Guess how to make this shot.....

[rackmsuckr]

I would do the 3 rail kick too, as I feel confident of hitting it, if not the make. Either shot is probably going to sell out if it doesn't go, though.

 

[!Smorgass Bored]

I'm Waiting With Bait On My Breath

I can make it by banking it in the side and letting it hit the titty and shoot straight back down in the correct corner pocket. I do it one handed for the dough. Just need 278 tries...

OK, post the cash on the light.
Doug
( THIS I gotta see )

 

[cuetable]

This is a standard 3-rail kick. It may not be likely for you, but I shoot this shot routinely in my shows. The 3-rail kick is the most accurate, and easy to duplicate, of any of the multirail kick shots.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

Hi Scoot:
I should have you join our contests. But then it might not be all fair to others..

http://cuetable.com/contest/0607contest.html
http://cuetable.com/contest/0612contest.html

Here is a little blurp I created earlier
http://pl.cuetable.com/showthread.php?t=125

 

[!Smorgass Bored]

I can make it by banking it in the side and letting it hit the titty and shoot straight back down in the correct corner pocket. I do it one handed for the dough. Just need 278 tries...

I'm not certain that you can say 'titty' here, better say nipple. You're going to bounce the cueball off the nipple of the side pocket ?
Doug
( just trying to stay abreast of the current guidelines )

 

[Aaron_S]

Hi Scoot:
I should have you join our contests. But then it might not be all fair to others..

http://cuetable.com/contest/0607contest.html
http://cuetable.com/contest/0612contest.html

Here is a little blurp I created earlier
http://pl.cuetable.com/showthread.php?t=125

That 0612 contest reminds me of another challenge I have seen before. You rack all 15 balls on the spot with the 8 in the middle, place the cueball in the area you referred to as the "tee", and you get so many strokes (usually 10 or so) from the "tee" to 3-rail the 8-ball in the top-right corner. It's another classic proposition shot, which means that it's not nearly as hard as it sounds, especially once you learn a decent 3-rail break. If you're good at 3-railer's you can probably get it in 8 strokes or less a lot of the time; I made it in 4 strokes once, but that was pretty darned lucky.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Eleoi got it right.Just shoot the 1 ball straight away and kill your rock dead.1-ball comes straight back across and caroms off the cue ball into the corner.I can usually get it within 3 tries
Note:Hit it with pocket speed for best results

This shot is routinely discussed where one-pocket players gather. The shot is much easier than it looks because the cue ball is left where the angle of the object ball carom is the "natural half-ball in-off" angle. If the banked ball hits the cue ball anywhere between 1/4 and 3/4 full, it will go in the pocket.

If think the bank/kiss/in-off is a better chance than the 3-rail kick if the two balls are sitting just right.

 

[Bob Jewett]

That 0612 contest reminds me of another challenge I have seen before. You rack all 15 balls on the spot with the 8 in the middle, place the cueball in the area you referred to as the "tee", and you get so many strokes (usually 10 or so) from the "tee" to 3-rail the 8-ball in the top-right corner. It's another classic proposition shot, which means that it's not nearly as hard as it sounds, especially once you learn a decent 3-rail break. If you're good at 3-railer's you can probably get it in 8 strokes or less a lot of the time; I made it in 4 strokes once, but that was pretty darned lucky.

I saw Alain Robidoux do this on a 6x12 snooker table (14 reds and the black) and he was throwing the cue ball with his hand, not shooting it. He did it in the claimed 25 throws. What was amazing to me is that every throw improved his position. I usually have a lot of useless or harmful shots when I try it (on a pool table).

Cue Ball Kelly used to demonstrate this proposition on a pool table (throwing, not shooting the cue ball) and he would win at 10 throws.

 

[Aaron_S]

I saw Alain Robidoux do this on a 6x12 snooker table (14 reds and the black) and he was throwing the cue ball with his hand, not shooting it. He did it in the claimed 25 throws. What was amazing to me is that every throw improved his position. I usually have a lot of useless or harmful shots when I try it (on a pool table).

