Bar Rules Bandit Strikes Again!!!!

Black Cat 5791

Black Cat 5791

I get all the Breaks
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So I'm down at the local spot, put my quarters in the table guy breaks and scratches. I take the cue ball out of the chute and survey the layout of the table and determine that the best ball option is low however I couldn't get to the low ball I wanted directly so I played a combination using a high ball as the table was still open.

Well that was when all hell broke loose, my opponent starts saying that I can't use a stripe to play the solid even though it was an open table.

Has anyone heard this BS before, that Sh!t took the proverbial cake!!!

I eventually proved my point but gee whiz!!! Anybody else heard this BS before?

Black Cat :cool:
 
Black Cat 5791 said:
So I'm down at the local spot, put my quarters in the table guy breaks and scratches. I take the cue ball out of the chute and survey the layout of the table and determine that the best ball option is low however I couldn't get to the low ball I wanted directly so I played a combination using a high ball as the table was still open.

Well that was when all hell broke loose, my opponent starts saying that I can't use a stripe to play the solid even though it was an open table.

Has anyone heard this BS before, that Sh!t took the proverbial cake!!!

I eventually proved my point but gee whiz!!! Anybody else heard this BS before?

Black Cat :cool:
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I'd expect it if I was just playing bar patrons. I usually shoot around with my friends nowadays, but outside of that group I'll ask what rules. If I get a blank stare or no real response, I assume it's "straight 8".
 
Txstang1 said:
that's old school bar room rules. Call all kisses, etc..
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I called the combination, they were trying to say you can't use a high ball to shoot a combination to the low ball on an open table.

That's where the problem came in. I've heard a lot of weird rules but that took the cake. I'm asking has anyone else heard that version before.

Black Cat :cool:
 
alot of bar bangers don't play where if open table, playing a combo with solid/stripe is a legal hit. Lack of knowledge I guess. But I like to find out "house rules" before I proceed.
 
Black Cat 5791 said:
I called the combination, they were trying to say you can't use a high ball to shoot a combination to the low ball on an open table.

That's where the problem came in. I've heard a lot of weird rules but that took the cake. I'm asking has anyone else heard that version before.

Black Cat :cool:
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ive shot in bars that didnt allow that combo even on an open table. lots of stupid house rules out there.

i even played at a joint once where a scratch on the break was a loss, even if you didn't make the 8 ball.
 
bowiebill said:
ive shot in bars that didnt allow that combo even on an open table. lots of stupid house rules out there.

i even played at a joint once where a scratch on the break was a loss, even if you didn't make the 8 ball.
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I was watching two fellas playing for $50 on a BB once. The cocky one was trying to get all the rules cleared away before they began. He said to his opponent, "you know if you scratch on the break it's game right?"

His opponent looked at him kinda funny, as did I. They both looked my way, I guess for clarification. I told the guy that's the first time I've ever heard that one.
 
Honestly Bud, thats a stretch to expect a bar banger to allow that one.

Too hard for them to figure it out. Coming from a crowd that expects you call a shot off a rail, carom or a double kiss, thats a toughy.
 
Black Cat 5791 said:
I called the combination, they were trying to say you can't use a high ball to shoot a combination to the low ball on an open table.

That's where the problem came in. I've heard a lot of weird rules but that took the cake. I'm asking has anyone else heard that version before.

Black Cat :cool:
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If it makes you feel any worse (about bar rules), I have had the very exact same thing happen to me in a bar.

Maniac
 
I think that at least one set of official rules said that you cannot play a mixed combination on an open table. I think it is still illegal to hit the 8 ball first on an open table.
 
Black Cat 5791 said:
So I'm down at the local spot, put my quarters in the table guy breaks and scratches. I take the cue ball out of the chute and survey the layout of the table and determine that the best ball option is low however I couldn't get to the low ball I wanted directly so I played a combination using a high ball as the table was still open.

Well that was when all hell broke loose, my opponent starts saying that I can't use a stripe to play the solid even though it was an open table.

Has anyone heard this BS before, that Sh!t took the proverbial cake!!!

