Rule question for bank pool players

[medallio]

Is it a foul if you shoot and don't contact any ball? I assume it but didn't see it listed on list of fouls when I was trying to look it up

 

[iusedtoberich]

Yes, definitly a foul with a penalty of a 1 ball deduction from your score.

Its not ball in hand though. Incoming player plays from where the CB rests. (I'm 95% on this one, its been a while since I played banks...)

 

[barrymuch90]

It's not ball on hand(it never is even on a scratch, it's like one pocket fails in the sense it's behind the line) if you simply don't hit a ball or don't get a rail it's a penalty of owing the ball but you play the cueball from wherever it stops.