When the pro's aint parking the cue ball playing 9 ball its usually because they are cut breaking. Don't think for a minute that all of them cant park the cue ball when they want to.
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100% disagree with this.
I've watched TONS of pro matches. In person, on TV, on Accu-Stats DVDs. Rarely - and I mean RARELY - do I ever see the best players in the world end up with the CB in the middle of the table after the break.
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Why would they want the nine ball in the middle of the table? It is probably the easiest ball in the rack to make since you have so many shots to massage it if it needs massaging. The one ball, two ball, those are the ones to get open. If you run the first three balls in a nine ball rack you should be out most of the time.
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My mistake. I meant CB in the middle of the table.
Time for me to waste my breath...lol.
If the game is 1B on the spot and no break box, sure, break from the side rail, hit the 1B square, park the CB and with a tight rack the wing ball will go 99% of the time and the 1B will set up 2-3 rails for a shot in one of the head rail corners (which one depends on which side of the table you break from). If you don't have a tight rack resulting in the wing ball not being wired, you have to cut break (with draw) to play the 1B in the side. If hit properly with no kicks, the cue ball should end up just forward of the racking area. The 9B on the spot and the small break box changes everything. It makes zero sense to hit the 1B square because the likelihood of making a ball on the break is very low. Hence the cut break as previously described, but because of the break box, the 1B needs to be hit much thinner (vs side rail break) to pocket the 1B in the side. To the untrained eye, it may appear the cue ball is wild but top level players are controlling it as best they can while ensuring a ball is made on the break. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but they are playing a shot. The cue ball is prone to inadvertent kicks zig zagging across the table and if the player misses the intended point of contact on the 1B and/or the CB, it can result in a less than favorable outcome. At the end of the day it's not an exact science and results will vary, but top level players are playing an intentional shot. Pool is hard and we are not robots, so even the best players in the world will not have a favorable spread after the break at times.