Its My Shot

[Rod]

Playing 8 ball with a good player my stupidity kicked in and I left myself with this. I hate 8 ball. LOL

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I can see the right edge of the 1 ball and of course I can see the 6 no problem. Its what I call a BIG ball! What would you do here? BTW he can jump.

Rod

 

[CaptainJR]

Playing 8 ball with a good player my stupidity kicked in and I left myself with this. I hate 8 ball. LOL

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I can see the right edge of the 1 ball and of course I can see the 6 no problem. Its what I call a BIG ball! What would you do here? BTW he can jump.

Rod

Your saying you can only see the right edge of the 1 ball. That is not what I see on your diagram of the situation. It looks like a fairly easy bank on the 1. You would just have to get the cue ball over on the rail out of the way. Once you've made that, the out is simple 2,6,8.

However, if your drawing on the wei table is incorrect and you can only see the edge of the 1 ball, then you screwed up to much and deserve to lose the game. Only shot I can see in this case is to bump the one slightly leaving the cue ball near the upper left corner pocket and hope your opponent goes dumb and scratches on the 8.

 

[Snapshot9]

you screwed ...

You never play where the cue rolls up so close
to a ball, you should always keep the cue a foot
away from the object ball to keep this from
happening.

You can try to hook him behind the 1, by hitting the
6 going to the right long rail, and just barely slide
off it behind the 1.

Or you can shoot the 6 on the left side with low english
and try to leave him uptable on the head rail close to
the corner pocket giving him a questionable corner shot,
or a super thin cut into the side pocket.

But, you screwed yourself, so you have to 'bite the bullet'.

 

[pete lafond]

One choice is to tuck the cue ball behind 1 ball. Just make sure you hit the cue with right english of the 6 so it does not take off on you when it hits the rail. The other option is to play the 2 six combo and your out.

 

[TATE]

Playing 8 ball with a good player my stupidity kicked in and I left myself with this. I hate 8 ball. LOL

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I can see the right edge of the 1 ball and of course I can see the 6 no problem. Its what I call a BIG ball! What would you do here? BTW he can jump.

Rod

I would still go for the safe as shown below. The combo is too risky. I would thin the six and let the cue ball float to the diamond. If you can nudge the six over far enough and get the cue ball close to the rail, he has two problems: 1) He will have to jump high, because he is hitting down on it and 2) he will have to hit it far to clear the six. This scenario makes jumping the cue ball and/or the eight ball off the table or scratching in the corner far more likely. I put this as even money win/lose.

Chris

 

[pete lafond]

I would still go for the safe as shown below. The combo is too risky. I would thin the six and let the cue ball float to the diamond. If you can nudge the six over far enough and get the cue ball close to the rail, he has two problems: 1) He will have to jump high, because he is hitting down on it and 2) he will have to hit it far to clear the six. This scenario makes jumping the cue ball and/or the eight ball off the table or scratching in the corner far more likely. I put this as even money win/lose.

Chris

Hey Tate, your diagram is a little different than his. Check it out again, a thin hit may not be possible.

 

[Rod]

You never play where the cue rolls up so close
to a ball, you should always keep the cue a foot
away from the object ball to keep this from
happening.

But, you screwed yourself, so you have to 'bite the bullet'.

What pool game allows you the luxury of playing every shot a foot away from the ball? Yes I screwed my self, I admitted it was an act of stupidity.

 

[Rod]

However, if your drawing on the wei table is incorrect and you can only see the edge of the 1 ball, then you screwed up to much and deserve to lose the game.

The drawing is correct, there is no bank on the one. And yes I screwed up and probably did deserve to loose the game. I thought I established this point in my original post. Hello!!

Rod

 

[Rod]

I would still go for the safe as shown below. The combo is too risky. I would thin the six and let the cue ball float to the diamond. If you can nudge the six over far enough and get the cue ball close to the rail, he has two problems: 1) He will have to jump high, because he is hitting down on it and 2) he will have to hit it far to clear the six. This scenario makes jumping the cue ball and/or the eight ball off the table or scratching in the corner far more likely. I put this as even money win/lose.

Chris

Chris, I thought about doing as you suggested. However I figured this guy to clear both balls (IF) I get the 6 in the jump path. To make the shot more difficult for him (not to mention me) I thought about this = START(
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I couldn't feel that shot plus I comming in from above, to hide behind so the angle and speed is much more touchy. I guess I needed an aming system instead of feel.

Rod

 

[Snapshot9]

Rod ...

Chris, I thought about doing as you suggested. However I figured this guy to clear both balls (IF) I get the 6 in the jump path. To make the shot more difficult for him (not to mention me) I thought about this = START(
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I couldn't feel that shot plus I comming in from above, to hide behind so the angle and speed is much more touchy. I guess I needed an aming system instead of feel.

Rod

That is the exact shot I was describing first in my first
post, just like you illustrated, and I think your best
option, but it takes a nice soft touch to pull it off right.

 

[Rude Dog]

Just shoot the 8 and say "Good game, play another?" Ya never know........................... J/K, the safety options are tough, as well as the combo, from what the diagram suggests. With they guy being able to jump, as you mentioned, I think an offensive shot is your best choice. Yes, the safety is there, but you gotta hit it good, and then hope he doesn't make the relatively easy jump, or kick. So, what DID you do? Peace, John.

 

[Rod]

Just shoot the 8 and say "Good game, play another?" Ya never know........................... J/K, the safety options are tough, as well as the combo, from what the diagram suggests. With they guy being able to jump, as you mentioned, I think an offensive shot is your best choice. Yes, the safety is there, but you gotta hit it good, and then hope he doesn't make the relatively easy jump, or kick. So, what DID you do? Peace, John.

Hi John, enjoyed reading about your finish against Varner and the boys in the run racks thread. Ah "Glory Days" mine are well behind me to.

I come up with this. I decided to play into the one moving it to the left and bringing the c/b 2 rails to come from behind and hook him on the one. These wei table diagrams are hard to get angles exactly right.

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I thought I could pull it off. What happens I get a little lucky and manage to stick it so close (but not froze) it takes away from a 1 rail kick both directions because of the 2 ball and there ain't no jump. "He's screwed" ya a little luck goes a long way but I had to execute. I "really" wanted to win that game after the dumb ass move in the first place. We, (him and I) have a long history.

Rod