A question about Pool (Billirds).

[suzzer99]

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 />

[El Diablo]

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!

[DonkeyKongSr]

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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 />

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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 />

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.

[ocdscale]

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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 I O I O
</pre><hr />

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Is what I do, although probably inconsequential. (Slightly different back row)

[gumpzilla]

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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 />

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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.

[El Diablo]

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.

[suzzer99]

You can't have solids on both back corners or they become way more likely to fall. Unless that's the idea.

[DonkeyKongSr]

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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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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.

[Duke]

I did not read page 9, and admit my defeat. Apparently they are also in agreement.

[gumpzilla]

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However, I think about 98% standard is doing what you showed with the 1-ball at the top.

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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.