Equipment and playing aids...should there be rules?

Donovan

Donovan

Play it safe or go home.
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I don't recall any rules about improving your bridge. IE...glove, finger bridge (Cue-V), powder, and so forth. A guy could have like 4 or 5 cues. Each one with a different softness of tips for different situations. When do we say when?

Is it time to think about this? Golf has a rule about not improving your stance. Shouldn't we have a rule about limitations to equipment?

The idea about this topic came from the thread http://www.azbilliards.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=21799
 
The rules would have to be stated up front...but what I find interesting is "all's fair in love and gambling". I have seen guys do some strange crap when gambling to make a shot. Swap shafts, swap cues, seen one guy go get a four foot level out of his truck to figure out the table lean.

Just remember, when you gamble, you leave the gate wide open.

Shorty
 
Several years ago I played in a Jack-n-Jill here locally. One of the rules they had was that whatever shaft you started a game with, you finished a game with. The only exception to that rule was in the event of a tip delaminating or coming off. Oh, and they didn't allow jump cues either, which personally I dislike anyway.

Lisa
 
Equipment

In my nine ball league, you may use a break cue, but your playing cue is the cue you stay with for the entire match. Jump shots are allowed, only with your playing cue. Also there are rules defining use or non use of equipment. For example, a piece of chalk cannot be left on the rail to mark a point of impact. You cannot lay your cue stick on the table and let go of it to see the angle of a shot. There are probably a few more that I can't think of right now, but as with everything, you ain't seen nuthin yet. Time will tell what rules will need to be refined or enacted to cover future situations.
 
I play in an APA league where they dont allow jump cues. You'd have to be stupid to try and jump on a bar pool table anyway because of the size of the table and the size of the cue ball.
 
i wonder what Fats and Mosconi are thinking now...fancy shafts,bridges,cue balls with big dots,gloves,ect.ect.ect.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Earl used finger extensions in a few tournaments to help bridge over balls.

Were they banned or did he just get tired of them?
 
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