Old Nine Baller
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This time it's 10 Ball on a 10' table. It's your shot on the 3 ball. How would you play this?
How Would You Play This Layout?
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Old Nine Baller
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Very creative except that the 3 ball is the RED ball not the PINK ball
The pink ball is the 4.
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The old two way shot, best shot in the game!
But the two way shot is becoming absoleat in most ten ball tournaments because of new set of rules, which is to eliminate luck in the game, but it also takes the 2 way shot completely out of the game.
Very creative except that the 3 ball is the RED ball not the PINK ball
The pink ball is the 4.
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So what's his fault? He's playing the 3!
I would play the 3 into the right side pocket with slight right follow, playing the cueball into the left short rail for position almost straight in or a little bit to the left side of the 4 to get an angle to the right on the 5...
Old Nine Baller
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Because in his original shot layout that he has since deleted and, apparently you never saw, he shot the 4 ball, that's what.
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From that angle/distance and with half the side pocket blocked? You must shoot far straighter than I (or Efren) my friend! Now watch, you are going to turn out to be right and that is exactly what they did and ran out from there. :wink:
I am doing what Johnnyt said, banking the 3 and tucking the cue ball behind the 5/6 with the concentration being on getting safe.
I like that also
Well, everyone has his prefences. I'm not a very good banker...
... and in case I would have made the bank, I would be angry about myself leaving me a shot on the 4 being hampered by the 5 and 6 - then only being able to play an elevated follow with no chance to get somewhere straight for the 5 in the left corner pocket. If the angle to the 5 is too steep, there's no rail for the cueball.
My friends often do say, that I'm playing cuts to 105° :grin::grin: (I know it's not possible)...
I do like these cuts on the 3 very much, the 8 can help. And because of the thin cut there's not much speed needed, just some high right english...
Me too..,
I like the thin cut on the Tree ball too. If you under cut it the Eight ball helps, if you cut it in, the Four ball has all the pockets in play.
I like the thin cut on the Tree ball too. If you under cut it the Eight ball helps, if you cut it in, the Four ball has all the pockets in play.
But the type of 2-way shot Johnnyt recommended in post #4 is still available under WPA 10-ball rules, because there is no pass-back option on a missed shot (unless the called ball is made in some other pocket or the called ball is missed and another ball is made). WPA rules do, however, take away the type of 2-way shot where you are playing to make one or the other (or both) of two balls.
Predator Tour 10-ball rules do eliminate both types of 2-way shots.
3 in the side all day long. You still have half the side pocket to go at, so it isn't exactly a tough pot. I'd play maybe a tip high, with two tips right and come two rails for the 4 in the bottom right corner pocket from the Birdseye shot. The rest is fairly straight forward.
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takeitdown
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Cut 3 in side by 8 as it goes. Then fall on 4 to bottom right corner and runout.
I like caroming the 3 off the 7...lays pretty good. Hold for the 4.
Banking the 3 to the corner and getting behind the 5-6 looks a little tough. I don't like flirting with the side, if I over cook it. I would want the tangent line to take the cb into the 5 full, but light. I think that line would bank the 3 long and too much pace. I would worry the 3 would 2 rail the corner and come back out near side pocket where 8 lays.
Would have to be at table to evaluate.
Being a 10 footer, I don't like anything, but I have to shoot
something.
Banking the 3 to the corner and getting behind the 5-6 looks a little tough. I don't like flirting with the side, if I over cook it. I would want the tangent line to take the cb into the 5 full, but light. I think that line would bank the 3 long and too much pace. I would worry the 3 would 2 rail the corner and come back out near side pocket where 8 lays.
Would have to be at table to evaluate.
Being a 10 footer, I don't like anything, but I have to shoot
something.
Thank you for the obvious choice here. :thumbup:
Old Nine Baller
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Nothing like a commentator with an excellent memory but I'm not sure if Johnnyt meant to try to pocket the 3 cross-corner
.Alex is the shooter vs. Landon Shuffett at the '12 Southern Classic. Alex played the safety and the cueball barely bumped the 5 ball.
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