Sinking 8 Ball On Break
6/18/2007 12:50:07 AM
Sinking 8 Ball On Break
Can you help us figure out that in 8 ball, according to official 8 ball rules, what happens in this case?
What happens when the person who breaks happens to sink the 8 ball on that break shot? Do they win or do they automatically lose? Keep playing?
This question relates to the following billiard rules:
Sinking 8 Ball On Break
Replies & Comments
smichael on 6/18/2007 12:51:42 AM
I believe that the player wins if they sink the 8 ball off the break. That of course assumes that they have not scratched by also sinking the cue ball.
cutthroat on 7/15/2007 1:30:24 PM
According to the official BCA 8 ball Rules:
4.08 8-BALL POCKETED ON THE BREAK
If the 8-ball is pocketed on the break, breaker may ask for a re-rack or have the 8-ball spotted and continue shooting.
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NolesManMike on 7/28/2007 1:32:12 AM
I always played it as the player who knocks the eight ball on the break loses, but that's when your playing on coin tables at say a bowling alley or game room because you cant re spot it or rack it up again.
I'm only 17 so I cant play at a pool hall with nice pockets... otherwise.
kellystick on 7/31/2007 1:18:50 PM
In APA making the 8 ball on the break wins the game unless you scratch the CB or CB on the floor.
billiardsforum on 8/1/2007 9:09:24 AM
You've gotta love 8 Ball rules, with the hundreds of variations out there!
jags on 8/1/2007 10:37:03 AM
Every place I've ever played (pennsylvania, florida, virginia) the house rules were 8 on the break wins. Even on quarter tables.
My grandfather would practice tring to make it and could do it about once out of five times.
MarionRich on 11/20/2007 3:05:48 PM
Sinking the 8-ball on break shot wins. If it's your first 8 on the break, you drink till you black out. In Michigan, anyways.
user1543125319 on 11/24/2018 9:55:19 PM
Ok, but I need to get something clarified.
During normal 8 ball (solids vs stripes), if someone breaks the rack and either a solid or stripe goes in first and then the 8 ball goes in, does the breaker lose or win?
We usually play that if one sinks the 8-ball off the break, then the breaker wins, but because another ball went in first the breaker loses.
Please clarify for me. Your help is appreciated.
billiardsforum on 11/25/2018 6:23:09 AM
According to WPA 8-ball rules, it is not a loss of game nor an automatic win.
3.3 Break Shot
The following rules apply to the break shot:
[...]
(e) Pocketing the eight ball on a legal break shot is not a foul. If the eight ball is pocketed, the breaker has the option of
- re-spotting the eight ball and accepting the balls in position, or
- re-breaking.
Source: wpapool.com/rules-of-play/
Seems to me that it's spelled out fairly clearly.
Sinking 8 Ball On Break
- Title: Sinking 8 Ball On Break
- Author: cuebald
- Published: 6/18/2007 12:50:07 AM