What do you feel is the toughest pool game to master, and why
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1 Pocket Ghost said:
I completely agree with this. I can run a lot of balls in 14.1 - but 1- pocket... no chance. Too much strategy involved - you are constantly playing defense offensively and vice versa, you really need to know how to move and hide and come with some creative shotmaking.
In 14.1 you try to keep everything simple, and you always have 6 pocket options.
Night and day if you ask me, and nothing will prepare you for 1 pocket - except practicing it until your fingers bleed.
Blackjack said:
Yeah, my fingers are all scarred..........
Blackjack said:
I never played much 1 pocket until 2001. Once I started, I couldn't get enough of it and was a fair 9-ball player who thought he knew a little bit about playing pool.
I am no champ by any means, but, I can play a little and can't believe what I've learned about pool since starting to play the game.
Just one simple shot of shooting balls away from the end rail and killing the cue ball right there, I've seen drive some pretty good players nuts. Then the KISS rule comes into play a whole lot in this game too.
So it seems the concensus is 1 pocket.
which is the toughest to master? meaning being able to compete at a certain level and get out successful? One pocket for sure. So many moves, strategies and techniques required to beat an opponent, one should be really smart on top of playing good, and have enough creativity and imagination.
Straight pool gets my second vote though it is just about patterns compared to other games (required pocketing ability is the same. btw in 1p you have to make bank shots good enough, rarely can be seen in a good 14.1 game).
Straight pool gets my second vote though it is just about patterns compared to other games (required pocketing ability is the same. btw in 1p you have to make bank shots good enough, rarely can be seen in a good 14.1 game).
In my opinion Straight pool and I don't know if anyone has mentioned 3 cushion billiards. The beauty of straight pool is that it is the basis of all games with the exepton of the break like in nine ball. It provides you patterning, confidence in running balls, positioning and probably the most overlooked aspect...of how balls react out of clusters and where they are going to be after you plow into them. I learned the game from straight pool and when my game sucks as it happens more often as I get older, I always retreat back to 14.1.
Straight pool gives me the biggest fits.
perfectpocketz
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One pocket
One Pocket is by far the hardest game to master. Players pick up the game of 9-ball in a short time. One pocket has every game put all in one. That is why the game is so difficult to master. To become a great one pocket player you first must understand all pool related games. Banks,Straight Pool,9-Ball all rolled in to one. That's why you don't start playing even just good one pocket for years.
Players at a young age dislike the game for years.
When you fully understand the game, after years of frustration, then and only then you will know just how truly hard the game of one pocket is to master.
You will understand that one pocket is a combination of every pool game in the world.
Mark Gregory
One Pocket is by far the hardest game to master. Players pick up the game of 9-ball in a short time. One pocket has every game put all in one. That is why the game is so difficult to master. To become a great one pocket player you first must understand all pool related games. Banks,Straight Pool,9-Ball all rolled in to one. That's why you don't start playing even just good one pocket for years.
Players at a young age dislike the game for years.
When you fully understand the game, after years of frustration, then and only then you will know just how truly hard the game of one pocket is to master.
You will understand that one pocket is a combination of every pool game in the world.
Mark Gregory
i've read a lot of responses here that said one pocket's the hardest game and i have to disagree. i think straight pool is much harder than one pocket.
one pocket is only has hard on you as the other guy makes it while straight pool is as hard as he makes it and as hard as you make it on yourself
one pocket is only has hard on you as the other guy makes it while straight pool is as hard as he makes it and as hard as you make it on yourself
perfectpocketz said:
I agree with what you said but would like to add the following thoughts to your post, I dont think 1P can ever be mastered, like chess there is awalys a way to play it stronger, mastering a game to me means you have 100% control and knowlege of everything about the game, which isnt possible in 1p or chess, you never get total control of the game there is awalys something to learn. So 1P cant be mastered in that defination of the word mastered. Its is the best action game on a pol table period and the most boaring to watch unless you have something bet on it. my 3 cents
perfectpocketz
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Fatboy
You are right, no one person will ever master any pool game but, when i was gambling with efren playing one pocket it sure felt as if he had mastered it that night.
Fatboy if you have run 8-n-out then, how in the world can you not run 50 balls playing straight pool?
To run 8-n-out you must play very good position.
I think if you concentrate harder you will run 50 balls!!!!!
( I'LL BET YOU CAN )
Mark Gregory
You are right, no one person will ever master any pool game but, when i was gambling with efren playing one pocket it sure felt as if he had mastered it that night.
Fatboy if you have run 8-n-out then, how in the world can you not run 50 balls playing straight pool?
To run 8-n-out you must play very good position.
I think if you concentrate harder you will run 50 balls!!!!!
( I'LL BET YOU CAN )
Mark Gregory
i agree that one pocket is as tough as it gets because of all the strategy and creative shotmaking/strategy involved, plus its just not a runout game by nature, but what really shocks me is how no one has mentioned bank pool. there's a TON of strategy in banks if you play w/ someone knows what they're doing, and it can be just as frustrating as one pocket if you're playing an experieced player who knows how to freeze balls and lay out good safety's. on top of that, it can be just as, if not MORE difficult to string together banks than go 8 n out, much less make a good run in straight pool. just my .02.