How Would You Run These?

You are playing 10 Ball on a 10' table. How would you get from the 7 to the 8?


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Medium stroke with a tip or so of top left to go 3 ralls to be almost straight in on the 8 from the middle of the table.

My second instinct is to hit with bottom right letting the cue ball go between the 9 and the rail to get to shoot the 8 in the bottom corner.

Good shooting to you,

Kevin
 
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I would draw CB off the rail 45 degrees off back of 9 ball.
I'm getting from the 8 to the 9 from everywhere. Then I'm out.

Played on the Diamond big foot 10 foot at SBE. Broke and ran a rack of 10 ball with Jayson Shaw watching me. Pretty cool. The position zones are huge. You gotta keep good angles to move whitey but it didn't seem particularly more difficult except on long shots
 
Low right and draw around the 9. Even if you bump the 9 the 8's a hanger.
 
Low with a little right would do the trick easily given the overhead view. No reason to use inside and go 3 rails, not where the 8 and 9 are. You can get almost anywhere and get out, why complicate things by moving the cue ball more than you have to?
Scott
 
It looks like the angle is pretty natural to draw between the 9 and the rail and come out to center table, and then you're out from there. At least that's what my B player brain tells me.
 
Top left, spin off the top side rail into the left end rail. Then coming off the bottom side rail, leaving yourself slightly angled on the 8 to play off the top side rail into the 9. Only because it's a 10' table.

I would do the same on a bar box.....only because I am very comfortable with that shot.
 
Top left 3 rails brings you into the line of the 8ball and bottom right brings you across the line of the 8ball. It's always better to come into the line rather than across it. You could easily make the shot on the 9ball harder by getting below the 8ball.
 
Low with a little right would do the trick easily given the overhead view. No reason to use inside and go 3 rails, not where the 8 and 9 are. You can get almost anywhere and get out, why complicate things by moving the cue ball more than you have to?
Scott

You're actually not moving it more than you have to. It's the coming into the line of the shot. On a bar box you can get away with playing wrong routes because the shot afterwards is going to be 3' shorter at time. On a 10' table it's more advisable to play routes that bring you into the line of the shot because then you have multiple feet of position room to hit. Playing across the line of the shot means you must play tighter positions because of the fear of getting too far out of line.

I would do the same on a bar box.....only because I am very comfortable with that shot.

On a quality bar box sure. The bar boxes I play on, I choose the draw to just get the cue ball behind the 9 and barely off the rail.
 
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I'm probably taking the natural angle, right off the long rail. It is coming across the line and I agree the 3 rail option will bring you in line. It also looks like in the pic, that the 3 rail options is what the player is about to do. However, my stroke would probably leave me on the short rail, long rail or scratch if I tried that option. lol
 
Medium stroke with a tip or so of top left to go 3 ralls to be almost straight in on the 8 from the middle of the table.

My second instinct is to hit with bottom right letting the cue ball go between the 9 and the rail to get to shoot the 8 in the bottom corner.

Good shooting to you,

Kevin

follow? For prob near 9'...uhhh!
 
I would actually use this layout for a one my personal practice routines:) shoot all the balls in the same pocket;) this is how I test my positional skills;)
 
Low with a little right would do the trick easily given the overhead view. No reason to use inside and go 3 rails, not where the 8 and 9 are. You can get almost anywhere and get out, why complicate things by moving the cue ball more than you have to?
Scott

What he said. If you can't execute the simple draw shot behind the 9 then rolling 3 rails forward probably isn't in your tool box either.

JC
 
Your primary concern here is comfort. Assuming you play on 10-footers about as often as most, I'd say the trap you need to consider is reach. Don't leave yourself stretching. The real trick to handling a 10-foot table is to accept long position instead of short position with the bridge. Remember that and this layout is about as nice as they come.
 
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