Dennis "Whitey" Young
Verified Member
I agree with your response. I believe you and many other players believe that to push a cb into the stack is and always been allowed, in that it is a simple foul with no other consequences, thus it has been abused. As with the ring bank pool rules, I cannot go against the good ole boys thinking of this is how it has always been played, and I think that is where you are at.I think your views deserve their own thread in the main forum. This will allow you to communicate directly with the people who modified those rules 5 or 6 yrs ago. They might agree with you.
I didn't write those rules, but I remember the discussions and why certain rules were written. Getting snide with me isn't helping here.
As a tournament director of some of our past one pocket events, according to the rules as I understand them, I would have called a simple foul.
Your welcome to challenge my ruling in this case, in its own thread, be it right or wrong. I'm open to other members views.
If your again asking me to change the rules like you did in the bank forum I'm really not interested. I am in no way qualified or entitled in any aspect of the game to do that...
Although the 2004 rule has it as a restoration option. But it had no back bone for it did not specifically state trapping within the stack, plus there was other factors that were probably lending to vagueness . Not sure players ever took the 2004 rule to heart, or even if they pay attention to rules anyway, they just play OP as they always have.
Illegally pushing the cb within the stack has been going on for decades in 14.1 and OP. I seen Mosconi do it against Caras, just a foul, and refereed. I've seen it happen in our MOT.
Whitey