[FASTLARRY]

GAMES: Cribbage. 3-20-2000 4 pages, CR, Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved, Bpn, czm, upp, rsb.

Fast Larry’s modern rules of Cribbage.

Cribbage is a game that died off around 50 years ago. Today it is rarely played by any one. The game was too difficult. It is a fine accomplishment to run 6 balls. It makes the player think constantly and 9 ball bangers hate it for that reason. It forces you to be planning ahead 4 to 6 balls at all times. It forces you to hit soft shots and play precise exact position like in straight pool. See this as not a game but a drill you perform daily. Play to a set of 5 games. When two people of exact same skills play most games in up in a tie 4-4 each. Normally the set is won by winning just one game. Play Cribbage daily and your position skills and your fine touch will improve dramatically. These are Larry’s rules and not the official rules of the game

The rules in the back of the BCA book are 50 years out of date, we no longer go behind the string on fouls, so I have updated those rules so the game can be a fun open and run out contest. The old rules turn too many of the games into boring and slow defensive contests. The fine player will run 3 cribs a lot. A few games will become total defensive contests and slow down when several balls begin to spot and line up on a string. This is also good because it forces you to learn to be a fine safety player. Most games are won by the player waiting to end game and then making a bold shot into the string, spreading the balls and running out the last 3 or 4 cribs. It is the same tactic used in straight pool or advanced Snooker. Miss that shot and your are doomed.

To win at this game you must learn to play smart. You can then defeat people who are much better at 9 ball than you are when you know the moves of Cribbage. Win the lag, bust them hard and wide open and try to run a couple of cribs early. When you run out of shots, then begin to play safe and leave your opponent few scoring opportunities. Make him shoot the hard 10% shots. Eventually he misses and you pick off a crib and go back hiding again. You frustrate him in the middle game. The last 3 cribs are the easiest; you run 5 balls and those last 3 cribs usually win the game. If you can win one crib early, keep him locked up in middle game and make him take that tough shot at the end that opens up the last 5 balls and run out. 4 cribs is a tie. Normally you will win and make your 5 cribs from this position.

To break and run the table is a Hugh accomplishment. When you do that, you are a real serious pool player. My high run at this is 3 racks, 45 balls. I was playing Steve Lillis at the Vegas BCA show this year and he ran 3 racks in a row on me and Steve is ranked in the top 20’s on the current 9 ball tour. Old straight pool people are real good at this game as it plays into all of their old skills. I came back and ran 2 racks on him in a row. At the high end level, like most games, you just run out on the other guy.

YOU MUST LAG FOR THE BREAK. WHEN IN DOUBT, USE STANDARD 14.1 RULES.

The break must be hard and the rack must spread and 5 balls must hit a rail. Have fun; don’t turn this into a one hour one pocket game. Bust them and try to run them. Do not gamble at this game, play it for fun and for a drill to increase your skills at other games. Make the 15 ball on the break you win the game.

Rack up 15 balls with the 15 in the center and no two of the corner balls may add up
To 15, the rest of the balls go in random order.

Object of the game is to score 5 cribs out of a total of 8, 4-4 is a tie. Play a set to a race to 5 games, if you end up tied, and then goes into sudden death.

Cribbage is a pair of object balls, legally potted numerically totaling 15. There are just these seven regular cribbage’s. 1-14, 2-13, 3-12, 4-11, 5-10, 6-9, 7-8. No other ball combinations can be cribbage’s except that when all seven regular cribbage’s have been legally pocketed then the 15 ball becomes cribbage by itself, the 15 ball must be potted last. You cannot score a crib potting 3 balls that add up to 15.
The 15 can be a neutral ball and used. If the 15 is blocking a pocket, you may pot it, it then spots and you may continue your run. You may pot the 15 to gain position on another ball. Intelligent educated people love this game.

No balls are called on the break and any that fall are yours. After the break all shots must be called using 14.1 rules. Obvious straight end shots may be assumed, but any combos or banks or any shot not obvious must be called. No slop, this game is not for bangers, this game is pool chess. If you bank and do not call the shot, your opponent may call a foul and take cue ball in hand even if you pot the shot and that crib run of one or two balls is then spotted.

If your opponent sees you pot the 1 and then realizes you are making a mistake and are lining up to pot the 13 in error and are making a addition mistake he may remain silent, allow you to pot and call a foul and take cue ball in hand. The spirit of this game should be to show total sportsmanship and warn the player in advance of his mistake. New comers to this game will get confused easily so do not take advantage of this please. Help them to make these mental additions correctly to 15.

