"Poking" at the cue ball one handed?

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Pangit

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Isn't that a foul??? Here in the PI, the girls will turn the cue around on long unreachable shot's and slid the cue on the surface of the table. Use the rubber bumper too "engage" the White ball. That's a foul anywhere right? It's common place here. Men don't do it, but the girls do. Maybe that's the reason there aren't top notch PI "girl" players?? One is required to engage the cue with both hands or a mechanical bridge.. at all times, as far as I know???
 
In most games, touching the cueball with anything other than the tip is considered an intentional foul, except when adjusting the ball during a ball in hand. In straight pool it'll cost you 16 points!

I've remember playing in bars/rooms where you were allowed one butt's length from the rail (i.e., you could poke the butt of your cue between the rail and the cue ball to reposition the cue ball)! I also used to see guys hit the cue ball with the sliding butt end, but that's jack up pool and would never fly in a real game.

If these girls want to pull that, I'd say so what? I'd imagine if they need to pull that maneuver, they're not going to get out very often (unless you let em!;)).
 
If they slid the cue across the table and stuck the CB with the tip it would be considered a legal shot as long as the cue was moving in a forward direction. With the bumper, it would be a foul.
 
Shooting with one hand is not a foul. Hitting the cue with the end of the butt is a foul.
 
WIKIPEDIA:

"The forerunner of the cue was the mace, an implement similar to a light-weight golf club, with a foot that was generally used to shove rather than strike the cue ball.[3] When the ball was frozen against a rail cushion, use of the mace was difficult (the foot would not fit under the edge of the cushion to strike the ball squarely), and by 1670 experienced players often used the tail or butt end of the mace instead.[3] The term "cue" comes from queue, the French word for "tail", in reference to this practice,[3] a style of shooting that eventually led to the development of separate, footless cue sticks by about 1800, used initially as adjuncts to the mace,[3] which remained in use until well into the 19th century.[5]"


The irony of today's rules of the game lol
 
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