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Step 1
If you question any of the rules, mentioned here, search the internet for billiard rules. Billiards Congress of America and American Pool Players Association (also known as APA),have similar rules. They are probably the two largest authorities in the US. International rules are also, very similar. 8 ball will be the basis for this discussion.
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Step 2
Unread rules for 8 ball, are imagined by amateurs, that haven't read a rule book, or they have, and don't want to abide by them. Others speed read the rules and misinterpret them, or forgot parts of what they read. Even true geniuses, need to read a book more than once, to memorize it. Some rule benders want to be thought of as the supreme authority for pool. If you present a rule book to rule twisters, that can read. Their response is usually something like, these rules are different. (Of course they're different, they weren't written by amateurs).
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Step 3
Professional rules 8 ball, never requires any call, but ball and pocket. Calling kisses and bank shots, are never a requirement of the game. Liars will swear, they are a requirement of the call. (Because of discrepancies and arguments arriving from questionable calls, detailed calling of shots, were excluded from professional play, before Willie Mosconi was a pool player. (So, self imagined, know it alls, are swearing by a rule, that's a hundred years out of date.) (Some beer league tournaments, even on a national level, require detailed calling of shots. However beer drinkers and beer salesmen are not the official authority of pool rules).
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Step 4
Another perversion of the rules of 8 ball, states the 8 ball can not touch another object ball on its way into a pocket. (Some beer league tournaments and house rules prevail tournaments may have alterations to BCA or APA rules, while stating they are strictly playing by BCA or APA rules. These tournaments are considered amateur tournaments, even if the prize money is a large amount and it's on a national level.. So when the alterers of the rules say the 8 ball must be made clean, they are not correctly abiding by the world or national established rules of BCA or APA.
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Step 5
Another perversion of the rules states after a scratch, if all the balls are behind the line, you must kick at it. (Not so, you're supposed to spot the ball closest to the foul line. If you're shooting at the 8 ball, after a scratch, you have the legal right to spot it, before you shoot). Fortunately, one foul cue ball in hand 8 ball, abolishes this rule that never was a real rule in the history of pocket billiards.
