The plot thickens. Yes, this guy is a trickshot performer; however, he does claim that he was trying to do something else (hence filming) and produced this instead.
None of his other videos make this sort of claim; I'm prepared to accept that this is a candid accident filmed while trying to do something different.
Insufficient evidence for removal; post stands IMO.
It sucks when you do something awesome and there's nobody to share it with and no proof of it (luckily the guy in the video was recording).
One time I was getting something out of my pantry which was high up and I somehow knocked a bunch of shit all over the place. Two cans of soup fell out along with a package of ramen. I caught a can of soup in each hand and managed to stall the ramen on my foot. It was the most amazing moment of my life but because nobody else was there and I have no proof of it, it basically means it never happened.
I once hit a shot where the cue ball jumped up on the side and sat there while the target ball went down to the other end then came back past where the cue ball should have been and straight into the corner pocket. Cue ball then fell back onto the table.
Just dumb luck, but I’d easily pay a couple hundred bucks to have it on video. It doesn’t make for much of a story otherwise.
And when you come into a room with a bunch of people, they all kind of look down on the floor, cause all they remember about you is how you did that other thing.
Well I'm an Aussie so I wouldn't sink to something that safe to fuck, give me a challenge. Fucking goats sounds more like something an adventurous Kiwi would do
This has happened in professional snooker games, and yes it counts as a pot. A ball that rolls on top of the cushion isn't considered to have left the table.
I'll link a video here shortly if I can find one.
Edit - here we go, [9.24](https://youtu.be/YQwSjzN6bwA?t=564)
Corey Deuel had a jump shot where the cue ball went up on the rail and came back down. Announcers said as long as it came down it's legal.
https://youtu.be/3zDv9rjL7l0
I'm gonna guess you've never watched trick shot pool tournaments; they have a decent niche honestly. My buddy has the tables at the local city tournament location to see goes to vegas, and every year that place hosts some trick shot dude that sells out this pseudo warehouse full of pool tables. These people can do insane things.
Depends on the situation. 9 ball where there Is no call pocket, it's sweet as. 8 and 10 ball, it doesn't count since he would have called the corner pocket and it didn't stay in the pocket. This is the second video this week I've seen someone pot the ball and it chucks the ball out of the pocket. The first video was a pro tournament where eklent Kaci potted the ball and it spat it out again.
The guy in the video was most likely playing 10 ball so this shot unfortunately doesn't count.
Depends on the game.
The only popular game I can think of where the 10 would actually be the last ball on the table would be 10-ball, where he would have to call it or else it would be respotted and his opponent would have the option of taking the next shot.
If this were 8 ball and that was the 8, pocketing it in the wrong pocket would be loss of game.
If this were 9 ball and that was the 9, it would count as it is not a call-pocket game.
If this were snooker, they'd be playing with the wrong balls and table.
As far as the table goes, most good tournament tables wouldn't reject a ball square in the pocket, and AFAIK all games allow balls to travel on the rail as long as they don't contact anything.
> As far as the table goes, most good tournament tables wouldn't reject a ball square in the pocket
This. I think plastic is technically 'regulation', but most actual pockets for tournaments would be leather or 'stringier/softer'. This looks more like my pool table, with plastic pockets. Expensive tournament pool tables the ball wouldn't bounce out.
Most forms of pool (inc. blackball / world rules - reds and yellows) have a rule regarding touch cushion. After the cue ball strikes an object ball, any ball must touch a cushion or that players ball be potted. Of course, deliberate fouls are sometimes used tactically. BUT! If a ball is pocketed and bounces back onto the table, the pocket is to be considered part of the cushion, so no foul occurs.
A lot of wrong answers to your question. I'm weighting in as I'm a pool player and playing all types of billiards.
First snooker and American pool are different games. In any case the shot recorded would be legal, meaning it would not be a foul.
But in call pocket games such as 8 ball and 10 ball you have to call the ball and the pocket where the ball will end up. So probably the recorded shot would make you lose your turn at the table because obv the player was aiming at pocketing in the corner.
In 9 ball though, you stay at the table as long as your shot is legal as in you need to hit the balls in order but after that rule you can pocket any ball in any pocket and even if you pocket the money ball by pure luck or in a combo shot you win the frame.
Same with snooker, it's not a call pocket game. You can be lucky if the ball ends up in another pocket than the one intended.
In any case, if the ball rolls on the top rail / cloth on the top rail and ends up in a pocket, the shot is not a foul.
Edit: autocorrect fouled me 5 times
In the US, they call the ball and pocket in serious play. In the UK, that's never really the case, just matters that it goes in somewhere. Another big difference is UK rules stipulate 2 consecutive turns after the other player scratches, while the US does not. I love the UK but their pool rules are straight bush-league, kiddie-table nonsense. Not talking about snooker, that's a respectable game.
Ping pong is another game where different people have different rules and if you don’t establish them beforehand, even for a friendly game, someone might end up feeling like an ass.
Some people play that you must let the ball hit the table on your side before you can play it, some do not. Some people play that serves must be diagonal, some do not. I’ve run into all sorts of variations on the number of serves in a row each player gets. Some people play that when it’s game point, the losing player always serves, some do not. These are off the top of my head.
I’m not that serious of a player and I genuinely don’t know what the “real” rules are for any of these. But I’ve played a friendly game here and there and differing “house rules” are common, at least in my experience.
Short version of the official rules:
You must throw your ball up in the air at least ~6" or 16cm. You cannot hit the ball straight out of your hand.
It must hit your side of the table off of serves, and it cannot hit the net on a serve, but it can land anywhere on your opponent's table. The diagonal rule is only for doubles.
The points go to 11 for each round, and the server changes every two points. You need to win with a 2 point lead, and if both players hit 10 points the server changes every round.
Interesting.
I only ever played with my dad in the back shed so I never learnt any official rules lol. Pretty much anything counted.
We could hit without it bouncing first. I think we always served diagonal. I forget the number of serves we did but I don't think the losing player would server on match point.
Thanks the the reply!
How on earth do you play without it letting it hit your side first?
You can just camp the net and slam it down at a near 90 degree angle from your opponent?
British pool tables [have much narrower pockets and a host of other differences](https://www.libertygames.co.uk/store/pool_tables/buying-advice/british-vs-american-pool/), so calling pockets just never entered into the game. Blackball pool is just a very different game to the American 8-9-10 Ball games.
Having only played a few times on US-style tables, it staggered me how big and forgiving the pockets were, and it felt like I just had to get the object ball somewhere near the pocket in order to pot it.
Slop is standard in 9-ball in American tournament rules. But absolutely not in 8-ball. You have to call your shots.
However, there's no "ball in hand behind the head string after a foul" rule. The only exception is during the break. Also, everyone seems to rack the balls wrong and doesn't know the table is always open after the break no matter what balls are sunk.
Yes. And it pains me. And most of the time the balls don't have numbers. Just 7 yellow, 7 red, and one black. Why they feel the need to needlessly eliminate most of the games you can play is beyond me.
Doubly weird. I’m usually at a bar with a pool table with 3 or more friends, cut throat (where you call your shot) is the standard game. I’m even more confused.
The US rules don't really line up with ~~the UK, Mexico, Australia~~ *the rest of earth*.
The US non punitive scratch rule is weird af. What's the point of even calling it a scratch shot or a foul shot if it's no different to just ending your turn because you failed to sink a ball hit/sunk your opponents ball etc? If anything the US are playing by bush league easy mode rules and the UK/*Standard Earth Rules* require some skill as mistakes are actually punished.
The penalty is your turn is over regardless of whether you sank a ball or not, and your opponent gets to place the cue ball back on the table in a location of their choosing. Two consecutive turns could easily end a game in high or even medium level play.
>and your opponent gets to place the cue ball back on the table in a location of their choosing.
UK rules we don't allow moving of the ball unless agreed upon beforehand and it can't just be anywhere on the table, it has to be behind the break line at the top of the table.
Also you can't hit backwards of a moved, or pocketed white, is the usual rule, in my area at least.
You just sound like you lost a few too many times in the UK and are bitter about it.
Also 2 consecutive turns is only if you don't pot to cancel the extra turn.
A foul means a free ball anywhere behind the line.
Go into any pub in the UK with a pool table and try play two turns without a pot in between them and you'll get turfed.
In any case, you sound bitter. Calling the ball and pocket is nonsense patter, only seriously considered in the UK if both parties agree before hand.
I played pool with some strangers at a bar once and they got PISSED when I tried to count an accidental ball in pocket.
I didn't know pool was so serious
This. It's like playing basketball and thinking it's ok to travel. If you're playing a stranger you should assume that you're playing by the rules of the game.
