Who says?
With your attitude, I'm betting people love to play head games with you. I'd probably enjoy the head games more than the match.
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staying at the table after shooting a safety
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Who says?
With your attitude, I'm betting people love to play head games with you. I'd probably enjoy the head games more than the match.
Copied from the rule book. I can't for the life of me see anywhere where it says "It's the opponents turn when Banks says it is".
3.37 PLAY BY INNINGS
During the course of play, players alternate turns (innings) at the table, with a player’s inning ending when he either fails to legally pocket a ball, or fouls. When an inning ends free of a foul, the incoming player accepts the table in position.
Strengthen your mental game. There's about 100 things the opponent will do that could bother you during a match, either intentionally or not. Winning is better than paying attention to all those things. It's up to you to work around this stuff, not change the opponents behavior.
I knew this conversation would bring out the guys who try to win with a rulebook.
That rule states nothing about checking on a safety for any reason, or any time limits for that matter. But to hear your interpretation of the rule, it means the player leaving the table must do so on YOUR time schedule, which is based soley on your impatience.
So again, that rule doesnt address anything about a time frame of leaving the table, just that your opponent is to accept the table in position as long as there is no foul committed. You can read into whatever you like, but there is nothing in that rule concerning this conversation. Nice try to make it fit your agenda though.... Good job.... :thumbup:
Playing pool folks, not speed pool. Relax.
Banks
Banned
I checked a safety last night during a few hours of playing. You should've seen my opponent! He absolutely didn't care that i looked and walked away. Phew. Close call.
Agreed, but some May like a nice flowing game that is not hindered by an act that his opponent can neither control nor change. This is not a quirk so it must be looked upon as a conscious action that is not by any stretch necessary.
I checked a safety last night during a few hours of playing. You should've seen my opponent! He absolutely didn't care that i looked and walked away. Phew. Close call.
Hey banks I wish I knew you so that I can point out something that you opponent does that bothers you, like maybe slow play
So you would purposely try to shark someone you dont agree with or care for?
That shows your level of sportsmanship rather well now doesnt it. :grin-square:
Banks
Banned
Slow play sucks. I check a safety once in a while and it takes but a moment, but you and others are making it seem like it takes years off of your life, when it is really only a few seconds every few hours, if that. Big whoop. Slow play me and maybe I'll sing you a lullaby. Played a guy a year ago in a tournament that took probably no less than a minute each shot. You're trying to tell me it's disrespectful if i check on a safety once in a while for a glance? Laughable.
No but i am telling you that it's his time at the table to do with as he please, since it's not in violation of anything
Exactly! HAHAHA :thumbup:
Banks
Banned
You say this after pitching a fit over a checked safety? Gtfo.
Looking at safeties
Okay, this thread is quite interesting to me, as there are obviously two totally different types of people out there; those who want to take a few seconds to check their work after delivering a defensive shot their opponent must deal with. And then those who apparently like to play safeties and then turn around and walk away after making an attempt to change the layout of the table without necessarily pocketing anything. (You can see my bias on the subject).
I'm assuming like amateur bowlers do when throwing a ball down the lane..... hey, don't even look at how many pins you got, so you can prepare mentally for the challenge of the next ball you have to throw. Just walk away....go back to your hamburgers and pepsi.
Players who do not check the effectiveness of their safety game, will probably not succeed in nailing that safety. And if they did make a good safety, how will they know? When the player misses? What if he grazed the locking ball on the way out.....? How the heck would you know how close it was in the first place if....... (drum roll) you didn't stop to look at it!?
Okay, this thread is quite interesting to me, as there are obviously two totally different types of people out there; those who want to take a few seconds to check their work after delivering a defensive shot their opponent must deal with. And then those who apparently like to play safeties and then turn around and walk away after making an attempt to change the layout of the table without necessarily pocketing anything. (You can see my bias on the subject).
I'm assuming like amateur bowlers do when throwing a ball down the lane..... hey, don't even look at how many pins you got, so you can prepare mentally for the challenge of the next ball you have to throw. Just walk away....go back to your hamburgers and pepsi.
Players who do not check the effectiveness of their safety game, will probably not succeed in nailing that safety. And if they did make a good safety, how will they know? When the player misses? What if he grazed the locking ball on the way out.....? How the heck would you know how close it was in the first place if....... (drum roll) you didn't stop to look at it!?
How do some of you even play the game? This is a shark, that is a shark, he looked at a ball, the chalk is upside down(disrespectful), he was looking at his phone, the player on the next table shot a ball, anybody in the room shot a ball, the second hand on my watch moved.....wtf is wrong with you people???
SERIOUSLY, WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE????
Jason
SERIOUSLY, WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE????
Jason
Fixed that a little ... :wink:
I agree with Jason. If people are all getting bent out of shape about every little thing their opponent or another player in the room is doing.... don't go to any major tournaments. That stuff is the norm for seasoned players.
And for some people saying "oh I hate it when B player check the rack" well.... it's probably because they saw an A player do it once or twice, asked them about it, and said "hmm, makes sense to me".
And for some people saying "oh I hate it when B player check the rack" well.... it's probably because they saw an A player do it once or twice, asked them about it, and said "hmm, makes sense to me".
I don't care if you check how your shot lined up. I'll usually ask my opponent if he got me.
Anymore than that is what gets me. It's not recorded, but last weekend when Hennessee was playing Sky, John missed and Sky was about ready to get down on a ball and shoot and Hennessee was still standing there right next to the table.
I have noticed many times, even top players, will shoot a safety and stay at the table for a while, sometimes walking all the way around the table, to see up close if they really hooked their opponent or not......then they walk to their chair
Is this a little rude?? or is it just me
(Shouldn't you just sit down right away after you shoot your safety..............you don't need to follow the cue ball around the table. You will find out soon enough if your opponent can see the ball or not)
Could care less, and I shoot fairly fast. By the time I chalk my cue, look over the safety, decide what I'm going to do, I doubt highly they are anywhere near the table.
I've played a bunch in bars over the years, and dealing with drunks who think they can jump in the middle of the game is far more annoying.
That's Hennessey taking too long after a miss, not checking his safety. Two different things. I've seen players miss crucial balls and stand there and shake their head to ten or so seconds...pointing with the cue stick what should have happened and all this other b.s. I just let em do it. Because the second I get down to shoot the ball, my opponent better be sitting. If sky rockets out of his chair and starts firing away before giving the guy time to think "damn, I shoulda made that" and walk back and sit, I'd put that on the impatience of a young player. I've seen Sky do it multiple times, and sometimes he misses that next ball he fires at.