Euro Tour Shot Clock---JUMP CUE

I have refereed a couple of major women events (Amway Cup) with a huge TV table arena with a relatively long distance between the table and player's chair. When playing under shotclock, the experienced players bring both their playing cue and the jump cue to the table when they know they have to make a decision between shots/cues. So no futile running back and forth but planning ahead. No one has complained. Maybe women know how to stay graceful on TV. If you want to have more time to think about the shot, you always have one extension per rack available.

If you start your shotclock match with the jump cue unscrewed, you (and your cue) deserve to be screwed :wink:

Island Drive said:

You missed my point.

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Island Drive said:

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You missed my point.

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Island Drive said:

Missed my point.

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Posting a comment, opinion, or disagreeing doesn’t necessarily mean the point was missed.

The easiest solution to the OP's conundrum would be for the incoming player, realizing that the possibility of the jump cue may be necessary, to take both the playing cue and the jump cue to the table at the same time and place the one not needed on the floor when the shot is taken.

I've seen this on occasion. Tyler Steyer was doing this in the last Mosconi Cup and it seemed to work fine for him.

Like some others have said....pool does NOT need to go any slower.

Maniac

I disagree. There should be no gimmicks like jump cues.

If we are going to add extra time for a jump cue, they might as well add extra time for bank shots and kick shots and extreme English shots ....