What carom table is this?
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Moe Szyslak
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What a tiny table
So everybody is the red ball, you get one point for hitting two balls, and ten points for hitting three..?
So everybody is the red ball, you get one point for hitting two balls, and ten points for hitting three..?
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Why don't they shoot with the white?
How can they share the came cb?
Madness.
How can they share the came cb?
Madness.
Moe Szyslak
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There's a red ball and a blue ball on the table, and everybody uses the red ball as the cue ball, and they put the players' scores in red and blue wtf?
And they don't look particularly good?
Dude missed a pretty easy follow shot at one point?
Dude missed a pretty easy follow shot at one point?
I know a lot of carom games and i have no idea wth is going on here haha.
It's four ball straight rail on a small table played very badly. As mentioned, 10 points for all three.
Why not use the red for the common cue ball? There is no safety play involved. There seems to be no chalk.
This is probably how most four-ball billiards looked back before they took the pockets off the table. Averages around 2 or 3, and no concept of position play or nursing. Hit it hard to give yourself several ways to score.
Why not use the red for the common cue ball? There is no safety play involved. There seems to be no chalk.
This is probably how most four-ball billiards looked back before they took the pockets off the table. Averages around 2 or 3, and no concept of position play or nursing. Hit it hard to give yourself several ways to score.
Moe Szyslak
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I found this got brought up before
I hadn't even noticed the no chalk. It's weird, since they are using spin. That can't be a 7 foot table, though, right? That looks like 6.
I hadn't even noticed the no chalk. It's weird, since they are using spin. That can't be a 7 foot table, though, right? That looks like 6.
In the first new video, they do use chalk, but still no concept of position play. Average straight rail players would have all four balls in a corner in a few shots.I found this got brought up before
I hadn't even noticed the no chalk. It's weird, since they are using spin. That can't be a 7 foot table, though, right? That looks like 6.
I think there is video of Caudron playing 3C on a six-foot (or whatever the metric equivalent is). Kisses can be a problem.
I find the table more fascinating than the game.
I think there's a video of Caudron running like 32 or 33 3c points on a 6' table. lol
Sounds easy for him but think about trying to miss the kisses.
Moe Szyslak
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Hell, I think I could do it it under ten on such a tiny table. These guys are terrible. Unless there is some subtlety of strategy I'm missing, it seems like more than a few times they get close to putting the balls in the corner and then they just blast off with some hard shot and the balls go rocketing around.
With ready access to videos of average players running dozens on match tables, you gotta wonder what's going on. Is this a kind of European APA?
Moe Szyslak
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From the freaking cacophony in the background I think it's just in some bar. It's always the one table. I think it's a "tournament" like you have a yearly thing with the guys in the bar.
This guy seemed to have the idea, he brings the balls back to the corner, he was so close, and then just pisses it away and then just hammers the balls
This guy seemed to have the idea, he brings the balls back to the corner, he was so close, and then just pisses it away and then just hammers the balls
Moe Szyslak
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Like right here - couldn't you hit a little high left on the white, drive it to the corner and just graze the blue ball and then you'll be downtable of all three balls in the corner?
Moe Szyslak
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They just had another "tournament" a few hours ago. Krbecek won with 600 points in 2 hours. Some truly baffling shot choices. It's weird how they never tap the balls lightly when they have them together and score a series. They do one or two points and then hammer the balls around the table.
A halfway decent balkline player can make 600 points in that game if he's drunk and has his left wrist cuffed to his right ankle.
Moe Szyslak
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From reading the comments, on top of the 2 balls = 1 point, 3 balls = 10 rules, apparently if you shoot rail first you double the points.
This is Caudron on what must be a 6' table. Looks like what they're playing on.
This is Caudron on what must be a 6' table. Looks like what they're playing on.
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