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dab
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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 08:48
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Quick question about pool,

If a player hits their ball in the pocket, then the opponent's ball in, is their turn over? So, let's say I'm stripes and you're solid.

If I hit 2 stripes in, but then a solid goes in, is it your turn?

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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 09:10
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different states in australia have different rules. Its probably the same for different countries.
Any sinking of an opponents ball means 2 shots to the oppenent in QLD, but in NSW it means you lose your turn.

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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 12:01
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Depends what rules you're playing, with the rules we play, if you pot in a ball that isn't yours, it counts as a foul and the opponent gets two shots.

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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 12:42
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We play both.

We have Pub rules, and normal rules.
Normal rules is a two shot penalty, and pub rules is no penalties except ending your turn.

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Certainly depends on the rules, sounds like 8 ball. Most of the time the rule (here anyway) is you must call your shot and cannot include an opponets ball in a combination, but if a secondary ball (say your combination is 10 kissing the 12 in the corner) if the 12 then strikes another ball, even an opponents, there is no foul. Any ball not selected to be sunk is a secondary ball, so in the example above if your call was 10 striking the 12, 12 in, and the 10 then strikes another ball after hitting the 12 there is no foul.

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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 20:28
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Geeze. Pool a lot more complicated than I thought it was. What do you guys mean by a 2 shot penalty

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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 20:40 Edited at: 1st Jan 2007 20:41
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Quote: "What do you guys mean by a 2 shot penalty"

The other guy gets two shots. Also I think that in one variation of the rules, the other guy doesn't have to hit one of his balls first time.

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2007 01:49
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Hobgoblin,

wow, you take it way too seriously. If we had those rules at the pub, we'd never get a game done... No-one's going to be sober enough to pick the right balls

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2007 10:10
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Quote: "wow, you take it way too seriously. If we had those rules at the pub, we'd never get a game done... No-one's going to be sober enough to pick the right balls "


I don't know we drink quite a bit when we play and a game usually only takes 3-5 minutes, either you run the table from the break or your opponent clears it after you make a mistake. Once in awhile you might get a second chance, but not often.

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2007 11:26
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There's no way you're drinking enough if you can get 'em all down in a single break...

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2007 12:28
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well it might not be enough usually a pitcher between 2 people every 20-30 minutes or so, I think a pitcher is about 64 ounces so 2 pints each I guess every 20-30. Then again most of the guys I play with in the league are 9's and hit alot of the tournaments. I am only a 7 in one league and 8 in the other.

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2007 16:35
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Ah, well, there's your advantage, you play professionaly

The majority of my time on a pool table is under the influence. A snooker table, however, that's a different story - but with the same outcome! A long game that takes too long to actually sink a ball... Oh well.

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2007 21:37 Edited at: 2nd Jan 2007 21:37
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why play pool
when you can play video games =)

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2007 22:01
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Lol. Because it's easier to play real pool most of the time. Unless it's Wii Pool.

Can anyone help me find a link to the rules taht specify.

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2007 22:07
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because;
you don't tend to get video games in pubs
you can't rest a pint on the side of one
you can't marvel at the ashy charm of the ciggy burns
you don't get markedly worse the more you drink
you don't get a big stick
you don't look cool playing video games in a pub
it'd be weird
they'd get broken
no one goes to the pub to play video games
pool is fun no matter how old you are...


shall i go on?

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2007 01:29
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Quote: "no one goes to the pub to play video games"


Disagree there, when pong hit bars that had it were swarmed.

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2007 02:25
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Actually, one of our local pubs has taken to putting in Arcade machines, and they get quite a lot of business.

One is a hunting one, and the gun is chained to the wall
The other is a bowling one with a giant track-ball like thing that you have to roll as fast as you can to knock the pins over. That one gets the most business.

And, coincidentaly enough, they're in the Pool room, which means they get played when someone is waiting to have a game

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2007 08:55
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In Manchester, we always play that as a foul. Opponent gets 2 shots.

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