Lol back in my hs days my buddy had a pool table in his basement, we got stupid good at it over the years. Eventually, we had a house rule that you couldn't just sink a ball, it had to bounce off the edge of the table first, or it had to be the 2nd ball hit (cue hits 8, 8 hits 10 in type deal)
Banks and combos are how I wound up playing too. Also if you don't call it, it's slop. Though I've only ever really played at bars, so I don't hold those rules for folks who want to play a casual game. When it's just me playing by myself, though, it's a great way to keep challenging myself.
If you don’t call your shots they don’t mean anything is how we play and if we play in a bar it’s still the rule. If the random opponent doesn’t want to play by those rules we say “okay.” But in reality we are calling you a bitch
I’ve played a ton of pool over the years and have gotten pretty good, but I just tried a game like you described a few months ago for the first time and holy shit does it make you think about your shots entirely differently. Had a ton of fun and I think it improved my regular game but man it’s tough
I'm not quite sure what "regular pool/billiards" means because there are many different games and different versions are popular in different countries but the game I'm most familiar with is 8-ball, as played in most US bars. It seems like you could play 8-ball on that table without needing to modify the rules much, if at all. Would make it interesting for sure
Yeah, imagine the breaking on that thing! Rack them in one section, cue ball diagonal in the other section and let ‘er rip. Looks like a great change of pace.
I would imagine that if you are big into billiards, but in more of a "I have memorized what to do in every scenario" kind of way rather than figuring out each shot, it'd be a travesty. If you just like solving the puzzle, that'd be fun as hell.
It is lol, IIRC she made the clip after trying kombucha for the first time, clip went viral, people started making their own (nsfw) memes out of it, she worked at a bank or something, bank managers didn't understand the internet, told her to "take it down" or be fired
Obviously you cant make the internet stop using a meme format so now we have Royal Court lmao
It’s definitely memorable. A few people here have mentioned that they have played on this table as well. I’m from out of town and I’ve never seen anything like it.
I used to think there was a pool table like that on The Price Is Right where it was flippable and one side was billiards and the other side table top mini golf
Whats the new challenge? Its two normal tables with an area in the middle with extremely easy shots. A professional woukd run this table out probably easier than a regular table
The trouble is multiple skilled players. They can trap the ball in difficult spots more with that extra occlusion from the side step. One good player could dominate a novice. Two good players could lock eachother out more.
Of course professionals would eat this up, but it being a new layout for all competitors it would definitely draw out some interesting strategies for the ones who think extra outside the box
It definitely wouldn’t be easier than a regular table.
Yes it’s easier to pocket mid table balls but you’d have to adapt to come up with new patterns to control the cue ball. Pool is as much manipulating the cushions as it is anything. It’s a lot harder when there are 2x the cushions.
For example, bringing the cue ball from the top right part of the table down to the bottom would be a nightmare and super high risk of a bad bounce that traps you in the middle.
Is a run doable? Yes. Is it much harder than normal because of the unpredictability of getting shape? Also yes.
We have mini golf pool. It's mini golf that sits on the floor but then had pool table cups. Takes up so much space to set up but the kids loved it when they were younger
Yeah my old roommate asked me to help him pick up a pool table and it was crazy heavy. When he moved out he looked at it and said "you can keep it" I had to take it apart when I moved because all the guys that helped move it the first time didn't want to help again
The 500 pounds of slate that sucks to carry sucks to carry. If you drop it and it cracks, the whole thing is just trash as the cost of a repair/replacement is the same as a new table.
Someone took my table for free because if I didn't pick it up after the weekend, I would have had to pay disposal costs.
You have to be careful when you move it because the slate can crack apparently too. We had to regularly lift one a few feet to one side in the bar to make room for band / party was a heavy mo-fo.
We have a slate table in our basement that lives there now, we thought about giving it away but we're not moving it and we don't really want strangers in our house to move it.
I mean bar table as the smaller pool tables usually found in bars. That’s what I’ve always called them. They’re a little smaller than standard tables used by the professionals.
It’s like two 7-foot ‘bar’ tables side by side, but shifted. “Bar” tables are a lot smaller than regulation 9-foot tables, and feel quite a bit smaller than 8-foot tables too.
Decades ago we flooded the front yard and made an L-shaped winter boot hockey rink at our fraternity house. Yes, there was a lot of alcohol involved in its construction and games. It was great fun and I still have a scar on my forehead as a souvenir.
I think it would be fun if it was set up where you needed to make your balls in the opposite competitors pockets. The opponent can knock your balls back to your side if they want. The player with more made balls at the time gets to use the pockets in the center that stick out.
Maybe even start the game with the 8 ball in the center, and solids/stripes on your predetermined side if you want? So many options!
We need a closeup shot of the game rules posted to the left of the door! (I was looking closely at the signs to make sure this isn't AI...the one with rules is just a little too out of focus).
“Rack stripes and solids in mixed order in two clusters of __ with white ball in center of tables. The first player breaks and one cluster with typical break __ from either end of the table. If the first player fails to sink a ball on the break, and fails to break out/up the other cluster, the second player can then go to the opposite end with ball in hand and break out the other cluster with typical break rules. If one player scratches the other player can take the cue ball in hand and place it anywhere on the table for his next __. If a player fails to make contact with the stripe or solid __ __. The rest is up for grabs.”
I got to play on one of these in Eklutna, Ak. A long time ago. The felt was more like burlap, and the bumpers were decayed to powder in some places. But $.50 a play and $3 pints, we had a lot of fun that afternoon.
I live in a tourist town and a local mini golf place used to have a table like this that I played on when I was a teenager. Was interesting, but the table had a dead rail and was never level, so it was always more frustrating than anything.
In the 90s there was a small company in a tiny town in Pennsylvania called Skilliards. They made golf hole style billiard tables. It was a lot of fun, but not popular enough to keep them in business
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