What have people been flat out wrong about?

Scott Lee said:
mantis99...Although it's not an "obscure" rule, there's no way a novice would likely know it. The rule is this: the cue tip is considered "alive", even on the edge. Touching any part of the tip, including the edge, constitutes a ball-in-hand foul. Your friend may have accidentally rolled the CB with his ferrule, and touched the tip, with the CB.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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World standardized rules.. http://www.bca-pool.com/play/tournaments/rules/rls_gen.shtml

3.40 CUE BALL IN HAND FOUL
During cue ball in hand placement, the player may use his hand or any part of his cue (including the tip) to position the cue ball. When placing the cue ball in position, any forward stroke motion of the cue stick contacting the cue ball will be considered a foul if not a legal shot.
 
I love the scoop the cueball jump move.....banger asked to play the other day, he pulled this move in them middle of the game, just made me smile.....really fun part was when he asked me to play, and then immediately asked, "Do you mind if I use your cue?"....I quickly replied, yes, I mind.....he looked stunned, then figured out I meant he could not use it and went shopping for a house cue....

In bar rules, I actually liked the fact that you had to call kisses and caroms.....I won countless games by players not calling an intended kiss.....on the downside, I always thought the intentional scratch when the 8 was in the kitchen was such a chickensheit move....especially when the same players thought a safety was dirty pool....I still typically got the best of it, but to see someone bunt the cue directly in a pocket always got my blood up....at that moment, it became my mission to not only leave with every dollar they had in their pocket, but to also steal their girl if they brought one :D
 
Travis Trotter?

wadds said:
one question that i have that i get different answers on is when a object is knocked off the table. if he drives his own off its spotted and if it was mine it gets pocketed? also is it ball in hand to the incoming player? thanks
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Is that you, Travis Trotter?!? :D
 
I had a local guy here (a very strong player, I can't beat him) tell me very matter of factly: "If you could see in slow motion, almost every bank is actually double kissed". I couldn't even respond.

I came to find out later that he had all kinds of misconceptions in his head but somehow he shoots lights out. Anyone that played pool in Denver for over 5 years knows this guy and at one time he could play with the best of them (he's getting old now).
 
I remember when the King of England decreed the world was flat and made spherical balls illegal. Everyone had to play pool with stone "pucks"
 
I have a friend who believed that the 3-foul rule meant you had to get fouled three consecutive times by three consecutive safeties... meaning the shooter had to play safe three consecutive times and couldn't pocket a ball and play you safe later. I told him that as long as the opponent fouled three consecutive times, it didn't matter what the shooter did. Heck the shooter can scratch and you can still get 3-fouled if you scratch or foul some other way for the third time. :p
 
Big Perm said:
I love the scoop the cueball jump move.....banger asked to play the other day, he pulled this move in them middle of the game, just made me smile.....really fun part was when he asked me to play, and then immediately asked, "Do you mind if I use your cue?"....I quickly replied, yes, I mind.....he looked stunned, then figured out I meant he could not use it and went shopping for a house cue....

In bar rules, I actually liked the fact that you had to call kisses and caroms.....I won countless games by players not calling an intended kiss.....on the downside, I always thought the intentional scratch when the 8 was in the kitchen was such a chickensheit move....especially when the same players thought a safety was dirty pool....I still typically got the best of it, but to see someone bunt the cue directly in a pocket always got my blood up....at that moment, it became my mission to not only leave with every dollar they had in their pocket, but to also steal their girl if they brought one :D
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:thumbup2::rotflmao1::rotflmao1::yeah:
 
9 ball is just slop

one of our local taverns just reopened and the owner is trying to get a few tournaments started.
i was talking about this with a couple locals, they decided they would rather play 8 ball because, and i quote ' 9 ball is just slop '.
i kept my mouth shut. i might get to play one of these guys someday.
chuck starkey
 
I read somewhere that Dan McGoorty and Ralph Greenleaf couldn't play unless they were liquored up. So, its not enough to imitate their stroke, but drinking habits as well. :-)

cueandcushion said:
I cannot count how many people who cannot play because they "need some more alcohol to get in stroke".

