WWYD? This out is haunting me

So i recently had that big tournament with 1 rack matches for the trip to Hawaii. This rack came up to me after i broke, made 2-3 balls and scratched. My opponent missed after making a stripe with ball in hand, leaving me with solids and a difficult out.

I feel i got screwed with two rolls that i got, but i was curious how others would try to play this. It's not exact, but its as close as i could get it with the app.

How would you get out as solids?

No, not without a curve shot.

poolhustler said:

Well in that case I don't really see a way to get out unless you pulled off a super low percentage shot … like slicing the 3 ball in and hoping for some kind of shape.

That being said I would have cross banked the 3 in the side as my first shot since the 10 ball is tied up with the 1 ball.

Then probably the 2 ball, 4 ball for shape on the 9 ball. Then I would miss the 3 and / or scratch and then lose the game …

But that's just me

What did you do??

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So i mentioned it wasn't exact because it was hard to put the 1 ball exactly where it really was. I was able to throw the 1 ball in that corner with a ton of left english and that's where bad roll #1 happened.

After hitting the one as soft as i could at pocket speed with left english, i gracefully kicked the 10 directly in front of the 2 where i would have to literally be frozen on the rail to make it while still majestically allowing the 10 to slide by the 2 into that same corner. After that botched attempt, the cue ball went a foot or two up table leaving me a 6 foot cross cut on the 4. I was trying to play position for the 2, but the rails were like trampolines and jettisoned the cue ball into the 10 sending it much farther than i thought/hoped.

So i cross cut the 4 with bottom right and flawless thread the cue between the 12 and 8. Cueball comes off that side rail, through the 8 and 12 up to the other side rail and then it parks itself PERFECTLY FROZEN to the 12 ball. I was playing position for the 3 so that i could come up table to get my 2 ball out of jail and finish the out but the cueball had other ideas.

Now when i say frozen on the 12, i mean frozen on the side where i can see the 3, but directly shooting over a frozen ball on a long shot that practically requires the bridge. Another fun tid bit is that when i kicked the stripe while cutting the 1 initially, it completely bamboozled the pocket in this way.

Here's another image to show where i was at with this silly over the ball cutshot.

It gets even better, so those two balls being tied up by the pocket have about an inch of rail between them and the pocket. Guess where i missed the over the ball cut shot? Right on that spot. Not leaving my ball hanging, not kissing either of the balls by the pocket and at least tying something up, it perfectly missed be a half inch in the spot right to the right of the pocket, leaving my opponent the out

orion21 said:

Probably stun the one to free it up - he won't have much other than the long 14 cut - or clear the one and bump the 10, same thing. Just don't want to leave a shot where he can then hide you back behind the 10.

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The one does go by and it was near frozen/his stripe was off the rail by a tad. Sorry, i suck at creating these chaulkypad things.

The only balls that had a pocket at that point from where i was were the 1 in that corner and the four only went in that upper right pocket (from the overhead view)

9BallKY said:

I would have just banked the 3 cross table to free it up and put the cue ball on the end rail between the 10 and 2. Your opponent then has to break his 10 out to get out and all his balls are down table making this very difficult.

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Yeah that could have worked. My opponent was a run out player that had basically two hanging balls, so i guess my mind wasn't on the safety in that situation. I also could have gotten out relatively easily if i didn't block my 2 with his 10, which i think is why i was on offence more than defence there. I probably should have played safer given that it was a 1 rack match. I didn't even expect to get back to the table after the scratch on the break and when i did, i had a decently open out without jacking up my 2 ball lol.