In my experience, the most difficult shot is the same for everyone:
The shot that means the most to you.......
The shot that means the most to you.......
absolutely most difficult shot on a pool table?
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I thinking of a jump cue for this shot
I set it up and shot it for what seemed like an hour but made it.
I was not able to use full cue. Jump cue worked but it took WWWAAAYYY to many tries and energy to even think about doing it again.
I didn't plan on spending that much time on the shot....lol... but:
I set it up....shoot....miss...set it up again....miss...repeat....repeat....repeat. Next thing I know, about an hour has passed.
Wish I had that hour and all that energy back. That shot will never come up.
Wouldn't it be with cb deep in center of pocket and ob frozen to it, in a way cb couldn't exit location with a legal stroke?
I will try it. Just hitting the 9ball is half the shot. Slopping it in somewhere is the other half. It'll take a few tries to figure out how to hit it. After that, when you're hitting it every time, the odds of slopping it in are pretty good.
I think Pat Johnson already showed several ways it can be made using Virtual Pool. Or were you thinking of a different shot?
Frozen ball you can stroke through. Bob Jewett suggested a similar shot but "one thousandth of an inch" apart. This one could not be hit legally in a way that would pocket the ball so I think we have a winner
Very creative Tin Man. I think I see it, I'm not sure I totally understand the set up. Can you post an image to confirm. A drawing will work, nothing fancy.
What about striking that first rail above the side pocket, loading the cb up with top inside to go two rails into the 9?
I saw those options. Was just saying that if you can consistently hit the 9, you are bound to slop/luck it in eventually. Could happen in a few tries, or might take a hundred+ tries. Luck works that way....definitely not something I'd bet against. Lol
I feel like with the right masse off the first rail you may be able to cut the ball down the long rail.
I don't get it? If they are frozen, you can just fire through the CB and pocket the OB in the opposite side pocket it is aimed for - aiming off of dead-on just enough to avoid scratching the CB in the side pocket directly behind the OB.
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I wasn’t aware you could push through like that
In that case put a small gap between the balls so you have to shoot with an elevated cue.
I feel like with the right masse off the first rail you may be able to cut the ball down the long rail.
I think the idea was that the object ball is frozen slightly around the point of the side pocket so it is corner hooked for that corner pocket. If you play the masse to hit the ball, I think you have to hit the other side of the side pocket. I suppose the ball could go off the other point of the side pocket to the opposite corner.
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As Bob correctly pointed out, the 1 ball is purposely "frozen awkwardly to the point of the side pocket so it can't be made directly into any of the pockets on that long rail". That's why the closeup pic of the 1 ball (and why I said that).I feel like with the right masse off the first rail you may be able to cut the ball down the long rail.
By the way, two of the banks (into the top right corner and the lower left corner) are kissback shots - and all of them have to be hit HARD.
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P.S. That CB path also doesn't seem likely to me with the extreme spin you'd need for that masse.
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If you mean to cut it into the bottom left corner, like sneakynito suggested, see Bob's and my explanations about that.
If you mean driving the 1 ball through the frozen point into the side pocket, that might be feasible with a REALLY HARD shot (probably too hard with inside) - and I don't know if that 2-rail path to the 1 ball is even possible without inside.
pj
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There's really no probable shot with this setup. I mean, it's basically a "hit and hope" shot. So I'd wiz 2 rails into the 9 until I lucked it in. Like an old buddy of mine used to say, "You gotta hit em to shit em." It'll go in somewhere eventually. Now, Bob's thousandth of an inch between cb and ob...that one is super tough.