Cue Ball Kelly used to demonstrate this proposition on a pool table (throwing, not shooting the cue ball) and he would win at 10 throws.

Holy cow! I've never heard of the "throwing" version of this proposition. I'd be lucky to even hit the first rail by throwing it, lol.

 

[Bob Jewett]

... I'd be lucky to even hit the first rail by throwing it, lol.

Me too, but I'll take 20 throws just for the sake of some action .

 

[wayne]

This is a standard 3-rail kick. It may not be likely for you, but I shoot this shot routinely in my shows. The 3-rail kick is the most accurate, and easy to duplicate, of any of the multirail kick shots.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

Excuse my complete ignorance but what is the 3 rail kick. I know I would have a good chance at kicking it in using 2 rails but I have no idea what the 3 rail kick everyone is talking about is. I am sure once I am shown it will be obvious because it seems to be for a lot of other people.

Wayne

 

[Pete]

Ok,the object here is to pocket the 1-ball in the corner closest to the cue ball and 1 ball.If you gave me 5 try's,I know I would get it!
Note:It is impossible to bank it cross corner,due to the interfering balls.

I saw this shot on Bob Byrne's tape (without the extra balls). It's a timed bank shot carom. One ball banks almost straight into the rail, and comes back to carom into the cue ball. In the pocket it goes.


Billiardpete out

 

[Scott Lee]

Excuse my complete ignorance but what is the 3 rail kick. I know I would have a good chance at kicking it in using 2 rails but I have no idea what the 3 rail kick everyone is talking about is. I am sure once I am shown it will be obvious because it seems to be for a lot of other people.

Wayne

Wayne...Shooting the CB through the second diamond of the long rail closest to it, the CB then continues to the top short rail, and over to the opposite long rail, before contacting and pocketing the 1-ball.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

 

[1 Pocket Ghost]

If think the bank/kiss/in-off is a better chance than the 3-rail kick if the two balls are sitting just right.

Good to see you concur with my having already said this same thing earlier in the thread.

 

[sjm]

Would this shot score a point in the game of bank pool or is caroming in a banked object ball off the cue ball disallowed?

 

[dabarbr]

I have made and have seen it made in games of golf on snooker tables when one is going for the three or out holes. You bank your ball off the short rail and position your cue ball for the caron into the side pocket.

 

[3kushn]

A simple 3-rail kick pockets the 1-ball in ONE try! If you don't want to bank it in, then you could carom it in, by cutting it backwards towards the 6-ball.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

Five tries, it's a in and safe with good speed. The one and the CB are sitting perfect for the kick. The masse is about as easy as hitting off the side pocket tit unless you're a masse artist. Of course I'm biased on the 3 rail shot.

 

[Aaron_S]

Would this shot score a point in the game of bank pool or is caroming in a banked object ball off the cue ball disallowed?

I think everything has to go cleanly in bank pool, but I'm not certain on that.

Aaron

 

[BillYards]

I often use a shot similar to this on bar tables when using bar rules... after my opponent scratches and I have the cue in the kitchen and only have balls in the kitchen to shoot at... I place the cueball very close to the object ball I am trying to kick at, placing it right on the line where the cueball will make the object ball in the corner pocket, then I shoot (careful to use no sidespin) straight to the opposite short rail (foot rail) and straight back, trying to pass right through the spot where I placed the cueball, thus cutting the object ball into the corner... I can usually get a nice hit on the object ball and will make it or jaw it in the hole a few times out of 10.

 

[Onepocket73]

hit it across table with a stop shot let the ball come back and carom off cueball into pocket ?

You got it!I like that shot better than the 2 and 3 rail kicks because I have practiced it so often.

 

[Andrew Manning]

I think everything has to go cleanly in bank pool, but I'm not certain on that.

Aaron

I think you're right. The way I've always played, once the CB hits the OB, the OB has to hit the called rails and go in the called pocket without touching another ball. The only exception is the OB touching an adjacent rail to the called pocket on its way in (which is allowed).

-Andrew