Ring Game rules

[shaggybahama]

If someone can share the rules for a ring game, it will be much appreciated.

 

[garczar]

If someone can share the rules for a ring game, it will be much appreciated.

9-Ball Ring Game Rules

While the rules for 9-ball ring games no doubt vary somewhat from pool hall to pool hall, I have a couple of basic rule questions that came up during a ring game I was playing in a few nights ago. Question #1 In a 9/5 ring game, when both the...

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[DynoDan]

A lot of strange rule twists in that thread.
Anyplace ‘I’ ever played: 9 is racked in the middle, 5 in back. Any money ball made out of rotation is immediately spotted, and shooter paid (if he forgets to collect before shooting again, too bad). BTW: If a player reminds him, then THAT player pays for everyone else! Every player has the option to make the player he follows shoot again.
Couldn’t be simpler.

 

[middleofnowhere]

A lot of strange rule twists in that thread.
Anyplace ‘I’ ever played: 9 is racked in the middle, 5 in back. Any money ball made out of rotation is immediately spotted, and shooter paid (if he forgets to collect before shooting again, too bad). BTW: If a player reminds him, then THAT player pays for everyone else! Every player has the option to make the player he follows shoot again.
Couldn’t be simpler.

A player never forgets to collect. As soon as the money ball is made the players throw the money on the table. You don't beg for your money.

 

[DynoDan]

A player never forgets to collect. As soon as the money ball is made the players throw the money on the table. You don't beg for your money.

It’s happened. After standing around and only paying for numerous racks, until finally your turn comes up on a dead combo, AND then seeing the money ball you just made spotted up for another dead combo, excitable young players will sometimes shoot again before the money hits the table (don’t ask how I know).

 

[DynoDan]

A lot of strange rule twists in that thread.
Anyplace ‘I’ ever played: 9 is racked in the middle, 5 in back. Any money ball made out of rotation is immediately spotted, and shooter paid (if he forgets to collect before shooting again, too bad). BTW: If a player reminds him, then THAT player pays for everyone else! Every player has the option to make the player he follows shoot again.
Couldn’t be simpler.

P.S. I should probably add, that while players usually draw peas for the initial lineup, and new players are always last in line, it might be a good idea (unless the game is ‘friendly’) to specify in advance an optional ‘reshuffle’ of the order following the breaker in the succeeding rack (to discourage any ‘brother-in-law/funny business’).

 

[pt109]

Any ring game I played in, all money balls were repotted till made in turn.

 

[middleofnowhere]

P.S. I should probably add, that while players usually draw peas for the initial lineup, and new players are always last in line, it might be a good idea (unless the game is ‘friendly’) to specify in advance an optional ‘reshuffle’ of the order following the breaker in the succeeding rack (to discourage any ‘brother-in-law/funny business’).

You have to rotate order every few games. Who you follow can effect how you do. Some players hang balls, some may play two way shots and so on.

 

[DynoDan]

Or, you could always drop out, and rejoin when the order would be more favorable.