Best Pool BREAK SHOTS of All Time in 9-ball, 10-ball, and 8-ball

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FYI, I just posted a new video that offers some break shot advice and shows the best pro break shots of all time from the games of 9-ball, 10-ball, and 8-ball, featuring Shane VanBoening, Corey Deuel, Jeffrey De Luna, Jeffrey Ignacio, Alex Pagulayan, Thorsten Hohmann, Evgeny Stalev, and others. Check it out:


Contents (with timestamp links):
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - 9-Ball
1:46 - --- “golden break”
3:15 - --- soft break and pattern racking
4:18 - 10-Ball
5:26 - 8-Ball
6:04 - --- 2nd-ball break
6:27 - --- soft 2nd-ball break with pattern racking
7:43 - Wrap Up
8:01 - ---- break shot montage

As always, I look forward to your feedback, comments, questions, complaints, and requests.

Enjoy!
 
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Another great and informative from Dr. Dave. So that video I saw on the interweb where a guy walks up to a table and grabs the cue out of the players hand and makes all 15 balls on the break isnt true? Here I thought everything on the interweb was always true. Live and learn I guess.
 
fastone371 said:
Another great and informative from Dr. Dave.
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Thanks.


fastone371 said:
So that video I saw on the interweb where a guy walks up to a table and grabs the cue out of the players hand and makes all 15 balls on the break isnt true? Here I thought everything on the interweb was always true. Live and learn I guess.
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Unfortunately, it is too easy to fake stuff in video in today's world, even by a video-editing "hack" like me:


Enjoy,
Dave
 
dr_dave said:
FYI, I just posted a new video that offers some break shot advice and shows the best pro break shots of all time from the games of 9-ball, 10-ball, and 8-ball, featuring Shane VanBoening, Corey Deuel, Jeffrey De Luna, Jeffrey Ignacio, Alex Pagulayan, Thorsten Hohmann, and Evgeny Stalev. Check it out:


Contents (with timestamp links):
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - 9-Ball
1:46 - --- “golden break”
3:15 - --- soft break and pattern racking
4:18 - 10-Ball
5:26 - 8-Ball
6:04 - --- 2nd-ball break
6:27 - --- soft 2nd-ball break with pattern racking
7:43 - Wrap Up
8:01 - ---- break shot montage

As always, I look forward to your feedback, comments, questions, complaints, and requests.

Enjoy!
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Do you guys think there are other break shot examples I should have included in my video? If so, please share links. Maybe something from Larry Nevel, or Charlie "Hillbilly" Bryant, or Johnny Archer, or others? Lets see some links to other great break shot examples. Please include time-stamp markers with the links pointing straight to the breaks of interest.

Thanks,
Dave
 
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dr_dave said:
Do you guys think there are other break shot examples I should have included? If so, please share links. Maybe something from Larry Nevel, or Charlie "Hillbilly" Bryant, or Johnny Archer, or others? Lets see some links to other great break shot examples. Please include time-stamp markers with the links pointing straight to the breaks of interest.
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Here's one somebody from YouTube sent me (7 balls made on 8-ball break by Billy Thorpe):

Let's see some others.
 
dr_dave said:
Do you guys think there are other break shot examples I should have included? If so, please share links. Maybe something from Larry Nevel, or Charlie "Hillbilly" Bryant, or Johnny Archer, or others? Lets see some links to other great break shot examples. Please include time-stamp markers with the links pointing straight to the breaks of interest.

Thanks,
Dave
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Somebody just shared this with me on Facebook (7 balls on the break by Saudi player Hamookis):


Let's see some more (9-ball, 10-ball, or 8-ball).
 
dr_dave said:
Do you guys think there are other break shot examples I should have included? If so, please share links. Maybe something from Larry Nevel, or Charlie "Hillbilly" Bryant, or Johnny Archer, or others? Lets see some links to other great break shot examples. Please include time-stamp markers with the links pointing straight to the breaks of interest.

Thanks,
Dave
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Here another somebody posted in a YouTube comment (5 balls on break by Efren Reyes):


Please share others that you might know about. I'm compiling them on the 9-ball break, 10-ball break, and 8-ball break resource pages.

Thanks.
 
dr_dave said:
FYI, I just posted a new video that offers some break shot advice and shows the best pro break shots of all time from the games of 9-ball, 10-ball, and 8-ball, featuring Shane VanBoening, Corey Deuel, Jeffrey De Luna, Jeffrey Ignacio, Alex Pagulayan, Thorsten Hohmann, Evgeny Stalev, and others. Check it out:


Contents (with timestamp links):
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - 9-Ball
1:46 - --- “golden break”
3:15 - --- soft break and pattern racking
4:18 - 10-Ball
5:26 - 8-Ball
6:04 - --- 2nd-ball break
6:27 - --- soft 2nd-ball break with pattern racking
7:43 - Wrap Up
8:01 - ---- break shot montage

As always, I look forward to your feedback, comments, questions, complaints, and requests.

Enjoy!
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dr_dave said:
Do you guys think there are other break shot examples I should have included? If so, please share links. Maybe something from Larry Nevel, or Charlie "Hillbilly" Bryant, or Johnny Archer, or others? Lets see some links to other great break shot examples. Please include time-stamp markers with the links pointing straight to the breaks of interest.

Thanks,
Dave
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Nobody has any favorite break shot video links they would like to share? I hope was hoping people would know about or find many more than I did.

Thanks,
Dave
 
great compilation and info

i've seen corey do just about every rack mechanic trick there is including tilting. while i disapprove of it i realize that this rack/break creativity is part of what makes him such an innovative player. evgeny stalev is another one with a mind that works differently from the rest of us.
 
