NH Steve
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I got a local player to try this -- he could easily understand it. You have to understand up here in NH most players have never heard of Bank Pool -- we are way out of "bank pool country" lol.
Rack just 3 balls -- you can call a bank on the break (i.e. four railing one of the wing balls) and if it goes it counts. If you make a different ball on the break you just sit, because your called ball did not go. If you make a second ball, that one just spots right then and there (all the time -- no holding balls for spotting til the end of the inning). You don't go backwards on a scratch -- your opponent just gets BIH behind the line. It never came up, but if all the balls were behind the line you would have to spot one. You can call combo banks -- including if a ball is hanging, you can bank another ball into it and call that ball. If your object ball happens to carom off another ball on its way to your pocket it still counts (like straight pool).
First player to bank two wins -- nice and quick
Not the way banks are usually played of course, but I got somebody to the table with it that otherwise would not have so I like the game lol
Rack just 3 balls -- you can call a bank on the break (i.e. four railing one of the wing balls) and if it goes it counts. If you make a different ball on the break you just sit, because your called ball did not go. If you make a second ball, that one just spots right then and there (all the time -- no holding balls for spotting til the end of the inning). You don't go backwards on a scratch -- your opponent just gets BIH behind the line. It never came up, but if all the balls were behind the line you would have to spot one. You can call combo banks -- including if a ball is hanging, you can bank another ball into it and call that ball. If your object ball happens to carom off another ball on its way to your pocket it still counts (like straight pool).
First player to bank two wins -- nice and quick
Not the way banks are usually played of course, but I got somebody to the table with it that otherwise would not have so I like the game lol