What a great idea for a practice game! Have you considered adding more points for multiple two, three, four, and five rail banks? It would be great to practice all of the above.
Hey brother Bob - thanks! Yeah, I did, but at this point I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. Certainly at the advanced level you'd be more likely to get multiple banks. I'd appreciate your sharing with your pool buds, and letting me know their feedback!
@@EasternVideo His comment is reminiscent of our 11-point bank game. It uses 9 balls and you get a point for every rail the object ball hits. Has to be a clean bank. When balls go down, they stay down. You rack until someone gets to 11 points. We use two coins to keep score, placed under the rail at the diamonds. It's a lot of fun. My highest scoring turn so far is 10 points. Neither of us has finished a game in one turn yet. Those multi-rail shots pay off.
My buddy and I play five games that we made up, plus an 11-point banking game. Four of the games are based on 8-ball. ALL of them do not allow shooting a ball straight in. You get better in a hurry, when you play hours of it, no doubt. We have "hard 8-ball", "Carom 8-ball", "Whatever", "Terrible", "kick 9-ball" and the 11-point bank game. Lot of fun, and when someone wants to challenge, we dumb it down to 8-ball, bank the 8 and almost always win, since we've spent years playing massive amounts of them.
What a great idea for a practice game! Have you considered adding more points for multiple two, three, four, and five rail banks? It would be great to practice all of the above.
Hey brother Bob - thanks! Yeah, I did, but at this point I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. Certainly at the advanced level you'd be more likely to get multiple banks. I'd appreciate your sharing with your pool buds, and letting me know their feedback!
@@EasternVideo His comment is reminiscent of our 11-point bank game. It uses 9 balls and you get a point for every rail the object ball hits. Has to be a clean bank. When balls go down, they stay down. You rack until someone gets to 11 points. We use two coins to keep score, placed under the rail at the diamonds. It's a lot of fun. My highest scoring turn so far is 10 points. Neither of us has finished a game in one turn yet. Those multi-rail shots pay off.
My buddy and I play five games that we made up, plus an 11-point banking game. Four of the games are based on 8-ball. ALL of them do not allow shooting a ball straight in. You get better in a hurry, when you play hours of it, no doubt. We have "hard 8-ball", "Carom 8-ball", "Whatever", "Terrible", "kick 9-ball" and the 11-point bank game. Lot of fun, and when someone wants to challenge, we dumb it down to 8-ball, bank the 8 and almost always win, since we've spent years playing massive amounts of them.
Interesting! You're right about the hours of practice paying off! Keep hitting them in!