awesome post, good writing. :thumbup:
I like to end the game with either the super slow roll, that b-a-r-e-l-y makes it to the pocket, or the "no look", where you slam in the last ball while looking directly at your opponent.
Do You Have an All-Time Favorite Type of Pool Shot?
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awesome post, good writing. :thumbup:
I like to end the game with either the super slow roll, that b-a-r-e-l-y makes it to the pocket, or the "no look", where you slam in the last ball while looking directly at your opponent.
I think hands down my favorite shot is when you have a dead one in the stack playing straight pool and you see it before you're opponent and you exchange 2 or 3 safeties while trying to get in a position where you can shoot it. He thinks he has you locked up. You call the ball and the pocket. Wham. The ball flies in, the pack scatters, and your opponent has that look that is a mix of contempt and disbelief.
That is one I love too but fail half the time. I can only do it rail first and even then...
Another favorite is the "dipsy do" that has been posted on here twice... I think one
example from corey and one from ronnie A? Routine cut well off the rail, with low inside...
inside doesn't do much on the first rail, but takes sharply off the 2nd.
Failure rate like 80% on that one.
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One of my favorites I got to use twice last night. The first time, during league, I caught just enough of the point to kick it out. The second time, playing short rack banks, I got it. 2-rail side pocket bank, cross over the first pocket and reverses off the second rail into other side. Banking is fun, because there's so much that you can do to them that it's like being able to create a shot out of nothing. Drilling a shot that your opponent wouldn't attempt is a good feeling.
Edit: Pimp, that's a real nice shot. Fortunately, the guy I was playing last night didn't have it dialed in. He knew the shot, just not too well. Got close a couple of times.
Edit: Pimp, that's a real nice shot. Fortunately, the guy I was playing last night didn't have it dialed in. He knew the shot, just not too well. Got close a couple of times.
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The combination shot.
I will go along with this one also, theres nothing like finding one in the stack and calling it and belting it in, especially after the other guy couldnt see it.
What Tramp & Cdryden said:
Good to see you have an interest in the strategy of the game Blondie! Surely when I opened this thread, I thought I would see some relative blather toward a secondary thought that MAY have some distant connection to pool.
Blather? Blather?
I'll blather you, buddy-boy!
Grring is my life,
Sunny
When a library burns down, some are sad....some bring marshmallows.
My favorite shots?
The complicated dead ones in the stack.....like a three ball combo with a kiss-in.
BlackJack has a Cicero Murphy quote in his sig line that I like...
"Dead balls are harder to find than they are to make."
One of my favorite all time shots is the spot shot. We used to practice these for hours and, in fact, wager on them regularly.
What is says about me is I'm old, not only because I used to practice them, but even that I actually know what a spot shot is. :rotflmao1:
I shoot a shot that I think I shoot better than 90% of pool players.
It is when a ball is frozen to a rail and the cue ball is nearly 90 degrees to the object ball. I just miss the object ball with quite a bit of inside English and "throw" the ball into the pocket.
I get left this shot often, and because I had lasik surgery I have freakin eyes like an eagle.
I am not a world beater, but I shoot this shot as well as anyone I have seen.
Ken
It is when a ball is frozen to a rail and the cue ball is nearly 90 degrees to the object ball. I just miss the object ball with quite a bit of inside English and "throw" the ball into the pocket.
I get left this shot often, and because I had lasik surgery I have freakin eyes like an eagle.
I am not a world beater, but I shoot this shot as well as anyone I have seen.
Ken
various kick shots like this are my favorite @ 9:00. awesome match too BTW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHIGz5QC_40&list=PL6505D2B61AD20420
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHIGz5QC_40&list=PL6505D2B61AD20420
Not my favorite shot, but this happened to me not long ago, and it would be tough for me to replicate.
I got frustrated because I way overshot position on the 6 ball. I hit the one ball head on, and the CB stuck there for a second. The two ball hit the short rail and came straight back hitting the one, and sending the CB downtable. The CB ended up frozen on the opposite short rail, and the two ball and one ball were frozen.
Good 14.1 safety?
I got frustrated because I way overshot position on the 6 ball. I hit the one ball head on, and the CB stuck there for a second. The two ball hit the short rail and came straight back hitting the one, and sending the CB downtable. The CB ended up frozen on the opposite short rail, and the two ball and one ball were frozen.
Good 14.1 safety?
A friend of mine and myself have practiced and performed jump/masse shots. They are cool and come up fairly often.
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Now now,........... Don't get yer truffles ruffled ! Its all in fun
:wink:TBH, ..... I kinda like your soliloquy
my personal favorite which I can make 80% of the time, is the 3 rail (long rail to short rail to long rail) bank into the side pocket. the next favorite I saw earl use in a match called the "swing" shot. I was in a match and over ran my position for the ball in the side. the 8 was on the short rail and I did the swing shot, the cb went within 5 in of the 8 on the short rail, so it works! :thumbup: