What exactly is a 3, 6, 18 pack

Mowem down said:
Is it breaking and running three in a row or just winning 3 racks in a row
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I'm familiar with a 6, 12 and 18 pack or a case. LOL But seriously it is breaking and running those racks in a row. Some may include a first rack where your opponent breaks and comes up dry. Its ok I guess since all balls are on the table. Not to quibble to much about details.

Rod
 
A pack is any amount of games won in a row where their opponent never had even 1 inning at the table.

You could include 9-ball Breaks, Early 9 balls and Table Runs in the calculation.
 
why just break & run?

Running 9 after a dry break by your opponent is considerably harder than breaking , making a couple of balls, and running out. Why would that be given more or at least as much credit as a B&R ?:shrug:
 
Sometimes I chuckle to my self when some guy that I know that has trouble running a simple open rack tells me that he played a match and put a six pack on the other guy. I know that he means that he won six games in a row and didn't really run six racks.

I usually don't say anything. Someone else will eventually educated them. To him winning six games in a row is as big a thing as it is for a top player to actually run six racks.
 
How did they do that?

dabarbr said:
Sometimes I chuckle to my self when some guy that I know that has trouble running a simple open rack tells me that he played a match and put a six pack on the other guy. I know that he means that he won six games in a row and didn't really run six racks.

I usually don't say anything. Someone else will eventually educated them. To him winning six games in a row is as big a thing as it is for a top player to actually run six racks.
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Yeah ! I think it's quite an accomplishment to run 2 racks in a row. I have often wondered why I was so," pool challenged,"( euphemism for BAD.)
that I could not run a 6-pack like everybody else. :sad:
 
Frank-I wasn't clear-

dabarbr said:
Sometimes I chuckle to my self when some guy that I know that has trouble running a simple open rack tells me that he played a match and put a six pack on the other guy. I know that he means that he won six games in a row and didn't really run six racks.

I usually don't say anything. Someone else will eventually educated them. To him winning six games in a row is as big a thing as it is for a top player to actually run six racks.
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I meant I ran 6 balls in a row. The wrong 6.

I'm still happy, that's my high run.

As always, Frank-you responded in a diplomatic way to this gentleman's boast.

I need the opponent to hang 6 money balls for that to happen.

3railkick
 
12310bch said:
Running 9 after a dry break by your opponent is considerably harder than breaking , making a couple of balls, and running out. Why would that be given more or at least as much credit as a B&R ?:shrug:
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It gets as much credit because the question is about wins in one pack and not about break and runs.

To me the question and answer are simple. When your opponent sits down, how many winning beads did you slide over before he got back to the table. That's the package amount. It doesn't having anything to do with B&R's or early 9's. It's about wins in one pack.

If someone want to know how many B&R's in a row you have, then they'll ask that question like that. But that's a different question.

Fred <~~~ IMNSHO
 
A pack is breaking and running multiple racks. If you run another guys rack, play a safe, miss a shot, anything within a game that is not part of a package.

AKA if your opponent breaks dry, you run his rack, and then break and run 4 more racks, you ran a 4-pack, the game off your opponents break does NOT count. If you break and run 2 racks, play a safe in a third game and win, then break and run 3 racks you won 6 games total in a row without a miss but you only ran a 3 pack in that span.
 
Say what? Say what again?

Hmmm! Interesting disagreement between Cornerman and Celtic,aye? Who here can arbitrate? Actually , who here gives a flying fcuk? You win, you win. End of story.:deadhorse:
 
12310bch said:
Hmmm! Interesting disagreement between Cornerman and Celtic,aye?
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Thing is with what Cornerman says a package becomes meaningless because of it's subjective nature. I have probably had a 30+ pack by what Cornerman goes by, but it is a worthless stat gained by beating up on a bunch of hackers.

Most people say "I ran a 6 pack", if you simply "won" 6 games in a row you did not exactly "run" a 6 pack, you simply won 6 games in a row, and for all anyone knows you did so against your 3 year old niece.

When the SVB vs Mills match was set to go and when it ended people were betting on and talking about the biggest "package", they were talking about B&R's, not simply winning games in a row.
 
and the winner is.....

celtic wins the match.....a package is Breaking and running. During a "package" the opponent does not shoot.....which is why alternate breaks are pure faggotry as you can't put a 3/6/9 or any kind of pack what so ever on the opponent.

I know as time goes on people gaff up the real terms and their meanings. Like SHELL SHOCKED (striaght to the point its vivid) now they call it post traumatic stress disorder or battle fatigue or WTF i don't care.

But a package is breaking and running....and thats final, end of story.

Don't make me get Keith on here to tell you the same thing. :p;):smile:

Grey Ghost
 
12310bch said:
Hmmm! Interesting disagreement between Cornerman and Celtic,aye? Who here can arbitrate? Actually , who here gives a flying fcuk? You win, you win. End of story.:deadhorse:
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Tap tap tap!
At the end of the night, who won the match? If you run a 6 pack on me, and I run eight 2-packs on you, even if you got one in between each of my two packs....I collect the win. And even if the games I won were 3 or 4 innings, so they weren't even "real" 2 packs, the end result is the same.

B&R is highly over rated. Winning the match is all that matters.

Steve
 
"the game off your opponents break does NOT count."

Celtic, I think most here will agree in what you say but some of us will disagree in the part of not counting the first runout from the opponents break if nothing was made on the break. I believe it is still a runout and should be part of the package.

P.S. Even more so because in that rack you had to make at least one more ball than in the other racks.
 
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