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Philly Willy
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:55 am Post subject: KNOW THE RULES OF THE MAJOR LEAGUES |
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I travel around the world quite extensively with my job, and am amazed that American amateur pool players are the least knowledgeable of the rules of 8-ball and 9-ball. It is like they make them up as they go.
The three major leagues are the APA, BCA, and IPT. You can obtain copies of the rules on-line and for free. There is no reason why pool players in the USA should not be familiar with at least the major league rules.
As an example, at my local pool hall, two middle age pool players , who seemed to know each other, decided to play a race to 8 of 8-Ball for $1,000.00. Within a few minutes, they were in a constant dispute over the rules. Finally, they asked my friend and I to decide who was right and who was wrong. We both asked them by which rules they were going by. The answer was just 8-Ball Rules. Well we informed them, there were three major leagues as indicated above, and they were all different. They asked us what rules we were going by and we told them IPT, which is a call shot game. I also told them different bars and clubs have their own rules, that usually cause problems to outsiders who don't ask questions first. I pointed out since they were playing for that much money, I would be playing by BCA or IPT Rules, since APA was not call shot and much easier.
They continued to bug us to resolve their problems until I said, if you two are going to play for money, you really need to learn the rules before you wind up in a fist fight and/or enemies forever.
What do you folks think?????
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Dominic
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[b]I agree with you. I play in both the APA and the BCA and like the BCA rules. I play alot of straight pool and I like calling my shot. By the way I play straight pool with an old timer who you my know.
Don (the preacher) Feeney. He had a 130 ball run against me. Not bad for a 79 year old man. |
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Philly Willy
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Yep. He is a very good pool player.
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Dominic
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Philly Willy,
I check on this site eery couple of days and don't understand why non of Tim's masters use the site.
I would think it is another tool to help improve their
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Levi
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hello everyone I just wanted to say hello and I have not been on the site much since I have a summer based business and 2 daughters getting ready for college. If any one needs anything please feel free to write I only check my email once a week and it will be that way till the end of september but please drop me a line. I love the forum and would love to get a day we could all get on here and chat. Any suggestions? have fun everyone
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