Thanks for the quick reply. I know my post was sort of hard to understand, but it seems I may simply just not know the rules.
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Instance 1: unless you called the ball off the other one, he's right. I've never played a bar game where 'fluke' shots were allowed.
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Well I didn't call it off the other ball, I hit the cue ball, and that hit my intended object. I don't know if it lightly bumped one of the other balls or not, he said it did. I wouldn't have called it a fluke shot, as I hit the intended ball and it went in the intended pocket.
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Instance 2: not sure what you mean, but I've always played that a sunk ball scratch (teeheehee) is you can move the ball anywhere behind the line, but must shoot forward.
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ok, so i knew that it had to be behind the line, but I thought you had to hit a ball that was beyond the corresponding line on the other side of the table. Where the first ball is placed on a break.
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Instance 3: If he intentionally tried to 'hook' you, meaning he deliberately made the balls lie so you couldn't hit the 8, then you don't have to worry about scratching. If he didn't do it on purpose, and you don't hit the 8 first, game over.
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sorry, we weren't shooting the 8ball at this point. I tried to state that this was the only ball that we could have possibly hit at this point. Since I play for fun, I don't really pay too much attention to others shots, so I don't know if he intended his balls to block mine in (I doubt it though). What I was wondering, since we had to hit our own ball, we made an attempt to do so. Since we hit one of his balls first he stated that he could place the ball wherever he liked on the table, rather then just shooting from where the ball landed.
Also I guess, if he was alowed to do so, what other options did we have inorder to not give him "ball in hand"
Hope this clears things up a bit.
Thanks