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nexus6ca t1_iwqitbf wrote

So the shot is legal? Even if it is running the ball down the outside of the rail...weird.

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limpingdba t1_iwqnfmj wrote

The rule is about where the balls "lay to rest". Theoretically you could smash a ball off a plantpot in the garden and if it lands on the bed of the table, or is potted, it's legal.. provided no other rules are broken (such as chipping the cue ball over another ball before it's made contact with a legal object ball).

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kroxigor01 t1_iwqpam7 wrote

You can't have the cue ball come off the table to bounce it over an intervening ball (you can in pool) but if balls start bouncing after impact that's not by itself a foul.

If balls don't end up on the table or in a pocket it's always a foul though.

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Nagrothunder t1_iwqvx11 wrote

what would the penalty have been had the black ball fallen off the table?

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Bopping_Shasket t1_iwqyvmo wrote

7 pts

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xINSAN1TYx t1_iwqztdz wrote

Seriously? But it’s not like he tried to make the black ball do that, you can get screwed over if the table and other balls don’t cooperate with you?

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Bopping_Shasket t1_iwr2c68 wrote

It's just counted as a foul, nobody would ever tries to do a foul but they happen.

It's 7 pts because it's the black, if it was another colour the foul would be the value of that colour, with a minimum of 4 pts.

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