What Happens if you use Opponent's Ball as 1st Ball in a Combo Shot on the 8 Ball?
1/21/2007 12:27:50 AM
What Happens if you use Opponent's Ball as 1st Ball in a Combo Shot on the 8 Ball?
What is the penalty when you are on the 8 ball and the cue ball hits your opponent's ball first, and pockets it?
Is that a loss of game?
Here's a step-by-step sequence for this shot scenario:
- Player has pocketed all of their object balls and is now on the 8 ball
- Player calls the 8 ball and the intended pocket.
- Player shoots the cue ball into an opponents ball first, which is then intended to hit the 8 ball and pocket it.
- The opponent's ball falls into a pocket instead.
- The 8 ball may or may not fall into the intended pocket.
So, when you are shooting for the 8 ball, but you pocket one of your opponents balls by hitting his ball first, what is the penalty?
excaliberThis question relates to the following billiard rules:
What Happens if you use Opponent's Ball as 1st Ball in a Combo Shot on the 8 Ball?
Replies & Comments
billiardsforum on 1/21/2007 10:27:35 AMThis question is a duplicate of Can You Use Opponent's Ball to Sink the 8 Ball?
See the first answer there. It details the outcome, which depends on whether the 8 ball is actually pocketed or not. It also lists all of the applicable sections of the WPA 8 ball rules which apply.
kyle on 1/21/2007 12:55:44 PM
The only time you lose while shooting the eight ball is when you:
- sink the eight ball in the wrong pocket,
- sink the eight ball and commit a "standard foul"
In this case, it is a loss, as the shooter sank the eight ball on an illegal stroke.
What Happens if you use Opponent's Ball as 1st Ball in a Combo Shot on the 8 Ball?
- Title: What Happens if you use Opponent's Ball as 1st Ball in a Combo Shot on the 8 Ball?
- Author: excaliber (Zach Anderson)
- Published: 1/21/2007 12:27:50 AM
- Last Updated: 3/23/2022 5:17:50 AM
- Last Updated By: billiardsforum (Billiards Forum)
