Best shot on the thread so far....Even had you not followed the 2 in and left the cueball in the pocket,it would have been a great shotCrownCityCorey said:
The best shot you ever made
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3-ball game, 5 or 6 players $1 a man. Game has carried over a few times, and the pot is at $3 a man. I am last one up, and the low is 3. Nothing drops on the break and I end up with this layout. Everyone goes "awww" cause they think they need to pay off the guy. I say "wait a minute" and fire in the shots diagramed, using a bit of top to make the 3 after cutting the 2 in the other corner. What makes the shot great (for me) is that I won the pot next round
Another funny thing about that day, my son was with me, he's 8, playing around a few tables over. He sees them handing me money and immediatly is curious "daddy, why are they giving you dollars". Explaining gambing to an 8-yr old feels a bit like explaining sex to a teenager LOL. How do you do it without sounding like a low-life of having him go to his teachers and say "My daddy took some cash off some suckers, he had the nuts that game")
3-ball game, 5 or 6 players $1 a man. Game has carried over a few times, and the pot is at $3 a man. I am last one up, and the low is 3. Nothing drops on the break and I end up with this layout. Everyone goes "awww" cause they think they need to pay off the guy. I say "wait a minute" and fire in the shots diagramed, using a bit of top to make the 3 after cutting the 2 in the other corner. What makes the shot great (for me) is that I won the pot next round
Another funny thing about that day, my son was with me, he's 8, playing around a few tables over. He sees them handing me money and immediatly is curious "daddy, why are they giving you dollars". Explaining gambing to an 8-yr old feels a bit like explaining sex to a teenager LOL. How do you do it without sounding like a low-life of having him go to his teachers and say "My daddy took some cash off some suckers, he had the nuts that game"
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Priceless...
I made this shot during the end of season Top Player's Shootout. The shot is nice but what makes it the best is that my son was standing there watching. I shoot, shot goes in, and my son turns to his buddy, and says...
"that my old man, and you know he actually sees that shit!"
Priceless...
I made this shot during the end of season Top Player's Shootout. The shot is nice but what makes it the best is that my son was standing there watching. I shoot, shot goes in, and my son turns to his buddy, and says...
"that my old man, and you know he actually sees that shit!"
Priceless...
The game was 8 ball. I had a 4 or 5 ball run working around my opponants full table of balls. I missed posistion on the 8 ball by a few inches and was snookered behind one of his balls. My intended pocket was to get it in the bottom side. Here's how it laid (well kinda meaning the lay out of his balls I am unsure of)
Probably the most difficult shot I ever played that went exactly as planned was this one, playing 8-ball, I've got the solids, my opponent left me here after a safety:
I'm sure this wasn't the smartest shot, since I can count on it not working except maybe once in a thousand tries, and should therefore have tried to tie up the stripes, which I'd have a much higher chance of accomplishing. But the game was just for fun, and I felt like trying to make the ball, and it seemed all the kicking angles were blocked, so I tried a ridiculously unlikely masse. I jumped around yelling "no way!" for a while after getting the perfect curve, slicing the one in the side, and getting great shape on the 8. Then shockingly enough, I calmed down enough to pocket the easy 8.
-Andrew
I'm sure this wasn't the smartest shot, since I can count on it not working except maybe once in a thousand tries, and should therefore have tried to tie up the stripes, which I'd have a much higher chance of accomplishing. But the game was just for fun, and I felt like trying to make the ball, and it seemed all the kicking angles were blocked, so I tried a ridiculously unlikely masse. I jumped around yelling "no way!" for a while after getting the perfect curve, slicing the one in the side, and getting great shape on the 8. Then shockingly enough, I calmed down enough to pocket the easy 8.
-Andrew
That is a ridiculously insane shot. Nice.Andrew Manning said:
The fact that you got shape on the 8 afterwards must've made it extra sweet.
I think that has to be one of the most gratifying things about playing pool, when you make a seemingly impossible, or extremely difficult and awesome shot to win the game, or set up for the win. There is nothing more gratifying IMO.
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We're sittin' pretty at hill-hill in a league match.
I break, make nothing and he chooses solids... I couldn't blame him. I had a tough cluster to break out, and I didn't see any easy way to go about it.
So he makes a few, I make a few, he makes a few and misses on the 5, leaving it near the 8. He leaves me down table near my cluster and one other stripe I still have sitting out in the shade.
Immediately I see the opportunity for a break out, but I'm set up to miss the pocket if I hit perfect 6o'clock english for the draw to get the break out. A careful shot, so then I decide to look for a lockup safety. Lapping around the table I realize all his are out in the open... I don't see any safeties to my satisfaction.
So I play for the break out... I have to hit the 12 JUST BARELY to the left in order for the draw to come back in the right direction... doing this will miss the pocket by more than a nipple... so I add some right english to make the ball.
Works perfectly, and I run out. Match is mine.
The best part about this shot is everyone was watching.
My Cap'n was, the rest of my team was, his cap'n was watching because he just finished giving a coach to my opponent, the table next to us was watching (I was in their way, so they paused), some girls that were there to support my opponent were eagerly watching.... oh MAN did that feel grand.
I break, make nothing and he chooses solids... I couldn't blame him. I had a tough cluster to break out, and I didn't see any easy way to go about it.
So he makes a few, I make a few, he makes a few and misses on the 5, leaving it near the 8. He leaves me down table near my cluster and one other stripe I still have sitting out in the shade.