If you soft safety break and do not drive 5 balls to the rails your opponent can take over the break from you or make you rebreak. Failure to break correctly 3 times in a row is loss of game.

To legally pocket cribbage, the two balls must be pocketed that add up to 15. You can make a crib making two separate shots, potting the one, getting shape and potting the 14 on your second shot. You could score a crib making the 1 and 14 as a trick shot making both on one stroke. If you would wade into the stack making a crib and 1 or more other balls pot, these are carry balls. They are yours to use any time during your run. Say you potted the one, they potted the 14 going into the stack making a crib but also potted the 5, that is your carry ball. You can make two more cribs and then get shape on the 10, pot that one ball and score another crib.
It just as the 5 was already in your box. If your run ended, then any and all carry balls that did not convert into cribs then spot up.
The same rule applies on the break, if you pot a ball, your run may begin. If you pot 3 balls, the 3 the 5 the 9, these are carry balls.

You can begin your run shooting any ball on the table. You pot the 1, then the 14, your first crib. If you see the 6 and pot it, that goes with your 9 carry ball and that is your second crib. Breaking well and making several balls on the break and getting a run started can then be a Hugh advantage in this game. It makes getting and keeping the break the key to winning.
After the break and your run ends any carry balls that did not convert into cribs spot up.

If you pot the 1 and then miss the 14, the 1 ball spots on the rack spot. All other balls spot behind it keeping a vertical line down from the spot to the rail. Follow the general rules of pool on this.

After your run you empty the pockets of all your balls and lay them out on the table and you do not remove them until your opponent has checked and approved your scores. Each 2 ball set must add up to 15. If you have the 1-14 and the 5-10 and the 6 displayed after missing the 9 ball, you then spot up the 6 and take your 4 balls and removed them from the table into the rack slots on the end of the table. If during your run you did pot 2 balls by mistake that did not add up to 15 and that is discovered when your run ends, that crib is taken from you, those 2 balls in the crib are spotted and your opponent now has cue ball in hand.
One half of the ball racks is for your balls, the other half is for your opponents. If your table does not have these racks, lay out the balls on an empty table next to you or on the floor. When you place your 4 balls on your half of the table in the rack box means your score is now 2. It is vital to know your scoring position in this game at all times. Usually a single crib wins most games if your opponent and you are close in skill levels. If you jump out with a 3-0 lead early, that is Hugh and hard to overcome.
All fouls are cue ball in hand.

If the opponent pots the 1 and then pots the 13 making a addition mistake, both balls spot and the opponent has cue ball in hand. You must make a legal hit on the ball you are shooting at or give up cue ball in hand. If you pot the 1 and hook your self where you do not hit the 14, drive it to a rail or hit the 14 and the cue ball hits a rail, this is a foul.
You may call a ball in a pocket and call safe. If the ball pots, it spots and the opponent plays the cue ball where it lies. There is no foul for this. You cannot do this twice in a row, the second time you must drive a ball to a rail or hit a ball and have the cue ball hit a rail. You may play safe that way as many times as you wish to.
Loss of game if you commit three fouls in a row.
Illegally pocketed balls are spotted with no penalty.
Object balls jumped off the table are all spotted, foul, cue ball in hand.
Cue ball jumps off the table, foul, cue ball in hand.
All fouls, cue ball in hand.








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[FASTLARRY]

FASTLARRY, on Oct 26 2009, 04:50 PM, said:

GAMES: Cribbage. 3-20-2000 4 pages, CR, Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved, Bpn, czm, upp, rsb.

Fast Larry’s modern rules of Cribbage.

Cribbage is a game that died off around 50 years ago. Today it is rarely played by any one. The game was too difficult. It is a fine accomplishment to run 6 balls. It makes the player think constantly and 9 ball bangers hate it for that reason. It forces you to be planning ahead 4 to 6 balls at all times. It forces you to hit soft shots and play precise exact position like in straight pool. See this as not a game but a drill you perform daily. Play to a set of 5 games. When two people of exact same skills play most games in up in a tie 4-4 each. Normally the set is won by winning just one game. Play Cribbage daily and your position skills and your fine touch will improve dramatically. These are Larry’s rules and not the official rules of the game

The rules in the back of the BCA book are 50 years out of date, we no longer go behind the string on fouls, so I have updated those rules so the game can be a fun open and run out contest. The old rules turn too many of the games into boring and slow defensive contests. The fine player will run 3 cribs a lot. A few games will become total defensive contests and slow down when several balls begin to spot and line up on a string. This is also good because it forces you to learn to be a fine safety player. Most games are won by the player waiting to end game and then making a bold shot into the string, spreading the balls and running out the last 3 or 4 cribs. It is the same tactic used in straight pool or advanced Snooker. Miss that shot and your are doomed.

