Suckers! Its 1 pocket...FOUL!
how would you run these 6 balls?
- Thread starter Egg McDogit
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Like others have said, getting good on the 5 is the key. If there is no scratch on the 4 ball(can't tell on the WEI), I like this:
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Shoot the 4 with a high CB to go 3 rails for position on the 5. I think this route is less speed sensitive and more forgiving than coming across the table. I would be worried about hitting the side-to-side bad and possibly scratching or dying too close to the rail or bumping the 7 ball or...Going 3 rails, stopping the CB at "A" is ideal but "B", & "C" is ok too, as well as "D". Playing the 5, going two rails for the 6 should get you out.
Eric
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Shoot the 4 with a high CB to go 3 rails for position on the 5. I think this route is less speed sensitive and more forgiving than coming across the table. I would be worried about hitting the side-to-side bad and possibly scratching or dying too close to the rail or bumping the 7 ball or...Going 3 rails, stopping the CB at "A" is ideal but "B", & "C" is ok too, as well as "D". Playing the 5, going two rails for the 6 should get you out.
Eric
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DougT
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BRKNRUN said:
I think you're dead on, Ken.
It's made a big difference to me to recognize how often I do 'let up' at about the point of this 6 ball. Get on the wrong side and everything does get goofy.
Playing 2 rails off the 6 is not only more natural, but you are following into position, rather than hoping to stop 'in line'
Jimmy M. said:I originally posted something but, because I'm a loser with too much time on my hands (and a table in what would be my formal dining room), I set the balls up pretty much exactly as they are in the diagram (using the diamonds as reference points, of course) and ended up deleting my original post.It turns out that there is actually more room on a real pool table to work with than what it looks like in the diagram so ... I'd play it like this. It seems pretty obvious though, doesn't it? I think I like cuetechasaurus' answers better.
(by the way - I know that some people like just cinching it and taking a longer shot on the 5, but if you get too close to that second rail, not only does the shot get a little testy, but the 7 and 8 are in your natural, 2-rail path to the 6. From close to that side rail, you'll have to hit it with inside to avoid those balls. Set it up on a real pool table and you'll see.)
Hilarious - that's exactly how I would do it too but I was too lazy to use all the arrows. I was concentrating more on the position from the 5 to the 6. A lot of it depends on how comfortable a player is directing the cueball off the rail after contact with the 4. I happen to like these shots, using about a half tip of right.
Chris
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