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- When a player is lining up his shot with his cue stick, is he permitted to actually place the tip of the cue against the rail or pocket? I feel he could be "chalking" the felt to assist his shot.
- Tracy
- If the player puts a visible chalk mark on the cushion (or anywhere else)it would be considered marking the table and a foul.
- Bill Stock
- As foolish of a situation as this is I can't get it out of my mind. I watched a "player" in one pocket take a foul by literally picking up the cue ball and setting it by hand in a position where his opponent had no shot. I told him he couldn't do that. His response was it is a foul show me in the book.
- Rod Neely, Blasdell, NY 14219
- Intentionally picking up the cue ball to end your inning is a foul. In this situation in one pocket, the player will lose one ball in addition to an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Further infractions of this nature will result in loss of game. In this situation, the incoming player will receive ball in hand behind the line (in the kitchen).
- Bill Stock
- In a Texas Express 9-Ball Tournament (cue-ball only fouls), my opponent snookered me behind a ball.
I shot to a rail, striking my object-ball, but while moving my cue back towards me, I touched the ball that had me snookered.
The cue-ball struck the ball I touched.
He claimed ball-in-hand.
I said it wasn't a ball-in-hand foul, because it was cue-ball only fouls.
Am I wrong?
Thanks!
- Dan Flemming, Lake city, Fl
- Unfortunately, you are wrong. It is a ball in hand foul. If the cue ball had not come back into the area occupied by the moved ball it would not have been a foul. However, in this situation, moving the ball and having the cue ball come back and contacting the moved ball, it had an effect on the outcome of the shot which results in a ball in hand foul.
- Bill Stock
- If the cue ball stops and touches the side of the table are you allowed to move the cue ball an inch away from the side?
- mike gimon, matthews
- If only the cue ball and the 8 ball remains on the table and the cue ball falls in a pocket without the 8ball. Is it a loss to whom ever shot it?
- mike gimon, matthews
- It is not a loss of game. It is ball in hand for the opponent.
- Bill Stock
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