To win at this game you must learn to play smart. You can then defeat people who are much better at 9 ball than you are when you know the moves of Cribbage. Win the lag, bust them hard and wide open and try to run a couple of cribs early. When you run out of shots, then begin to play safe and leave your opponent few scoring opportunities. Make him shoot the hard 10% shots. Eventually he misses and you pick off a crib and go back hiding again. You frustrate him in the middle game. The last 3 cribs are the easiest; you run 5 balls and those last 3 cribs usually win the game. If you can win one crib early, keep him locked up in middle game and make him take that tough shot at the end that opens up the last 5 balls and run out. 4 cribs is a tie. Normally you will win and make your 5 cribs from this position.

To break and run the table is a Hugh accomplishment. When you do that, you are a real serious pool player. My high run at this is 3 racks, 45 balls. I was playing Steve Lillis at the Vegas BCA show this year and he ran 3 racks in a row on me and Steve is ranked in the top 20’s on the current 9 ball tour. Old straight pool people are real good at this game as it plays into all of their old skills. I came back and ran 2 racks on him in a row. At the high end level, like most games, you just run out on the other guy.

YOU MUST LAG FOR THE BREAK. WHEN IN DOUBT, USE STANDARD 14.1 RULES.

The break must be hard and the rack must spread and 5 balls must hit a rail. Have fun; don’t turn this into a one hour one pocket game. Bust them and try to run them. Do not gamble at this game, play it for fun and for a drill to increase your skills at other games. Make the 15 ball on the break you win the game.

Rack up 15 balls with the 15 in the center and no two of the corner balls may add up
To 15, the rest of the balls go in random order.

Object of the game is to score 5 cribs out of a total of 8, 4-4 is a tie. Play a set to a race to 5 games, if you end up tied, and then goes into sudden death.

Cribbage is a pair of object balls, legally potted numerically totaling 15. There are just these seven regular cribbage’s. 1-14, 2-13, 3-12, 4-11, 5-10, 6-9, 7-8. No other ball combinations can be cribbage’s except that when all seven regular cribbage’s have been legally pocketed then the 15 ball becomes cribbage by itself, the 15 ball must be potted last. You cannot score a crib potting 3 balls that add up to 15.
The 15 can be a neutral ball and used. If the 15 is blocking a pocket, you may pot it, it then spots and you may continue your run. You may pot the 15 to gain position on another ball. Intelligent educated people love this game.

No balls are called on the break and any that fall are yours. After the break all shots must be called using 14.1 rules. Obvious straight end shots may be assumed, but any combos or banks or any shot not obvious must be called. No slop, this game is not for bangers, this game is pool chess. If you bank and do not call the shot, your opponent may call a foul and take cue ball in hand even if you pot the shot and that crib run of one or two balls is then spotted.

If your opponent sees you pot the 1 and then realizes you are making a mistake and are lining up to pot the 13 in error and are making a addition mistake he may remain silent, allow you to pot and call a foul and take cue ball in hand. The spirit of this game should be to show total sportsmanship and warn the player in advance of his mistake. New comers to this game will get confused easily so do not take advantage of this please. Help them to make these mental additions correctly to 15.

If you soft safety break and do not drive 5 balls to the rails your opponent can take over the break from you or make you rebreak. Failure to break correctly 3 times in a row is loss of game.

To legally pocket cribbage, the two balls must be pocketed that add up to 15. You can make a crib making two separate shots, potting the one, getting shape and potting the 14 on your second shot. You could score a crib making the 1 and 14 as a trick shot making both on one stroke. If you would wade into the stack making a crib and 1 or more other balls pot, these are carry balls. They are yours to use any time during your run. Say you potted the one, they potted the 14 going into the stack making a crib but also potted the 5, that is your carry ball. You can make two more cribs and then get shape on the 10, pot that one ball and score another crib.
It just as the 5 was already in your box. If your run ended, then any and all carry balls that did not convert into cribs then spot up.
The same rule applies on the break, if you pot a ball, your run may begin. If you pot 3 balls, the 3 the 5 the 9, these are carry balls.

You can begin your run shooting any ball on the table. You pot the 1, then the 14, your first crib. If you see the 6 and pot it, that goes with your 9 carry ball and that is your second crib. Breaking well and making several balls on the break and getting a run started can then be a Hugh advantage in this game. It makes getting and keeping the break the key to winning.
After the break and your run ends any carry balls that did not convert into cribs spot up.

