When you are on the 8 ball in a game of pool and you pot the cue ball, do you lose?

Question

Also, what happens when you pot the 8 ball and the cue ball on the same shot?

Answer 1

Hey,  it seems everyone plays by different rules, depending where you play. Just make sure you and your opponent agree before you break how to play the 8 ball.

Answer 2

you lose.  and you lose.  you also lose if the 8 ball goes in the wrong pocket.

Answer 3

you dont lose if you pot the white ball by itself when ur on the 8-ball, but if you pot both then you lose.

Answer 4

Yes! you lose

Answer 5

if the eight is your object ball, and the cue ball falls the your answer is YES.  Scrathing on the eight ball loses the game. Otherwise, it would depend on the style of play.  Bar rules if the cue ball sratches then the opponent would have ball in hand behind the first points from the break side of the table.  League play a sratch gives ball in hand anywhere on the table to your opponent, in every game but snooker.  Pocketing the 8 ball and cue both in an 8 ball game loses.

Answer 6

Pool Table Rules for 8 Ball Game:

The object of the game is to pot all of your group of coloured balls and the black ball before your opponent. This game is usually played with 7 red balls, 7 yellow balls, 1 black ball and the white cue ball. The black ball, being the ‘8' ball. To set up the balls for the start of the game use the triangle provided with most pool tables. The black ball is placed in the middle of the third row and positioned on the spot nearest the back cushion. The formation is as follows:-

R

YR

RBY

YRYR

RYYRY

Foul Shots:

Pocketing the 8-ball (except on the opening break) before your object balls have been pocketed

Pocketing the 8-ball on the same shot as pocketing your remaining object balls

Jumping the 8-ball off the table

Pocketing the 8-ball at the end of the game in a different pocket than the one you call

Pocketing the 8-ball when it's not the legal object ball

Potting the cue ball.

Playing the cue ball from outside of the baulk area when obliged to do so.

Potting an opponents ball except when it's nominated after your opponent has played a foul shot.

Hitting your opponents colour or the 8 ball before hitting your own colour.

Failure to make contact with any ball with the cue ball.

Failure to have one foot touching the ground whilst playing your shot.

Failure to perform a fair break.

Failure to perform a fair shot within 60 seconds of the ball coming to rest.

First decide who will take the first shot by either tossing a coin or by hitting one ball each to see who can get their ball closest to the baulk cushion (this is called The Lag Shot).

The cue ball can be placed anywhere behind the baulk line. This is the line that goes across the pool table. The player who is breaking off shoots the cue ball into the rack of balls ensuring at least four balls hit a cushion. Failure to comply with this, results in a foul and the opponent then re-breaks a re- racked set of balls.

If during the break off a ball is potted then the player at the pool table continues the break. The table remains open ( no colour belongs to a player) until the first ball is pocketed after the break.

If you pocket the cue ball from the break, your opponent places the cue ball anywhere behind the baulk line but, any balls pocketed will remain pocketed. If you pocket the cue ball at any other time the cue ball can be placed anywhere on the pool table by your opponent.

When you are ready to pot the 8 ball you must nominate the pocket you intend to pocket the ball into. If you then pocket the 8 ball into another pocket YOU LOSE.

You can forfeit the game for the following reasons:

If the 8 ball jumps off the table in the process of your shot…YOU LOSE.

There are many variations of this game both locally and internationally.

Answer 7

You lose both times.......

Answer 8

If you are going by BCA world standardized rules, scratching while trying to pocket the 8-ball is NOT a lose of game if you do not pocket the 8-ball.  This is a common bar rule but it is not how competitions are run.  

Your second question, however, would result in a loss of game.  See below:

4.19   PLAYING THE 8-BALL

When the 8-ball is the legal object ball, a scratch or foul is not loss of game if the 8-ball is not pocketed or jumped from the table. Incoming player has cue ball in hand. Note: A combination shot can never be used to legally pocket the 8-ball, except when the 8-ball is the first ball contacted in the shot sequence.

4.20   LOSS OF GAME

A player loses the game by committing any of the following infractions:  

1.         Fouls when pocketing the 8-ball (exception: see 8-Ball Pocketed On The

            Break).

2.         Pockets the 8-ball on the same stroke as the last of his group of balls.

3.         Jumps the 8-ball off the table at any time.  

4.         Pockets the 8-ball in a pocket other than the one designated.  

5.         Pockets the 8-ball when it is not the legal object ball.

Answer 9

If you scratch on the 8 ball without making the 8 ball itself, you don't lose.

Answer 10

The 8-ball must drop cleanly, in the called pocket, with no scratch or you lose.

Answer 11

A scratch off the 8 is a ball in hand foul

If you make 8 and scratch-Rackem loser

Answer 12

yes,,,scratching on the 8 ball you do not win,,