What if THIS Happened?!?!?

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"What if... unbeknownst to you, the object ball you were shooting at was cracked, and when you shot the cue ball at it, the object ball broke in half, with each half rolling like a wheel into a different pocket? What if... in that scenario, the game was 10-ball [call shot, of course] and one half went into your called pocket, while the other half went into another pocket -- which 'half' would count? Would we have to measure each half to see which was larger, to see which pocket was the recipient of 'the most' of the object ball?"

Try that one on for size. :p

That's what pocket scales are for :)
 
What if I hired the world's strongest midget to lift the table and tilt it in a way that the balls always did what I wanted them to do? It would be like a giant game of labyrinth that I always win! What would be the ruling on that?
Ruling: Unsportsmanlike conduct

What if I jumped the cue ball on top of an object ball... and it stayed there! What would be the ruling on that?

Play it as it lies. If this were 9-ball, and the OB the CB is sitting on is not the lowest numbered ball on the table, this would guarentee a foul on the incomming player for not making contact ith the lowest ball first.

What if a pool player rattled a pocket and blamed *gasp* themselves?! What in the world would happen then?

World would end, right then and there.

What if we took ourselves a little less seriously? Just what do you think would happen then?

Never going to happen, so we can dismiss this one out of hand.
 
"What if... unbeknownst to you, the object ball you were shooting at was cracked, and when you shot the cue ball at it, the object ball broke in half, with each half rolling like a wheel into a different pocket? What if... in that scenario, the game was 10-ball [call shot, of course] and one half went into your called pocket, while the other half went into another pocket -- which 'half' would count? Would we have to measure each half to see which was larger, to see which pocket was the recipient of 'the most' of the object ball?"

Try that one on for size. :p

That happened to me one night. Eight ball CALL last pocket. My buddy and I just looked at each other for a while, then started playing darts.

:grin:
RG
 
"What if... unbeknownst to you, the object ball you were shooting at was cracked, and when you shot the cue ball at it, the object ball broke in half, with each half rolling like a wheel into a different pocket? What if... in that scenario, the game was 10-ball [call shot, of course] and one half went into your called pocket, while the other half went into another pocket -- which 'half' would count? Would we have to measure each half to see which was larger, to see which pocket was the recipient of 'the most' of the object ball?"

Try that one on for size. :p

And what if this happened while you were playing one pocket? Then would the larger half be used to break a 7.5-7.5 tie?
 
I once hit an object ball off the barbox and it hit a passing person on the arm and landed back on the table clean never even hitting the rail. The midget lifting the table wins the hypothetical ideas so far for me. How about switching this up to REAL crazy things that have happened to us all? I'm slightly entertained by this poster. He's thinking outside the box. By the way I like Shane by 18 and I'm wondering who is putting up the 10k for Earl. I would like to sell him the Statue of Liberty.
 
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Similar to the guy who combined bowling and pool:

What if they combined pool with put-put? Each pocket has balls go down into another playing surface.

Like whoah.
 
What if Efren Reyes joined the APA and they made him a 2?

nothing would change as the ones that win deep down would still know that he's a better player and they only won on paper! and effren would still smile because he is a humble man that knows it because those numbers mean NOTHING
 
In the spirit of the thread...

What if I actually found out who Pocketpoint was, and played him 9 ball. What kind of action would I get? And yes, there would be a ref present at all times.

You won't be able to finish a rack. As soon as you take the first shot, a question will be raised and the cue ball will be grabbed!!: "what if it stopped here instead of there????"
 
I think you would just get your jerking hand tired trying to clean the cloth in front of the ball to make it go further. Curlers warm the ice which makes the stone go further. Cleaning the cloth won't make the ball go any further. Now, if your table is made of ice...

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Slip Stroke

If I used a slip stroke and slipped the cue right out of my hands when breaking and the cue went whizzing by my opponent causing him to have a stroke, would I win by forfeit?
 
If I used a slip stroke and slipped the cue right out of my hands when breaking and the cue went whizzing by my opponent causing him to have a stroke, would I win by forfeit?

Would that be called, "giving him the slip"? Or, in tournament-speak, "slipping by" your opponent? :D
 
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