I looked all over their website (American Poolplayers Association) under their rules section and could find nothing to address two separate incidences that occured this past week, one in my 8-ball league and one in my 9-ball league. I think that I am going to have to call the League Operator or at least the Division Rep. to get some answers. Maybe someone here (Scott Lee??) will come forth with the answers.
In the 8-ball league, an opponent of one of my teammates (to whom I was coaching for the match) had the cueball frozen to my teammates ball and had no shot at hitting one of her balls without some kind of 2 or more rail kick. She proceeded to get down on the shot as if she was slightly aiming TOWARD the ball that it was frozen to, which of course wasn't her ball. Then, she stood up as if to re-evaluate the shot. I told my teammate to get someone unbiased to watch the shot, which she dicked-around and did not do. So her opponent gets down on the shot just like before and hits the cueball, slightly moving my teammates ball about an inch then the cuball hits her ball and sends it to a rail. FOUL!!!! Only problem is, she said it was a good hit. Everyone at OUR table saw that it was a bad hit and NO ONE at her table saw the shot
So my teammate did not get ball-in-hand as in the APA it is the shooters call to determine if an unwatched hit is good or not. My question is this. Who has the right, if at all, to stop play and ask someone unbiased to watch a shot like this, and at what point can this be done? The player and coach? The Team Captain? Only the player? Can it be done AFTER the player is down on his/her shot? I need to know so the next time this happens the proper person can halt play and get someone to watch the shot.
In 9-ball league, a teammate was shooting another woman who presented herself (by bad cueball positioning) with a jacked-up shot. Me and two others at our table watched as this woman proceeded to curl two fingers over the ball (we're talking contact here) she had the cueball in front of to make her bridge (basically, she grabbed the ball for hand support). Nobody else from our team, neither the shooter, her coach, or the Team Captain saw it. Now, I know that this is NOT allowed in World Standardized Rule of Pool, but there is NOTHING I can find in the APA rules prohibiting this. Could someone have called a foul on this? And who would it have had to been to call it? I can't believe that the APA rules can be so thinly written as to not cover so very many things that can come up in a game of pool. Am I missing some rules here? Tell me about how I should have handled these two incidences here and how to find more rules concerning APA league play. Thanks to anyone that helps!!!
Maniac
In the 8-ball league, an opponent of one of my teammates (to whom I was coaching for the match) had the cueball frozen to my teammates ball and had no shot at hitting one of her balls without some kind of 2 or more rail kick. She proceeded to get down on the shot as if she was slightly aiming TOWARD the ball that it was frozen to, which of course wasn't her ball. Then, she stood up as if to re-evaluate the shot. I told my teammate to get someone unbiased to watch the shot, which she dicked-around and did not do. So her opponent gets down on the shot just like before and hits the cueball, slightly moving my teammates ball about an inch then the cuball hits her ball and sends it to a rail. FOUL!!!! Only problem is, she said it was a good hit. Everyone at OUR table saw that it was a bad hit and NO ONE at her table saw the shot
So my teammate did not get ball-in-hand as in the APA it is the shooters call to determine if an unwatched hit is good or not. My question is this. Who has the right, if at all, to stop play and ask someone unbiased to watch a shot like this, and at what point can this be done? The player and coach? The Team Captain? Only the player? Can it be done AFTER the player is down on his/her shot? I need to know so the next time this happens the proper person can halt play and get someone to watch the shot.In 9-ball league, a teammate was shooting another woman who presented herself (by bad cueball positioning) with a jacked-up shot. Me and two others at our table watched as this woman proceeded to curl two fingers over the ball (we're talking contact here) she had the cueball in front of to make her bridge (basically, she grabbed the ball for hand support). Nobody else from our team, neither the shooter, her coach, or the Team Captain saw it. Now, I know that this is NOT allowed in World Standardized Rule of Pool, but there is NOTHING I can find in the APA rules prohibiting this. Could someone have called a foul on this? And who would it have had to been to call it? I can't believe that the APA rules can be so thinly written as to not cover so very many things that can come up in a game of pool. Am I missing some rules here? Tell me about how I should have handled these two incidences here and how to find more rules concerning APA league play. Thanks to anyone that helps!!!
Maniac
