Pool and Billiards For Dummies by Nicholas Leider

Author:Nicholas Leider
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010-03-09T05:00:00+00:00

You can play the shot in Figure 13-7 in a number of ways, but some options can be very difficult. You can draw the cue ball straight back off of the 8, but losing control of the speed is easy to do. You can also thinly cut the 8 ball so that the cue ball touches only the head rail, but again, any error in the contact point on the 8 may lead to an awkward angle on the 9.

In this case, you may find this shot easier if you use a bit of left English (running English) on the cue ball. (Chapter 10 talks about English.) English isn’t necessary to get position on the 9, but it just may make it easier for you. If you can make the 8 ball and get shape on the 9 with a center-ball hit, experiment with a little bit of left English.

Cheating the pocket

With a ball hanging in a pocket, you have a large margin of error. Hit almost any point on the edge of the object ball that’s farthest from the pocket, and you’re going to make the shot.

The object ball being so close to the pocket not only makes the shot easier, it also opens up more options for you to play position. After all, hitting an object ball thinly will send the cue ball in a different direction than if you were to hit it on the thick side.

Taking advantage of this situation is called cheating the pocket. Normal pockets are at least two-balls wide. Because of this width, you’re able to aim to make the ball on one side of the pocket or the other, which will change the path of the cue ball after impact. This flexibility lets you create a number of different paths for the cue ball on the same shot.

In Figure 13-8, you can see how you can greatly change the path of the cue ball after impact. In both shots, you’re hitting the 10 ball into the side pocket with stun. The dotted line shows a path where you hit the 10 ball thinly, allowing the cue ball to head toward the long rail. The example with the black line shows where you could go if you hit the 10 as full as possible, leaving your cue ball heading straight toward the center of the short rail.

Figure 13-8: Here’s one example with two very different routes off the same shot.

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