What is your favorite game and why?

Question

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Answer 1

My favorite game is 8 ball because any one can play it and its simple. So you can get anyone to play they just wont be that good.  and i can get my friends down to my dads store that think they can play because they did good on the computer and watch them make a fool out of them selves.

Answer 2

I like UNO and Life. I don't like scrabble.

Answer 3

last pocket........it takes foreeevvvverrrrr....haha

Answer 4

I like straight pool a lot, but I don't get to play it very often because all we have here in hicksville are bar boxes. I don't have room for a table here at home so If I want to play straight pool I have to go to my buddies house ( he works 2nd shift, I work 1st ) or drive 40 or 50 miles to a real pool hall. I also like 3,7,8,9 and 10 ball. There aren't many games I don't like. I used to like 1 pocket but I don't have the patience for it anymore.Gettin' old!

Answer 5

Eight-Ball is my favorite because it is cool and I grew up playing it. I can't play pool any more because of AS but it sure was fun.

Answer 6

Most favourite: 9-ball. Its fast and usually a pretty open rack. I feel comfortable playing extreme english.

Least favourite: Straight pool. However I do appreciate to practise it, but I find it often frustrating when I miss easy shots. It's really strange. I do get into a different mode poking around on short distance balls and then when I need to pocket a long ball it just doesn't seem to work as well.

Answer 7

As you probably know, I enjoy straight pool the most, even though my best game is 8-ball.  These two games have a lot in common.  There's no single correct order to running a rack of straight pool or 8-ball.  In both games you usually have more than one shot to choose from and you're always working your way towards a key ball (the 8 in 8-ball and your break ball in straight pool).  I'm better at 8-ball because I've been playing it for my whole life (although probably incorrectly until a few years ago) and mentally, it's easier for me to mentally plan for 7 or 8 shots at the most.  I've only been playing straight pool for about 2 years and I've been continuously surprised at just how difficult it really is to run racks and in particular to perform a decent break shot.  My problem is that if I'm even lucky enough to get good break ball position, there's a decent chance that I'll either miss the break ball and bust open the stack or I'll pocket the break ball and leave myself without a follow up shot afterwards.  I like straight pool because it's the only game I know of where a single inning at the table can last for rack after rack, allowing the shooter to really get in stroke and the sitting player to get out of stroke.  It's not paint by numbers pool, like rotation games.  Now, before I ruffle any feathers, I fully acknowledge the shotmaking skill and position play required for rotation games.  I just believe that when you have more options on the table, it forces you to become a smarter player and to make the correct choices.  I admit that the execution is more difficult in rotation games, being that you often have to move the cue ball greater distances and with more extreme English.  My least favorite game by default is probably one-pocket.  I say by default because I've played it the least and I'm just not interested in it.  Maybe I'll give it another chance, but probably not any time soon.  M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.

P.S.  Let's talk 8-ball strategy for a bit.  First of all, your hubby is right about you running out.  However, running out is the only way that anybody wins.  Did you mean "break and run", as in one inning at the table?  Anyway, you touched on all the answers to your problems with 8-ball.  It's a slightly different game on a bar table for one thing.  Playing defensively is much more difficult on a bar table in my opinion.  Every shot is so much closer, that just snookering your opponent and making them kick at a ball isn't an effective safety strategy.  You really need to bury them to play a good safety on a bar table.  Try to freeze them up next to another ball or make them have to kick more than one cushion.  Therefore I tend to play more offensively on a bar table.  Since safety play is often as difficult as taking an offensive shot, I'll usually take the shot.  Now this all gets turned on it's ear on a bigger table.  I think you're probably better than you think at 8-ball.  It's just requires a little more forethought.  You know that it's good strategy to leave your balls near the pockets and sometimes to pocket your opponents balls.  It's like a mini-chess game where you position all of your troops in anticipation of making your attack.  I just love the look on people's faces when I'll "miss" easy shot after easy shot only to have a 6 ball run out and win at the end of the game.

Answer 8

Least 6 ball no challenge if i cant break and run 6 balls ILL quit

ALL time fav Banks it has it all can you think of a Straight pool game but banking every shot try it if you dont already play it

Best money game 9 ball its quick

Joker pool

Can take or leave rotation

And Checkers

Thats bout it Kid  Later Johnny

Answer 9

Straight pool aka continuous pool is my favorite.  I think it's a better test of one's overall ability.  Nowadays 9 ball and even 7 ball get on TV, but that's because they are quick games that are easy to understand so they attract a wider audience.

Answer 10

Two faves: Cribbage and Alabama.

Cribbage is when the shooter has to make sets of '15'. If I call the 14-ball, then I have to make the '1' to = 15. Then I go on making sets of 15. Only when you make four sets of '15' are you allowed to make the 15-ball. The winner has to have 5-sets of '15' (or four sets of '15' plus the 15-ball).

If the score is 4-3 then the 15-ball can be made for a tie.

If I make the 6-ball and miss the '9', the '6' is spotted. There are many times there would be 4, 5 or 6 balls lined up on the spot.

Alabama may be known by other names. When the balls are racked... the '8' in the middle and the '1' & '15' balls are placed behind the '8'. The '1' & '15' balls have to be made in the side pockets, but a player may not make his "side" ball until he made at least one object ball from his group. (Some play you can make the "side" balls any time, I don't)

Cannot have the same side pocket.

I picked up on these games many years ago when if became apparent that for practice I was putting too much money in the tables too... too... fast.

Plus there's stratigy involved.

Both games played with ball-in-hand fouls.

Hey Lea... I really didn't mean to use "sobrequet". It just typed itself. These things have a mind of their own sometimes.

Have a great day and congrats on the 'top score'. Steven

Answer 11

My fav is one pocket I think it is one of the best testers in pool.

I usually play 9 because of the speed and people tend to lose more if done quickly especially if they think it's luck.

My best game after all that is 8. I can usually out pattern most and safeties don't bug me.

Luck

K

Answer 12

8 Ball because it is the easiest game to play against someone.   You get 7 pool balls each whether you hit in a solid or stripe ball.   That is the balls you receive when you hit all 7 in then you go for the 8 ball.