Why does he use inside english?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6nYB4r-kt8&nohtml5=False
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6nYB4r-kt8&nohtml5=False
What game is this?
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From Wiki:
"Combined pyramid (also known as Moscow pyramid)
Only one ball is the cue ball. Players can pocket the cue ball with a carom shot off another ball and then the scorer must choose a white ball to be taken off the table. The player then places the cue ball in the baulk area where balls can be only pocketed in side and far corner pockets."
[Don't know about the inside.]
A Russian billiard game called, I believe, pyramid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_pyramid
Stalev was a champion at it.
I think he uses inside to increase the size of the pocket depending on the approach angle. The pocket definitely needs help that way.
One thing for sure, them is some really tight pockets.
Pockets are only 1/8" bigger than a ball. You can score points by pocketing eigher CB (they call it svoyak) or OB (chuzhoj). Often it's easier to pocket CB, because you can help it with the correct side spin. OB can only be pocketed when it is close to straight-in, they hit them in this case with break speed to force the OB into the pocket. Often russian pyramid fans make jokes about how big pockets are in pool, etc. However interesting that very few pro pyramid players really succeed in pool - Stalev is one of them.
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Earl Strickland played it against one of their best https://youtu.be/j0hpM03RajI
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that seems like a pretty frustrating game to me
Wow!!!! He sure scratches a lot!!!
I don't think he scratches as well as Walter Lindrum.
Walter was, quite possibly, the best player who ever lived. He had the disadvantage of growing up in Australia, out of the mainstream of billiards at that time -- around 1920-1940. You can probably find him on YouTube. He played the game so well they had to change the rules to give the other players a chance.
Anyway, Walter played a game in which you want to scratch, much like pyramid.
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"Walter was, quite possibly, the best player who ever lived. "
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+1.
Joe Davis, who owned Snooker for decades, was an English Billiards player who
only went to Snooker because Billiards was dead as a doornail, said he never
had a prayer against Walter.
Dale
Thanks all,
Helping english...and outside english when it helps the CB enter the tight pocket...I guess.
Be well.
It changes the EFFECTIVE size of the pocket - a very important concept.
You might want to look into it.
Dale