WIKI Chinese 8 ball

[Shotcy]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_eight-ball

Read the play section for the details.

Watched some videos in the chinese 8 ball thread to see it played and its not at all as they describe as the definition. I was excited because ive played Chinese 8-ball exactly as described in WIKI and am now disappointed that this isnt the game people are playing.

Does anyone play this version on Chinese 8-ball AKA reverse 8 ball, 8 ball kiss and some other names. If you do play it how long before you can start playing decent position. I can pot balls pretty well with my caroms but the cue placement for my next shot is up in the air.

 

[Shotcy]

Well sorry guys. Missed the very first thing it says on the WIKI page. Its not Chinese 8 ball, its American chinese 8 ball lol. Either way. Anyone play this game?

 

[mchnhed]

The article is about a historical American recreational variation on eight-ball, not the modern competitive Asian game Chinese eight-ball pool, which uses standard eight-ball equipment, and similar rules, except with snooker-style pockets and rails.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_eight-ball

Read the play section for the details.

Watched some videos in the chinese 8 ball thread to see it played and its not at all as they describe as the definition. I was excited because ive played Chinese 8-ball exactly as described in WIKI and am now disappointed that this isnt the game people are playing.

Does anyone play this version on Chinese 8-ball AKA reverse 8 ball, 8 ball kiss and some other names. If you do play it how long before you can start playing decent position. I can pot balls pretty well with my caroms but the cue placement for my next shot is up in the air.

 

[Shotcy]

The article is about a historical American recreational variation on eight-ball, not the modern competitive Asian game Chinese eight-ball pool, which uses standard eight-ball equipment, and similar rules, except with snooker-style pockets and rails.

Second post. Does any one play this game?

Chinese eight-ball (sometimes rendered "Chinese" eight-ball, and also known as eight-ball kiss, reversed eight-ball or backwards eight-ball), is an American, two-player pool (pocket billiards) game which combines the play of eight-ball (except by shooting object balls at the cue ball instead of the normal vice versa) with the shooting style of carom billiards games, and is thus a pool–carom hybrid game, like English billiards. It is similar in game mechanics, if not exact rules, to Russian pyramid, but using typical American pool equipment.

The game probably takes its name from the fanciful notion that things might be done backwards on the other side of the world (cf. Chinese fire drill, etc.).[1]

Play

The balls are set up as they would be for a regular game of eight-ball. The first player breaks by shooting the cue ball into the rack as one normally would. A ball must be pocketed, or two must strike cushions, for the break to be legal. If a ball is pocketed, the breaking player shoots again. Even if a ball is pocketed on the break shot, the table is still open, meaning neither player has yet claimed the stripes or solids groups of balls. To determine which object balls one is playing, one must pocket an object ball with a legal shot.

From this point forward, balls are pocketed by striking a chosen object ball with the cue stick and causing that ball to contact the cue ball and carom (cannon) off it into a specific pocket by legal means (See § next section, below.).