Prop shot questions

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Endymion

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Okay, I've never had a proposition shot to hang my hat on but I'm close. I constantly work on 'the shot that can't be made' from Pool Hall Junkies.

If you aren't familiar with it, the OB is frozen to the side rail 2 diamonds up from the corner pocket and the CB is frozen to that (so its one ball width off the rail). Shoot the CB w/bottom right 2 rails (end rail first) around the opposite corner and cut the OB into the corner you shot from.

Anyway the last couple times I showed it to someone I made it in one try. My questions are; how good do I need to be at the shot to try and make money off it, and then how do you go about betting it?
 
Endymion said:
Okay, I've never had a proposition shot to hang my hat on but I'm close. I constantly work on 'the shot that can't be made' from Pool Hall Junkies.

If you aren't familiar with it, the OB is frozen to the side rail 2 diamonds up from the corner pocket and the CB is frozen to that (so its one ball width off the rail). Shoot the CB w/bottom right 2 rails (end rail first) around the opposite corner and cut the OB into the corner you shot from.

Anyway the last couple times I showed it to someone I made it in one try. My questions are; how good do I need to be at the shot to try and make money off it, and then how do you go about betting it?
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That is the most important shot EVER and you should be able to make it every time. No self respecting pool player can leave the room without shooting it at least 20 times a day.
 
Endymion said:
Anyway the last couple times I showed it to someone I made it in one try. My questions are; how good do I need to be at the shot to try and make money off it, and then how do you go about betting it?
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At a pool hall... you don't. Everyone has seen it. At a bar, tell them you need three. Miss the first on purpose (so you better know you can make it 1 in 2). Even better, and not much harder, do it with the butt end of the cue 1-handed. This will usually buy you a couple more tries and isn't much harder.

Try a few books for other gaff shots. Shoot the ball and move the quarter 1 1/2 feet, pocket a nickel, shoot the spot shot without hitting a rail. It's all about presentation and finding the right mark.

My personal favorite is freezing cue ball and object ball to face end rail and betting the mark you can make a legal hit on the cue and pocket the object ball into the corner. The key is to make an illegal hit on the object ball as you legally hit the cue ball. Practice and you can make this one 100%.
 
Endymion said:
Okay, I've never had a proposition shot to hang my hat on but I'm close. I constantly work on 'the shot that can't be made' from Pool Hall Junkies.

If you aren't familiar with it, the OB is frozen to the side rail 2 diamonds up from the corner pocket and the CB is frozen to that (so its one ball width off the rail). Shoot the CB w/bottom right 2 rails (end rail first) around the opposite corner and cut the OB into the corner you shot from.

Anyway the last couple times I showed it to someone I made it in one try. My questions are; how good do I need to be at the shot to try and make money off it, and then how do you go about betting it?
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You bet you can make it in x tries. You need to be good enough to make it in x tries or less.

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You might want to learn the shot that is in the beginning of the movie The Hustler. It is a hanger bank shot and goes on almost any equipment.
 
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