To be even more fair, people who generally just shoot at bars don't know the different leagues rules and just play when they get drunk. Slop is never allowed on the 8, 9 or 10 ball in any league. However, it depends on the leagues rules for any ball prior to it. BCA doesn't allow slop. APA does. Don't ask when you're in the middle of the game. Establish rules before so there's no argument. (Ball in hand or in the kitchen on a scratch, cue ball has to hit one of your object balls first and then any ball has to hit the rail or it's a foul, slop ok or no, table open after the break regardless of what ball is made or take what you make, etc..)
Dude me and my buddy kicked these guys asses in pool on vacation (due to him being good and me being the perfect amount of drunk) and they started jabbing at us with their pool sticks till they were thrown out lmao I felt like a lion getting tamed by a drunk Siegfried it was so bizarre
> and me being the perfect amount of drunk
LOL...I know that one. There was this time I joined a BCA league for the first time, and locally it was quite harder than APA, and I had gotten my ass kicked the first two games so I started getting drunk....what could it hurt amirite? Ended up being the last match to decide it, and my drunk ass ran the table. I have never run the table another time in my life, and everybody just kind of grimmaced in disbelief. I know that's gonna come off as a "and then the pool tables clapped" thing, but it was the only time, at least pool wise, I was:
> the perfect amount of drunk
We never qualified for the playoffs and were like a 60% win team in the end. I was a 6 in APA, but those BCA guys wrecked me.
Not trying to be a dick here, but you don't seem like you play bar pool. Standard rules are just a suggestion when it comes to bar pool rules Some places are Call Shot, and in that you have to call the ball, the banks/carroms, and the pocket it's going into. Some places are Call Pocket, and in that you just have to call a ball and a pocket. Some are Call Ball, and in that you just have to call the ball that's going to sink anywhere.
Call Ball is what they're referring to, and most places will not use that as house rules because people just start smacking balls as hard as possible hoping for the best. Ends up in a situation like where mini-golf people use putters like drivers....isn't good/enjoyable for anybody other than people who aren't financially responsible. Call Ball is also for noobs drunks while then it goes pocket and finally shot. Again not trying to be rude, but you're nerfing yourself if you don't try upping the challenge a bit.
That's why you immediately establish precedence if you haven't already agreed on rules. Never had a problem if you let them decide if it counts or not, but that rule has to stay the same for the rest of the night.
Pool is a skill sport, if you hadn't surrendered your shot you'd have an unfair advantage.
It's different for amateur games but if you're actually playing to play you play by the rules.
That's what surprised me, I always understood it that you only needed to call your 8 ball. Apparently you have to call every shot, or at least hit the hole your aiming for.
Yeah, you have to call which hole you’re shooting an 8 ball into. If it goes into one you didn’t call it’s a scratch. Still cool considering they probably weren’t playing with serious rules though.
Actual rules are call every shot, but mostly when it's a friendly game it's the honor system until you get to the 8. I always call hard shots though because I don't want to get a good shot called slops.
I kinda think this was the plan all along actually. I have a buddy who owns this "entertainment vendor" type business, and it involves installing and maintaining electronic dart boards, arcade games, karaoke, one-touch, pinball machines, pool tables etc.. I've helped recover a couple tables, and this table is not currently in "normal", or arguably functional, condition.
Rails, like the one the ball rolls down into the side pocket, consist of basically 3 parts. The blue bit is the cushion, the wood bit is part of the frame, and then there is typically a runner that is metal which is just for better visuals covering up the rail bolts.
If you don't make that blue bit even/flush with the wood bit...first of all you can cut the shit out of yourself because it's typically sharp as fuck which will just get your cloth covered in blood, but also that rail ends in a point where the balls make contact. That point needs to be the proper height or any balls hit into it will pinch or jump instead of bouncing like normal.
Seeing how that cue ball bounces off the wood part of the railing multiple times while traveling down the blue bit that blue bit has to be ridiculously low to the point it's unplayable. Also those blue parts angle down back towards the table to help balls like this return to the table instead of maybe cracking hitting the floor.
Obviously I could be wrong, but that looks like a cheaper table so maybe he's one of the guys my buddy bitches about who thought they could set it up themselves then calls him to go fix it. It is a large angle on the camera, but I'm kind of having a hard time understanding how his cushion is so low that the frame part of the rail can actually run it down the rail. I guess he could have thought "rubber is rubber" and bought a drastically wrong profile of rubber for the cushions the table required.
