Straight Pool, aka 14/1
One Pocket
9 Ball
8 Ball
10 Ball
Bank Pool
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One Pocket
9 Ball
8 Ball
10 Ball
Bank Pool
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What do you feel is the toughest pool game to master, and why
- Thread starter CocoboloCowboy
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I think 1 Pocket is. It seems to have alot of theory and ideas behind it to master. If you play chess, then the Sicilian Najdorf can come to mind to relate to it. Other than that I guess Straight Pool.
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For me
I agree one pocket is the toughest game due to all of the strategy involved. In addition if you play it too long or too often and don't play the others games in the mix it will cause you to lose your stroke and ball pocketing skills, at least that's what happens to me.
Kevin
I agree one pocket is the toughest game due to all of the strategy involved. In addition if you play it too long or too often and don't play the others games in the mix it will cause you to lose your stroke and ball pocketing skills, at least that's what happens to me.
Kevin
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I havent played much 1 pocket (yet), but of the ones you list straight pool gives me absolute fits, yeah pocketing balls is easy but GD setting up the break ball and executing it is madening. 8ball would be a landslide "easiest" IMO.
Beware_of_Dawg said:
Sheeat! Any ball, any pocket? How hard can it be?!!?
straight pool and ten ball.
to excel in long races at those games you've got to be damn good.
to excel in long races at those games you've got to be damn good.
1 pocket and rotation are the two pocket billiards games that show me I know nothing about pocket billiards.
With a rail in the way!
IMHO:
Bank pool - there is a rail in between you and the hole!!!
Straight pool - can run a coulple of racks, learned on a variation of
this game.
1 Pocket - have not played much, the strategy is overwhelming, but very
intreguing.
8-Ball - Lot's of strategy, but can run a few racks.
9-Ball - Just runout, can run a few racks.
10-ball - Never played.
IMHO:
Bank pool - there is a rail in between you and the hole!!!
Straight pool - can run a coulple of racks, learned on a variation of
this game.
1 Pocket - have not played much, the strategy is overwhelming, but very
intreguing.
8-Ball - Lot's of strategy, but can run a few racks.
9-Ball - Just runout, can run a few racks.
10-ball - Never played.
mullyman said:
No offense/disrespect Mully, and I've seen what you said, said before by straightpool fans, but it's 1,000% incorrect where One Pocket is concerned.........An excellent straight pool player who has never played One Pocket would not be 'all set' for One Pocket - clueless would be more like it....because there's so much strategy, and so many shots that are only used in One Pocket, it would take him years to learn the game.......ps, and he would certainly not be 'all set' for bank pool either.
mullyman said:
I used to agree with you about straight pool, but watching Joe Tucker's instructional tapes he has changed my mind. The conventional wisdom that says straight pool is the game to master before all others, to me, isn't true anymore. Like Tucker says one should learn rotation games to practice and get good and moving the cue ball around the table at greater lengths. With straight pool you have a lot of short shots therefore it wont prepare you for rotation games, but if you can play 9, 10, or, rotation, you can more quickly pick straight pool up. And Russian Billiards is the hardest pocket billiards game.
one pocket then straight pool
9/10 ball pattern play is nothing compared to straight pool, though the shots can be harder. what does make it better is the safety plays, there is generally more of it, but straight pool is all about precision and consistancy.
rotation is too much luck.
9/10 ball pattern play is nothing compared to straight pool, though the shots can be harder. what does make it better is the safety plays, there is generally more of it, but straight pool is all about precision and consistancy.
rotation is too much luck.
Obviously, because the range of shots that you have to play well is far larger in one pocket than in the other games. When was the last time you saw someone have to choose between the three-cushion and the five-cushion bank shot at nine ball or super-spin the cue ball to the back of a ball at bank pool?CocoboloCowboy said:
Maybe the average shot is harder at some of the other games, but I don't think any of them has as much variety.
Straight, because of the repeated pack opening.
One pocket because of all the options and the defensive aspect of it.
Russian Billiards Is The Hardest Pocket Billiard Game In The World. ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE.