Yapp’s Controversial Tournament-Winning Shot in the 8-Ball World Championship … Was it a Foul?

My interactions with fellow pool players has been overwhelmingly positive. I've been cheated a handful of times. The problem is -- the bad actors stand out and paint a bad picture.
Own a bar and a couple of pool rooms for a number of years and you might have a different perspective. Get to see what people do to each other and do to you, are really like.

For the most part they're not your friends It just requires something for you to see it. It doesn't have to be pool, the people you work with your neighbors, your friends even family members. You'll find everybody has it in them to be a sleazy piece of s***.

Yapp’s Controversial Tournament-Winning Shot in the 8-Ball World Championship … Was it a Foul?

Golf and snooker both come to mind. In both sports players are expected to call rule infractions on themselves and they regularly do so on the biggest stages.

Obviously snooker is the closest analogy. In snooker the players routinely call a foul on themselves for touching an OB, feathering the CB, double hitting the CB etc. even when there is a referee standing right there watching. I’ve seen dozens of televised matches where the player calls the foul and the referee didn’t see it.

The player in those situations is an a position to know with certainty that they fouled. I’ve said earlier that this particular situation (which ball is hit first) is harder and the closest example I’ve seen was a player asking the referee go watch a replay because they thought they might have hit the wrong ball first (he had not). In that situation I don’t know what the player should do if the referee does watch the replay and thinks it’s a good hit but the player thinks it wasn’t.
Think curling is the same, though only became aware of that after there was lots of controversy at the most recent winter Olympics around Canada

Trying to learn about splices

I understand the difference btwn a full splice & short splice......but how do you know if a cue was spliced vs. the points just being inlaid? For example, were all of Tim Scruggs / Bill McDaniel's cues spliced? I assume some of the mass produced (i.e. McDermott) are inlaid points vs. spliced?
The points being inlaid with a 90 degree V groove is called a half splice. Not sure what a short splice is, but I'd assume it's the same thing as a half splice.. ie. Now you can just inlay something and make it look kind of like a half splice, but usually you'd only do that if the material you want to use for points doesn't have a large enough 90 degree male V surface available (ie. You have a thin veneer or something like that...) High quality CNC inlaying, in my opinion, is more difficult than a half splice, so not sure why you would do it otherwise.. also it's very difficult and requires special techniques to CNC a sharp point, where splices naturally produce sharp points...

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