what are the rules to bank pool anyway?

scottycoyote

scottycoyote

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
we never play bankpool here, most people here have never even heard of it but it would be something fun to try time to time. So whats the deal, i saw a little bit of a match i downloaded off of dc++, they broke a 9ball rack, and then basically banking any ball you want, no order, just have to call it and it be a bank. Then it seems like the guy shot a shot straight in, and spotted it, do you keep shooting? Someone give me the lowdown.
 
scottycoyote said:
we never play bankpool here, most people here have never even heard of it but it would be something fun to try time to time. So whats the deal, i saw a little bit of a match i downloaded off of dc++, they broke a 9ball rack, and then basically banking any ball you want, no order, just have to call it and it be a bank. Then it seems like the guy shot a shot straight in, and spotted it, do you keep shooting? Someone give me the lowdown.
Click to expand...

Yes, that's basically it. It can be a short rack (9ball) or full rack (15 balls) and you can handicap it by having the weaker player need less banks to win. Any ball put in other than the ball/pocket called spots up. (Sometimes balls are pocketed for strategy and to leave safe and to put balls back into play by putting them down on the spot, sort of like 1-pocket.) Kicking in a ball does not count. Obvious 1 banks are usually not called, but it always helps to clarify anyway.
 
rackmsuckr said:
Yes, that's basically it. It can be a short rack (9ball) or full rack (15 balls) and you can handicap it by having the weaker player need less banks to win. Any ball put in other than the ball/pocket called spots up. (Sometimes balls are pocketed for strategy and to leave safe and to put balls back into play by putting them down on the spot, sort of like 1-pocket.) Kicking in a ball does not count. Obvious 1 banks are usually not called, but it always helps to clarify anyway.
Click to expand...

The banked balls have to go cleanly into the called pocket. If the object ball happens to carom off of another ball during the shot, the ball is re-spotted regardless if it goes into the called pocket or not.
 
scottycoyote said:
we never play bankpool here, most people here have never even heard of it but it would be something fun to try time to time. So whats the deal, i saw a little bit of a match i downloaded off of dc++, they broke a 9ball rack, and then basically banking any ball you want, no order, just have to call it and it be a bank. Then it seems like the guy shot a shot straight in, and spotted it, do you keep shooting? Someone give me the lowdown.
Click to expand...

No, I don't believe merely pocketing a ball keeps you at the table, except the break. The break is open. After you are done shooting if you pocket a ball on the break, all balls made on the break are then sptted. A scratch costs you a ball, it gets spotted, plus any balls made on the scratch shot.

I THINK this is right, and didn't already see it listed.

Kelly
 
if you make a shot that isnt a bank but its on purpose..........do you continue to shoot or lose your turn like 1 pocket?
 
vader93490 said:
The banked balls have to go cleanly into the called pocket. If the object ball happens to carom off of another ball during the shot, the ball is re-spotted regardless if it goes into the called pocket or not.
Click to expand...

Can you call a carom? Like glancing off a ball partial blocking the pocket?
 
stolz2 said:
No, the balls must be pocketed clean.

Mack
Click to expand...

Alot is involved when banking at speed, and speed of cue ball. So if you miss you can get safe and not sell out.

Trying playing its a blast.

Mack
 
scottycoyote said:
we never play bankpool here, most people here have never even heard of it but it would be something fun to try time to time. So whats the deal, i saw a little bit of a match i downloaded off of dc++, they broke a 9ball rack, and then basically banking any ball you want, no order, just have to call it and it be a bank. Then it seems like the guy shot a shot straight in, and spotted it, do you keep shooting? Someone give me the lowdown.
Click to expand...

Where are you in SW Virginia? I know first-hand that bank pool is not entirely foreign to that region.

-Andrew
 
im down in martinsville.........im sure theres someone somewhere down here who plays it or played it, but ive never ever seen a bankpool game going on, for money or for fun, so its foreign enough lol
 
scottycoyote said:
im down in martinsville.........im sure theres someone somewhere down here who plays it or played it, but ive never ever seen a bankpool game going on, for money or for fun, so its foreign enough lol
Click to expand...

Martinsville's sort of an in-between area, I guess I'd just call it Southern VA. When your profile said "sw virginia" I was thinking of up in the mountains over by Kentucky and Tennessee, places like Gate City, Norton, Big Stone Gap. I know there's some bank pool that used to be played in that area. Although I don't think the pool culture there is quite the same as it was when the stories I've heard were taking place.

-Andrew
 
yeah we are kind of in the middle, danville is called southside virginia, roanoke and martinsville are considered southwest, but yeah usually you think of bristol, damascus, out near the ky, tn border. But we count toooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!! lol
 
scottycoyote said:
if you make a shot that isnt a bank but its on purpose..........do you continue to shoot or lose your turn like 1 pocket?
Click to expand...

No. This is bank pool. Legal shots must be banked for you to continue.

No kisses, no caroms, no combinations.

There are regional differences, but there isn't anything in the BCA rulebook that prevents someone from a calling a kick shot that banks the object ball cleanly. That being said, games like One Pocket and Bank Pool aren't well covered in the BCA book, so go with your regional rules.

Fred
 
Standard bank pool does not allow kick shots,etc... but if you happen to watch some of the bank pool ring games from DCC, they allowed three rail kick shots to count as a bank. This is not the "official" way to play bank pool though.

Buy Jason Millers' dvd from accu-stats from 2004 if you want to see banks as played by the best. He plays Piggy Banks and John Brumback, two other awesome bankers, and gives a clinic on pure offensive short rack bank pool.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top