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Safety break and alternate. Good enough for 14.1, good enough for snooker. Why does the one ball need be placed on the foot spot? The required opening position should be the nine in the middle, one ball either wing position, racker's choice. Real men shoot pool. Cave men smash balls. :smile:

Corrections to the general misinformation in the several posts above... Warning! This will probably end up a long and boring post so pass over it if you are not interested... This thread started as a thread about the Three Miss rule regarding central, full ball contact. It devolved for a while...

Which brings me back to this earlier post....of course snooker players are no angels. They are as devious as anyone else in humanity. So they routinely play questionable shots which makes one wonder if it really was their best effort which for decades the referees had the discretion to call as a...

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Didn't miss the point at alll. Player A did not want to play a legal shot. So he didn't. He lost 18 points and a re-rack. But he NEVER took the shot. In snooker, Player A must take the shot whether he wants to or not. And if he tries to skirt around it, he is forced to try it again and again and...

BINGO! Except for the last line, you hit the nail on the head. Au contraire, the rule is well written. People believe this is a new rule but in fact, it is not. The ref has always had the power to declare a miss if he thought the player did not make best effort. For instance, on opening...

Nothing....if you like that sort of thing. I don't. IMO, rules of any game/sport/pastime are to encourage/promote fairplay and sportsmanship. To knowingly and purposely breach a rule simply runs contrary to that concept. Foul - you did something wrong/against the rules. Intentional - you did it...

You were far too subtle for a simple man such as I. I freely admit my ignorance of nearly all things Pool. 14.1 is the only pool game that really makes any sense to me; I figure that it is the pool game most similar to Snooker in a number of ways. (Sorry, I know that American Snooker was a big...

Complex? Pool players I have known do tend to make things complex. Sophisticated? I suppose the same way coffee is more sophisticated than tea, or bagels are more sophisticated than croissants. I prefer to say "different" and leave it at that but you can place levels of sophistication as you...

I like the deck of cards analogy. Of course, there are also a lot of variations on a snooker table as well but they are all subserviant to THE GAME. If you ever come through Chicago, I will be happy to spoon feed you more snooker than you could possibly care for. :D

Yes, the ref must issue warning for a loss of frame situation. And yes, it recently occurred that the ref was slow to issue warning (hey, they have a lot to keep an eye on) so the opponent reminded him. But ultimately, the ref must say it. If a third miss with full ball on is played but no...

As a snooker player, I resemble that remark. Our rules are straightforward and generally understood by the regular players of the game. By contrast, pool players seem to have a hard time deciding which game to play, let alone which set of rules to play the game under. Evidence the multiple posts...

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! I put this to rest setting it up on my snooker table a la Dr. Dave methodology and Cornerman is exactly correct within allowable deviation. (I just rounded it off to keep it simple.) As always, PT109 is correct as well....this is a natural in-off shot, a...

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Minor correction to Scaramouch's post for the ADD among us who don't wish to sit through the entire video: - " At 5:50 it is pointed out:.... " Love this video. I was probably 5 or 6 the first time I ever saw it, probably on the Mickey Mouse Club. I especially like the Gallileo quote: "...

You hit the nail on the head. Same reason that soccer will NEVER be a major sport in the USA. You already know the outcome....it's 1 to zero. Maybe even a tie. :confused: Some sports, we can admire the grace and agility of the athletes. For me, hockey is fascinating though I can barely stand on...

"Crossed the plane"? What, is the NFL now an official governing body of pool and billiards in the USA? Let's take a look at the replay...

Sounds like the same thing as Cricket played on a snooker table with the six colours as one of the "teams" and the fifteen reds as the other "team". reference: http://snookergames.co.uk/games3.html What is the coloring of numbers 16 to 21? Solids? Stripes? I am guessing that 16-21 are used as...

Top tier break, LightsOut. And beautiful room. It doesn't look to me like you need any advice, just keep at it, hit a million, and you will make the century. But if I have to critique, you have a failure to execute at 7:35. Your position wasn't bad at all. You either made a bad decision or...

I read this post with interest because, as a snooker player primarily, I have the view that safeties are played far too often at the rank amateur level making the game far too tedious for my liking. But I was muddled in the details of your proposal so I was confused, and I know too well that...