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| cjburgess |
Posted - 12/05/2005 : 10:42:07 AM
A few weeks ago, I was in a rare situation. The game was 8-ball, I had a 7 ball left, the opponent was on the 8. The 8 ball was in the jaws of a corner pocket, my 7 was almost frozen in front of it. There was no way that the 7 would have dropped, and no way the 8 could have gone in without the cueball hitting the 7 first. Should we have called a draw and started a new game? I ended up losing because I shot the 7 out of the way, trying to pocket it only because I felt I had to. |
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| cjburgess |
Posted - 12/05/2005 : 4:17:01 PM
Thanks Phil, I'll remember that. |
| Phil |
Posted - 12/05/2005 : 11:50:40 AM
When a game reaches a point where neither player can or wants to make use of a ball-in-hand, it should be declared stalemated. In 8-Ball, you cross that game and it's innings off the scoresheet and in 9-Ball you mark the remaining balls on the table as dead and continue from there. In 8-Ball the player who broke in the stalemated game breaks again, while in 9-Ball it is the player who made the last point.
Many players want to call a stalemate prematurely. There are often safeties or sequences of safeties that can turn the game to one player's advantage. In your example your opponent could have began bumping your ball ever so slightly, giving you ball in hand but with no makeable shot, until it was possible to hit the 8-Ball cleanly. It sometimes takes two or three such safeties to achieve the goal, but the game becomes really interesting at that point and patience usually wins out.
Phil
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