What is the legal object ball in 8-ball pool?

Question

If you pocket the 8 ball before you pocketed all of your other balls, do you automatically lose? Apparently, it is an auto loss if you pocket the 8 ball when it is not the legal object ball.

Answer 1

If you pocket the 8-ball at any time other than after all your other balls, you automatically lose.

Answer 2

What rules are you playing by?  Bar rules, BCA, M8?  It depends on the rules you play by but usually it's an automatic win..

Answer 3

i keep rereading what u wrote and I'm trying to figure out what u are asking....   you are correct a shooter loses if they sink the 8 before clearing all the rest of their balls off the table first.  8 must be an independent called shot.  if goes in off the break it is either spoted or re racked.  

object ball is what ever ball your attempting to make contact with

Answer 4

If you are playing by normal bar rules it would be a loss.  If you are playing by APA or ACS rules the 8 ball would be spotted and the other player would get ball in hand on the table as if they had scratched.

Answer 5

The 8 ball only becomes a legal object ball after all of the balls of your group are pocketed.

So yes, pocketing the 8 before all the balls in your group are in is a loss of game.

Answer 6

above answer is true except on the break, sink the 8 on the break and u win

Answer 7

There is only one time when this isn't the case and that is the break. In english 8-ball if you pot the black off the break then it is a re-rack with the same person to break with no frames awarded to either person. If you pot the black before all of your object balls at any other time unfortunately you lose!

Answer 8

object ball- the ball you hit with the white cue ball

sinking the 8 ball is legal only if all other balls have been sunk. so you lose if you pocket the 8 before all the other balls have been pocketed.

Answer 9

Some rules say yes, some no!, it also depends on the Q ball too.