If you pot the 1 and then miss the 14, the 1 ball spots on the rack spot. All other balls spot behind it keeping a vertical line down from the spot to the rail. Follow the general rules of pool on this.

After your run you empty the pockets of all your balls and lay them out on the table and you do not remove them until your opponent has checked and approved your scores. Each 2 ball set must add up to 15. If you have the 1-14 and the 5-10 and the 6 displayed after missing the 9 ball, you then spot up the 6 and take your 4 balls and removed them from the table into the rack slots on the end of the table. If during your run you did pot 2 balls by mistake that did not add up to 15 and that is discovered when your run ends, that crib is taken from you, those 2 balls in the crib are spotted and your opponent now has cue ball in hand.
One half of the ball racks is for your balls, the other half is for your opponents. If your table does not have these racks, lay out the balls on an empty table next to you or on the floor. When you place your 4 balls on your half of the table in the rack box means your score is now 2. It is vital to know your scoring position in this game at all times. Usually a single crib wins most games if your opponent and you are close in skill levels. If you jump out with a 3-0 lead early, that is Hugh and hard to overcome.
All fouls are cue ball in hand.

If the opponent pots the 1 and then pots the 13 making a addition mistake, both balls spot and the opponent has cue ball in hand. You must make a legal hit on the ball you are shooting at or give up cue ball in hand. If you pot the 1 and hook your self where you do not hit the 14, drive it to a rail or hit the 14 and the cue ball hits a rail, this is a foul.
You may call a ball in a pocket and call safe. If the ball pots, it spots and the opponent plays the cue ball where it lies. There is no foul for this. You cannot do this twice in a row, the second time you must drive a ball to a rail or hit a ball and have the cue ball hit a rail. You may play safe that way as many times as you wish to.
Loss of game if you commit three fouls in a row.
Illegally pocketed balls are spotted with no penalty.
Object balls jumped off the table are all spotted, foul, cue ball in hand.
Cue ball jumps off the table, foul, cue ball in hand.
All fouls, cue ball in hand.








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"I came, I saw, I conquered, love conquerors all. Yes I really did
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C'est La Vie. " Shoot straight, innovate, never give up, just run
out on the other guy then there is no way for you to lose.
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Here is the schedule in the first half of 2007.
We present the spring pool schools where you can take your game to that
next level you have dreamed about. Come to our work shop and learn
from a former world champion and master level instructor Fast Larry
Guninger. Two days of intense all day training on the weekend Saturday
and Sunday.
The best price of any school. Only $237 a day, or $29 an hour. The
two day course is $475. No cattle car crowds where you get ignored. We
have the lowest amount of students per instructor of any school.
March 10-12 Philadelphia, Pa
April 14-15 Atlanta, Ga
May 5-6 Washington D.C.
May 26-27 St Pete, Fla
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July 7-8 Orlando, Fla
You can have the pool school come to your home room by simply getting
your entire league team to buy in for the 2 day course or get others in
your league or school to take part. You will have to get 5 players
who will put up small advance good faith deposits and then no matter
where you live, Oregon or Maine, we show up. You can now book the pool
school any time between January and July 2007. If you bring in five to the school then your lesson is free and you are the 6th student at no charge.
The pool schools have sold out for the last three years they have been
offered. As the number of students allowed is very small these slots
sell out very fast. Snooze and you lose. You can reserve your spot
today with only an advance deposit of $50 which is totally refunded if
you cancel out within 2 weeks of the school date.
For more details or to sign up and reserve your spot email to:

You may call 770-381-6609 to discuss it as well.

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[astetsoncowboy]

I'd like to try this out and see what happens. Thanks for the rules FL.

[FASTLARRY]

dumb pool players with low IQ's and intellects hate this game. They have to add in their heads and soon their heads begin to hurt. Their problem is they only have 10 fingers, so when they have to add up to 12, they are triple fooked.

Highly educated people with high IQ's and high intellects hu also play chess, love it. It is a thinking mans game, and not for bozo sausage ball bangers.

[astetsoncowboy]

FASTLARRY, on Feb 24 2010, 11:16 AM, said:

dumb pool players with low IQ's and intellects hate this game. They have to add in their heads and soon their heads begin to hurt. Their problem is they only have 10 fingers, so when they have to add up to 12, they are triple fooked.

Highly educated people with high IQ's and high intellects hu also play chess, love it. It is a thinking mans game, and not for bozo sausage ball bangers.

