The One Ball Into the Side Pocket? Really?

Why do the pros think that driving the One ball into the side pocket is the best they can do in 9 ball? Seems to me, the CB goes off to unknown territory, the one ball only goes in about 1/3rd of a time, the CB gets hooked by some off known table location.. Just amazing to me. I'm just an A player but isn't there a way to get the wing ball to go into the corner pocket and the one ball up near the opposite corner pocket from where we broke from. Surely, there is a spot where every table will pocket the wing ball into the corner time after time with a location between the 2X and 1Y spot and the side rail. Here is a video of me running a rack of nine ball. I have learned how to hit the rack where the wing ball goes in on my table and it depends on humidity. I hit the rack softly where the one ball is heading toward the corner pocket. If I hit it too hard, it will go up against the end rail so that is the judgement of how hard to hit the rack. I failed to keep the CB into the middle on this break but it's still usable.
I'm not even good but I can pocket the wing ball time after time into my corner pocket and sometimes I can continue, why don't the pros do this?
Remember; this is not about me (I suck) but why don't the pros break this way?

barrymuch90 said:

Are you racking the one on the spot or the 9? I believe they're playing the one in the side cut break with the 9 on the spot

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Well, just found out the one ball was on the spot during the Mosconi Cup.

AlienObserver said:

1) Your tripod has Parkinson syndrome, or you shot the entire video during an earthquake.. I don't know why the video is this shaky but it is unwatchable.

2) All the tournaments I know of in Europe (can't speak for the US) have the 3 ball rule. Breaking like you did in the video is considered as dry break so your opponent would come of his seat and would continue with the rack. So why they don't break that way? Because they want to stay at the table and not open all the balls and gift their opponent the rack.

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Yes, my focus control was vibrating so I took it down. But the break was with the one ball at the spot as they did on the Mosconi Cup (I was just informed).

Bob Jewett said:

The video I referred to has the one on the spot. After you watch Corey's run at 11:30, watch his run at 18:18. Tell me what you think.

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I love it. Just a little easier and into the side pocket.

SARDiver said:

I dunno why the pros do what they do. I, a rank amateur, break with the cueball close to the right hand rail with draw, aiming at the 1B, which is on the spot. I make the 1B into the side about 40% of the time.

I play for this because it's about the most controllable shot I can take from that position.

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I know what you mean. With the one on the spot, there is almost a position where the wing ball can be made into the corner, with draw or a stop shot +6 inches or so to stop the CB. But, with the 9 on the spot, I am unfamiliar with it.

AtLarge said:

In the 2017 Mosconi Cup:

• The 1-ball was racked on the foot spot. That was a change after quite a few years with the 9-ball on the spot.

• The 1-ball was pocketed in the side pocket on the opposite side from the breaker on 40% (46 of 115) of the breaks.

• The wing ball on the same side of the table as the breaker was pocketed in the nearest corner pocket on 63% of the breaks (72 of 115).

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So.... the one ball was on the spot for the 2017 Mosconi Cup. Was hard to tell from the matches I watched. Still, breaking with the wing ball going into the corner makes sense.

barrymuch90 said:

Are you racking the one on the spot or the 9? I believe they're playing the one in the side cut break with the 9 on the spot

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They are saying the one ball was on the spot at the Mosconi Cup.