Crazy Bar Banger Rules

Sheldon said:
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This was known as YMCA rules in my area…..wasn’t so bad….often the game room had no chalk.
 
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JABSolstice said:
I was playing 8ball against a guy last night for drinks. He was pretty bad and I was ahead 7 or 8 to nothing at this point. He gets down to shoot and accidentally tapped the CB while going through his practice strokes. I got up to go shoot and he says that since the CB didn't go at least 3 inches, it's just an accident and still his shot. I obviously let him take another turn, but had never heard that one in all my years of playing in bars.

What other crazy bar banger rules have you heard?

Apologies if there is another thread on this...I am not smart enough to find it.
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If you were ahead 7 or 8 games I'd have to laugh and say ya you're right, but I heard it has to move 4 inches, and let him shoot.
 
straightline said:
00. No brains allowed. If you brought any, they must be checked at the door.


I've had rattling the ball called on me. Their game is clueless marksmanship.
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It's not like those guys are running so many racks it got boring so they had to adopt rules to flow the game down.

I hate the people that have too much pride to take ball in hand. This rack is taking 30 minutes, you have brought shame upon your entire bloodline, and now I have to run three racks to purify the table and drive off all the bad juju.
 
When I was in highschool you had to pot the 8 in the same pocket as you potted your last regular ball...
 
tomatoshooter said:
It's not like those guys are running so many racks it got boring so they had to adopt rules to flow the game down.

I hate the people that have too much pride to take ball in hand. This rack is taking 30 minutes, you have brought shame upon your entire bloodline, and now I have to run three racks to purify the table and drive off all the bad juju.
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Their game doesn't go much further - that's what they make of the (shudder) pool experience. The crowd around here, if you put two on anybody, they will dog everything and no more enjoyment. Equally annoying and embarrassing to boot, there's that one person comes out of nowhere thinks you're a pro, wants to be a fan, thinks you should turn pro, ad infinitum...

It's usually the girls who won't take ball in hand and always shoot from the kitchen if you scratch; forget trying to spot them.
 
JABSolstice said:
I was playing 8ball against a guy last night for drinks. He was pretty bad and I was ahead 7 or 8 to nothing at this point. He gets down to shoot and accidentally tapped the CB while going through his practice strokes. I got up to go shoot and he says that since the CB didn't go at least 3 inches, it's just an accident and still his shot. I obviously let him take another turn, but had never heard that one in all my years of playing in bars.

What other crazy bar banger rules have you heard?

Apologies if there is another thread on this...I am not smart enough to find it.
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There are at least 10 threads on this LOL
Normal though, every few months there is a new forum member that starts the thread churning to old topics but that can't really be helped or there would be like 40 total threads.
 
tim913 said:
Yeah “last pocket” was big in central il for a couple of years long ago
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It's pretty common as a "normal" way to play in other places, Puerto Rican players play last pocket 8 ball often. Out of the rules I run into at random places, last pocket 8 ball is by far the least objectionable one for me.
 
Then they quickly try to say some other dumbass change when they see you can easily get position for the 8 in the same pocket
 
Ģüśţāṿ said:
I shot a ball down the rail, it bobbled and within a half second fell in the pocket. My opponent said it was ball in hand because it didn't "immediately" fall in and took longer than he thought it should, so clearly it was a foul.

Apparently, this is a very subjective game 😂
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So it wasn't treated as a missed shot but a foul??? I bet they never take longer to fall than "he thinks it should" when he is shooting though. :LOL::LOL:
 
If you play eight ball in numerical order that usually gets bangers to relax on the fake rules. They get more impressed with the feat than winning.
 
fastone371 said:
Rule #5 is a little confusing. Isn't it always a foul if you do not hit your ball first when playing a safety whether its "honest attempt" defense or not???
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Bangers don't understand the concept of fouls because the only penalties available are spotting balls (not feasible on a coin op table) and ball in hand, which they consider chickenshit. It's like stupid rules to patch flaws in other stupid rules.
 
fastone371 said:
Rule #5 is a little confusing. Isn't it always a foul if you do not hit your ball first when playing a safety whether its "honest attempt" defense or not???
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Not in bar rules. The only fouls bar bangers usually acknowledge is if you scratch or the cueball hops the table. Maybe hitting the 8 first is bad, but anything else is fine.
 
JABSolstice said:
I was playing 8ball against a guy last night for drinks. He was pretty bad and I was ahead 7 or 8 to nothing at this point. He gets down to shoot and accidentally tapped the CB while going through his practice strokes. I got up to go shoot and he says that since the CB didn't go at least 3 inches, it's just an accident and still his shot. I obviously let him take another turn, but had never heard that one in all my years of playing in bars.

What other crazy bar banger rules have you heard?

Apologies if there is another thread on this...I am not smart enough to find it.
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How about scratch on the break you lose. Amazing to me how me recreational level players think that’s the actual rule.
 
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