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Intentional Fouls - Illegal, Good Strategy, or Poor Sportsmanship?

HawaiianEye
penguin said:
Every person I've gambled with at last pocket 8-ball considers this a loss of game to intentionally foul by shooting the 8.
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You are playing 9-ball and find yourself in a situation where if you make a mistake, you will leave an easy runout.

The lowest ball on the table is the 5, but you are hooked, so you intentionally foul by nudging the 6-ball behind the 7-ball into a position that forces him to have to play a safe because he now can't run the table.

Is that considered a foul or loss of game?

I know how we played these situations in gambling games years ago, but I am trying to see how people do things now.
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Where is the rule banning the "lift stroke" and the "sideways stroke" for close balls?

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AtLarge said:
You might be in a position where you want to take an intentional foul and hardly move the cue ball at all. (Think 14.1 or One-Pocket.) Just tapping the top of cue ball with the ferrule makes that easy to do. But a legitimate stroke in that situation might unintentionally result in moving the cue ball to your opponent's advantage. Nerves can be hard to harness in pressure situations.
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so he taps with his ferral now what okay its a foul. thats what he was doing anyway.

what are you going to do start a fight. not pay off. its up to you to say something if it is going to look wrong. not let it happen and then call it.
how can you be so sure there wasnt some forward motion. get real.

and why does someone in the pool room have to follow wpa rules. and do you want to lose a customer for life over something so trivial.
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Intentional Fouls - Illegal, Good Strategy, or Poor Sportsmanship?

HawaiianEye
Scenario:

You are playing last-pocket 8-ball and your opponent has made all of his balls and shot the 8-ball without making it, but left it very close to his last pocket.

You come to the table and do whatever you can do and find yourself in a situation where if you screw up, you will leave him a good shot on the 8-ball and lose the game.

Some of your balls are kind of clustered in one part of the table and you decide to intentionally shoot his 8-ball so that it is now behind your cluster preventing him from having a makeable shot on the 8-ball into his pocket even though he has ball in hand.

Is this legal, good strategy, or poor sportsmanship?
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ChalkGate Definitive Answers

dr_dave
dr_dave said:
FYI, I just posted a new video that discusses the ChalkGate controversy during the recent US Open Championship surrounding Darren Appleton and Mickey Kraus and shows the results of a careful experiment to prove once and for all if Master chalk results in more frequent skid than Taom chalk. Check it out:


Contents:
  • 0:00 - Intro
  • 0:52 - Cling/Skid/Kick
  • 2:40 - Experimental Procedure
  • 6:50 - Taom Chalk Tests
  • 9:34 - Master Chalk Tests
  • 12:08 - Results and Conclusions
  • 13:55 - Recommendations
  • 15:15 - More Info
Supporting Resources:
As always, I look forward to your feedback, comments, questions, complaints, and requests.

Enjoy!
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In the YouTube comments on this video, many people claimed Taom V10 is better, playing cleaner and resulting in fewer skids. I decided to put their claims to the test:

Check it out.
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