How Would Play This Layout?

[peter_gunn]

easy. BANG 1 ball 5 rails and pot 9 ball :thumbup:

 

[buckshotshoey]

Old Nine Baller I think this is your best one yet

I really don't see a best option for everyone, I feel your skill level dictates the best choice.

a C Player should pocket the 9

a B Player should play the safe (thin hit with inside)

an A Player should attempt the billiard with some speed, so the nine doesn't just hang

If this was after the break and a push was allowed, I would call a push and pocket the 9.
I think that's a viable option for ANY skill level. If it was not after the break....safe off of the one. To big of a risk to try to carom to make the 9.

 

[Old Nine Baller]

I would re-rack and play ten ball - I'm an old ten baller'. I guess they did not want to show the part where it was rack your own and they broke soft. So again rack em' up and play ten ball.

Or you could always just put down the crack pipe and tell us how you would play this layout. That was the point of this thread.

P.S. Nobody "broke soft".

ONB

 

[Old Nine Baller]

If this was after the break and a push was allowed, I would call a push and pocket the 9.
I think that's a viable option for ANY skill level. If it was not after the break....safe off of the one. To big of a risk to try to carom to make the 9.

You just broke, made two balls and left yourself here. Which option would you shoot?

Sorry for the confusion.

ONB

 

[buckshotshoey]

Sorry for the confusion.

ONB

You were clear. Understood. Just giving two options. The push would require some thought of where to leave the cue ball though.

 

[Old Nine Baller]

You were clear. Understood. Just giving two options. The push would require some thought of where to leave the cue ball though.

I'm really surprised that more people didn't choose this as an option. It's probably what I would do.

 

[TATE]

Unless your opponent is blind in one eye and can't see out of the other...

You gotta get that 9 out of there. The pool gods are obviously not on your team, you failed to make the 9, it hung in the hole, you got no shot on the 1...

Making the 9 and bringing cb back up table -to bottom L) pictured pocket's errands- is virtually 100% executable, none of the other options presented thus far are anywhere close to that success rate.

You have a push, use it.

Free advice: money back guarantee.

I agree. My first thought was to call push and pocket the nine, bring the cueball back up table. Then play safe if given the shot back. The main thing is to not sell out and lose - too many ways to do that with the 9 hanging.

If your name is Shane, there are several ways to win on this first shot. He could have probably pocketed the 9 at least 3 ways that I saw.

 

[TATE]

I'm really surprised that more people didn't choose this as an option. It's probably what I would do.


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That's what I thought too. It's an easier safe from this angle (putting the one on the foot rail ) and you don't have to sweat the 9 hanging in the pocket.

 

[Black-Balled]

Thanks for the compliment :thumbup:
All I know man is that these type of situations come up all the time when I play which 95% of the time is for decent money. So if I am not playing it to make the 9 ball cause it's not going in at a high percentage then I am pushing the 9 ball away from the hole or in the hole to spot and moving on. I can pocket the 9 and create a tieup with the cueball bumping 2 object balls together and/or leaving the cueball in a very neutral pushout. Then I just fade their safety as best I can. I am okay with that.

You must be a helluva a player. Are you famous?

 

[Black-Balled]

TATE took care of it for me.

 

[Ron Swanson]

You must be a helluva a player. Are you famous?

Must be. He's a hero.

The 9 is largely irrelevant in this scenario. Those advocating caroms on to it are quite clearly nuts.

No obvious shot here imo.

 

[TATE]

I want to thank Old Nine Baller for coming up with an original and exciting idea. Real situations with numerous nuances - no clear shot or moves. It's like solving a puzzle - which is what pool is all about. This is good stuff.

 

[victorl]

Not sure if this was shot was discussed yet:
Shoot the cue ball softly at just past the side pocket point, going rail first to thin the 1 ball leaving it close to where it is now, and have the cue ball travel cross table, possibly making the 9, but more likely leaving a safety with the 4 and 6 as blockers.

**looked at the layout more closely,... the shot isnt on.

 

[jay helfert]

That is a tougher one than the last one I saw you post -- really enjoying these.

[Edited from crazy shots to 'I have no idea'].

Curious to hear from the much more experienced 9-ball players if it's best just to push and make the nine. Sometimes simple is best. Since you can see the one, it's probably smarter to thin the one and play safe, leaving the nine where it is.

I like this option. Just too hard to do anything meaningful with the one, and it could get you in trouble if you try from there. I'd like to make the nine, just so you can now see the one ball on the side rail. After that there's no clear shot to make the one, just a safety. Let your opponent shoot from there.

 

[jay helfert]

Unless your opponent is blind in one eye and can't see out of the other...

You gotta get that 9 out of there. The pool gods are obviously not on your team, you failed to make the 9, it hung in the hole, you got no shot on the 1...

Making the 9 and bringing cb back up table -to bottom L) pictured pocket's errands- is virtually 100% executable, none of the other options presented thus far are anywhere close to that success rate.

You have a push, use it.

Free advice: money back guarantee.

Thank you! Going for the nine may be an option for Shane, but none of us are Shane!

 

[jay helfert]

I agree. My first thought was to call push and pocket the nine, bring the cueball back up table. Then play safe if given the shot back. The main thing is to not sell out and lose - too many ways to do that with the 9 hanging.

If your name is Shane, there are several ways to win on this first shot. He could have probably pocketed the 9 at least 3 ways that I saw.

One more guy that got it right.

 

[jay helfert]

Thanks for the compliment :thumbup:
All I know man is that these type of situations come up all the time when I play which 95% of the time is for decent money. So if I am not playing it to make the 9 ball cause it's not going in at a high percentage then I am pushing the 9 ball away from the hole or in the hole to spot and moving on. I can pocket the 9 and create a tieup with the cueball bumping 2 object balls together and/or leaving the cueball in a very neutral pushout. Then I just fade their safety as best I can. I am okay with that.

Good call sir!

 

[jay helfert]

I'm really surprised that more people didn't choose this as an option. It's probably what I would do.


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Thanks, the easiest shot to execute, with no real penalty.

 

[Old Nine Baller]

It was Shane shooting and he caromed the 1 off the 8 and made the 9. The cueball rolled forward.

Thanks to Dave M for posting this YouTube link to the shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4PCUAkzIc&feature=youtu.be&t=2m51s

 

[3RAILKICK]

It was Shane shooting and he caromed the 1 off the 8 and made the 9. The cueball rolled forward.

Thanks to Dave M for posting this YouTube link to the shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4PCUAkzIc&feature=youtu.be&t=2m51s


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Depends:

In ring game, I'm shooting Shanes shot(except..a stop shot on 1, that I think would be more accurate for me...going forward, hitting it firm, I would find a way to scratch in the corner ).

In tournament play, or gambling...probably make it on the push, and spot it.

...since this is tournament...push to make it, spot it.