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hbradle

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My understanding of the Rules of 8 Ball is that you are allowed to...hit your own ball into an opponent's ball, make both and continue shooting...provided you called the pocket.
Is that not right? I was just watching a match where that took place and the opponent took over the table. Are there matches were that's not allowed?
 
Yes, that is a legal shot. People do make up their own rules, so you might find someone who swears it's wrong.
 
If they were playing "bar rules" you have to call the ball off of any other ball it will come in contact with. Perhaps they were using those rules and the shooter called a "clean" shot. or simply failed to mention a preference which defaults back to no other contact. Other than that, I can't think of any situation that would result in the shooter loosing his turn at the table for that.
 
jayman said:
If they were playing "bar rules"...
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Bar rules means if your opponent is ahead, you make up some random rule that prevents them from running out. This is well known.

There is also rule 9.11 which states, if your opponent wins, an illegal fight may be used to resolve the conflict.
 
hbradle...Your interpretation of the "real" rules is correct. You must have been watching a bar match (and even then, if it was almost any kind of league play, it would be the same rule), bar rules can be anything you choose to make up. Lesson learned: always make sure of the rules you're playing by, BEFORE you start the match.

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hbradle said:
My understanding of the Rules of 8 Ball is that you are allowed to...hit your own ball into an opponent's ball, make both and continue shooting...provided you called the pocket.
Is that not right? I was just watching a match where that took place and the opponent took over the table. Are there matches were that's not allowed?
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hbradle said:
My understanding of the Rules of 8 Ball is that you are allowed to...hit your own ball into an opponent's ball, make both and continue shooting...provided you called the pocket.
Is that not right? I was just watching a match where that took place and the opponent took over the table. Are there matches were that's not allowed?
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If the players knew the rules, maybe the guy did not call the shot beforehand and was just trying to tie something up or play a safe?

Aside from that, the other answers have it, 8-ball is played by most "regular folk" by many rules, many of those rules are made up on the spot or from hearsay.
 
And sometimes it is played by the rules that existed before the bar leagues bastardized them.
 
A copy of the rules from 1966 published by whom? I'd be interested in seeing those. Would you think of scanning them in?

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hbradle said:
My understanding of the Rules of 8 Ball is that you are allowed to...hit your own ball into an opponent's ball, make both and continue shooting...provided you called the pocket.
Is that not right? I was just watching a match where that took place and the opponent took over the table. Are there matches were that's not allowed?
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If it was BCAPL league rules, the shooter MAY have called a safety before the shot was attempted. Once you call a safe (under those rules), you give up the table after your shot no matter the outcome of said shot.

If it was exactly as you described it above, I do not know nor have ever played by that rule.

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Scott Lee said:
thommy...zpele was making a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "Public 8-ball rules" posted by poolkillers81...before he got banned. Very funny zpele!

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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That "rule book" is the most entertaining work I think I have read on the topic of billiards. The people that put that booklet together have created a comedic work that is on the level of Mark Twain's. To be able to weave such irony and humor in a work that seems to be on the face of it so serious, genius!

That thing had maybe a dozen hits on it's page when I first emailed the guy and he created an account, last I checked it (to have some other people read it) it was at over 220 hits. No such thing as bad publicity.
 
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