I eventually proved my point but gee whiz!!! Anybody else heard this BS before?

Black Cat :cool:
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Not a pool rule historian but i always thought shooting a stripe in to a solid to make it would be a foul . Using your opponents suit for caroms would be okay and the 8 ball neutral . What ever ball you hit is yours if you make it , the exception would be the break. I thought what you did was a BCA rule . I wouldn't consider it a bar rule as i think this was illegal in past rules , i could be mistaken .

Bars should post house rules anyway and everyone should have to play by them .
 
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The bca originally made you shoot what you made.Some of the leagues made it no using solid to shoot stripes. Back then 8 on the break won. But i dont under stand all the bar table bashing ,without it pool would be extinct. If pool so easy on a bar table everyone can play even and every tourn. should be full.
 
I have a bar friend that plays that you can not use the opposing balls at all. No miked combos, no caroms, nothing, everything clean. He says that is the way his Dad taught him to play the game.

I am the only one that will play him that way. Everyone else plays the regular rules while he plays 'clean'. Whenever we play, I ask him, 'Dad's rules Bob?'. And he says, 'Hell yeah!'

Regards,
 
I had the same rule called against me two weeks ago in our bar league. Surprised me. Actually the Bars in Azle and Fort Worth have pretty good rules. No weird stuff. Just call what ball and what pocket and it doesn't make any difference how you get it there.
 
ENGLISH! said:
I have a bar friend that plays that you can not use the opposing balls at all. No miked combos, no caroms, nothing, everything clean. He says that is the way his Dad taught him to play the game.

I am the only one that will play him that way. Everyone else plays the regular rules while he plays 'clean'. Whenever we play, I ask him, 'Dad's rules Bob?'. And he says, 'Hell yeah!'

Regards,
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I believe if you play somebody in most places in country where a scratch occurs and you have to shoot out of the kitchen they will also have the no carom off opponents balls , those are bar rules with some variation across the country. The sticky one is call pocket or call shot . Call shot can be manipulated so much i would never play by that rule , especially when your not a regular .
 
Bar rules!?

Black Cat 5791 said:
So I'm down at the local spot, put my quarters in the table guy breaks and scratches. I take the cue ball out of the chute and survey the layout of the table and determine that the best ball option is low however I couldn't get to the low ball I wanted directly so I played a combination using a high ball as the table was still open.

Well that was when all hell broke loose, my opponent starts saying that I can't use a stripe to play the solid even though it was an open table.

Has anyone heard this BS before, that Sh!t took the proverbial cake!!!

I eventually proved my point but gee whiz!!! Anybody else heard this BS before?

Black Cat : Lots of crazy rules in bars. Goes with the territory. My all time favorite is the girl (blonde) as serious as a heart attack told me I RAN INTO her balls! Those are my balls! You can't move them around! It grew quite a crowd around the table and she was so good looking I just went along with it and everybody laughed their asses off. If I hit her balls of course I would let her shoot. I squeaked out a win! Life is too short to worry about the nits you run into.
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a few

Some bar rules had all balls neutral when the table was open, including the eight. Some I could use the eight but not a stripe to pocket a solid or vice-versa.
One of the more interesting rules was that the eight ball could be pocketed during the same shot as the last ball in your set. You had to call the eight and it had to go in after the object ball. If it went in first you lost.

Not too many years back a young man came up wanting to play me when I was practicing on the only nine footer around, a horribly ratty old big G in a bar. I knew the rules would be interesting after the first time he scratched. He picked up the cue ball and hummed it around the table. "Around and around it goes, where it stops nobody knows!"

Hu
 
Black Cat 5791 said:
I called the combination, they were trying to say you can't use a high ball to shoot a combination to the low ball on an open table.

That's where the problem came in. I've heard a lot of weird rules but that took the cake. I'm asking has anyone else heard that version before.

Black Cat :cool:
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Happens all the time, I played C and B players that did not know you can use any ball in a combo with an open table. That's actually one rule that I can see people that don't play much not knowing.
 
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