Can anyone tell me their rules for Three Ball?

Question

I play in different locations, not in any league, and the rules seem to vary from the penalties for a scratch to how and if you are recognized as having the overall lowest strokes for all five racks.

Answer 1

Get a few people together, have everyone throw a dollar into the pot, get a rotation (who goes 1st, 2nd....) Place 3 balls in a triangle shape 1 of them on the spot and break.  The breaker shoots until they have made all 3 balls, if they scratch it counts as an extra shot.  Keep track of the lowest amount of shots for everyone and the lowest amount wins.  If there is a tie, everyone throws another dollar in and keep going until there is a winner.  Sometimes pots can get pretty big if you have a few people playing, or if you are playing for $5's.  Keep rackn em up!

Answer 2

Keep in mind that 3 ball is just a gambling game. There are no "official" rules anywhere, so whatever the rules you and your opponents decide on are the right rules.

Answer 3

Here ya go...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-ball

Answer 4

This is a great bar game especially for gambling.  Basicly you rack up 3 balls, you keep shooting until you get all the balls off the table, you count each stroke, the person sinking all 3 of their balls in the fewest strokes wins the pot.  I used to play this a lot with 5 people playing, everyone puts up a dollar, the winner takes all, and puts up the money for the next rack.  if for example 2 people get all the balls down in 4 strokes each, they would split, $2 each and $1 to rack the table.  Alternately, I've done it where everyone sticks in $2 for the table to start and we get a roll of quarters too, then the winner gets all 5 in the pot.  We used to count a scratch as +1 like taking a drop in golf, so for example, you scratch on the break, that's 1 for the break, 1 for the scratch, if you sink the 3 balls in 2 more strokes by some luck or phenomenol skill, you now have a 4, if more likely you sink the balls in 3 more shots, you have a 5 and usually a shot at splitting the pot at best (Usually only at the end of the night when eveyone is pretty lit anyway).  That's the basics of it.