Dave, nice stuff. In all my years, I've never seen anyone break the balls and have a more CONSISTENT cue ball movement than this man. I played em in the early nineties in OH, it was a bar table event, but that doesn't matter. EVERY time he broke, the cue ball hit the head ball, when straight UP probably 18'' looking like it was going to break the lighting bulb, then came straight back down, with a dbl bounce EVERY time with the cue ball squatting I lost this match 11-10. It was also the first event with over 100 players that I played in that had a one bid lot for a player group that went for about $40 max. The player/one bid group was about 75 players. WOW, it was in the town right next to where Pete Rose Got bu$ted and lost the HOF eligibility


This man, Squares up on his shot better/locks it in, better than all his peers.

 
skogstokig said:
great compilation and info
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Thanks. I hope other people will continue to share links to additional great break shot examples.


skogstokig said:
i've seen corey do just about every rack mechanic trick there is including tilting. while i disapprove of it i realize that this rack/break creativity is part of what makes him such an innovative player. evgeny stalev is another one with a mind that works differently from the rest of us.
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Corey has definitely been "creative" over the years.
 
Island Drive said:
Dave, nice stuff. In all my years, I've never seen anyone break the balls and have a more CONSISTENT cue ball movement than this man.
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Do you have a time-stamped video link showing a good example (ideally, where he also pockets lots of balls) like the other breaks in my compilation video? Please share it if you do.

Thanks,
Dave
 
No, but his set up on his shots....His Stance locks em in and creates a baseline to adjust because of conditions.
Because of his ''stance'' and shot approach and being in balance, his delivery is why his bank game is HOF material.
In my terms, he squares up on the shot different/better than all his peers.
Like Bugs, and Eddie Taylor....growing up in a humid climate, with the old table conditions and dirt, these great bankers were not Bourne' from a dry climate, those conditions would not allow someone to run/twist/reverse 37 banks in a row ever.
 
skogstokig said:
great compilation and info

i've seen corey do just about every rack mechanic trick there is including tilting. while i disapprove of it i realize that this rack/break creativity is part of what makes him such an innovative player. evgeny stalev is another one with a mind that works differently from the rest of us.
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It's my reason why, the breaker in pro play should never be allowed to ''rack their own''.
 
Island Drive said:
It's my reason why, the breaker in pro play should never be allowed to ''rack their own''.
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... as long as the breaker gets to inspect the rack and request a re-rack, because your opponent might use "creative" racking techniques also. The downside is: this can slow down play quite a bit. It can also cause "friction" between the players.

A neutral racker using a racking template would be nice (so everybody would get a fairly consistent rack every time), but that is a luxury not usually available.
 
dr_dave said:
... as long as the breaker gets to inspect the rack and request a re-rack, because your opponent might use "creative" racking techniques also. The downside is: this can slow down play quite a bit. It can also cause "friction" between the players.

A neutral racker using a racking template would be nice (so everybody would get a fairly consistent rack every time), but that is a luxury not usually available.
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Totally agree, but....the US Open 9 ball event at Mandalay 2019 had it right.
One ref/racker for each 4 table group.
That worked well at Mandalay Bay with winner break. But....
To speed up play more, I thought the loser should of racked, and the 4 table ref should inspect/approve.
Racking time for the loser should be productive, why? It allows you to think about what transpired the prior rack, and why your racking.
One thing that's important to realize when you ''assume the position''/Racking that this.
It's Your job to Legally rack the one ball ''anywhere on the paper'' meaning the spot.
Because when you ''assume the position'' of racking your objective is to Stop your opponent from making a ball/legally.
That's why at the US Open days of Old I would do this.
Scott Smith would always post ''in advance'' the next round table you would play on.
Then I would go too that table and watch the 9 ball patterns racked and take notes.
Why? Because as we all know, balls are never Exactly the same as the next ball, and some ball patterns cause less balls to be made.
So I'd write down my pattern/notes like this
2/6
3/8
7/5
4
Then I'd write down which if any balls were made
next rack
the ball patterns from top to bottom might be
7/4
8/6
3/5
2
Again I'd write down results

After watching a pro match on the table I was to play on next....& recording the results....I found certain ball patterns caused less balls to be pocketed.

The only job you have, when not shooting and doing all the racking is ''too legally rack and stop the bleeding''.
 
Seems to me that no matter the rules to make the break "fair", the top pros always figure out a way around it. 3 points rule, 9 ball on the spot has evolved into "wing ball in the corner, one in the side" much of the time in 9 ball.

So..yes, the break is the most important shot of the game.

Very enjoyable video...thanks!
 
pwd72s said:
Seems to me that no matter the rules to make the break "fair", the top pros always figure out a way around it. 3 points rule, 9 ball on the spot has evolved into "wing ball in the corner, one in the side" much of the time in 9 ball.

So..yes, the break is the most important shot of the game.
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But at least the 1 and wing ball don't go every time, especially when also breaking "from the box." And some skill is required to get an accurate hit and good results. And sometimes the 3-point rule isn't satisfied, even with a good hit. And it's not as easy to guarantee a shot after the break, as compared with a 1-on-the-spot side break.


pwd72s said:
Very enjoyable video...thanks!
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Thank you, and you're welcome. I aim to swerve. :cool:
 
Your diagram of Corey's pattern for 8-ball racking has him breaking from the wrong side.

I don't have any "big" breaks to share.

But, here is another soft break that worked effectively by Ronnie Alcano.

And, a cut break by Max Lechner that I think we will see more players try to copy when the 2 is racked in the back of the rack. I've never heard a reason for it and I hope it goes away after this.
 
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