Well maybe I'll steer clear of it. My IQ is that of a box of rocks and I don't even rank as a sausage yet. If they have webbed fingers or toes, do they count them as 1 or 2?

[FASTLARRY]

astetsoncowboy, on Feb 24 2010, 12:14 PM, said:

Well maybe I'll steer clear of it. My IQ is that of a box of rocks and I don't even rank as a sausage yet. If they have webbed fingers or toes, do they count them as 1 or 2?

I tried to teach it to Yo Sarah, it was like trying to teach a chimp chinese algebra.

I was walking by and Yo Sarah had just got back from costco and was putting up groceries in the fridge, and she opened up a pack of their foot long hot dogs, and said, damn that is big, and I said, Yes, that is what you said the first night we went to bed, but you dont have to keep repeating it out in public. People will start to talk.


You can play it, just wear sandles without socks. They you can count up to 15, even 20. Even up to 23 using your ears and willie. Call me, I'll meet you at Jillians and give you a free lesson on how to play it right. Bring a hand held calculator. I can graduate you from Sausage class, into bozo class real fast.

[huebler]

FL,

A bit of confusion on the rules...Can you pot 1, 13, 14, 2, in that order and have two cribs, or does your turn end if you do not make a crib as in 1,14,13,2? Same question another way, do you only create carry balls on the break, or can you pot balls out of order, and stack up a bunch of carries and then go around and clean up to make cribs that match all the carries?

Your turn ends when you foul, safety, or miss potting a ball?

Sounds like a great game. I can't wait to play it tonight as a drill, playing as both players. That will make for interesting mind games, keeping track of all this as both players!

[FASTLARRY]

huebler, on Feb 24 2010, 01:53 PM, said:

FL,

A bit of confusion on the rules...Can you pot 1, 13, 14, 2, in that order and have two cribs, or does your turn end if you do not make a crib as in 1,14,13,2? Same question another way, do you only create carry balls on the break, or can you pot balls out of order, and stack up a bunch of carries and then go around and clean up to make cribs that match all the carries?

Your turn ends when you foul, safety, or miss potting a ball?

Sounds like a great game. I can't wait to play it tonight as a drill, playing as both players. That will make for interesting mind games, keeping track of all this as both players!

Remember these are fl rules he wrote, and not the original ones. 1,14,13,2, each 2 balls you pot must add up to 15. The carry balls are only allowed on the break, and if you dont use them, they spot up.

Your turn ends when you foul, safety, or miss potting a ball?

Yes,

Learning how to play this game, will make you a thinker, and now you are a stinker. It will have you thinking 6 balls ahead, where now you are probably doing 2 or 3 ahead.

[astetsoncowboy]

Well even if my IQ is lower than that of a person with a lobotomy, I still want to give it a try. It will bring something new to the table besides the same old routineness of 8 ball and 9 ball.

[FASTLARRY]

astetsoncowboy, on Feb 24 2010, 04:16 PM, said:

Well even if my IQ is lower than that of a person with a lobotomy, I still want to give it a try. It will bring something new to the table besides the same old routineness of 8 ball and 9 ball.

There you go, if a person with a frontal lobotomy can do it, why can't you. Variety is the spice of life, with pool, or with women./ When it gets stale, you stop doing it.

[astetsoncowboy]

FASTLARRY, on Feb 24 2010, 04:29 PM, said:

There you go, if a person with a frontal lobotomy can do it, why can't you. Variety is the spice of life, with pool, or with women./ When it gets stale, you stop doing it.

I'm thinking that if I try different formats/games, then the variety is there with little monotony or redundancy, the knowledge and experience comes with it, and sooner or later I'll find my niche.

Knowledge and experience are the most powerful we have and in all that we do. There is never a thing as having too much.

[FASTLARRY]

astetsoncowboy, on Feb 25 2010, 03:11 PM, said:

I'm thinking that if I try different formats/games, then the variety is there with little monotony or redundancy, the knowledge and experience comes with it, and sooner or later I'll find my niche.

Knowledge and experience are the most powerful we have and in all that we do. There is never a thing as having too much.

Now there is a future cribber if I ever saw one. A man with a positive attitude, how rare.

Most pool bums go, yo, dat aint 9 ball, BS, only some mit suit plays dat shit?//

[FASTLARRY]

Learn to play cribbage, you will not regret it.

[Terminator]

FASTLARRY, on May 22 2011, 12:47 PM, said:

Learn to play cribbage, you will not regret it.

Its a wonderful game, thanks fl for bringing it back. When I was young, we played lots of different games. Why that is no longer being done today, I dont understand.