Lucky or intentional?
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Where I come from you have to call the 10. Still I don't think he'd bank at the side pocket and so if he was banking to the back left corner he missed badly.
Anybody speak Tagalog? Did he call anything?
Anybody speak Tagalog? Did he call anything?
He was going for the 4-railer. I shoot that shot many times. It isn't that hard to get the object ball on that path to the pocket, but it isn't a "gimme".
Lots of people don't have the balls to shoot that on the money shot, but the main intention is to put the cue ball on the opposite head rail if you miss, so you leave a lot of distance. Controlling the cue ball is as important as controlling the object ball.
Lots of people don't have the balls to shoot that on the money shot, but the main intention is to put the cue ball on the opposite head rail if you miss, so you leave a lot of distance. Controlling the cue ball is as important as controlling the object ball.
That's efren Reyes of course it was intentional.
The question was: Did he get lucky, or was it intentional?
My answer is: He intentionally took the shot and was lucky enough to have made it.
Bear in mind that Efren is going to get lucky way more times than you, and I. :smile:
"Standard" 4-railer. He was playing it.
And I think you are correct.
Getting "close" is relatively easy. Hitting the little pocket after traveling that distance at warp speed is where the "luck factor" comes into play a bit.
On this shot, the key factor is bringing the cue ball back to the opposite end of the table from the object ball. That is so when you don't get "lucky", you'll leave a long shot with the cue ball hopefully on the opposite rail.
It's a shot used one pocket when the conditions are right. Had an old timer show it to me years ago. :smile: It was not luck.
Yup, intentional. As others have said, standard one hole shot.
