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8 BALL
Everyone’s introduction to pool. It has all the game’s essential elements in embryonic form: strategy, shot-making and position play. Baby’s got to walk before she can run. Have you ever been to a bar and seen someone holding the eight-ball table for hours as the quarters pile up? They laugh, play great and drink the tastiest beer, beer that is won. Have you ever, just a little, wanted to be them? We hope not. They are drunk and playing eight ball in a bar all night. Still, our eight-ball league will be nifty, beginner friendly, fast and furious. Nothing to lose but dignity.
9 BALL
Unimaginable shot-making, exotic position play. To send the rock three rails or nudge it a quarter inch, to cheat the pocket, to create the next perfect angle, to rip back six feet of draw, to cut the ball straight down the rail, to bring a tough shot in the guts of a game, to come back from the dead. These are nine- ball’s glories, nine-ball allows no justice. It’s a war of attrition, a trance, a mind constantly washed clean. The same thing over and over, each rack a tabula rasa where as long as there is money left prior sins can be redeemed.
STRAIGHT POOL
Existential chaos, the schizophrenia of the supermarket, the despair of the remote control, the Doric order of pool come to life in this epic game. The first and most elegant of the games that matter and the fulcrum by which they revolve. It’s the battleground of Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman; the game “Fast Eddie” barked “I don’t rattle!” lost, won, sacrificed Piper Laurie for a left wired and hollow. Straight pool is splendid architecture, symphonic, a triumph of harmony over dissonance. It is the highest examination of the cue arts. It rocks.
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