Marking your pocket

I think its absurd having to physically mark the pocket for the money ball on an obvious pocket.

I occasionally play with one guy who verbally calls every shot and I find that annoying.
 
Maybe the thread about a guy pissing in a pocket was just a guy marking his pocket. If you have to mark your pocket in league play you must have some real jerks that need to go play something else or mark the pocket with their head/face. Johnnyt
 
gxman said:
II occasionally play with one guy who verbally calls every shot and I find that annoying.
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I have one of those guys on my ACS team ?? And he came from the APA where he played twice a week, for the last 10 years....

If you play APA, why the hell are you calling ever yshot... and not only calling it, but using his cue to reach over the table to tap the pocket, as close as he can get, and almost hitting balls, the cueball, everything.... man, I want to strangle him, but I just look away so I don't blow a gasket ;)
 
I've never had a problem with this rule. At regular league nights we usually just ask do you want to mark or call it and everything is fine after that. At tournaments everyone marks. Not hard. The problem isn't with the rule it's with the d-bags in the league and you can't fix that by making a rule.
 
I avoid playing with whiny retards like those. I simply give them the benefit of the doubt (I know I kicked their ass anyways) and avoid playing (and interacting) with them in the future.
 
StraightPoolIU said:
The problem isn't with the rule it's with the d-bags in the league and you can't fix that by making a rule.
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Ding ding ding!!!!! d-bags always look for a way to scam the rules.

I was playing in a little $3 meat shoot against a known player. Got straight in on the eight in the corner, walked around the table, put my hand in the pocket and said "right here", walked around and shot it in. When I went to shake his hand, he says "you didn't call the eight". I informed him that whether he heard me or not, putting my hand in the pocket up to my elbow was a pretty good clue. I then challenged him to play for money which he declined. I met him 30 years later in the finals of the Western BCA Seniors in Lincoln City. At hill hill he made the nine and scratched. He just stood there......So knowing what a nit he was I went and dug out the nine, spotted it and shot it in for the win. I am sure he did not remember me but I sure remembered him.
 
itsfroze said:
If it's a rule to mark the pocket, then mark the pocket. How hard is that.
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True. But it's extremely detrimental to the guy when he can't find his limited edition, super custom luckycharm marker handed down to him through his great great great grandmamma when she was lying down dying on a snooker table clutching it between her butt cheeks... :eek:
 
StraightPoolIU said:
At tournaments everyone marks. Not hard.
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This is a good reason to use it in league. Make it a habit, and you won't forget at a tournament. The penalty could be reduced if too many object, like a 3 pt deduction on a 10 point per game format.

Or a team could enforce it among themselves by requiring an offender buy a round if they forget.
 
Having to mark my pocket would tell me I didn't need to play in league. What do the leagues have, a bunch of up and coming ambulance chasers. Johnnyt
 
Celophanewrap said:
Purposeful and satisfying.
See my AZ Brethren, this is a fine use of skill and thoughtfulness.
We should all take heed and make this a common practice on league night, even for the girls
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Dang, what kind of girls you have in your league? LOL:wink:
 
Wags said:
Many years ago I played in a National tournament where the rule was to patch the pocket where the 8-ball was going. Prior to the match start my opponent asked to not use the patch. Trusting me said, "sure" and boy was I dumb. Hill, hill. My shot on the 8-ball. Make it in the pocket and my opponent yells, "Foul, foul. You didn't patch the pocket." He then made sure that people that were close by saw that the patch was down by the coin chute. There was nothing I could do. I called for the ref and pled my case but knew I would lose...and I did.
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The problem there was not really with the rule.
The problem there was not really with your verbal agreement.
The problem was that person is a world class loser.

I honestly don't know what I would do if someone tried that kind of hilarious BS on me. But for those who have seen "The Usual Suspects", it might resemble something along the lines of Keyser Soze's revenge sequence on the Hungarians including their friends and family members, up to around 6 degrees of separation :D

Even playing within the rules, without a referee the potential for losers to scam the rules are endless.
 
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