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    Let's talk Pool....or Billiards

    Which many play pool or billiards?

    (Are they the same?)

    Do you play 8-ball, 9-ball, killers?

    How often?

    With who?


    Discuss!

    Here's a wicked Masse:

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    I'm snookered already.

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    Started playing when I was seven or eight y o.

    Dad had a bar where I folded a pizza box to earn 1 cent, so folded 100 to get 4 quarters = 4 games (at that time).

    I can beat all you fuggers one-handed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hick View Post
    Started playing when I was seven or eight y o.

    Dad had a bar where I folded a pizza box to earn 1 cent, so folded 100 to get 4 quarters = 4 games (at that time).

    I can beat all you fuggers one-handed.
    You're on!


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    Quote Originally Posted by hick
    I can beat all you fuggers one-handed.
    Give it a rest!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cold Pizza View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by hick View Post
    Started playing when I was seven or eight y o.

    Dad had a bar where I folded a pizza box to earn 1 cent, so folded 100 to get 4 quarters = 4 games (at that time).

    I can beat all you fuggers one-handed.
    You're on!

    Been years since I played but could probably pick up a stick and beat you without even a warm up game ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cold Pizza View Post
    You're on!
    Go time

    Quote Originally Posted by VocalNeal View Post
    Give it a rest!
    Relax Neal - just some harmless shit-talk.

    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    Been years since I played but could probably pick up a stick and beat you without even a warm up game ...
    Oh yeah Storekeep!? Yeah??




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    Don't mind the odd game of Pool,or on the full size table ,a game of Snooker.
    Like the full size,different style,lot of people are hopeless on it after just playing Pool.
    I am lucky in that i can play with either hand,good for getting out of tight spots.
    Most parts of the world have tables,great way to socialise with locals,just have to pick the venue,not hard to see if dickheads are playing and being morons,give it a miss.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reddog
    I am lucky in that i can play with either hand,good for getting out of tight spots.
    As you did to me, years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by hick View Post
    Started playing when I was seven or eight y o.

    Dad had a bar where I folded a pizza box to earn 1 cent, so folded 100 to get 4 quarters = 4 games (at that time).

    I can beat all you fuggers one-handed.
    You're on!

    Been years since I played but could probably pick up a stick and beat you without even a warm up game ...
    Who? Me or hick?

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    Quote Originally Posted by VocalNeal View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by hick
    I can beat all you fuggers one-handed.
    Give it a rest!
    I'll give three.


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    Before playing any sport here make sure you know THEIR rules. Especially when playing for money.

    I played snooker with a guy in my wife's village and was behind 14 or 15 points when we were down to only the pink and black. So a foul shot from him from one snooker was required, yes?
    Nope, according to village rules, the game is over when down to the pink and black and the player losing is trailing by 14 points or more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reddog View Post
    Like the full size,different style,lot of people are hopeless on it after just playing Pool.
    So true. A lot of pros mastered snooker BEFORE moving on to 8/9 ball, as I understand it. Makes sense. Proper snooker on a full-size with the extra long cues is a beast, imo.

    Other games that can help to bring your 8/9 ball game up are:

    Danguu or Sagu (Korea) - no pockets = bank shots, leaves, caroms and shots.

    Carom (French) - no pockets


    Not so easy to find a no pocket pool table, so you can play

    "Golf" and if you master it,....8/9 ball is like candy.

    The rules of Golf as played on a snooker table.

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    In Bangkok where I've played, they all play these fukkin german rules where you have to explain every shot. That's no fun when 50% of your game revolves around flukes and hit and hopes.

    Then there's the cheating bar girls who come and molest you when it's your shot.

    Me and my brother had one of those cheap 6ft pool tables as young teens. The balls would always roll to one side, so we got fed up of that and made our own game up where when you missed you had to stick your willy in one of the pockets. That's why I hang to the left I reckon

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    A spirit level would have helped you ,

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
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    I can beat all you fuggers one-handed.
    Give it a rest!
    I'll give three.

    "Granny Sticks" are allowed where I play.

