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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
The weird thing on all this is that you never see 8-ball on TV so you never see official rules. I've always wondered what the official 8-ball rack should look like. Here's how I do it (O = solid, I = stripe):
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> O O I I 8 O O I O I I O I I O </pre><hr /> |
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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
suzzer,
"Wrong, you ask the regulars." That's called a game scratch here. Both players have to leave the table. OK, Joe and Steve, you guys are up! |
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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
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The weird thing on all this is that you never see 8-ball on TV so you never see official rules. I've always wondered what the official 8-ball rack should look like. Here's how I do it (O = solid, I = stripe): <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> O O I I 8 O O I O I I O I I O </pre><hr /> [/ QUOTE ] Not how I was taught (at least this is how I do it and everyone I know does it, with alternating around the perimeter): <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> O I I O 8 O I I O I O I O I O </pre><hr /> EDIT: Just looked it up and my way is totally wrong. And I have some friends who play a lot of pool that rack that way. |
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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
[ QUOTE ]
The weird thing on all this is that you never see 8-ball on TV so you never see official rules. I've always wondered what the official 8-ball rack should look like. Here's how I do it (O = solid, I = stripe): <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> O O I I 8 O O I O I I I O I O </pre><hr /> [/ QUOTE ] Is what I do, although probably inconsequential. (Slightly different back row) |
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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
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Not how I was taught (at least this is how I do it and everyone I know does it, with alternating around the perimeter): <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> O I I O 8 O I I O I O I O I O </pre><hr /> [/ QUOTE ] Glad to see you got rid of the wrong. I do something very similar to this, but on the bottommost row I switch an O and an I on one of the corners. Otherwise it seems like the break tends to favor solids a little bit, though I could be off. |
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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
suzzer,
Official 8-ball rack is 8-ball in the middle and the back corners one is solid, one is stripe. However, I think about 98% standard is doing what you showed with the 1-ball at the top. |
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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
You can't have solids on both back corners or they become way more likely to fall. Unless that's the idea.
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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
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[ QUOTE ] Not how I was taught (at least this is how I do it and everyone I know does it, with alternating around the perimeter): <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> O I I O 8 O I I O I O I O I O </pre><hr /> [/ QUOTE ] Glad to see you got rid of the wrong. I do something very similar to this, but on the bottommost row I switch an O and an I on one of the corners. Otherwise it seems like the break tends to favor solids a little bit, though I could be off. [/ QUOTE ] It's weird because no one has ever questioned my rack before. I figured if I was way off, I would have heard something by now. |
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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
I did not read page 9, and admit my defeat. Apparently they are also in agreement.
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Re: A question about Pool (Billirds).
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However, I think about 98% standard is doing what you showed with the 1-ball at the top. [/ QUOTE ] A decent percentage of people I'd play in bars would complain when I wouldn't put the 1 ball at the top, even if it were another solid (not that that matters, either). I wonder if these are the same type of people that get mad at a blackjack table when somebody else takes their card. |
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