Which "Less Popular Pocket Billiard Games" do you like the most?

Which one do you like the most?

  • Bottle Pool

    Votes: 2 2.3%

  • Cowboy

    Votes: 5 5.7%

  • Cribbage

    Votes: 12 13.6%

  • Cut-Throat

    Votes: 26 29.5%

  • Fifteen Ball

    Votes: 18 20.5%

  • Forty-One

    Votes: 2 2.3%

  • Honolulu

    Votes: 5 5.7%

  • Line-Up

    Votes: 4 4.5%

  • Mr. and Mrs. (also called Boy Meets Girl)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Pea (Kelly) Pool

    Votes: 14 15.9%
  • Total voters
    88
There are some games on that list I have not heard of. Could someone explain Honolulu and Cowboy?
 
m79a said:
There are some games on that list I have not heard of. Could someone explain Honolulu and Cowboy?
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Honolulu:
no "straight-in" shots allowed. each leagally pocketed ball must be made by means of either: a bank, a comb., a carom, a "kick" or some combination thereof.



Cowboy:
Cowboy combines carom and pocket billiards skill, and employs a very unusual set of rules. Certainly a change of pace game; how many games have you played in which the cue ball must be pocketed on a carom of the 1 ball on the last shot??!

BALLS USED: Object balls 1,3 and 5, plus the cue ball.

THE RACK No triangle needed; the 1 ball equal to placed on the head spot, the 3 ball on the foot spot, and the 5 ball on the center spot.

OBJECT OF THE GAME: To score 101 points prior to opponent(s).

SCORING: The first ninety points exactly may be scored by any of these means on legal scoring strokes: pocketing any of the object balls: points equal to the balls' numbers; and/or carom of the cue ball off two of the object balls: one point; and/or carom of the cue ball off the three object balls: two points.

Points 91 through 100 (exactly) must, and may only, be scored by execution of carom shots #2 and #3 above.

Point 101 (winning point) must be scored by caroming the cue ball off the 1 ball into a called pocket without the cue ball contacting any other object ball.

Should a player accomplequal toh more than one scoring possibility permitted by these rules, he scores for each; thus a single shot can result in a total of 11 points scored.
 
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Old School

Keno! Love the Keno Board. Used to play at the Ball Room in Tom's River, N.J. Tony would say,"we're playing Keno, get your money out."
 
I never knew so many still played cut-throat. Very easy for a better than average player to runout most of the time. Esp. if you play you can shoot your own balls for position to continue a run. Johnnyt
 
I voted for 15 Ball. Its my favorite game :D. Too bad no one really plays it...It'd be great to play 15 Ball for money!!:thumbup:
 
Calgaryplayer said:
I vote for honolulu!
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Same here.

Especially on bar tables that eat quarters. Games last a long time and you get to practice lots of shots you normally wouldn't play.

Also, on my home table, I'll play Honolulu as a handicap while my wife and other bangers play regular 8-ball rules. That way I get to play with them and they have a good chance to beat me.

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Edit: Often we will add what we call "cheezy banks" as being OK. That is, if the object ball is at least a cube of chalk away from the rail, then it's OK to kick the cue ball off the rail nearest the object ball to make it (so technically we should call them cheezy kicks). Not normally good under Honolulu rules but: (a) gives you lots of practice at these shots and I therefore feel much more confident routinely using them in regular play under pressure situations, and (b) if you are playing Hololulu as a handicap against someone who is playing regular, it's a way of reducing the handicap when they start beating you.
 
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RunoutKing said:
I voted for 15 Ball. Its my favorite game :D. Too bad no one really plays it...It'd be great to play 15 Ball for money!!:thumbup:
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In case you don't know, there are many ways to play 15 ball rotation for money. Up until about 1970 you would walk into just about any poolroom from the mid west to the east coast and there would be at least one table going with one form of a 15 ball rotation game played from open to closing time. 14.1 and 15 ball rotation were all over the place. Then the COM came out and most switched to 9-ball...but you had to be able to twirl your cue stick j/k. Johnnyt
 
When there's nothing going on and there's no one to match up with for some One Pocket, I like cribbage. :)
 
Cut throat is a lot more popular than 10 ball, one pocket, nine ball or banks. Its what so many of the novice's play. I would say its the second biggest game after 8 ball.

Edit...I meant to say "Solids and Stripes" as the biggest game.
 
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