Touching the cloth with hands or cue?

Brookeland Bill

Brookeland Bill

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I see a lot of players on live streams and videos touching the cloth with their hands or cue. Their either picking at particals or lining up a shot or position for their next shot. Here’s my problem with that. You shouldn’t be allowed to touch the cloth for any reason. Particularly in a competition. Your hands can be oily or dirty or both. Your cue tip can leave chalk on the cloth. Tyler Styer is constantly touching the cloth with his cue. To me it is interference with the playing surface and should be a foul. If there is a foreign object on the table you should inform the referee or your opponent and determine how to remove it without affecting the surface.
 
If you have dry clean hands, actual marking would be unlikely. A bigger problem to me is racking for each other. Randomly greased/chalked balls is probably the biggest stymie to long runs and stacks.
 
Brookeland Bill said:
I see a lot of players on live streams and videos touching the cloth with their hands or cue. Their either picking at particals or lining up a shot or position for their next shot. Here’s my problem with that. You shouldn’t be allowed to touch the cloth for any reason. Particularly in a competition. Your hands can be oily or dirty or both. Your cue tip can leave chalk on the cloth. Tyler Styer is constantly touching the cloth with his cue. To me it is interference with the playing surface and should be a foul. If there is a foreign object on the table you should inform the referee or your opponent and determine how to remove it without affecting the surface.
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So every shot should be one-handed jacked up? :ROFLMAO:
 
Brookeland Bill said:
I see a lot of players on live streams and videos touching the cloth with their hands or cue. Their either picking at particals or lining up a shot or position for their next shot. Here’s my problem with that. You shouldn’t be allowed to touch the cloth for any reason. Particularly in a competition. Your hands can be oily or dirty or both. Your cue tip can leave chalk on the cloth. Tyler Styer is constantly touching the cloth with his cue. To me it is interference with the playing surface and should be a foul. If there is a foreign object on the table you should inform the referee or your opponent and determine how to remove it without affecting the surface.
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I’m huge on pool etiquette but this getting a little beyond reasonable. Removing a piece of hair or whatever from the cloth has to be done by a neutral party wearing gloves – really? So you’re basically saying everyone has to wear a full pool glove on their bridge hand? How about those of us that lay our bridge forearm on the table surface?

As far as tapping your tip on the table before or after a shot, yes, that’s just a bad habit that would fall under poor etiquette in my opinion, but good luck trying to eliminate that from the game, at any level.
 
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ChrisinNC said:
tapping your tip on the table
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I've thought about that when I've seen people put their tip behind the object ball where the cue ball should be in order to make the ball. Some time they leave the tip there and walk over to the cue to get the angle. Always thought maybe that might leave a chalk mark they can then aim at. Apparently it's legal though.
 
dendweller said:
I've thought about that when I've seen people put their tip behind the object ball where the cue ball should be in order to make the ball. Some time they leave the tip there and walk over to the cue to get the angle. Always thought maybe that might leave a chalk mark they can then aim at. Apparently it's legal though.
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If they have to do that to figure out where to a aim, you don’t have much to worry about!
 
Brookeland Bill said:
I see a lot of players on live streams and videos touching the cloth with their hands or cue. Their either picking at particals or lining up a shot or position for their next shot. Here’s my problem with that. You shouldn’t be allowed to touch the cloth for any reason. Particularly in a competition. Your hands can be oily or dirty or both. Your cue tip can leave chalk on the cloth. Tyler Styer is constantly touching the cloth with his cue. To me it is interference with the playing surface and should be a foul. If there is a foreign object on the table you should inform the referee or your opponent and determine how to remove it without affecting the surface.
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This is one of the most extreme things I have ever heard. We are not trying to run a lab clean room here, it's a frickin pool table. Plus, how can you play without touching the cloth with your hand? The only thing we need to keep off the table is drinks and powder crazy people so we don't have talc powder all over the place.
 
Brookeland Bill said:
I see a lot of players on live streams and videos touching the cloth with their hands or cue. Their either picking at particals or lining up a shot or position for their next shot. Here’s my problem with that. You shouldn’t be allowed to touch the cloth for any reason. Particularly in a competition. Your hands can be oily or dirty or both. Your cue tip can leave chalk on the cloth. Tyler Styer is constantly touching the cloth with his cue. To me it is interference with the playing surface and should be a foul. If there is a foreign object on the table you should inform the referee or your opponent and determine how to remove it without affecting the surface.
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ok karen. you must be real fun to play with.
 
Brookeland Bill said:
I see a lot of players on live streams and videos touching the cloth with their hands or cue. Their either picking at particals or lining up a shot or position for their next shot. Here’s my problem with that. You shouldn’t be allowed to touch the cloth for any reason. Particularly in a competition. Your hands can be oily or dirty or both. Your cue tip can leave chalk on the cloth. Tyler Styer is constantly touching the cloth with his cue. To me it is interference with the playing surface and should be a foul. If there is a foreign object on the table you should inform the referee or your opponent and determine how to remove it without affecting the surface.
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Every time I draw, I leave a chalk mark…I must have a back-log of 39 zillion fouls.
 
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