Originally Posted by Terry Davidson
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A free ball would only be awarded if angled after a foul if there was an obstructing ball not on which is closer than the curved part of the cushion (the jaw). If, for example, the cue ball is in the jaws of the yellow pocket and the last red is near the black pocket on the yellow side of the table, with a blue near the centre pocket, then that is not a snooker because the jaw is the first obstruction. If the blue was, instead, very close to the cue ball (still in the yellow pocket jaws) such that the blue would be hit before the jaw, then this would be a free ball.
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