2007mar14. Mail.
Me and my friends started our own 3 man pool league last year, and this year we developed a game we called “speed pool.”After playing for 2 weeks, I got online to see if anyone else had tried this. I then saw your website. We play it a bit differently, we use 1 cue ball. The ball has to be hit while on the move, if it stops, it is called a “dead ball” and the last person to touch it gets a free hit. If the cue ball is knocked off the table or into a pocket, it is called “out of bounds” and the ball is awarded to the person that did not touch it last. We have 15 balls on the table, the first person to get 8 in wins. I think your style is good also, so we will be trying it out one of these nights. We also do a coin flip to see who breaks first. The balls are racked anyway that the referee wishes, scattered, in a triangle, straight line, etc.
Also, have you really played this in a bar? That would be the funniest damn thing to see lol.
Joe M.
Mexico, NY
Joe, thanks for the choice. You are from ... Mexico. No, New York. It’s hard to decide. Anyway, thanks for noting your Speedpool variant. We never actually played it in a bar, this was back when I was trying to cultivate more of a “hard ass” image on Cardhouse. Now I don’t care, which, ironically enough, makes me more of a “hard ass.” Or not. Or maybe this entire paragraph is filled with lies. Maybe this is being typed by a rat. It’s an unknown. I have licorice and leftover pizza, though. That much is a given. Do rats like licorice?