    Neverna is in!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    In Bangkok where I've played, they all play these fukkin german rules where you have to explain every shot. That's no fun when 50% of your game revolves around flukes and hit and hopes.
    We merkins call that ^ "slop."
    Now, if slop is the game, fine. Anything goes.
    And I believe (these days) slop games are more common in the UK than the US.

    But, if 'straight pool' is the game...in 8 ball.....

    = gentlemen rules

    = call that shit (first) if it ain't bleedin' obvious.

    (9-ball has some slop built into the rules <- as long as you hit your target ball first)....




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    I learnt snooker and billiards on a full size table. We also played cowboys & indians and a game, whose name I have long forgotten. It was a cross between billiards and snooker. Players have their own cue ball and colours are on their spots but no reds. Can pocket any colour and cannon similar to billiards but cannot touch the black ball. A foul means losing all point on that break and hitting the black means losing all points. First to 100 wins. Anyone know the name of the game?

    I played pool on UK and US tables for years, some amateur competitions but mainly for pints. I have managed to stay on the table all night a few times, more by luck than judgement...a totally misspent youth, many would say. Nowadays, I can't see the bloody cue ball let alone the object ball so luck has run out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cold Pizza
    Which many play pool or billiards?

    (Are they the same?)
    fukking moron,

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    We had a full size table in tha Billiards room. My dad was really good at pool and so we all learned young. We called that spin you place on the ball english not masse. The game was allways 3 or 1 meaning three banks on the cue ball or one bank on the eight. No slop call your shot.

    The wildest time playing with my father was at a place called "the Road House." It was across the street from a biker bar called Headquarters.

    I beat this guy out of a small bit of cash and he didn't take to kindly to it. Anyway later on I was sitting on a bar stool and the guy pops up next to me and says "you know you ain't shit." And being a dumb kid of about 23 I said " well you ain't nothing but a fat fuck."

    He clocks me and I fall back off the stool to the floor and he jumps on me. I quick roll him over and sitting on his chest begin pounding his face with the right while choking him with the left. One of his buddies grabs my right forearm but I'm still smashing this guy regardless.

    A few more guys come to his rescue and pull me off him . It turns into a free for all and my dad and older brother jump in. I see a guy put my dad in a bear hug and my dad runs him backwards into a wall followed by a headbutt. The bar is going wild and the three of us basically hold are own as we move to the front door.

    We make it out the door as several squad cars arrive. They detain us and start asking questions. Other cops go in in the bar. They get many sides of the story. I tell the truth and my dad backs me up on this.

    Turns out the guy had so many friends because he was the manager of the bar. Cops say it looks like I broke his nose. I say self defense. Cops say the guy doesn't want to press charges on me breaking his nose. Again I say self defense. Cops tell us we can go but the bar manager never wants us to return.

    Some things you just never forget I guess. Looking back what I wouldn't give, and I got a lot, to do it all over again.

    As for beating me with one hand I can take care of that myself thank you very much.

    I should have kept a diary of................................................ ...the fish.

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    Thinking back it was at a place called "The Shelter" as in shelter from the storm by Bob Dylan.

    The Road House was kitty corner to it and across the street from the Headquarters. These were as far north and west as you could be and still be in Milwaukee county. The old "Headquarters " before they tore it down and widened the road was a real blast.

    Even back then we yearned for the old headquarters as it lost it's patina after it was rebuilt.
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    Thanks pizza for jarring few Stones loose now I have Eric Burdon and the Animals when I was young playing in the back of my mind.

    Could be worse.

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    ^ I've either been there or a place just like it.

    Really do love playing pool at a decent hall in Thighland.

    They take such good care of your...errrr,...ehmmm...balls.



    Also, full-time pool hall hookers can make for good competition, especially if you can ignore the obvious distraction-techniques.

    <hot thai girl bending over a pool table.gif>

    Pool tables are a good way for gals to show off their wares to obvious punters, however there may be repercussions or wrathful vengeance if you consistently push them off their show piece table(s) by smoking their asses with consistency.

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    Not seen a lot now in the UK but a good pub game.... Bar Billiards.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_billiards

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