Another One Pocket WWYD

fjk said:
Similar to two spotted balls with ball in hand behind the line, this is another shot that comes up regularly. The last ball gets worked up table and your opponent sinks it, it gets spotted, and the cue is left in the jaws. How do you play it? I play to cut it in. If you make the shot, you don't scratch. The key is to make it or overcut it. Even if you miss the ball completely, it's not the end of the world because another ball spots up. Also, for simplicity's sake, let's assume you and your opponent are an even match. I do realize your appetite for risk, in this position, would change if you were the much weaker or much stronger player.
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I bank this ball back toward the pocket where the cb is, not to make it but to leave it close to the pocket. Using top outside spin brings the cb off the side rail and chokes it up near the center of the end/foot rail.

Opponent will usually pocket the ball and leave the same shot. And then I shoot it again. It could go back and forth like this a few times until I manage to land the ob just outside the pocket (very close or froze to the end rail just a few inches from the pocket, where it can't simply be shot straight in).
 
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BC21 said:
I bank this ball back toward the pocket where the cb is, not to make it but to leave it close to the pocket. Using top outside spin brings the cb off the side rail and chokes it up near the center of the end rail.

Opponent will usually pocket the ball and leave the same shot. And then I shoot it again. It could go back and forth like this a few times until I manage to land the ob just outside the pocket (very close or froze to the end rail just a few inches from the pocket, where it can't simply be shot straight in).
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Seems like you risk giving up the two railer...maybe even a one railer.
 
fjk said:
Seems like you risk giving up the two railer...maybe even a one railer.
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Gotta get that ball close to the pocket or just outside the pocket on the end rail. The speed isn't too difficult.

I watched a match between Chohan and Pagulayan a few years back where this situation came up. I think it was Chohan. Anyway, he played it like this, and I started doing it like that ever since.
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fjk said:
Similar to two spotted balls with ball in hand behind the line, this is another shot that comes up regularly. The last ball gets worked up table and your opponent sinks it, it gets spotted, and the cue is left in the jaws. How do you play it? I play to cut it in. If you make the shot, you don't scratch. The key is to make it or overcut it. Even if you miss the ball completely, it's not the end of the world because another ball spots up. Also, for simplicity's sake, let's assume you and your opponent are an even match. I do realize your appetite for risk, in this position, would change if you were the much weaker or much stronger player.
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Cross bank with proper speed to where if it doesn't go in it leaves the yellow on the middle of the rail. The trick is getting the CB back down table near the corner opposite of your pocket.

It's basically a free roll toward your pocket as long as you keep the balls end position under control.
 
mr3cushion said:
Jim, please explain why not?
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There’s a nice two railer from there, I shoot it all the time. The two best spots are, right at the side pocket where a scratch is possible or no easy bank to the other side. The next best is up by the corner pocket.
 
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