darmoose
Verified Member
I see no reason to address this situation at all on OP rules. Pocketing a ball in any pocket other than your own ends your inning. Pocketing a ball in your pocket continues your inning, and if you don't want to continue shooting you can take an intentional without moving the CB if that is your desire.4. Safety play
There is no option to ‘call a safety’ in One Pocket; if a player legally scores a ball into their own pocket they must shoot again, unless the game is over. Players may play safe to the same rail as many times as they wish, as long as either the cue ball or at least one object ball is driven to a cushion after the cue ball contacts an object ball. Reference rule 8.
IMO this sentence might confuse many players, especially those who have never played 14.1 (straight pool), and would not understand the significance of calling "safe" when pocketing a ball with the intention of having that ball spotted up. It is true that a small group of players who have played only 14.1 might wonder about that rule in 1P, but off hand I can't think of a good example of where that 14.1 safety rule might be used in 1P-- perhaps pocketing a ball in one's hole and freezing the CB to the stack?
I think if one was unaware of the 14.1 rule this rule would not even be considered for OP.