Byrne's Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards by Robert Byrne

Author:Robert Byrne [Byrne, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61608-538-4
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

The pocket point ploy

Going off the point of the side pocket is sometimes the best way to escape interfering balls, and it can be done from far to the left or right. Only imaginative shotmakers like California’s Cole Dickson think of it in games. I leave it to the reader to create a trick shot making use of the idea.

Winging it

Good players can throw a ball down the table and cut it in the corner while if s on the move. Great players like Don Willis can do it with billiard balls on a snooker table. Bob Jewett's half-ball approach makes the so-called wing shot a bit easier than it looks. Shoot or throw the four toward the spot along the dashed line. Shoot the cueball along the dotted line, timing it so contact is made near the spot. The advantage is that there is something to aim at, namely, half of the object ball. For something harder, cut the object ball from Z or bank it from X. Kim Merrill banks his wing shots four rails. The anonymous author of Trick and Fancy Pocket Billiard Shots suggests throwing both the object ball and the cueball down the table and cutting one in with the other while both are on the move. Those old-timers must have been fast on their feet.

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