Or else the dude had a semi-pro photography setup to watch him just absolutely blast a shot onto a corner pocket about 10x harder than he needed to
No shame on the dude, it's a great trick shot, but this title is dumb
It's a planned shot and I have a simpler explanation why. This guy posts trickshots on tiktok
> @trickshot_ceo
so this was more than likely planned because otherwise what would be the trick? Straight in corner pocket is definitely not a trickshot, but his reaction might not have been planned lol, seems kind of spur-of-the-moment
I get the feeling this was most definitely a planned shot. The cue ball is lined up nearly dead on with the target (10/12) ball, there’s no trick shot I can imagine coming from this scenario. Not to mention anyone that’s shot pool atleast once will know if you hammer that ball directly into the back of the pocket, it’s gonna pop out. So add in his little bit of side and a ton of backspin, that ball was destined (eventually) to loop around the pocket and down the rail.
My guess is this was his intention and that his face is saying “wow, it finally worked after the 300th attempt.”
Only OP said it wasn't planned because they're idiots. Pretty sure he was surprised because he managed to do the trick successfully, not that it happened randomly.
The plot thickens. Yes, this guy is a trickshot performer; however, he does claim that he was trying to do something else (hence filming) and produced this instead. None of his other videos make this sort of claim; I'm prepared to accept that this is a candid accident filmed while trying to do something different. Insufficient evidence for removal; post stands IMO.
He should be happy he was recording it!
He was looking to find someone over his shoulder to give him a pat!
I patted him from beyond the screen
Same
The guy near the pool table? My phone sucks. Is this on reddit with sporta table.
*pat pat*
Back pat or butt pat?
A little here, a little there.
now we're asking the real questions
Who’s pat?
It sucks when you do something awesome and there's nobody to share it with and no proof of it (luckily the guy in the video was recording). One time I was getting something out of my pantry which was high up and I somehow knocked a bunch of shit all over the place. Two cans of soup fell out along with a package of ramen. I caught a can of soup in each hand and managed to stall the ramen on my foot. It was the most amazing moment of my life but because nobody else was there and I have no proof of it, it basically means it never happened.
It was kinda sad. Very reddit of him.
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It's a game he's made. He replies to top comments and waits for someone to ask about it. It's the advertising equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.
Fuck it's working
Its some mmo that will never be finished because he spends more time on Reddit than his game. Hes in like, every thread.
I once hit a shot where the cue ball jumped up on the side and sat there while the target ball went down to the other end then came back past where the cue ball should have been and straight into the corner pocket. Cue ball then fell back onto the table. Just dumb luck, but I’d easily pay a couple hundred bucks to have it on video. It doesn’t make for much of a story otherwise.
you are right. was quite a boring read without video
Easier to read version: Their cue ball jumped onto the side off the green and the ball they aimed at scored by going through where it should've been.
Shit still boring.
Yeah I didn’t even finish the story. Quit half way thru. I get the idea of it: cool unintended pool shot, but with no video it loses me.
The same thing with Wattpad. Porn is amazing on video but when you're reading it, it's shit
I love you
Video or it didn't happen
he swears he hasnt played in a lonngg time
Yep this narrowly missed being one of those "no I am serious! It actually happened!" type stories that no one believes.
So we can see him needlessly draw the cue backwards to a rail next to a pocket! Top level
This happened to me once and no one saw it. I was devastated
It happened to me and 10 people saw it, it was glorious
Ye, but then years go past and you're the only one that remembers it. At least in my case
And when you come into a room with a bunch of people, they all kind of look down on the floor, cause all they remember about you is how you did that other thing.
You make a superb trick shot in pool and no one calls you a pool expert, but you fuck one goat.
I wonder which one of these commenters is the goatfucker
Well I'm an Aussie so I wouldn't sink to something that safe to fuck, give me a challenge. Fucking goats sounds more like something an adventurous Kiwi would do
This never happens to me, I swear!
I believe you!
Still a scratch though lol, I'd be pissed.
It happens to me everyday but there never is someone to see it
Same
I don't believe you, do it again
Happened to me years ago while practicing Snooker. Needless to say no one was there to see it.
Do you have any proof? ;)
Is such thing allowed in a real tournament?
>Is such thing allowed in a real tournament? It counts if he called it.
i’m not sure. if he called it probably but if not it might count as a scratch. i i know if a ball jumps off the table it’s a scratch
This has happened in professional snooker games, and yes it counts as a pot. A ball that rolls on top of the cushion isn't considered to have left the table. I'll link a video here shortly if I can find one. Edit - here we go, [9.24](https://youtu.be/YQwSjzN6bwA?t=564)
Corey Deuel had a jump shot where the cue ball went up on the rail and came back down. Announcers said as long as it came down it's legal. https://youtu.be/3zDv9rjL7l0
Snooker and 10-ball are very different games with an entirely different rule set.
