What pool game is mostly played at your hangout.

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I live in a small town and the pool hall i have went to atleast 4 times a week for the last 15 years has 3 snooker tabels and 1 eight ball tabel. The snooker tabels are all over 50-60 years old and in perfect shape but the funny thing is 90% of the regulars(about 50 people) are 50 or older and most remeber the tabels being bought and they were used then,They're brunswick tabels. Been told one is atleast 80 yrs old but i dont know.

ANYWAY...the game played mostly is golf but i play 6 ball, which is payed like 10 ball basically and one hole(not to be confused with one pocket)

6 ball is a ring game played with 1-5 ball and 9 ball racked in back row between 4 and 5. we play 5 dollars if you win and 10 dollars if you run the rack...its a quick game and with 3 or more players you only get one shot unless somebody gets hooked or scratches. sometimes we play 10 on game 20 if you run em but all of us are bout equal shots and most of the time by the end of the night we just swap money and end up breaking even.

Now my MONEY game is one hole, its played on a snooker tabel...2 to 7 players can play and the object is to try to make your ball in the 6 hole(right side pocket)and leave the cue to where the man following you has no shot at the 6 hole. Theres ALOT of kicking and banking in this game. The fellow i mostly play with is the king of the one rail kick. We play this game for 20 bucks a game and it goes fast ! 10 minutes is a long game but we play it alot and a 2 rail kick in aint really nothin. 95% of the time us players that play regular will keep our ball close to the hole if not make it on a 2 rail or one rail kick.
I lost 120 buck sat without shooting ! ! ! my pal 2 rail kicked his ball of the break 6 times in a row !
you start the game by spoting your ball on the 6 spot and cue ball in the half moon. We always put cue on 3 spot and 2 rail kick out of the bottom left corner and try to kick it in the side. If you dont make it atleast its close and the other player then has to shoot defence instead of being abel to lag the 6 hole.

Anyway these are our 2 games what quirky games are played at your local pool hall?
 
For $$.....right now would be last pocket 8 ball and a new game called 9 ball!!!!

There's a little st8 and some one pocket.....

Russ.......
 
9ball...whats that ? We never play 9 ball much. Couldnt tell you why, we just dont. When we do we play it it's 5bucks on the 5 ball and 10bucks on the 9. I have never played sets but once. We raced to 7 for 50. Took to dang long for me, patience aint one of my few virtues.
 
pool just aint what it use to be. 10 years ago you could walk in the 2 pool halls in town and get into a ring game for just about whatever you wanted to pay for. Now us regulars have to call each other on the cell to set up a time just to get a game...use to think i just got too good and no one wanted the action but that aint it...everyone just quit for some reason.

they always told me not to get to good b/c it lonely at the top...guess i shoulda listened.( Im glad the boys i play with are computer illiterate b/c if they read this they'd be callin tommorow and id be broke by fri)HAHAHa
 
You'd be hard pressed to find a good game of banks in baton rouge(where I'm from) and believe it or not,short-rack banks is my second best game..First is a tie between last pocket 8 ball and One pocket.
 
9ball mostly with tournaments and young players. The monthly players and advanced players mostly one pocket, 9 ball and seeing more and more is 14.1 for practicing noone wants to play 14.1 for the cash not enough experince in it out here no one likes to grind it out all want the fast cash in nine ball.
 
there's absolutely nothing but last pocket 8 in this neck of the woods. then again, there's no action whatsoever.. grumpy mens league, that's it.
 
As far as big action, it's 9-ball and one-pocket. All the lower action is 9-ball, and there seems to be a little spread of one pocket going on - even some of the lower level players are trying to gamble at it.
 
A couple years ago a few friends and I basically had run of a pool hall with about 9 tables. We'd normally take between 1 to 4 tables, mostly we played 9-ball or 8-ball. Ocasionally, we'd play 7-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, a version of carom... then a buddy turned us onto a game that was basically 8-ball but you picked one of the side pockets before the game and the 8-ball had to be pocketed into that pocket only, no idea what it was called.

My game of choice is BCA rules 8-ball or 9-ball, but only if they play "honorably"(not going for the 9 on every shot and actually playing ball position).
 
A few guys were playing last pocket 8 ball tonight at my local. Not being much of a gambler I was on the next table giving the alternating players someone to warm up against. Unfortunately I gave them a lot of racking practice!!

I hated to do that but hell, I needed to get my game back to where it should be! It's been missing for weeks!
 
"small town"

Quite a "small town." I live in a town with 3800 people & all we have is a bar with 2 coin tables & a head splitting juke box. However, people are really nice & still leave doors unlocked & keys in their cars.
 
berlowmj said:
Quite a "small town." I live in a town with 3800 people & all we have is a bar with 2 coin tables & a head splitting juke box. However, people are really nice & still leave doors unlocked & keys in their cars.
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Doesn't sound like a bad place to be. Of course, it all depends on the music from the juke box!:D
 
In the pool hall I go to, the game that is mostly played is 9 ball, but I would have to say that the game most of the players gamble in is one pocket.
 
> I don't hang out there,but the old men's pool room here has a long-rack bank game going on all day long,but people in there think gambling causes cancer,LOL. I only go there if I don't want to play on a bar table. The front table in this place has a full rack of solid red balls on it,usually identifiable by shape,that are at least 30 years old. The red circle cue ball used on this table is at least 1/16 bigger than the object balls. There are usually 2-3 people playing,and as many as 7,where making a single bank keeps you from paying for the rack most of the time,which is 1.50 for 7 people. The rules are NOT what true bank pool is supposed to be,you can kick balls in 3 rails or more,and call kisses off other balls. Scratches cost you nothing. In fact,if you mention that you really aren't supposed to be kicking at balls,according to the real rules,they think you're from another planet. There have been a lot of strangers come in over the years,see the full rack of red balls,and think it's an 8 foot snooker table. Tommy D.
 
Been lurking here on and off for a few years now, but recently came back and registered. My first post on these forums.

Here in Hawaii, most everyone, even the hackers most often play 9 ball. Sometimes, I wonder if they know of any other games. 8 ball would be a close second, though mostly played in the bars.

When I was growing up, the pool hall where I worked most people played rotation or 8 ball for fun, and on rare occassions, Keno, the game with the board layed at one end of the table with all the numbered holes in it. If you were playing money, you played either 9 ball, or a form of pill pool with up to 7 players known locally as Check-Check.

Off topic, want to say hi to Eric in the US Army. He just transferred back to the mainland after 4 years with us. Don't now his user name so posting this in case he see's it. I'm the guy who bought your Espiritu. Hehe!
 
For the room I play in it's a toss up between 9-ball and 14.1
A lot of the better shooters use the summer time to hone their poker skills and then play the video poker machine that doesn't pay out ;)
 
what -game

well at my place[STICKS BILLIARDS} 8-ball for fun 9 ball for the dough , and as bob barker says come on down!!!!!:) :) :) :) :)
 
the game depends on the tournaments. the "hall" has tournaments on friday nights for 8 weeks then has a "tournament of Champions" on the 9th week, 2 weeks off then start all over. 9 weeks of 9-ball, then 9 weeks of 8-ball. most all gambling is playing the game of the tournament.
 
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