10 ball rule verification
- Thread starter SpotOn
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The cue ball remains where it is. The 10-ball gets spotted and your opponent has the option of either shooting or returning the table to you.
Passing the shot back is a normal 10 ball rule when playing called shot/called safe since you pocketed a called ball in the wrong pocket. Same rules as in the middle of a game. Many places I have played in that play 9 ball with the called 9 also allow you to pass the shot back so as not to punish the incoming player and making them shoot from a spot they don't like (say if the guy corner hooked them, or they are on the rail 8 feet from the 9).
No.
Only if you pocket a ball while calling a safe, then they can give it back to you.
If you are talking about the World Standardized Rules for 10-ball (WPA and BCA rules), there is effectively no safe call. If you don't make a ball, the other player must shoot. If you do make a ball but not your called shot, the other player has the choice of who will shoot next. Whether you have said "safe" is irrelevant.
I played a doubles 10-ball match last week, we had 3 players at a decent skill level and one that was quite a bit weaker who was my partner (he was about 50 points under the next lowest player). The handicap I came up with instead of a game or a ball spot was that when he shot, he did not have to call the shots or safe, so basically was under 9 ball rules, while the rest of us were on the call shot call safe rules. The match went hill hill playing like that, it was a really fun spot with the other team jokingly complaining with us when he would get lucky safes LOL
From playing this, the lucky rolls in a game over a set seem to amount to a one game spot in a race to 5 vs players that have to call all the shots and safes. I think if I was playing someone say 50 or 75 Fargo points over me, I would be OK with having a spot of my shots are not called but theirs need to be. For 100 points, I may need a game spot also.