Diamond Bill's One-Pocket Secret
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Good point. Have to wonder why Wade Crane didn't mention that possibility in the article I saw. Does this render the Bill Cress solution without merit?wayne said:
BillPorter said:
I would say that depends on the score of the game and the caliber of opponent. In the example, the player at the table is in trouble no matter what he does. If you roll out to the spot and the incoming player knows to take a scratch back then you have at least got him needing a couple more balls when this goes back and forth twice.
If he doesnt know to take the scratch then you may actually have the upper hand.
Woody
BillPorter said:
forgive me for not reading the entire thread, but here you could still just skim the one with right and leave him uptable strait in on the 3. i like hitting the 8 into the 4 hard and forcing forward myself. even if i leave a bank on the nine, at least if he misses it i'll probably leave it so as he'll leave me the 3 or 5 if he does miss the bank on the 9; yet ideally id want to not leave the bank on the 9 but you dont have total control with that force shot.
roll up behind the 8 freezing the cueball on the rail and on the 8 facing 45 degrees up table.
Yes, I think that's a good point. He may be a bit flustered because he thought he had you stuck in a bad position only to find that now he seems to be in a bad position. Wouldn't be the first time that a one-pocket player missed taking an intention foul as the best alternative.woody_968 said:
The reason I posted the thread to begin with was to encourage one-pocket players to play around with some ideas about how to deal with the situation I presented.
BillPorter said:
Yes, it does.....and regardless of the score, as another poster suggested.....Because before, the shooter had a few options to escape with - but here, frozen between the spotted balls, he's in a death trap.
- Ghost
Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I needed to be in my original message, sorry. I meant one needs to ensure the Q-ball doen't roll forward or off on the 1 ball so when the spotted ball (15 for example spots up for foul behind the Qball), the 2 ball can't be made. I do like your option of taking srcatch in off the corner leaving in the lips of the pocket.Neil said:
Clueless novice guess
It looks like the cb is off the rail enough to spin it a little with some left-SO - thin the 3 and three rail (right side long rail,end short rail, left side long rail) it missing the 2 to get back under the 4.
That's my guess without the benefit any knowledge or looking at any responses before answering since I didn't want to be influenced by reality.
Sort of a WCED (what could Efren do?) approach.
I really have no clue as to what the 'right play" is here.
3railkick-hmmmm
It looks like the cb is off the rail enough to spin it a little with some left-SO - thin the 3 and three rail (right side long rail,end short rail, left side long rail) it missing the 2 to get back under the 4.
That's my guess without the benefit any knowledge or looking at any responses before answering since I didn't want to be influenced by reality.
Sort of a WCED (what could Efren do?) approach.
I really have no clue as to what the 'right play" is here.
3railkick-hmmmm
BillPorter said:
With all due respect to you and Diamond Bill, there is no way on God's good green Simonis covered earth I am shooting this shot for real money. With the other guy having one high and one low, if you're a hair off you are a dead duck.
I think what I'm doing is going off the 8, four rails, to try and put the guy behind the 4.
Lou Figueroa
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Yeah, the link shows can't connect to server. Can you just paste the photo(s) rather than using a link?
RIP Cue Table.
Where I got the base geometry for CPG. Prolly some conspiracy. (it undercuts all the pool books)
Where I got the base geometry for CPG. Prolly some conspiracy. (it undercuts all the pool books)
The Wade Crane column in question is in the March 1994 issue of Pool & Billiard Magazine.
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That's because the images were in an external app called "CueTable". The developer of CueTable lost interest in the project and his site, which was required to view the images, went away. That's one more example of why you shouldn't depend on third parties for images or features if they can be avoided.can't seem to pull up the image
If you look in some old threads, there are lots of holes where PhotoBucket images should be.
A future problem is "ChalkySticks". When it dies, lots of posts here will have holes in them.
When I googled Pool and billiard magazine, March 1994
All I got was links to eBay to buy it
Do you have a link to the magazine or to the article Bob?
