Your opponent pockets a ball, but the ball jumps back out of the pocket

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ChrisBanks

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Do you allow him to continue shooting? If not, do you feel comfortable winning on a technicality?

Your opponent has made the ball land in the bottom of the pocket. Is he responsible for not having the ball jump back out?
 
You're going to have to explain to me how a ball can go down to the BOTTOM of the pocket and then come back out.

To me, if the ball doesn't stay in the pocket, sorry about your back luck.
 
ChrisBanks said:
Do you allow him to continue shooting? If not, do you feel comfortable winning on a technicality?

Your opponent has made the ball land in the bottom of the pocket. Is he responsible for not having the ball jump back out?
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This has become commonplace on side pocket banks at the room I play out of. We have taken to giving our opponent a crisp 1 dollar bill each time it happens, but their turn is over. Sucks but we just chalk it up to a bad roll.
 
Txstang1 said:
You're going to have to explain to me how a ball can go down to the BOTTOM of the pocket and then come back out.

To me, if the ball doesn't stay in the pocket, sorry about your back luck.
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It surely happens.

And I agree- tuff luck.
 
Txstang1 said:
You're going to have to explain to me how a ball can go down to the BOTTOM of the pocket and then come back out.

To me, if the ball doesn't stay in the pocket, sorry about your back luck.
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I can't explain it because I have no interest in why it happens. I just want to know who is shooting next!
 
Black-Balled said:
It surely happens.

And I agree- tuff luck.
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I guess I'm taking issue with "the bottom of the pocket" part of the description. I was playing in a big Tourny and shot the 9 in the side , straight in and it hit the back of the pocket, popped up in the air back over to other side pocket and stopped right in front of it. But it didn't go to the bottom of the pocket. Never seen whats being described.
 
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There is a video of it happening in competition, 8 ball hits the bottom of the pocket and jumps back onto the table. Player's (Efren I believe) inning is ended, other player attempts the same shot, it happens again (Busty IIRC). Someone also has a GIF of it in their signature.



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Ghosst said:
There is a video of it happening in competition, 8 ball hits the bottom of the pocket and jumps back onto the table. Player's (Efren I believe) inning is ended, other player attempts the same shot, it happens again (Busty IIRC). Someone also has a GIF of it in their signature.



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What SHOULD the rule be?
 
Txstang1 said:
I guess I'm taking issue with "the bottom of the pocket" part of the description. I was playing in a big Tourny and shot the 9 in the side , straight in and it hit the back of the pocket, popped up in the air back over to other side pocket and stopped right in front of it. But it didn't go to the bottom of the pocket. Never seen whats being described.
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How about a trillion dollars...ya seen that?!;)
 
I say get rid of the rubber balls! On the other hand where is this place so I can also get some crisp dollar bills? Given enough side pocket shots, one could score a free beer!

Oh, and yes, the next person shoots. Just put a paper towel at the bottom of the pocket next time.
 
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Ghosst said:
There is a video of it happening in competition, 8 ball hits the bottom of the pocket and jumps back onto the table. Player's (Efren I believe) inning is ended, other player attempts the same shot, it happens again (Busty IIRC). Someone also has a GIF of it in their signature.


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wow that's crazy
 
The rule should be just as it is. Your turn is over. Or else arguments would be never ending that a ball that bounces out did or did not hit the bottom of the pocket. Now I must say I played on a tournament match on a bar table once that the side pocket would spit all kinds of shots back out. After it happened to me once my opponent grabbed the ball and put it back in the side and told me it was still my shot. And we played the rest of the match that way. And yes it happened again a few times.
 
I've seen a house rule in Emeryville, CA at the Broken Rack which says that If a ball pops out of the pocket, and doesn't touch anything else on the table it goes down and the player keeps shooting. If it does touch something, it stays up and play passes to the other player.

It happens quite a bit on Olhausen tables because the pocket leather can be stapled to tight, or bunched at the edge providing a spring board for high velocity shots. But I've also seen it happen on those bulky plastic drop pockets.
 
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