''Where I used to live we had to nominate the pocket for the black before the start of the game, so your opponent always tried to leave one hanging over your nominated pocket''

Thats a serious sub rule man!

yep lol - and sometimes it became like a game of chess on the black - all safety for 20 mins : p

Now THAT is cool way to play the game...

With all the major websites adding "local" to thier content, maybe in the future we will have funkypool.local