Permitted...not permitted?

[Jude Rosenstock]

I think that is totally unfair.....:frown:
If you can lose your shirt playing pool...why the hell can't you use it?

I know. I’m cold.

 

[JC]

I saw a top player in the Pacific Northwest take his glove off his hand, fold it up and lay it on the metal casting of a valley table to bridge on and spare his shaft. No one seemed to mind. It was sort of common sense really. Sorry I didn't think of it.

JC

 

[JohnnyOzone]

I played against a guy (A-player at least, as he was always in contention to win the Airway Billiards tournament) that used a rolled up napkin. He’d change it out a couple times during the tournament.

He smoked me.


Freddie <~~~ before gloves became en vogue

Freddie, he still does

 

[RiverCity]

Joe Tucker uses a woven tube for just such a thing. I think they can be purchased. I like the glove...

The Perfectors are not made anymore. I had a couple packs, but now cant find them.

If you know where to look though, you can still get some. Shhhhhh :thumbup:
https://www.cabletiesandmore.com/general-purpose-categories.php

 

[CarlMPearson]

Using a towel over a pocket

There was a guy where I learned to play who used a paper towel. No one felt it was cheating -- we just kind of snickered about it. He was dealing with dirty house cues. I think it's not common but it is and has been done and there is not a problem with it.

A related issue is putting a towel down over a sticky pocket liner to keep your shaft from getting gummed up. I think that's fine too, but I've seen players try to call a foul for that. I think measures a little out of the ordinary are OK to make up for defects in the provided equipment.

Playing in a Las Vegas tournament on Valley bar boxes, I had shot where the cue would ride on one of their nasty metal corners, sure to scratch up the shaft. So I put a towel over the pocket and my opponent called for a ref to challenge the towel. The Ref was befuddled. So I dug into my case, pulled out a pool glove, hung it on my little finger so the rest of it could lay on the metal pocket. "So now are you going to call FOUL because I'm not wearing the glove properly?" The Ref smiled and said "A pool glove is legit, and there aren't any rules about how you must wear it." Case closed. Game/Match won.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Playing in a Las Vegas tournament on Valley bar boxes, I had shot where the cue would ride on one of their nasty metal corners, sure to scratch up the shaft. So I put a towel over the pocket and my opponent called for a ref to challenge the towel. The Ref was befuddled. So I dug into my case, pulled out a pool glove, hung it on my little finger so the rest of it could lay on the metal pocket. "So now are you going to call FOUL because I'm not wearing the glove properly?" The Ref smiled and said "A pool glove is legit, and there aren't any rules about how you must wear it." Case closed. Game/Match won.

DooD! Where have you been hiding? And what have you done with Carla? You need to post more.:thumbup:

 

[Maniac]

If Earl can use finger extensions (or whatever those are), then I can't imagine it would be a problem.

I can remember a streamed tournament where Earl used a small cardboard tube over his shaft for breaking. He'd just curl his fingers around the tube and blast away.

Maniac