A few days ago, I was playing a friend of mine over a friendly game of 8ball and the strangest thing happened. I'm shooting stripes, he's shooting solids. This is the layout of the table:
The shot previous, my friend just barely nicks the 8 into the corner pocket and leaves it hanging by the thinnest of margines. After howling and hollering at how the ball didn't drop, he continued his turn, shooting at the 4. After a few practices strokes and right before he take the shot, the 8 falls in. Maybe it was the extra bass from the music or whatever but it just fell. We ended up deciding it as a loss but still, I have never come across such a thing before and was baffled as to what to do. What do APA rules make of this? and, based on the rules, IF he had nicked it and it was then my turn and I had lined up to take a shot and it fell, would it be my loss or his since it was him that set the ball on the edge in the first place?
Note: the 8 was much closer to the edge then what is shown in the picture.
The shot previous, my friend just barely nicks the 8 into the corner pocket and leaves it hanging by the thinnest of margines. After howling and hollering at how the ball didn't drop, he continued his turn, shooting at the 4. After a few practices strokes and right before he take the shot, the 8 falls in. Maybe it was the extra bass from the music or whatever but it just fell. We ended up deciding it as a loss but still, I have never come across such a thing before and was baffled as to what to do. What do APA rules make of this? and, based on the rules, IF he had nicked it and it was then my turn and I had lined up to take a shot and it fell, would it be my loss or his since it was him that set the ball on the edge in the first place?
Note: the 8 was much closer to the edge then what is shown in the picture.
