One pocket moves

8pack

8pack

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Just wondering what are the most common one hole moves.
Ex...Maybe skimming a ball or banking a ball towards your hole and letting the cb go to the rail and back into the stack.(leaving the cb stuck in the stack)

I know there's a lot of moves just curious about the most common used.

Thanks Anthony
 
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hole not whole. lol

My most common move is selling out the rack. It works everytime I play one pocket.
 
Check out onepocket.org and watch a bunch of videos.

My pick for the strongest move in one pocket is hanging a ball in your hole and dead hooking your opponent behind another ball where he has a tough kick to even hit the hanging ball.

Otherwise, open up balls high and low on your side and use the pack to block him hitting them directly. If you are up a bunch of balls, send them uptable. If you're down a bunch of balls, get them in play.

Buy some accu-stat videos...guys who learned the hard way (gambling and losing) all say they would have been in heaven to just be able to pay 10 or 20 bucks and learn what they learned by losing a ton of money to champs doing their Charlie Chaplin impressions...
 
Put them on the rail. Bottom rail to start, and as you get better, the top rail too. That will be $20. Thank you.
 
8pack said:
Just wondering what are the most common one whole moves.
Ex...Maybe skimming a ball or banking a ball towards your whole and letting the cb go to the rail and back into the stack.(leaving the cb stuck in the stack)

I know there's a lot of moves just curious about the most common used.

Thanks Anthony
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Best move i believe is, keep your opponent froze in the stack every time you can, this will drive him crazy and he will mess up sooner or later!

But if you keep leaving your opponent in the stack and he keeps returning the favor be very carefull he can PLAY!
 
Kicking into the stack to make a ball in your pocket. Or, sometimes better, kicking into the stack and almost making a ball in your pocket leaving whitey stuck on the back side.
Here's a trick I only recently learned. When losing badly I pretend to take a call on my cell phone, then tell my opponent that my uncle has just been killed in a mine explosion, and run like hell out of the pool hall. :)
 
there are an infinite amount of common moves, but ,Ive heard that the ole" 8 and out" was the strongest move, hard to argue with that. :thumbup:

seriously , get away from az and go to onepocket.org , look, read, learn, participate in the WWYD threads and use search before asking stupid questions unless you want some former world champion, h,o.f players thinking you are there just to make their lives miserable......lol,
its gonna take time and an open mind to get thinking like a one holer.
lives have been spent learning this game. but as far as games go its, #1 in my book.
 
It's hard to answer a question like this because there are no hard rules or moves that would be easy to describe in a sentence or paragraph.

It's a deep game with subtleties that are hard understand until you play the game a bunch.

Play cheap or free with better players, watch you tube videos, go on onepocket.org and look at the wwyd threads and you'll get a good start.

2 books- winning one pocket and shots moves and strategies are good resources.

Some shots are terrible options unless they are great options depending on how the balls are laying. (if that makes any sense.. lol)

Learning how to bank at pocket speed with a controlled cue ball is huge. If you can leave your cue ball frozen to the rail (hooked is better yet) with a ball by your hole you'll keep your opponent on defense.

Dudley
 
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Play partner games were coaching is allowed. You will then learn some moves if your partner is a good played.
 
8pack said:
Just wondering what are the most common one hole moves.
Ex...Maybe skimming a ball or banking a ball towards your hole and letting the cb go to the rail and back into the stack.(leaving the cb stuck in the stack)

I know there's a lot of moves just curious about the most common used.

Thanks Anthony
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One of the prime reasons 1pocket is a great game is because it tests every facet of your game in a way that no other game does. You must be able to run balls (to one pocket no less); you must be able to bank one, two, three, and four rails (there are more exotic five railers too); you must be able to shoot caroms and combos; you need to be able to hit balls softly and at speed; you need to know your CB and lay it up precisely where you desire; and, you need to have a good mind for pool and be able to accurately assess your opponent's game and more importantly, your own.

You can't be weak at any of this.

