I've discovered a fun trick

Interesting. I suppose there are a percentage of players that this may work against, but then again, with those players you could probably just smash the rack open, call one of the balls somewhere, and just let them run their 5 or 6 balls. :)

It's a move I suppose, but if you consider the percentage of players who may fall for this, vs the percentage of better position you would come away with using either what Mully suggests, or even playing the shot and getting into a good position to play a standard safety, I'd choose one of the latter options.

In any kind of defensive situation like this that I'm left with it is automatically programed in my head to simply take the scratch, roll the cue ball off the bottom rail into the balls lightly and knock a ball or two loose above the rack. Let my opponent play safe or scratch and then take if from there.
 
3andstop said:
Interesting. I suppose there are a percentage of players that this may work against, but then again, with those players you could probably just smash the rack open, call one of the balls somewhere, and just let them run their 5 or 6 balls. :)

It's a move I suppose, but if you consider the percentage of players who may fall for this, vs the percentage of better position you would come away with using either what Mully suggests, or even playing the shot and getting into a good position to play a standard safety, I'd choose one of the latter options.

In any kind of defensive situation like this that I'm left with it is automatically programed in my head to simply take the scratch, roll the cue ball off the bottom rail into the balls lightly and knock a ball or two loose above the rack. Let my opponent play safe or scratch and then take if from there.
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Well, I thank you for acknowledging my layouts but let me say that I am far from being an expert at this game. I know more about the game than what I can actually do with it. After reading the reasoning behind leaving the cueball out on the table like that I have to admit that the OP isn't entirely off his nut by doing that. There are a lot of people, good players included, that don't know that you don't need to drive 2 balls to the rail at that point of the game and they probably would just shoot an opening break. Not a terribly bad move. Only thing is it fails miserably if your opponent looks at you and says "Do I need to do this like the opening break?" HAHAHA!!!
MULLY
 
Just wanted to add that TSW was quite right in his diagrammed shots. I'm embarrassed, he probably crushes me at straight pool. I was watching the swedish finals (? with the 14 year old wonderkid... chalkki I think his name is)... and around 9:30 the incoming player, faced with a full rack and CB in the kitchen... does TSW's first shot.

Everything spread just as diagrammed. CB froze to the 2nd ball. The ball next to it barely moved. The ball above that almost reached the side rail. It looked like a shot the incoming player had done 100 times before.

Wish I knew these things :o
 
Great thread

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