I didn't really start playing pool until I was about 35 yrs old, I was playing at a bar with my little sister and she was wiping the floor with me, I was awful, so I decided to join a league and learn how to play, so I start playing and failed to make a ball or drive a ball to a rail and my opponent picks up the cue ball and calls a foul!!! The horror! This was my introduction to BIH rules, My captain explained that the reason for the rules is that you should never be punished for playing well and you will be punished for poor play, he said you have been playing checkers, real pool is played like chess, so he went over the rules and introduced me to strategy and I saw the game in a whole new light, it made me love the sport, so now if I'm in a bar I try and show the players what BIH rules really are, some are receptive some not but I can't help to think that it might bring new fans and plyers of the game, I was at the pool hall this week and found three twenty somethings, not playing video games but believe it or not but playing pool, one of them was actually taking a lesson !!!!!!!! Maybe there is hope for our sport after all.