some events are cue ball only fouls and some events are all ball fouls.
if playing head to head with someone not in tourney or similar then set which rule ahead of time.
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Used to be, even the pros didn’t usually call object ball fouls unless the match was televised.
BTW: The local social club tournaments I enter have VERY relaxed (friendly) rules. While playing a finals game recently, a ‘knowlegable’ opponent committed a glaringly obvious cue ball foul, and begged me to overlook it. Since little money was involved, and not wanting to promote any ill feeling, I told him to go ahead and shoot. He lost, and I couldn’t help thinking afterward that if our positions were reversed, my ‘guilty conscience’ would then likely have affected my play. Whether that really was the case in this instance, I could only guess. I just remember that back when I was a lot younger, and sometimes didn’t have the courage to call an unnoticed foul on myself, I alway unded up losing anyway!
While bridging over a ball is it a foul to touch the ball your bridging over with the shaft after you hit the cue ball.
Professional level 14.1 tournaments have generaly been all ball fouls, although that can be problematic if there is no referee watching closely, and even then sometimes only the player knows if they've touched a ball and they may or may not call it on themselves.It happened to Tony Robles against Mika Immonen today in the World 14.1. Foul. [And it was the 3rd consecutive foul for Tony, but he still went on to win.]
I think the key thing to consider is that he said the cue ball was in motion, meaning the shot was already in play, then touched the object ball. In that case there is no option to reposition the moved ball so it should be foul.
Oh, so you lost coz of karma? Riiight:grin-square:
Used to be, even the pros didn’t usually call object ball fouls unless the match was televised.
BTW: The local social club tournaments I enter have VERY relaxed (friendly) rules. While playing a finals game recently, a ‘knowlegable’ opponent committed a glaringly obvious cue ball foul, and begged me to overlook it. Since little money was involved, and not wanting to promote any ill feeling, I told him to go ahead and shoot. He lost, and I couldn’t help thinking afterward that if our positions were reversed, my ‘guilty conscience’ would then likely have affected my play. Whether that really was the case in this instance, I could only guess. I just remember that back when I was a lot younger, and sometimes didn’t have the courage to call an unnoticed foul on myself, I alway unded up losing anyway!
Yes. (The obvious exception is when it's in hand.)... Is touching the cueball with anything other than your cue tip generally considered a ‘cueball foul’? ...