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Cue sports

Pool

The flagship wedge game: a table in every bar, a game in minutes.

Rack strength0–10002–4 playersTableNeeds real-match testing

How a game is set up

Formats, length and resource

Formats

  • 8-ball
  • 9-ball
  • 10-ball
  • Race to 5

Typical length

45 / 60 / 90 minutes

Resource booked

Table

Scoring

frames — e.g. 5-3 racks

Equipment

  • Certified table
  • Match cue set
  • Table marker

Typical venues

  • Bar
  • Pool hall
  • Hotel
  • Café

Physical layer

Venue's own infrastructure — Venue's own table; Meet Your Match supplies the certified table marker and rules preset.

How skill is estimated

Rack strength

Range

0 – 1000

Method

A rack win chance on a doubling scale, resolved properly for the race length so a race to seven keeps its own shape.

What we capture

Discipline, rulebook version, table size, break policy, race target, final rack score and winner.

How it updates

The outcome, not the margin, drives the skill update; the rack score validates completion and feeds an evidence count.

First games

Three answers may seed broad centres of 250 / 400 / 550 (skip: 400) with wide uncertainty. Design assumptions, not a published mapping.

Placement question

In 8-ball, how often can you clear your remaining balls and the 8 in one visit from a reasonable opening? — never / occasionally / regularly / skip.

Honesty about the number

What this rating is, and what it isn't

Where no universal amateur scale exists, MeetYourMatch says so rather than inventing one.

Benchmark

FargoRate-style logarithmic rack strength

FargoRate fits everybody at once and treats ~200 games as an established rating. Three Meet Your Match matches are emphatically not that standard.

Open decisions

How to anchor a local group to any external scale at all.

Status: Needs real-match testing.

Handicap: Unequal race

Race to 5 against race to 3 — the game's own native handicap, agreed manually.

Unequal races, agreed manually and kept entirely out of the rated track.

What it costs to play

Illustrative MeetYourMatch service fee for Pool: £3.60 per player, against a planned average of £4.50 per player per game.

The MeetYourMatch service fee covers matchmaking and booking coordination. Each player pays their own. The approved assumption is an average of £4.50 per player per game; actual per-game and per-city rates are still to be set, and the amounts shown here are illustrative demo prices. Anything the venue charges — table or court time, any minimum spend — is separate from this fee.

Illustrative price · not final

Where it could be played

Example venues for Pool

Example venue profiles · not live listings

Soho Cue Club

Pool hall & bar · Soho

Eight certified pool tables, two full-size snooker tables and a proper oche downstairs.

Strike Stratford

Games & entertainment · Stratford

Ten pool tables, two snooker tables and eight oches with league nights all week.

Camden Ping House

Bar · Camden Town

Four tournament tables, cheap beer and the loudest doubles nights in town.

How venues & hosts fit in
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