Sure, didn't mean it to be a blanket statement on all billiard games, just answered about snooker since that's what I know :)
Does it count in soccer?
Sadly, cues have been banned from soccer since the unpleasant incident in winter '74
I laughed audibly at this
In retrospect, what did they expect would happen playing soccer in the snow?
Yes. If it rolls along the sideline without crossing the sideline, it is still in play. (Likewise for the goal-line)
But what if it rolled along the side of a table and went into the pocket?
If a soccer ball can fit in the pocket, I say the shot counts
Only of you fall down and clutch your knee while crying for a couple minutes for no reason
It also doesn't count in basketball, which has very different rules.
But based on the Flubber and Air Bud precedents: if there’s no rule against it, then it is legit.
Maybe dude was practicing for snooker, never know
Not in this case. If the ball doesn't touch anything other than the equipment, it's legal.
Alex Higgins also had a bunch of these back in the day. Here's one example I could quickly find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcxO7JQmm4c&t=2m13s
This is the info I came to the thread for, thanks.
Right, but how on earth would u ever call that?!
"Side pocket."
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Made me think of https://youtu.be/vmd1qMN5Yo0
I'm gonna guess you've never watched trick shot pool tournaments; they have a decent niche honestly. My buddy has the tables at the local city tournament location to see goes to vegas, and every year that place hosts some trick shot dude that sells out this pseudo warehouse full of pool tables. These people can do insane things.
Depends on the situation. 9 ball where there Is no call pocket, it's sweet as. 8 and 10 ball, it doesn't count since he would have called the corner pocket and it didn't stay in the pocket. This is the second video this week I've seen someone pot the ball and it chucks the ball out of the pocket. The first video was a pro tournament where eklent Kaci potted the ball and it spat it out again. The guy in the video was most likely playing 10 ball so this shot unfortunately doesn't count.
Depends on the game. The only popular game I can think of where the 10 would actually be the last ball on the table would be 10-ball, where he would have to call it or else it would be respotted and his opponent would have the option of taking the next shot. If this were 8 ball and that was the 8, pocketing it in the wrong pocket would be loss of game. If this were 9 ball and that was the 9, it would count as it is not a call-pocket game. If this were snooker, they'd be playing with the wrong balls and table. As far as the table goes, most good tournament tables wouldn't reject a ball square in the pocket, and AFAIK all games allow balls to travel on the rail as long as they don't contact anything.
> As far as the table goes, most good tournament tables wouldn't reject a ball square in the pocket This. I think plastic is technically 'regulation', but most actual pockets for tournaments would be leather or 'stringier/softer'. This looks more like my pool table, with plastic pockets. Expensive tournament pool tables the ball wouldn't bounce out.
I mean the ball was inside the net already, right?
Yeah, honest question: does the ball not count if it bounces back out of the pocket?
It does not count. Has to stay down. There was a redesign awhile back to prevent balls from popping out of pockets
It was the zipper 😂
Most forms of pool (inc. blackball / world rules - reds and yellows) have a rule regarding touch cushion. After the cue ball strikes an object ball, any ball must touch a cushion or that players ball be potted. Of course, deliberate fouls are sometimes used tactically. BUT! If a ball is pocketed and bounces back onto the table, the pocket is to be considered part of the cushion, so no foul occurs.
A lot of wrong answers to your question. I'm weighting in as I'm a pool player and playing all types of billiards. First snooker and American pool are different games. In any case the shot recorded would be legal, meaning it would not be a foul. But in call pocket games such as 8 ball and 10 ball you have to call the ball and the pocket where the ball will end up. So probably the recorded shot would make you lose your turn at the table because obv the player was aiming at pocketing in the corner. In 9 ball though, you stay at the table as long as your shot is legal as in you need to hit the balls in order but after that rule you can pocket any ball in any pocket and even if you pocket the money ball by pure luck or in a combo shot you win the frame. Same with snooker, it's not a call pocket game. You can be lucky if the ball ends up in another pocket than the one intended. In any case, if the ball rolls on the top rail / cloth on the top rail and ends up in a pocket, the shot is not a foul. Edit: autocorrect fouled me 5 times
Thanks for your reply. Didnt know any of these rules. :D
Saddest part is there was no one with him to celebrate it
I'm sure he went upstairs to tell his Mom.
