One pocket - what would you do here?

Maybe play the 14 with high right. Play it so that it kicks the 1 ball toward your pocket and leave the cue ball on the opposite side rail between the second and third diamond.??

I must warn you I am not very good at 1 hole
 
Many options.
1, Bank the 14 to ur pkt
2. Bank the 14 to the right 1 rail into the stack...cb with right spin to the bottom rail and up table to the top rail
3. skin off the 6 to the top rail, then to the side rail above the side pkt, then into the stack
I'm sure there are more
Good luck
 
Looks easy enough to kind of "pop" follow bank the ball running the cue beyond the 1 ball and then play the 1 ball billiard.
 
Bank the 14 will get you 2 at most.

Bank the 6 with high left cutting the cue ball slightly to the left making the ball and cue ball cross.

maybe it glances off the five and goes in or the five goes off the 14 and goes in? or you make the ball regardless, cue ball is up table you have 3 in front of your hole and dont leave him a ball to bank back at your opponents hole.

or shoot the 14 then do that lol theres alot of options. but i like to think outside the box
 
I'd try to bank the 14 with draw to try to get above the 5. If it didn't work out I'd have the 14 closer and him trying to hit a safe on me or shaving something off the rack. Or try to long bank the 6 back down and hope for a miss. Put the cue ball up and to the left rail.
 
desertshark said:
I'd try to bank the 14 with draw to try to get above the 5. ...
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I think the only way to do that is with right draw and elevated so the cue ball bounces forward and spins/masses to the right. I don't think you can bank the 14 and get the cue ball to draw to the rail and around the 5.
 
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now that I think long&hard about it... I'd thin the green ball too.. To early in the game to sell-out.



Rob.M
 
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not a one pocket player, but i love the game and never have a chance to play, so as a complete novice, i would go bottom left bank, try to leave him with no shot and leave myself the five if i made it. god i love this game, it makes you think like no other.
 
Position is more important than a ball in the early game so I thin the 14 and go bottom rail, side rail to get behind the stack and protect the 2 balls in front of my pocket...

If I am playing fun and shooting hero shots I 3 rail the 6 to my hole and try and swing whitey 3 rails without kissing the 6 to get the stack between whitey and my pocket... The 3 railer will sell out the 14 cross tho if you hit it poorly and let whitey get too far down the table.....

If you cannot thin the 14 and get to the other side of the stack I know players who will take a foul and kick behind the stack but those guys are no fn and squeeze and squeeze when they have you at a position disadvantage.....
 
Bank the six back to your hole. I play that same shot all the time. A much better player than me taught me this exact shot. You might get lucky and make it. The most important part is to leave whitey as close to the head rail as you can. With the one sitting there it makes it very tough on your opponent to clear your hole regardless.
 
richiebalto said:
Thin the 6 and go 2 rails with the cue ball and stick it in the rack!

Now your opponent is in deep trouble!
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This would be my shot also. I would be playing the speed to freeze on the pack.
Shooting too hard and going below the balls is the worst you can do.
You could sell out the 15 ball bank but you would have to be playing unlucky for that.
I would not shoot the 14 , it takes all the pressure off your opponent and if you pick that moment to have a glitch, it could easily cost you the game, if you double kissed it.
Or left it short.
You don't want to be thinking negative thoughts when you play , but at one pocket if you don't consider the bad things that can happen , you won't beat anybody close to your speed.
 
This was the final game of the DCC 2014 one pocket finals. If you didn't see the shot don't feel bad. I doubt anybody other than Efren would have played it this way. Efren banked the 14 off the bottom of the 1 ball and went forward 2 rails behind the stack leaving this.



Shannon kicked 2 rails into the 14 leaving this.



Efren kicked into the stack, drove more balls to his side, cue ball went up table. Shannon was in a tough spot, tried a power shot to clear the balls away from Efrens pocket but left Efren a shot. Efren ran 8 and out to win his 6th DCC one pocket title.

Excellent video from Accustats.
 
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Bob Jewett said:
I think the only way to do that is with right draw and elevated so the cue ball bounces forward and spins/masses to the right. I don't think you can bank the 14 and get the cue ball to draw to the rail and around the 5.
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Well its kinda hard to really tell until you see it on the table and can walk around to really take a look at it. I agree with you though. Maybe try a bank with some speed and follow the cue ball off the rail for a break out? But then that's risky because you could miss and give the match to your opponent.
 
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