Not only did he miss the ball, it looks like he actually cut the first ball (the eight) the wrong direction. He hit it on the right side when he needed to hit it on the left side. Nobody, even a mediocre amateur, can miss that badly and actually hit the wrong side of the ball. When was the last time anybody ever tried to cut a ball to the left and accidentally cut it to the right instead? How about never? If he had cut it the correct direction, but was slightly off with his aim, he could have accidentally pocketed it so he was forced to cut it the wrong direction since he didn't have enough rail to work with between where it was lined up and the pocket. Hitting the wrong side of the 8 and cutting it the wrong direction made it way too obvious but he had no choice at that point. Unless you thought it was somebody that had been playing less than a month I think you would be waiting to see more of their play before you asked them to gamble because you would have know that miss was obviously intentional! lol