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Rotation Straight Pool Rotation Straight Pool (RSP) is a great game invented by Patrick. RSP is a combination of Straight pool and 9-ball, the two most popular pool games in the world. "In RSP you can play against the opponent instead of the table." What is Rotation Straight Pool? "In RSP you can choose how you want to play the game." Rotation Straight Pool (RSP) is like straight pool but you need to hit the lowest ball on the table first. 1, 2, 3, 4... etc. With RSP there is more variation than in normal pool games, you will never get bored, there will always be a different layout of the table. Most of the shots you make appear like trick shots for some, but they are not. The shots that normally are the hardest in 9-ball are normal shots in RSP, not many practice the hard shots because they don't come up that often in 9-ball. In RSP you can't run out the table without some trick shots. Caroms, combos, banks, jump shots, massé shots, these shots come up in RSP all the time, often you actually play position on these shots. Of course these shots come up in 9-ball too, but this is different, if you will play a carom shot from another ball, you normally make the shot and get position on the ball, but in RSP it is not that simple. That carom shot gets much harder when there are other balls in the way so you wouldn't get a nice leave after you made the carom, with 15 balls on the table of course it is harder than with only 9. So you will need to play much better position play in RSP than in 9-ball, and most of the balls are in the lower half of the table so this will get even harder! In other pool games you can learn all shots with memory and experience, in RSP there are millions of shots, so you need to use more intelligence to play this game. You need to calculate new shots every time. The reason why RSP is so good is because you need a lot of skill, in 9-ball anyone can beat anyone if they are lucky, but this doesn't happen in RSP. In 9-ball you can run tables without good cueball control, you can't do that in RSP, the one who is better at cueball control will be the one who wins! In 9-ball there is a very small difference if you have better cueball control skill! The biggest reason why RSP is so good is because it totally eliminates the luck in the break. In 9-ball the break is the luckiest shot on the table and you need a lot luck to make a ball and get position on the lowest ball. Even if you control it well, there is a chance that another ball hits the cueball so you scratch. With the new invention Sardo tight rack, all balls are racked frozen, so you get a lot consistency, but this will make it way too easy, you can break the same way everytime and run the rack everytime, with this there is no variation! In RSP there is no luck, because you need soft controlled breaks to continue the run. If you break hard, you will have more bad luck than good luck. Because the balls are racked random, you need to master many breaks, as in chess where you need to learn different openings. Because the break ball is always in a different place, this will give even more variation and you will need more skill to calculate new break shots. In straight pool and 9-ball you always try to run the table. You are not playing against your opponent much, only the table. In RSP you can do both, you can either try to run the table or play a safety battle against your opponent. You will get points for your opponent's fouls so safeties are worth doing. Click here for a safety battle strategy guide. In normal Rotation it is very easy to snooker your opponent even for amateurs, because the balls are spread out across the whole table. In RSP they are mostly at the lower half of the table which makes the other half empty to make easy kick shots. Also because you don't need to hit a rail after ball contact; there will be many kick re-safeties. So it is more difficult to snooker your opponent without him getting out. In 9-ball there are an average of 4 balls on each table half, in Rotation there are 7 on each table half. In RSP there is both, on the lower half there are about 11 balls, on the other half there are 3. So RSP is many games in one. You can choose how you want to play it, you can use either soft breaks and keep all balls at the lower half of the table, or spread them out more. Rules The 3 highest ball are racked randomly in the centre of the rack, all the other lower balls are racked at the sides also randomly, except in the beginning of the match where the 1 ball is racked at either corner. Normal matches are played first to 50. One point per called ball. One point for the opponent for every foul you make. The winner needs to win by 10 points, if he isn't leading by 10 points when he reaches 50, then the match continues until either player has won by 10 points. This is done up to 100 points, where the first one who reaches 100 is the winner, even if he wins by one point! Both players lag for the break. The winner of the lag chooses who breaks. In the break, you need to hit the 1 ball first and call it in the pocket you want to make it in. The normal shots are to bank it in the corner, or play a safety break as in normal straight pool. It is allowed to make any ball on the table as long as you hit the lowest ball first and you called that ball in that same pocket. If you don't hit the lowest ball first, scratch or jump any balls off the table, the opponent gets ball in hand anywhere on the table and all made and jumped off balls are respotted. The opponent gets 1 point for every foul you make, until you have done 3 fouls without pocketing a ball, after that he will not get any points for your fouls. After you have legally pocketed a ball, the opponent will get points for your next 3 fouls, and so on. Hitting a rail after ball contact is not needed. It is a call shot game, you only need to call the shot if it is not obvious. If you call a ball, then another ball goes in, that ball is respotted and you don't get that extra point. If you call both of the balls, you will get points for both balls and the balls stay down. If you call both balls and only one of them goes in, BOTH balls are respotted and you don't get any points, and the turn changes to the opponent. The break ball rule; after you have made the second last ball and have left the 15 ball for example when the balls are racked; you can choose between the 15 ball or the 1 ball. Safety on the break ball is not allowed, if you fail to pocket the break ball, the opponent gets ball in hand anywhere on the table and can choose between the 1 ball or the break ball. The opponent is allowed to rack the balls in any order he wants, but he can't rack the 1 ball twice in the same place during the entire match. He always needs to place it in another place. Patrick practicing Rotation Straight Pool Streaming video (for cable users) No download needed, click on the link to start the video.
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