Most Ridiculous Pool Rules!

[chefjeff]

I thought the rule was the opponent had the choice to put the ball BACK WHERE IT WAS or leave it where it ended up after being hit.

Who's to say where it was?...the opponent. My friend did this as a way of showing that the rule has a few holes in it. Quite often, the opponent won't put it in his car of course, but he will intentionally put it in a worse/better place than it was before the accidental hit.

Jeff Livingston

 

[chefjeff]

They could keep an extra eight ball behind the bar, but then you wouldn't have to put in another loonie. Do any tables take Sacajawea's yet?

Yes, for quite some time. What's a "loonie?"

Jeff Livingston

 

[Side Pocket Kid]

Well, yes, but I'd call that an interpretation rather than a rule. I'd rule a rebreak. I'm still incredulous.

skeptical?? Am I the only one on this board that has ever seen this happen before?

 

[DaveK]

She's on a US coin. Google on

sacajawea OR sacagawea coin

Cool. Is it in general circulation or more of a collectors item ? Can you put one into a typical vending machine ? ... hey, my middle name is George, as in Curious George ....opps, chefjeff has answered that already, never mind ... I'll have to pick some up when I'm in Disneyland this coming february

chefjeff, a 'loonie' is the common slang for a Canadian $1 coin. It has a loon on the tail-side, hence a 'loonie'. When the $2 coin was introduced it should have been nicknamed a bearie (guess what's on the backside of this coin), but us unimaginative Canuks ended up refering to it as a 'twonie' (pronounced too-nee). Of course we never called the 25 cent piece an elkie, it's just a boring 'quarter' just like it's American counterpart (no offense intended).

Dave

 

[sniper]

Anyone ever play 8 ball where if you lose with all 7 of your balls on the table on the table you have to drop your drawers?

Them's were house rules growin' up and Dad was mighty strict (jk).

LMAO!

I thought I heard of all the ridiculous rules but this thread has proved me wrong.

 

[Ronoh]

They could keep an extra eight ball behind the bar, but then you wouldn't have to put in another loonie. Do any tables take Sacajawea's yet?

As a matter of fact, yes.

Down in Monaca, Pa. there's a bar called "The Bronze Eagle". They recently put in two new tables. $1 a game, or $3 for 30 minutes. The table only takes $1 coins (Sacajawea's being one of them), and has an internal timer that keeps the shute open for 30 minutes. I'll run down tomorrow and get the name of the tables, I forget off hand.

The tables are set for Sardo racks (/gags) too.

On a side note, a buddy of mine had a situation where the ball popped back out of the pocket during an APA match. It wasn't the object ball though, but the cue ball. He has it on video and I'll post it as soon as I get it.

They had him stop shooting and the captain of each team thought it out and concluded it was a scratch. Since, if the object ball was to be considered a potted ball, so should the cue ball.

 

[Rude Dog]

I just read every post in this thread and I gotta say, that's some funny shit! The bar I play at near my house has a table at an angle because of a wall that's in the way. But, the angle they put the table in makes it so the wall is in the way when it shouldn't have to be on some shots. Anyway, they have a rule that the butt of your cue cannot go higher than your shoulders. So, when you are on the rail with the wall in your way, you can't jack up on the cue to shoot, you have to kick at the OB. But, scooping under the CB to jump is legal, lol. Also, one guy refuses to flip for the break, he insists on lagging. So, tonight, when he and I had a match, he again wanted to lag so before he could even get down to lag his ball, I lagged and barely got the ball past the side pocket. He looked at me and said, "What are you doing?" I said, " I lagged, so shoot." He then lagged and didn't even hit the end rail and the place went nuts laughing at him. His next match he had a coin out to flip for the break, lol. Peace, John.

