check out the DVD. :)
 
While I agree that letting your opponent rerack if the FBT isnt there, there is something fun about being able to seemingly throw the balls together and make the wing ball nearly every time and watching my opponent kill themselves trying to rack the same way desperate to make a ball!

I think it's funny. :D
 
Ah, I remember now what FBT stands for. I always think of it as the L.

But, is it that common for you to actually get the FBT when your opponent racks? I feel like if I asked my opponent to re-rack every time the FBT wasn't there, I'd never get to break. (This says a lot about the equipment I play on I guess.)

Usually, I only ask for a re-rack when the 1-ball isn't touching anything. LOL. Since I've started checking the rack, I have been amazed at how often the 1-ball is frozen to nothing but the cloth, even on good equipment. That's why I think rack your own should be the standard.
 
It doesn't matter to me who racks. With my power all my breaks wind up looking like one pocket breaks.
It never used to be this way but these days I just hope that after I break them my opponant doesn't run out and I get back up to the table again.
 
if we are gonna keep playing 9ball, i kinda like the idea of rack your own and the nine doesnt count on the break. i think if the 9 does go then the player just keeps shooting and the 8 (or whatever is highest) "turns into the 9". but, it seems most people just cant deal with that for some reason.
 
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