New Pet Peeve in Pool

skor said:
rules are rules
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If I'm the person with ball in hand on the 9 after that idiotic foul call, I'd be tempted to just bump the cue ball into the 9 and return the foul.
The rule might make a little more sense if it was only used if the player interfered with the cue ball.
 
I do this, even when practicing by myself on my home table.
Drives me crazy!
I have learned to shape the money ball straight in and use a stop shot.
It saves so much time.
 
George the Greek said:
The slow play locals here drive me crazy and they have no clue for the most part. They walk around and around looking at every shot like it's their life on the line and they have all the expensive equipment and paraphernalia. They have their names on the back of their jerseys/t-shirts like I give a shit what their name is lol.
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Unless you are sponsored, you look like silly wearing a shirt with your name on the back.

This ain't bowling.

They must want all of their friends to recognize them if they get on the streaming tables.
 
First time I even knew about this stupid rule was when Karl Boyes pulled it against Shannon Daulton in the 2015 U. S. Open. It was in one of the early rounds, and Daulton was cruising with a fairly big lead when Boyes called him for putting his cue on the table at the end of a rack that Daulton had won, and stopping a ball which had come within an inch of stopping on its own, nowhere near the pocket.

It seemed like a purely nit move, but it unnerved Daulton, and Boyes came back to win the match and finish runner-up to Kevin Cheng in the whole tournament. I've always liked Boyes as a player, but this nit move dropped him in my esteem.

"Rules are rules", but sometime the rule is just an ass.
 
Taxi said:
First time I even knew about this stupid rule was when Karl Boyes pulled it against Shannon Daulton in the 2015 U. S. Open. It was in one of the early rounds, and Daulton was cruising with a fairly big lead when Boyes called him for putting his cue on the table at the end of a rack that Daulton had won, and stopping a ball which had come within an inch of stopping on its own, nowhere near the pocket.

It seemed like a purely nit move, but it unnerved Daulton, and Boyes came back to win the match and finish runner-up to Kevin Cheng in the whole tournament. I've always liked Boyes as a player, but this nit move dropped him in my esteem.

"Rules are rules", but sometime the rule is just an ass.
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I saw that one recently as well and thought it was a terrible move.

Shannon would never have done that had the roles been reversed.
 
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