fastone371 said:

I hate that 8 ball doesn't have a 3 foul rule.

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It would be too punitive for 8 ball since you are shooting at different object balls than your opponent. Three foul in 8 ball would really only benefit people who are way behind their opponent, and even then it might waste more time trying to play multiple safeties in a row instead of running out.

Cuebuddy said:

It would take a jump shot to make a legal hit.

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9 ball isn’t meant to be a tactical game, it’s an offensive game. If you like a tactical game, then play and watch 1 pocket instead.

Bob Jewett said:

The BCA and the BCAPL are very, very different organizations. I think you meant CSI/BCAPL.

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It’s funny how the historical BCA rules are archived in many people‘s minds.

In my area, to the extent they specify, most tournaments play by “BCA rules“. Except they are not playing by BCAPL rules. They are really playing by WPA rules or, perhaps more accurately, they are playing by what used to be BCA rules before the CSI takeover and sometimes without regard to current WPA rules. For example, its often CB fouls only, despite the recent WPA rule change. If playing 8b sometimes it’s BIH behind the headstring like old BCA and current WPA, sometimes it’s BIH anywhere like BCAPL.

I suspect that aside from the issue of BIH on the break, if I could find my old BCA rule book from the 1990s, it would accord to what everybody considers to be “BCA rules” in most tournaments here and therefore what most people follow even outside of tournaments.

GideonF said:

Probably depends on where you are from.

In my area I’d say most people have hard cases, either the old traditional ones or the newer models (like say a JB Rugged or it’s imitators). But many people also have the soft cases.

I actually don’t think the issue of cue protection in a soft case is as a big of an issue (so long as the cues aren’t jostling around) for day to day use. If you’re just taking your cues from home to the car to the pool hall and back, it’s hard to imagine great danger to the cues. The cheaper cost, lighter weight and in some cases greater storage are worth the trade off for many. Travel is a whole other kettle of fish.

To me my biggest pet peeve with the soft cases is that most of them don’t stand up properly when empty, so everyone keeps leaving them on the tables when I want to put my food and drink.

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Or on tables when I want to....play pool.

skogstokig said:

yeah, ferrule is obviously correct. i meant there's a second spelling that's accepted

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Ferrel is a word, but I think it's used only very rarely to mean a sleeve that prevents splitting. It is listed in one dictionary as an archaic variant of ferrule. It's generally confusing to use archaic variants.

Did you know that the Y in Ye Olde Shoppe should be pronounced "th" because it represents the archaic English letter "thorn": þ? Some people want to bring it back, or as they put it: Bring back þe letter þorn!

fish2 said:

Is it just me, or have soft cases taken over the pool world? [emoji23] Have hard cases officially gone out of style? I understand the appeal—soft cases are lighter and easier to lug around—but I still think a solid hard case, like the Instroke 2x4 Cowboy, gives your cues a lot more protection. After all, I’d rather carry a heavier case than carry a broken cue.

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Probably depends on where you are from.

In my area I’d say most people have hard cases, either the old traditional ones or the newer models (like say a JB Rugged or it’s imitators). But many people also have the soft cases.

I actually don’t think the issue of cue protection in a soft case is as a big of an issue (so long as the cues aren’t jostling around) for day to day use. If you’re just taking your cues from home to the car to the pool hall and back, it’s hard to imagine great danger to the cues. The cheaper cost, lighter weight and in some cases greater storage are worth the trade off for many. Travel is a whole other kettle of fish.

To me my biggest pet peeve with the soft cases is that most of them don’t stand up properly when empty, so everyone keeps leaving them on the tables when I want to put my food and drink.

DeeDeeCues said:

I don't know if you're joking or not, but I assure you that ferrule is correct. It's an odd progression from the original definition, which was an iron band (derived from ferrous), but then came to mean any thin metal sleeve to reinforce parts, which then made sense when they used brass, on cues, so the change to ivory and plastic didn't warrant a new word.

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yeah, ferrule is obviously correct. i meant there's a second spelling that's accepted

HawaiianEye said:

Take your medications.

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Sir, you are still running from the question why I should take medication..?