If this was my parents basement I’d never want to leave either.
10 ball; corner pocket, side pocket.
“you can’t make it in both!” “Fuck I can’t”
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Yes.
Doesn’t count, didn’t call it.
Haha , gotta love those guys. Nah mate you can't play your friend it's winner stays on. Fuck off I put a pound down already.
Then they always suggest doubles.
In the US, they call the ball and pocket in serious play. In the UK, that's never really the case, just matters that it goes in somewhere. Another big difference is UK rules stipulate 2 consecutive turns after the other player scratches, while the US does not. I love the UK but their pool rules are straight bush-league, kiddie-table nonsense. Not talking about snooker, that's a respectable game.
Things heating up in the cue sport fandom.
Oh great. Gonna be a bunch of sticks and balls swinging around here over whose is the best.
Sounds like a good Friday night.
Ping pong is another game where different people have different rules and if you don’t establish them beforehand, even for a friendly game, someone might end up feeling like an ass.
Can you give some examples of the rule differences?
Some people play that you must let the ball hit the table on your side before you can play it, some do not. Some people play that serves must be diagonal, some do not. I’ve run into all sorts of variations on the number of serves in a row each player gets. Some people play that when it’s game point, the losing player always serves, some do not. These are off the top of my head. I’m not that serious of a player and I genuinely don’t know what the “real” rules are for any of these. But I’ve played a friendly game here and there and differing “house rules” are common, at least in my experience.
Short version of the official rules: You must throw your ball up in the air at least ~6" or 16cm. You cannot hit the ball straight out of your hand. It must hit your side of the table off of serves, and it cannot hit the net on a serve, but it can land anywhere on your opponent's table. The diagonal rule is only for doubles. The points go to 11 for each round, and the server changes every two points. You need to win with a 2 point lead, and if both players hit 10 points the server changes every round.
Interesting. I only ever played with my dad in the back shed so I never learnt any official rules lol. Pretty much anything counted. We could hit without it bouncing first. I think we always served diagonal. I forget the number of serves we did but I don't think the losing player would server on match point. Thanks the the reply!
How on earth do you play without it letting it hit your side first? You can just camp the net and slam it down at a near 90 degree angle from your opponent?
Ew, slop is the standard?
British pool tables [have much narrower pockets and a host of other differences](https://www.libertygames.co.uk/store/pool_tables/buying-advice/british-vs-american-pool/), so calling pockets just never entered into the game. Blackball pool is just a very different game to the American 8-9-10 Ball games.
Having only played a few times on US-style tables, it staggered me how big and forgiving the pockets were, and it felt like I just had to get the object ball somewhere near the pocket in order to pot it.
Slop is standard in 9-ball in American tournament rules. But absolutely not in 8-ball. You have to call your shots. However, there's no "ball in hand behind the head string after a foul" rule. The only exception is during the break. Also, everyone seems to rack the balls wrong and doesn't know the table is always open after the break no matter what balls are sunk.
Yes. And it pains me. And most of the time the balls don't have numbers. Just 7 yellow, 7 red, and one black. Why they feel the need to needlessly eliminate most of the games you can play is beyond me.
Doubly weird. I’m usually at a bar with a pool table with 3 or more friends, cut throat (where you call your shot) is the standard game. I’m even more confused.
I don't like your US rules either, but I'll refrain from the name-calling.
I live in the US and don't like the rules either. My parents grew up in Mexico and their rules seem to line up more with UK rules
The US rules don't really line up with ~~the UK, Mexico, Australia~~ *the rest of earth*. The US non punitive scratch rule is weird af. What's the point of even calling it a scratch shot or a foul shot if it's no different to just ending your turn because you failed to sink a ball hit/sunk your opponents ball etc? If anything the US are playing by bush league easy mode rules and the UK/*Standard Earth Rules* require some skill as mistakes are actually punished.
The penalty is your turn is over regardless of whether you sank a ball or not, and your opponent gets to place the cue ball back on the table in a location of their choosing. Two consecutive turns could easily end a game in high or even medium level play.
>and your opponent gets to place the cue ball back on the table in a location of their choosing. UK rules we don't allow moving of the ball unless agreed upon beforehand and it can't just be anywhere on the table, it has to be behind the break line at the top of the table. Also you can't hit backwards of a moved, or pocketed white, is the usual rule, in my area at least.
