Patrick Johnson
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Long as we're on the subject of rules, here's a question I've never heard or seen answered:
Say the CB is frozen to the 1 ball in a rotation game like 9-Ball or 10-Ball. In snooker you can shoot the CB away from the 1 (without moving the 1) and it counts as "contacting" the 1 for a legal hit. That's not true in pool - so what do you have to do to "contact" the 1 ball in pool?
I think the rule should be that if you move the 1 ball, even slightly, by shooting even a little "toward" it (toward the 1-Ball side of the CB/1B tangent line), then you've "contacted" the ball. But I've never seen this clarification in print. Does a written rule exist for this situation? How do you play it?
Thanks,
pj
chgo
Say the CB is frozen to the 1 ball in a rotation game like 9-Ball or 10-Ball. In snooker you can shoot the CB away from the 1 (without moving the 1) and it counts as "contacting" the 1 for a legal hit. That's not true in pool - so what do you have to do to "contact" the 1 ball in pool?
I think the rule should be that if you move the 1 ball, even slightly, by shooting even a little "toward" it (toward the 1-Ball side of the CB/1B tangent line), then you've "contacted" the ball. But I've never seen this clarification in print. Does a written rule exist for this situation? How do you play it?
Thanks,
pj
chgo