 

[Tommy-D]

> There used to be a small pool room in Kennett,Missouri,where the strange rule was that you could masse ANY way you wanted,but absolutely were not allowed to jump,and a masse that accidentally jumped was a ball in hand foul. This rule did not apply to the cue ball jumping off the break,or jumping off the rail to beat a safety,or rolling the cue ball up onto the rail to acheive down table position. It was basically put in place because the room owner could not jump himself,the best player in their area could also not jump,and since the owner frequently put this player in tournaments,bought his calcutta,and was nice enough to introduce his daughter to this player,it was decided that anything he could get beat by was not something he would allow in their tournaments. I had a guy try and call a ball-in-hand foul against me playing bank pool. I tried to explain that fouls in bank only cost a ball on the score,not ball in hand. He started to get hot,so I allowed it. Then,after we had started playing races to 5 for 100 short rack bank,I got my revenge when he fouled on his out ball to go up 4-3,I took ball in hand and ran 2 balls to win that game,then broke and ran out. The ones that really bother me are the ones that will roll you up behind a ball,or shoot your cluster-breaker straight in to keep you from running out under bar rules,with no ball in hand penalty to suffer,some of them will do anything. Tommy D.

 

[LastTwo]

When I was new to the game all I knew how to play was 8-ball, and there sure as hell were some stupid rules. Here are some I can remember- If you foul but the cueball is not pocketed or flown off the table, the cueball stays where it is and you lose your turn. If you scratch in a pocket or off the table, it's behind the headstring. Even if all of your group balls are behind the headstring, you have to have the cueball leave the kitchen before striking your balls. People abused this rule to it's fullest, they would simply shoot the cueball straight into a pocket and intentionally foul if their opponent's balls were in the kitchen. Some rules that were just as bad or even worse, you had to call EVERY action a ball makes on it's way to a pocket. If a ball caroms off a ball into a pocket, you have to call the carom and the pocket. If a ball caroms off two or three balls and into a pocket, you have to call each and every carom. You have to call how many rails it travels, etc. Another shitty rule was that you didn't have to contact a rail after hitting a ball. Easy safes galore without that rule. Another rule was that if someone ran down to the 8 ball and you had all 7 balls of your group on the table, you got "skunked" and you lost automatically, your opponent wouldn't have to even sink the 8-ball. All of these rules I was taught by each and every ballbanger at the poolhall. The funny thing is that I still see most of these rules used today by the present ballbangers. By the way, these were rules used at a real poolhall on 9-footers, not some bar.

 

[satman]

That rule of calling all kisses is a good one. A friend of mine was playing a younger guy $5 8-ball at a local bar. The guy had run about 4 balls and missed. Jim was pocketing his 6th ball and it kissed a ball going into the pocket. The guy insisted it was a bad shot. You have to call everything. After a pretty good arguement, jim gave in and the guy won the game. The guy breaks the next rack and makes a ball on the break and starts to shoot. Jim walks up to him and tells him he didn't call that ball and to go sit down. After almost turning into a fight, Jim ran out and the guy left the bar. Sam

 

[Ronoh]

The video I promised from an earlier post

Here's a link to that video. It's over 1 meg and is an older AVI formated file converted from Super 8.

Cue ball scratch?

If you click on it and it doesn't work, you can right click on the link and "save target as".

 

[drivermaker]

As a matter of fact, yes.

Down in Monaca, Pa. there's a bar called "The Bronze Eagle". They recently put in two new tables.

Hey Ronoh...where do they have decent 8 or 9 footers at all the different places in Beaver County?

 

[Ronoh]

Hey Ronoh...where do they have decent 8 or 9 footers at all the different places in Beaver County?

I'll work on a list and PM you. I don't want to (cough... cough) hijack the thread

 

[Mr. Wilson]

...........The guy breaks the next rack and makes a ball on the break and starts to shoot. Jim walks up to him and tells him he didn't call that ball and to go sit down.

There a have been too many times that I wish I'd thought of something like this.

