Pool300

Don Owen, co-founder of OB Cues, inventor and long time pool enthusiast led the development of this challenging game.
POOL 300 is 100% offense. When it’s your turn, you're shooting for yourself, not directly against another player. Players are handicapped in the same way as bowlers. Beginners can compete against accomplished players and still have a chance.
RULES OF THE GAME
Break
The first inning in each frame begins by racking the balls according to the assigned pattern for that frame. The shooter racks his or her own. The shooter breaks from behind the head string. Unless a foul occurs on the break, all balls pocketed remain down and count toward that inning. However, pocketing a ball on the break is not required.
A failure to hit the rack does not constitute a break and the same breaker gets another chance to execute the break shot from behind the head string. This “failure to hit the rack re-try” applies even if the cue ball goes into a pocket or off the table or if the player intentionally diverts the cue ball away from the rack.
A foul that occurs on the break does not end the first inning. After a foul on the break, all balls pocketed are spotted, along the long string, and the same player takes ball in hand anywhere on the table to continue the first inning.
Failure to pocket an object ball on the break does not end the first inning of that frame. The breaker takes ball in hand and continues the first inning
First Inning Rules:
The object of the first inning is to pocket the ten object balls in numerical order without missing. To score a point and continue shooting the player must legally pocket the lowest numbered ball on the table. Caroms and combinations are allowed. The cue ball is not required to hit the lowest ball first.
There are no “bad hits”. If all ten balls are legally pocketed during the first inning, the frame is scored as a “strike”.
The first inning in each frame begins by racking the balls according to the pattern designated for that frame on the official score sheet. The shooter racks his or her own. The shooter breaks from behind the head string. Unless a foul occurs on the break, all balls pocketed remain down and count toward that inning. Pocketing a ball on the break is not required.
After the break, the breaker takes “ball in hand” anywhere on the table and shoots until all balls are legally pocketed or a miss or a foul occurs. The first inning ends when:
1) all ten balls are legally pocketed without missing,
2) except on the break, the shooter fails to pocket the lowest ball on the table, or
3) a foul is committed, except on the break.
Except on the break, if a miss or foul occurs, the first inning ends and no balls pocketed during that shot (stroke) count. Fouls bear no penalty points.
The score for the first inning is the total number of balls legally pocketed during the inning. Record the score for that inning in the appropriate box within theappropriate frame on the score sheet.
Second Inning Rules:
If a strike is not scored in the first inning of the frame, then the object of the second inning, in any frame, is to pocket the remaining balls in any order. To score a point and continue shooting, the player must legally pocket an object ball.
If all of the remaining object balls are legally pocketed during the second inning, the frame is scored as a “spare”.
The second inning begins by spotting any illegally pocketed ball from the last shot of the first inning. All other remaining object balls are left where they stopped during the last shot of the first inning. The same player takes ball in hand anywhere on the table and shoots until all balls are legally pocketed or a miss or a foul occurs.
The second inning ends when:
1) the remaining object balls are all legally pocketed
without missing,
2) the shooter fails to legally pocket an object ball, or
3) a foul is committed.
If a miss or foul occurs the second inning ends and no balls pocketed during that shot count. Fouls bear no penalty points.
The score for the second inning is the total number of balls legally pocketed during the inning. Record the score for that inning in the appropriate box within the appropriate frame on the score sheet.
Score keeping
Pool300 is scored exactly like bowling with strikes, spares and open frames. The exception is that we play in 3 frames sets so the 3rd frame is scored like the 10th frame in bowling. A spare gets 1 bonus "turn" and a strike gets 2.

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