Where did this quite come from? "Never ever play pool with someone who brings their own table"?
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ok but if its a guy he has to bring a stick!!!!! ha ha ha ha
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You know, it's interesting how often people want to get so hung up on semantics.  I think most people realize that the asker meant to say "pool" and not "snooker".  Also, "billiards" does not necessarily refer only to carom games.  Relax people, this isn't the Christians Vs. the lions.  Incidentally, I notice a lot of arrogance on the part of snooker players towards pool players.  If pool is so much easier, then why do so few snooker players excel at pool when they try to make the switch?  Alison Fischer and Karen Corr are two notable exceptions, of course.  I'm not trying to start an argument, as I have a great deal of respect for snooker.  Both games stress different skills.  Snooker requires very precise pocketing skill.  Pool (depending on the game) utilizes different techniques to move the cue ball, such as cheating the pocket and running balls along the cushion.  In fact, my favorite pool game, 14.1 continuous, shares many things in common with snooker.  In straight pool, you have to master short position, breaking up clusters, precise safety play, etc.  In any case, the best place to find game rules would be the BCA website.  They are the North American representative of the WPA.  So, they use world standardized rules.  Best of luck, and just have fun, don't listen to all the negative talk.  M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.
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I have lost a lot of respect for the rules of pool.  There are too many different types of rules for different pubs.  It's impossible nearly to have a friendly game with a stranger in a pub you don't often visit.\n\nA lot of friends seem to have their own rules, it's stupid.\n\nI am a very good pool player but stop enjoying the game because I realised that the official rules are NEVER played by anyone.  I am the type of player who will be happy to play the opponent's rules - but still they get confused with THEIR rules.\n\nSo stick with snooker!  It improves your pool, it also only has one rule and you can not get beat by lucky drunk youngsters.  Snooker is a  man's game.  Pool is anyones game from my experience.\n\nTo be in a pool team, you're generally like to drink in that pub.\n\nTo be in a snooker team, you're generally known to be good!
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I've never played it, but I know someone who did, and we were talking about it while watching.\n\nMe: What club did you hit?\nHim: I hit my 8 iron...all five times.\n\nApparently, there used to be no fringe, just straight green, meaning you wanted to avoid roll as much as possible.
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-Never talk to a guy taking a piss\n-If you drive a golf ball and it doesn't pass the ladies tee you have to play the rest of the round with your pockets and your mess hanging out\n-Never leave beer in the glass or bottle\n-If a girl asks how she looks, always say, "terrific"\n-Always have a handy excuse not to go shopping\n-NOTHING good can ever come from filming yourself having sex\n-NEVER name a boy Amory\n\n\nThe lady who answered below me is confusing a Man.s law with an age-old ladies' law.
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In official terms, it a "Foul"\n\nWhen you play elsewhere, like in pool houses or something, they call it "scratch"
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And it's always been my philosophy:  "Never a borrower or lender be.  Especially to relatives."  Good luck.
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That sounds like a joke I've once heard.  It's meant to corner the joke-teller into being a victim of his or her own joke.
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This is beacuse the first man ever to win at 3/1 ( Oliver Corn - Cheltenham 1876 ) was actually betting in order to get enough money to buy a carpet for his lounge . It turned out however that he had been misquoted by some , frankly , mischevious carpet salesmen and had to return the next day as they had only supplied half the carpet - the rest being offered at an extortionate price - You've guessed it - at 33 times the price - hence the double carpet addage .
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Everyone I've ever spoken too who got the idea into their head to make their own table have always come to the same conclusion...not worth the effort.  Pub-sized tables are cheap and readily available.  Just buy a good one from your local billiards retail store.  Cheers.  M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.
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[Luke won a game of poker on a bluff]\n\nDragline: Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.\n\nLuke: Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand. \n\nCool Hand Luke  -- 1967
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No one knows where it really comes from.  Many people have hypotheses, but nothing definitive & irrefutable.  I have heard it myself & don't care to ever again.  It was creepy.
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Sorry you've had such rubbish answers. \n\nI'm usually quite good at this sort of thing, but I'm afraid I can't find any info on the origins of this phrase.\n\nI hope someone more knowledgeable answers you soon!
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Guess lesson learned.  You NEVER do this with a friend and family is questionable.  You have to worry about your credit for the rest of your life, so you need to be in control of it, not someone else.
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Are we talking about draw poker?\n\nDepends on what is missing I would say.\n\nSuppose all spades were missing except for the 2 of spades which was still there.\n\nThen there are only one-thirteenth as many way of having 4 of a kind as usual, but four twos, if drawn (in one of 36 ways) would be the winning four of a kind hand, three of a kind and Full House would be much harder than normal but the prospects for a flush, a straight, and a royal straight flush would not be significantly affected, I would think, and it might be proper to re-order the ranking of the various hands, as a result.\n\nIf all 5s and all 10s were removed from the pack, it would then be impossible to get a run of cards with 5 successive values (you could get A 2 3 4, or 6 7 8 9 or J Q K A) and hence a royal straight flush would be impossible, as would all other straight flushes or straights without a flush. making four of a kind the best hand there is.\n\nSo what would happen is that the relative probability of some hands would be affected and the ranking order of hands ought to be adjusted, as it is rarest down to most frequent, and if what is rarest and what is most frequent changes, the order should change too.\n\nBut I don't see why the game with a reduced pack of cards would favour one player other than another, except insofar as some people can calculate the new odds better than other people, and adjust their game accordingly but it wouldn't affect the cards you were dealt or the cards you drew.\n\nSo no reason why your chances as against the other players would be any worse, not unless one player had all the missing cards up his sleeve and could judiciously bring them into play, unnoticed!
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Ask and you shall recieve.. you asked "how" the term bogey came into the game --not what a bogey is correct? \n\nhttp://golf.about.com/cs/historyofgolf/a/hist_wordbogey.htm
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I would stick to hor 'derves (sp) and finger food...not too much booze, because the men WILL be embarrassed and might be tempted to drink too much to hide their uncomfortableness....the games are all kinda sappy for showers, but the one we always play is the one where everyone gets a token (like safety pin or something small like that) and if they notice that someone has crossed their legs, they get to take their token..the one with the most at the end of the shower gets the prize...jeez, that  game sounds even dumber as I wrote it.... have fun!