Great tip

 

[chefjeff]

That rule of calling all kisses is a good one. A friend of mine was playing a younger guy $5 8-ball at a local bar. The guy had run about 4 balls and missed. Jim was pocketing his 6th ball and it kissed a ball going into the pocket. The guy insisted it was a bad shot. You have to call everything. After a pretty good arguement, jim gave in and the guy won the game. The guy breaks the next rack and makes a ball on the break and starts to shoot. Jim walks up to him and tells him he didn't call that ball and to go sit down. After almost turning into a fight, Jim ran out and the guy left the bar. Sam

I like that response as it really drives home the stupidity and impossiblity of following those "rules." I've also called a "spontaneous rule creator" on the fact that his ob hit the back of the pocket and he didn't call that hit. Hee hee.

Another one is to ask the shooter where his cueball will end up and what balls/rails it will hit to get there. After all, ALL kisses must be called---"that's the way the pros play it." This always creates an interesting conversation, to say the least.

Jeff Livingston

 

[ChopStick]

The 8 ball has got to go clean. I was in a bar tournament in Atlanta. It was the last game in the final. I was about to win. The 8 ball was frozen to one of his balls in a dead carom right in front the corner pocket and the cue ball was straight across the foot rail by the other corner with nothing in the way. The guy says I can't shoot the 8 ball because it's touching his ball. I called the TD over and he agreed. I got mad and said "Ya'll keep the money. I quit."

The TD came over and talked me into finishing the game. So, I kicked into the short rail caught the 8 ball perfect on the underside, moved his ball away from the 8 ball, and froze the 8 ball and the cue ball together. He made a useless kick at his ball and I shot the 8 ball off.

I was playing in a bar in Ybor City in Tampa and I called a carom shot in the side and this girl tells me I can't do that cause it's slop. I said how can it be slop if I called it. She said you can't hit another ball or it's slop.

 

[powderburner]

I like the bar rule where you put a coin on the eight ball. Who ever knocks it off (unless they are on the 8) buys the next round.

 

[pinkisntwell]

In my hometown there are players playing (they're not calling it 8ball, just "American") this version: Balls racked with 8 on the foot spot. You don't need to touch a rail. Ball in hand even for fouls on the break. If you win and your opponent has more than 4 balls on the table you get two games. Scooping to "jump" the cue ball is legal. When you sink all your balls you have to call the 8 on one of the corner pockets. If you make it on the side pocket or any of the other corner pockets you lose. Your oponent cannot call the same pocket as you. Imagine the mess those rules make.

 

[chefjeff]

Another thread reminded me of a stupid Metro league rule:

"You can't call a safety and make a ball."

Why the director made up this stupid rule is still unknown. It is ALWAYS circumvented by simply calling the ob in any other pocket, and then making it in the "wrong" pocket, thus giving opponent the table, anyway, as would have happened with a normal called safety.

More hoops to jump through for nothing.

Jeff Livingston

 

[Shawn Putnam]

Someone suggested the other day that we should have a thread on the worst, silliest, most ridiculous rules we've come across on our travels into dens of eniquity, or just to mates places who had their own set of crazy rules.

Anyway, the standout worst rule I've come across was the 'any foul on the 8-ball' is loss of game. Talk about destroying the incentive to go for tough out. I'll be knocking my balls all around the 8 ball.

Other crazy rules I've seen are:
Cue butt width pushout of CB from rail.
6" rule - If CB is miscued and goes less than 6" you can put it back and try again.

Your gona love this one.
Chris Szuter was at the VNEA state championship and a guy scratches on him.
Chris takes the ball out of the table and the guy how scratched yelled Foul. You didn't acknowledge that I fouled and the ref gave the cueball back to the guy scratched.
Szuter was furiuos so when Szuter fouled, He just walked away.
The guy tried to get Szuters attention but Szuter wouldn't acknowledge him.
When the guy shot the ball Szuter yells FOUL I never acknowledge that it was a foul and the ref gave the ball back to Szuter.
So if your gona be a NIT it's gona come back to haunt you sometimes sooner than later.
That team got what they deserved...........................