Automatic Wins & Losses in Eight Ball Pool

Video Transcript

"This is Mike Lopez with Expert Village and now we're going to discuss automatic wins and looses in 8 ball. There are a few wins and loses scenarios that will automatically win you the game or loose you the game in 8 ball. The first one being scratching on the break, scratching on the break is when a player breaks the rack and manages to sink the cue ball in a pocket. Another instance of automatically loosing is when you shoot at an object ball and in this instance we'll be shooting to try to pocket the one. We're going to try to shoot the one ball in that side pocket but sometimes things happen and instead of hitting the one ball into the pocket, you accidentally hit the 8. This is a lose in almost every case, the next thing we're going to discuss is scratching on the 8 ball. Now as you can see we have pocketed all of the solid balls and all that remains is 8, now the problem here is once again if you scratch on the 8 ball it's an automatic lose. So if you line up for this 8 and even though you made the 8, the cue ball went in so you scratched on the 8 and you still lost."