petie
Verified Member
If the CB were to be deemed "driven off the table" (by virtue of its being saved that fate only by having been deflected off a piece of chalk), then the CB would be played BIH in the Kitchen.
If the CB rolled onto the rail, and back onto the surface without contacting a piece of chalk (or any other foreign object), then it wouldn't be any kind of foul at all, so the CB would obviously play from where it came to rest.
This is where it gets tricky. If the CB clipped the chalk, but it was deemed that the chalk contact would NOT have saved the ball from rolling off the table entirely, then it would just be considered a regular foul, because the CB contacted a foreign object. In that case the CB would play from it's position, and the offending player would owe a ball.
Most of us will play pool for our entire lives without ever seeing this particular situation come up. But at least there is a rule to cover it, especially since there are several hairs to be split...
Doc
I'm glad there are guys like you and Steve who keep track of this stuff. In my opinion a lot of the rules that are creeping into our game are now coming from 'amateurs' and are too nitty for real pool. The rules concerning OB sewn to CB come to mind. Forever in tournament pool going way back, you could always shoot through the OB even if you weren't sewed but very close as long as you did it with one continuous stroke. Now they have a bunch of nitty rules saying you have to shoot away and this gets particularly reduculous if you were playing 9 ball and you were sewed to the lowest numbered object ball.