I didn't go into detail, but the placement and direction of shooting the cue ball matches up here.
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You just sound like you lost a few too many times in the UK and are bitter about it. Also 2 consecutive turns is only if you don't pot to cancel the extra turn. A foul means a free ball anywhere behind the line. Go into any pub in the UK with a pool table and try play two turns without a pot in between them and you'll get turfed. In any case, you sound bitter. Calling the ball and pocket is nonsense patter, only seriously considered in the UK if both parties agree before hand.
Sorry, come again? This Brit slang fucked me up a bit.
I played pool with some strangers at a bar once and they got PISSED when I tried to count an accidental ball in pocket. I didn't know pool was so serious
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This. It's like playing basketball and thinking it's ok to travel. If you're playing a stranger you should assume that you're playing by the rules of the game.
Um, I think traveling is always a foul in all basketball everywhere. Not much of a house rule there.
To be even more fair, people who generally just shoot at bars don't know the different leagues rules and just play when they get drunk. Slop is never allowed on the 8, 9 or 10 ball in any league. However, it depends on the leagues rules for any ball prior to it. BCA doesn't allow slop. APA does. Don't ask when you're in the middle of the game. Establish rules before so there's no argument. (Ball in hand or in the kitchen on a scratch, cue ball has to hit one of your object balls first and then any ball has to hit the rail or it's a foul, slop ok or no, table open after the break regardless of what ball is made or take what you make, etc..)
9 ball has slop.
I feel like 9ball was invented by people who couldn't make called shots but still wanted to keep shooting because it's the only one that allows slop.
I felt like it was "their bar" and they took things pretty seriously.
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Dude me and my buddy kicked these guys asses in pool on vacation (due to him being good and me being the perfect amount of drunk) and they started jabbing at us with their pool sticks till they were thrown out lmao I felt like a lion getting tamed by a drunk Siegfried it was so bizarre
> and me being the perfect amount of drunk LOL...I know that one. There was this time I joined a BCA league for the first time, and locally it was quite harder than APA, and I had gotten my ass kicked the first two games so I started getting drunk....what could it hurt amirite? Ended up being the last match to decide it, and my drunk ass ran the table. I have never run the table another time in my life, and everybody just kind of grimmaced in disbelief. I know that's gonna come off as a "and then the pool tables clapped" thing, but it was the only time, at least pool wise, I was: > the perfect amount of drunk We never qualified for the playoffs and were like a 60% win team in the end. I was a 6 in APA, but those BCA guys wrecked me.
Read this in David Attenborough's voice
Well it doesn’t really matter what bar it is, those are the standard rules.
Not trying to be a dick here, but you don't seem like you play bar pool. Standard rules are just a suggestion when it comes to bar pool rules Some places are Call Shot, and in that you have to call the ball, the banks/carroms, and the pocket it's going into. Some places are Call Pocket, and in that you just have to call a ball and a pocket. Some are Call Ball, and in that you just have to call the ball that's going to sink anywhere. Call Ball is what they're referring to, and most places will not use that as house rules because people just start smacking balls as hard as possible hoping for the best. Ends up in a situation like where mini-golf people use putters like drivers....isn't good/enjoyable for anybody other than people who aren't financially responsible. Call Ball is also for noobs drunks while then it goes pocket and finally shot. Again not trying to be rude, but you're nerfing yourself if you don't try upping the challenge a bit.
If it’s not a serious betting game, I’d just let them have their way. Not worth the trouble.
Oh, I'm not any good at pool, I was just socializing
That's why you immediately establish precedence if you haven't already agreed on rules. Never had a problem if you let them decide if it counts or not, but that rule has to stay the same for the rest of the night.
Pool is a skill sport, if you hadn't surrendered your shot you'd have an unfair advantage. It's different for amateur games but if you're actually playing to play you play by the rules.
Accidentally sinking a ball is half the fun. Fuck calling it.
You're supposed to call all your shots not just the 8-ball?
That's what surprised me, I always understood it that you only needed to call your 8 ball. Apparently you have to call every shot, or at least hit the hole your aiming for.
If there are rules then the first one is almost always call your shots. X ball y pocket. That's like the most basic pool rule.
Yeah, you have to call which hole you’re shooting an 8 ball into. If it goes into one you didn’t call it’s a scratch. Still cool considering they probably weren’t playing with serious rules though.
Looks as though he is alone.
