One pocket. What’s the play?

Here is the table in Virtual Pool as close as I could get the balls. If there is a significant error in placement please let me know which ball needs to be fixed. The best way to transfer the placement is to draw lines between two diamonds two different ways for each ball. Unfortunately, VP does not allow me to skew the view to exactly match the table viewing angle/center/elevation as in the OP.

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And here is the bank for that layout as simulated by VP4. This speed leaves the 4 in the jaws.

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Remember guys
You dont have to make it
just get it close 🙂
 
Here is the table in Virtual Pool as close as I could get the balls. If there is a significant error in placement please let me know which ball needs to be fixed. The best way to transfer the placement is to draw lines between two diamonds two different ways for each ball. Unfortunately, VP does not allow me to skew the view to exactly match the table viewing angle/center/elevation as in the OP.

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And here is the bank for that layout as simulated by VP4. This speed leaves the 4 in the jaws.

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Nice shootin', Bob.

pj
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If playing like a "wild man" I might "DOUBLE BANK THE 5 BALL" Based on the first layout, I don't forsee any sellouts with the 5 now close to your pocket.
 
See post 17
Gotcha.. I stand corrected, thanks for clearing it up.

It would have been clearl if you had quoted your original post.

And to your shot, I find myself shooting shots like that quite often. As mentioned earlier in the thread by a lot of people, execution accuracy is pretty damn important in this game and that is not too hard to do.
 
That does not seem possible...I don't think you can come off the 14 and hit the 4 at all, much less stop anywhere near it and have the 14 come very far off the end rail.
It certainly looks possible to me in the original lay out, in the virtual pool thing it's not possible to hit enough of the 14 , thats why I am not a fan of adding them to the equation.
 
You shot does open the 9/10 up for the other guy.

I don't like it!
It might open up the 9/10 depending on speed when bumping the 5 to the rail, I still like it better then banking the 4.
Sometimes taking an intentional foul is better then selling out.
 
Banking the 4 looks good on paper but for my money I'm still going to bump the 5 to the rail and snuggle the cue ball up to the 1 and 13 most of the time depending on the score and my opponents skill level.
The 5 is the ball to hit, some how. Hard to tell on a screen. Anything else is a bit loose and could be expensive
 
This is one of my favorite moves and a shot I practice a lot. Varying angles and amounts of inside to get it tucked up nice and protect me balls.

In this case though it would leave all your balls open for him to mess up since you have the right side pocket...unless you got real lucky and rolled under the 3 and didn’t bump the 5 out for a shot

I think the CB position has confused a few people since you should never leave it there if the right pocket is theirs 😎
Yeah that's the difficulty here. He should've never been left on that side but unfortunately there's not a lot offensively available.

One other shot is to carom the 5 off the 3 over to his side and stop the cb on the 13 and one.

Jaden
 
Cut the 10 and draw whitey towards the side pocket. 9 is going to a rail so whitey doesn't have to.
No one sees the advantages of this?
Easy to execute. Plenty of rocks in the field for the incoming player to have to deal with. May well reposition a ball near your hole that is well protected.
 
It might open up the 9/10 depending on speed when bumping the 5 to the rail, I still like it better then banking the 4.
Sometimes taking an intentional foul is better then selling out.
Now we are definitely NOT taking a foul from there, ever.
 
The 4 should go. It was just hard because that window between 6 and 10 is small. You have to widen out the 4 a bit to the rail to compensate. Everything else is locked up. Except the 11. I’m hitting it 3 rails all day but a bit harder next time to get the cue ball down a bit more and 11 closer to pocket. That way 5 isn’t going without breaking open the pile. The 11 might go in 3 rails. Field goal between 3 and 6. I wasn’t paying very close attention to its path because I wasn’t trying to make it. It’s surprising no one else said the 11 ball. It’s one of the closer options to do something with.
 
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Bob the cut on the 4 to bank it into the right hand pocket is so severe that turns the cue ball loose.
Maybe, but I'm not shooting that shot with my cash on the line.
Measureman hates to sell out.
It only looks like a 1/2 ball hit to me
 
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I'd hit the right side of the one with medium speed and spread the balls more toward my side.

Did I get it right? ;)
That's another option.
I'm thinking there is no cut and dried right answer here.
Each to his own.
Been a good thread so far everyone has been polite.
 
I read most of the replies and I still prefer what I said and post number 12. I like the idea of leaving him having to shoot up table from that short rail. I can see myself coming out with the best of it from there.

I can picture if you do anything regarding freezing him up in that stack and I'm going to be the one who ends up on that short rail in trouble.
 
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