"Ten Twenty" straight pool tv show: rule book and bring it back?

[christopheradam]

Anyone have a rule book or a web site that has the information for the game Ten Twenty. It is a straight pool like game that was a tv show. Basically it had like 8 innings and the person could run 10 max each half inning and run 20 on the last inning. I know a rule book was being sold when the tv show was running.

I think it would be great if something like that was playing on tv now instead of the current trend of made for tv pool shows. Would love to see Thorsten Hohmann and Thomas Engert going at it head to head in a game like this.

 

[StraightPoolIU]

Sounds a lot like Equal Offense, but somewhat more lame.

 

[walt]

I don't have a rule book but the owner of a poolroom I used to play in had tapes of the show for rent. As I remember the only departure from straight pool rules are the run limitations you mentioned.

Just to clarify, the players were not allowed to run 10 and then shoot safe on the next shot, they would try to pocket the 10th ball and leave the cue ball safe for their opponent, like a "2-way" shot. In the first rack this usually meant parking the cue ball on the head rail.