Lou Figueroa
 
I think the main difference between 1P and other games is 95% of your shots are safeties. Since you can only shoot at one pocket, it's assumed that you're not going to pocket the ball: your objective is to get it close and leave the CB so your opponent has no offensive shot and can't clear balls away from your pocket. Leaving your opponent a pocketable shot is basically loss-of-game.

In other words, CB-positioning is far more important than OB-positioning. When a shot presents a compromise between GoodOB/ModerateCB and GoodCB/ModerateOB, always choose the GoodCB alternative. You'll see the pros do this all the time: they could put the OB very near their pocket but leave the CB in a so-so position. Instead they'll shoot the OB three feet away from their pocket just to leave the CB on the rail in a bad position for their opponent. Efren Reyes is a study in patience...doing this shot after shot, each time moving an OB closer but always leaving his opponent a weak shot. Eventually he's got a shot that leads to a run-out.

Here are a few shots that I've found used in one-pocket far more often than I need them in other games:

1: Cross banks. Your opponent leaves you up-table and has an OB near his pocket or on his side. A cross bank not only clears the OB from his side, it sends it to your pocket/side and the CB back up-table.

2. Short-rail banks. The OB is up-table and you're banking it against the short rail to bring it down to your pocket.

3. Three-rail banks.

4. Kicking into the stack.

5. Carom-kick shot. Carom off an OB near opponent's pocket into a kick off his rail down to the short rail.

Lots of other shots, but the objective is always the same: CB position is a lot more important than OB position.
 
One I use often- not that I play, ever- is when you have a cross side bank below the stack, but there is a ball blocking the banked ball's path to your pocket. You bank the ball toward the stack and stick the CB behind the ball that was blocking the original bank.

I also like to punt, on first down.
 
Another way of looking at it (credit I think should go to that Upscale One Pocket book):

Try to do 2 things with every shot. If you succeed in just one of them, it was a useful shot.
If you do both things, it was like getting an extra turn for free.
Essentially that means every shot should combine offense and defense.

Bank a ball away from the opponent's hole and towards yours.
Knock a ball uptable and out of play for them, while leaving them stuck to the foot rail.
Smack ball A into ball B so that both of them clear away from the opponent's hole.
Bank a ball to your side and freeze the CB and use the rack to block their ability to knock it away again.

If I could name one "Bread and butter" one pocket move, it might be this one.
You knock the loose ball nearest their hole away, and follow to stick the CB on the end rail.
If they already stuck you on the rail the same way, situations come up where you must elevate a bit
with draw to get the cue ball back down towards the rail, which needs some touch.
Any any case, the idea is get the CB moving on an angle moving into the rail, which gives you
a good chance of freezing them on it even if your speed isn't perfect.

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CreeDo said:
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If I could name one "Bread and butter" one pocket move, it might be this one.
You knock the loose ball nearest their hole away, and follow to stick the CB on the end rail.
If they already stuck you on the rail the same way, situations come up where you must elevate a bit
with draw to get the cue ball back down towards the rail, which needs some touch.
Any any case, the idea is get the CB moving on an angle moving into the rail, which gives you
a good chance of freezing them on it even if your speed isn't perfect.

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Your bread and butter shot is the cause of many an uptable game. Bank the 8 and take whitey past the 11!

UPDATE: Or play a variant of BB's shot: cross the 5 into the stack and take the cue uptable.
 
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Cory in DC said:
Your bread and butter shot is the cause of many an uptable game. Bank the 8 and take whitey past the 11!

UPDATE: Or play a variant of BB's shot: cross the 5 into the stack and take the cue uptable.
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Naji does not support your shot selection.
 
lfigueroa said:
One of the prime reasons 1pocket is a great game is because it tests every facet of your game in a way that no other game does. You must be able to run balls (to one pocket no less); you must be able to bank one, two, three, and four rails (there are more exotic five railers too); you must be able to shoot caroms and combos; you need to be able to hit balls softly and at speed; you need to know your CB and lay it up precisely where you desire; and, you need to have a good mind for pool and be able to accurately assess your opponent's game and more importantly, your own.

You can't be weak at any of this.

Lou Figueroa
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Yup best game ever
 
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