unoperro
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So to be clear what is darmoose rules for 1ball 1 pocket ?everyone's a designer.......
So to be clear what is darmoose rules for 1ball 1 pocket ?everyone's a designer.......
Nah, thinking isn’t my strong suit…Read my post again. Think. Think some more. Maybe you will understand why I believe it is a fair break/opening.View attachment 437318
Do all games need or benefit from standardized rules?So to be clear what is darmoose rules for 1ball 1 pocket ?
Do all games need or benefit from standardized rules?
As I said earlier, OBOP is played differently all over the country, much like GOLF. Every region where it is played feels their rules are the best and that is just fine. None of them will defer to Steve's attempts to author "standardized and sanctioned" rules in lieu of how they have learned to play the game, nor will TD's at venues like the DCC. So, what's the point?
Personally, I think it all this is simply an overreach that serves no purpose. As for my preference of OBOP, I already described it......
......and thanks to you too.......Darmoose thanks for your reply. I realize people are going to play the game the way they want. It is nice to have a universal set of rules. Perhaps you have noticed the same group of players are in most trnmnts. Do you feel it would be nice for them to play by a standard set of rules at every trnmnt?
Much of this standardized rules is a effort to make 1pkt presentable to a audience. If John and Jane doe can understand the rules it is more likely they will follow the game.
Now you may not feel the need for any of this so keep on keeping on.
......and thanks to you too.......
I don't think it would hurt to have tournaments use standardized rules, but I don't think it helps much in trying to understand or learn OP rules. I also don't think it will happen as TD's are going to be guided by their own problems. OP is a fairly simple game as far as the rules go, but very complicated in terms of how to actually play. Watching players play OBOP with ANY rules will serve the purpose of teaching about the end game.
OBOP is not played by the universally accepted OP rules anywhere, and that is OK. We do not need to dumb down the game, trying to equate it to OP. Gamblers, like TD's, will make the game as they see fit.
Actually, from a spectator's point of view, I think seeing OBOP played by "local" rules is more interesting and more conducive to analyzing how players deal with different circumstances.
Not to change the subject, but for me the best game on a pool table is Golf which is also played by local rules all over the country. I imagine that Hendy ran into all kinds of rules playing and gambling at Golf, and I imagine he never suffered from a lack of standardized rules......
.....might as well......Hey!!!
I have an idea.
It may seem weird.
It may seem goofy.
How about Steve Booth start a thread, make it a sticky so it at the top and lock it so no one can reply on it except him and he can write the rules in it and be able to change them as they will get tweaked.
This thread here…too many spoons in the soup.
I ain’t naming names…yet
Finally, someone with common sense!poolactiontv is hosting these professional one ball one pocket tournaments, using the standard rules: defensive opening shot, one pocket thereafter. It doesn't matter what we think from here on out. Our squabbling is irrelevant; the train is leaving without us. In three years, everyone will play it like they see it at the tournaments.
It seems like some of the posters in this thread think it is their job to invent a better version rather than just standardizing what most people are already doing. Standardizing just means write them down so that anyone who has a question can look it up. It does not mean "improving" or reinventing it.
You are forgetting the adding balls format mini tournament does work if you have the tables available and the time. I do not see how it works otherwise.poolactiontv is hosting these professional one ball one pocket tournaments, using the standard rules: defensive opening shot, one pocket thereafter. It doesn't matter what we think from here on out. Our squabbling is irrelevant; the train is leaving without us. In three years, everyone will play it like they see it at the tournaments.
It seems like some of the posters in this thread think it is their job to invent a better version rather than just standardizing what most people are already doing. Standardizing just means write them down so that anyone who has a question can look it up. It does not mean "improving" or reinventing it.
You are forgetting the adding balls format mini tournament does work if you have the tables available and the time. I do not see how it works otherwise.
The little guy gets left out I guess, or does not matter! Hm!
If that is where OP.org is going, I do not want to participate in that endeavor!
I do want to participate in the grass roots of OP becoming popular, and for me that is in the development of a game rule that works to introduce OP to the player in the pool room. How do we grow players back into the poolrooms?
Whitey