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Summary: Billiard rules made easy! Learn about foul shots in this free video clip about how to play nine ball.
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Alright in this clip I'm going to show another illegal shot. It's basically when you, if you don?t make a ball on the shot and no ball hits a rail. If that happens its ball in hand for your opponent. Let me show you exactly what I mean. So here's the scenario, you might have something set up like this where you have the four ball being the object ball, right. I have a decent shot on it. You see every things open, but if I did something like this and I played the four in the side and I hit it real easy like that just to roll it. Now it didn't go in, I fouled the ball there because no ball hit a rail. That's a foul. When you hit your object ball either that object ball, the cue ball, or any of the other balls have to go into a rail. So a legal shot would have been this. Even though I missed it it's still a legal shot. Your opponent, you lose your turn, but you don't get a foul and your player doesn't get ball in hand. So I go for the four in the side, you hit a rail, or even if the cue if that four didn't hit the rail and the cue ball hit the seven and the seven hit the rail it's a legal shot. So ball, for it to be a legal shot always you have to hit your ball and one of those balls have to hit a rail. If nothing hits a rail your opponent gets ball in hand.