It's "normally" better to cut than bank

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Don't ya think... "Normally"? I like banks and kicks, a huge part of my practice routine... practice hard stuff all time... makes a simple cut shot seem easy... don't have to think about it....only one angle.

Can anyone play a combo good almost every-time, other than Buddy Hall?
 
Pangit said:
Don't ya think... "Normally"? I like banks and kicks, a huge part of my practice routine... practice hard stuff all time... makes a simple cut shot seem easy... don't have to think about it....only one angle.

Can anyone play a combo good almost every-time, other than Buddy Hall?
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Depends on the shooter's skills, confidence level, the layout of the table (i.e. position play).

That being said, all other things equal, I'm a cutter myself. Banks for me were (are) 60%/40%. An old teammate of mine won't cut a ball for anything, but will play a bank instead. HIS success rate was more like 90%/10%.

If you're dialed in and in high gear, every ball finds the pocket...:thumbup:
 
Pangit said:
Don't ya think... "Normally"? I like banks and kicks, a huge part of my practice routine... practice hard stuff all time... makes a simple cut shot seem easy... don't have to think about it....only one angle.

Can anyone play a combo good almost every-time, other than Buddy Hall?
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for the most part that's a given.
 
most of the time this is a good axiom, but ... i utilize banks over cuts when playing 2-way shots when a cut shot would not give the needed control of the cue ball. As your game becomes fine tuned these instances will become self-evident.
 
thintowin said:
most of the time this is a good axiom, but ... i utilize banks over cuts when playing 2-way shots when a cut shot would not give the needed control of the cue ball. As your game becomes fine tuned these instances will become self-evident.
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Nailed it... about the only time I am shooting a bank these days is on a 2 way or if I'm in dead punch and have rolled up on a dead one because it opens the pattern....
 
Mickey Qualls said:
Depends on the shooter's skills, confidence level, the layout of the table (i.e. position play).

That being said, all other things equal, I'm a cutter myself. Banks for me were (are) 60%/40%. An old teammate of mine won't cut a ball for anything, but will play a bank instead. HIS success rate was more like 90%/10%.

If you're dialed in and in high gear, every ball finds the pocket...:thumbup:
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Very well stated. I'm a cutter too. But don't forget that position play sometimes may enter into the equation.
 
I'm probably 50/50.

Not a huge fan of letting whitey run off wild after a super thin cut so it really depends on the situation.

But I play alot of banks and 1P so I may not be the best judge of "normal".
 
Pangit said:
Don't ya think... "Normally"? I like banks and kicks, a huge part of my practice routine... practice hard stuff all time... makes a simple cut shot seem easy... don't have to think about it....only one angle.

Can anyone play a combo good almost every-time, other than Buddy Hall?
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Yes....I have a very,very high success rate with combination shots....love 'em!
 
Really depends upon the shot and the position needed for the next shot. I don't shy away from banks though. I view myself as an above average banker, with bank pool probably being one of my stronger games.
 
i'm a banker. when i started learning pool many many years ago, the house pro taught me 2 games to start with, straight pool and bank. played those 2 games with him for many months. the banks are just a natural for me, i don't look at the diamonds either, i just fire it in. my playing buddies now have learned, don;'t play a safety against me by leavfing a bank. i will make it every time. i am over 90% successful with 1 rail shots and 50% with 3 raail shots. with anything over a 1 rail bank i will consider the cut unless the 2 or 3 rail bank is "dead" into the pocket. i should practice cuts more but don't. a good point made above about making shape. it seems harder with banking though.
 
I'd say cuts the big majority of the time. Dead/lively rails, slow/fast cloth, and variables like that all make banking a little different from one table to the next. Cutting a ball in is pretty much the same from table to table...just have to hit it good. Less variables come into play on a cut IMO. Than again, I can't bank to save my life..
 
Agreed playing straight in runout type of pool games generally a cut is preffered to banking even for the best bankers in the world. When they (Brumback,Gregg etc) are playing 9 ball and roll into a dead cross side but miss shape for the cut with natural angle - they grimace rather than smile. That say it all right there....
 
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