Just imagine how good Tiger Woods would be if they just let him get smashed before a big event!
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Ponytail...Yes, I'm aware of the world standardized rules. Prior to that, the BCA rule was as I described, and the OP described it as "once upon a time"!

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

Ponytail said:
World standardized rules.. http://www.bca-pool.com/play/tournaments/rules/rls_gen.shtml

3.40 CUE BALL IN HAND FOUL
During cue ball in hand placement, the player may use his hand or any part of his cue (including the tip) to position the cue ball. When placing the cue ball in position, any forward stroke motion of the cue stick contacting the cue ball will be considered a foul if not a legal shot.
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Rod said:
Ah yes the old "wrist snap" advice, lets not forget it is usually followed up with "follow through". Well that's it and you'll be a drawing fool. Well, fool maybe because you still can't draw your rock! LOL

Rod
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Well, just to address the "follow through" thing. It's very true that the cue only contacts the cue ball for a few ms and obviously what you do with the cue after that is irrelevant. However, "following through" is often good advice for a couple of reasons:

1. If we only hit "to" the ball, then our subconcious has a tendency to start decelerating before we've made contact which can be a cause of inaccuracy and often makes it tougher to control speed.
2. "Following through" can increase accuracy b/c it puts your focus on a target in front of the cue ball. If you can deliver the tip of the cue to this target, then you have hit the cue ball in the correct spot.

So I think that "follow through" is a good psychological strategy to help deliver the cue in an assertive and accurate manner. Of course it's not a magical cure-all that will automatically let you draw the ball 2 table lengths. :)
 
Something Totally Just Wrong

The cops pull over a drunk and begin giving him the eye test. The guy complains because he says he has a glass eye. The cop says it does not matter but the man keeps complaining. So the cop says "Which eye is glass?", the man replies, "both of them". :rolleyes:
 
Some fu#$stick told me I could beat Johnny with the seven. Man, I should've known it was Johnny's stakehorse.
 
Scott Lee said:
My personal favorite is: "This tip draws better than that tip!" :rolleyes::D
Trust me...it ain't the tip! LOL

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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So what you're saying is that all tips play the same? And that certain types of tips do not create more action on the cue ball? Or that every tip will hold chaulk the same?

Sorry, but I think your comment belongs in this thread.
 
Good advice jabb0r! That's why we like to emphasize "finish" your stroke, rather than just followthrough (followthrough is different for each person, both in terms of meaning and distance). When you learn how to finish your stroke, you can learn to draw table length quite easily, because everything is measurable. You can't fix what you don't know about...you can't fix what you can't measure...and you can only fix one thing at a time!

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

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jabb0r said:
Well, just to address the "follow through" thing. It's very true that the cue only contacts the cue ball for a few ms and obviously what you do with the cue after that is irrelevant. However, "following through" is often good advice for a couple of reasons:

1. If we only hit "to" the ball, then our subconcious has a tendency to start decelerating before we've made contact which can be a cause of inaccuracy and often makes it tougher to control speed.
2. "Following through" can increase accuracy b/c it puts your focus on a target in front of the cue ball. If you can deliver the tip of the cue to this target, then you have hit the cue ball in the correct spot.

So I think that "follow through" is a good psychological strategy to help deliver the cue in an assertive and accurate manner. Of course it's not a magical cure-all that will automatically let you draw the ball 2 table lengths. :)
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Monstermash...Don't take my words out of context. The "feeling" of any tip is very subjective...again everybody's different. I said that the quality of draw...ANY draw...is contained within the quality of the player's stroke. Someone with a professional quality stroke can 'work' the CB anyway they want to, regardless of what kind of tip is on the cue (as long as it's normal). Yes, all leather tips hold chalk the same. No, there are no "types" of tips that produce more action on the CB...again, it's in the stroke, not the tip.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

Monstermash said:
So what you're saying is that all tips play the same? And that certain types of tips do not create more action on the cue ball? Or that every tip will hold chaulk the same?

Sorry, but I think your comment belongs in this thread.
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