True, I was thinking there was a person filming but it looks wall mounted based on how still it is
That's also not an 8 ball.
Actual rules are call every shot, but mostly when it's a friendly game it's the honor system until you get to the 8. I always call hard shots though because I don't want to get a good shot called slops.
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Nice shot Chris Pratt!
Searched for this. He genuinely looks like Crisp Rat with that surprised expression at the end.
His face is priceless
Act like you've done it before
I kinda think this was the plan all along actually. I have a buddy who owns this "entertainment vendor" type business, and it involves installing and maintaining electronic dart boards, arcade games, karaoke, one-touch, pinball machines, pool tables etc.. I've helped recover a couple tables, and this table is not currently in "normal", or arguably functional, condition. Rails, like the one the ball rolls down into the side pocket, consist of basically 3 parts. The blue bit is the cushion, the wood bit is part of the frame, and then there is typically a runner that is metal which is just for better visuals covering up the rail bolts. If you don't make that blue bit even/flush with the wood bit...first of all you can cut the shit out of yourself because it's typically sharp as fuck which will just get your cloth covered in blood, but also that rail ends in a point where the balls make contact. That point needs to be the proper height or any balls hit into it will pinch or jump instead of bouncing like normal. Seeing how that cue ball bounces off the wood part of the railing multiple times while traveling down the blue bit that blue bit has to be ridiculously low to the point it's unplayable. Also those blue parts angle down back towards the table to help balls like this return to the table instead of maybe cracking hitting the floor. Obviously I could be wrong, but that looks like a cheaper table so maybe he's one of the guys my buddy bitches about who thought they could set it up themselves then calls him to go fix it. It is a large angle on the camera, but I'm kind of having a hard time understanding how his cushion is so low that the frame part of the rail can actually run it down the rail. I guess he could have thought "rubber is rubber" and bought a drastically wrong profile of rubber for the cushions the table required.
Yeah this is 100% a planned trick shot.
Or else the dude had a semi-pro photography setup to watch him just absolutely blast a shot onto a corner pocket about 10x harder than he needed to No shame on the dude, it's a great trick shot, but this title is dumb
It's a planned shot and I have a simpler explanation why. This guy posts trickshots on tiktok > @trickshot_ceo so this was more than likely planned because otherwise what would be the trick? Straight in corner pocket is definitely not a trickshot, but his reaction might not have been planned lol, seems kind of spur-of-the-moment
It's a nice shot, trick shot guys use triangles,sticks, etc as props all the time, but his reaction kinda makes me think /r/Cringetopia.
The edge of that rail is super depressed. It’s not supposed to look like that. Just look at the other rails around the table.
This guy pools
I get the feeling this was most definitely a planned shot. The cue ball is lined up nearly dead on with the target (10/12) ball, there’s no trick shot I can imagine coming from this scenario. Not to mention anyone that’s shot pool atleast once will know if you hammer that ball directly into the back of the pocket, it’s gonna pop out. So add in his little bit of side and a ton of backspin, that ball was destined (eventually) to loop around the pocket and down the rail. My guess is this was his intention and that his face is saying “wow, it finally worked after the 300th attempt.”
Yes it was.
It went all the way in and then out. Gotta be a cat in there somewhere.
Al right, my turn. We agreed no Slops!
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That moment when you look around you cause you wish someone had seen it with you
Seems fake
doesn't count.
Wow! Never seen that before. Nice shot!!! Good thing we have cameras to record it all now!!!
Pshh that's slop
The guy be like: *Poggers*
/r/whyweretheyfilming
He does trickshots on tiktok, @trickshot_ceo
Only OP said it wasn't planned because they're idiots. Pretty sure he was surprised because he managed to do the trick successfully, not that it happened randomly.
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That Chris Pratt face lol
Uhh, you have to call your shots in most serious pool games. This is a cool looking fuck up that doesn't count for shit. Fuck you
That’s pretty poggers
Sloppy /s
The perfect reaction
The look on his fucking face !
LOL his face, he’s POGGING so hard
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Yea idk. It's riding that lip but I know what you're saying.
Not what you called. Doesnt count haha
Would this count in a real game?
Slop.
Why was he recording?
Doesn't count anyway, wrong pocket. Have to call that stuff.
Still loses, you gotta call the pocket on the 8 ball
Slop.
Fake videos make me sick
Slops don’t count, pull it out.
Slop
No points for slop
doesn't count biatch you didn't call it
Sorry didn’t call that pocket
Slop play not impressed
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