Immediately I see the opportunity for a break out, but I'm set up to miss the pocket if I hit perfect 6o'clock english for the draw to get the break out. A careful shot, so then I decide to look for a lockup safety. Lapping around the table I realize all his are out in the open... I don't see any safeties to my satisfaction.
So I play for the break out... I have to hit the 12 JUST BARELY to the left in order for the draw to come back in the right direction... doing this will miss the pocket by more than a nipple... so I add some right english to make the ball.
Works perfectly, and I run out. Match is mine.
The best part about this shot is everyone was watching.
My Cap'n was, the rest of my team was, his cap'n was watching because he just finished giving a coach to my opponent, the table next to us was watching (I was in their way, so they paused), some girls that were there to support my opponent were eagerly watching.... oh MAN did that feel grand.
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This is notbe the best shot I've ever made but it's one of the most entertaining. Playing 8 ball, I decided to try and kick it in, but didn't hit it so good. This was on a 7 foot snooker table btw.
I'll think up of some other fun shots I made.
I'll think up of some other fun shots I made.
Here's a shot I made against Cliff playing some one pocket.
The next shot I made playing Jeremy one pocket. It's hard to draw it to scale, but the 4 ball is blocking me from banking the 3 back towards my hole. I don't think I favor one shot more than the other, they both won me the games.
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Scott I'd sure love to see that shot! Is there anyway you can get it on youtube for us? What a thing of beauty it must have been. PhilwScott Lee said:This was my best shot. Playing last pocket 8-ball, my opponent has left their last ball seeming blocking my pocket for the 8. I just smiled at him, called the 8 cleanly in my hole, and banked the 8 five rails, right past his 11-ball, into my pocket, for the win. Best part was that this was done in front of a couple hundred people, and captured on videotape, at the University of Illinois gameroom, in 1995!
Scott Lee
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We all have made those one time shots that were difficult. Some very creative some just difficult and probably would need a bunch of trys to reproduce.
I think though what sticks out in my mind more so than most shots is high spin slower/mid speed shots. One of those shots you hit just perfect, make the ball and end up with the perfect angle.
In my mind when that happens its one of those - I nailed that sucker. My opponent/spectators may or may not appreciate what just happened but I know. No high 5's or emotion, just keep on playing.
Later on or after the game if someone says something I've found someone that appreciates what happened as much as I did.
No matter the shot though its what keeps us all comming back. Sometimes for pain and sometimes for gain. LOL
Oh, I forgot my shot. Well NM it doesn't matter I'll make some more I'm sure.
Rod
I think though what sticks out in my mind more so than most shots is high spin slower/mid speed shots. One of those shots you hit just perfect, make the ball and end up with the perfect angle.
In my mind when that happens its one of those - I nailed that sucker. My opponent/spectators may or may not appreciate what just happened but I know. No high 5's or emotion, just keep on playing.
Later on or after the game if someone says something I've found someone that appreciates what happened as much as I did.
No matter the shot though its what keeps us all comming back. Sometimes for pain and sometimes for gain. LOL
Oh, I forgot my shot. Well NM it doesn't matter I'll make some more I'm sure.
Rod
I pulled off this shot just last night in league. I was down to my last ball in a run of stripes and called this kick/bank and told the guy it was probably a 1 in 100 shot at best but when I pulled it off everyone that was there watching (myself included) couldn't believe I pulled the shot off perfectly. Unfortunately I left myself a bank on the 8 ball and when I hit that shot it was going to go in but I couldn't quite get the cue ball out of the way of the banking 8 and it just nipped the cue ball so the 8 didn't go.
trueblu8 said:That is a ridiculously insane shot. Nice.
The fact that you got shape on the 8 afterwards must've made it extra sweet.
I think that has to be one of the most gratifying things about playing pool, when you make a seemingly impossible, or extremely difficult and awesome shot to win the game, or set up for the win. There is nothing more gratifying IMO.
Yeah, I agree that's the best feeling. It'd be even better if this game had counted for something (money match, tournament match, important league match), but if the game had counted for something, I never would have considered attempting that shot in a million years! Such is life.
-Andrew
This is not my best as I have posted those before, but this was recently. At DCC on the TAR bar box, I played in a cheap ring game where the other players were all better than me. I had just won the previous game and this was my leave after the break. Seeing no possible way to run out, I lined up the carom into the 3 rail kick while the better players watched and hit it perfectly. The game didn't last very long, we gave the table up for a decent $$$ set, and I came out the high winner despite being the worst player by far.
2002 US Open against Ronnie Alcano, 5th or 6th match on the winner's side.
This was when he was billed as "the next Efren Reyes" so I was intimidated from the get-go and started out by missing everything. Was down 7-1 before I took a small break to get my head straight.
Ended up coming back to hill-hill and had a possible cut into the side/ cut into the corner/ off-angle combination on the 9-ball. Normally I shoot pretty quickly but I took at least 2 minutes walking around the table measuring out the shots and deciding on what to do.
Chose the combination and actually made it, it was during primetime play so the stands were filled. I can still recall the roar of the crowd as the 9-ball slid into the corner for the win, the hair on my arms are standing on end as I type this out.
This was when he was billed as "the next Efren Reyes" so I was intimidated from the get-go and started out by missing everything. Was down 7-1 before I took a small break to get my head straight.
Ended up coming back to hill-hill and had a possible cut into the side/ cut into the corner/ off-angle combination on the 9-ball. Normally I shoot pretty quickly but I took at least 2 minutes walking around the table measuring out the shots and deciding on what to do.
Chose the combination and actually made it, it was during primetime play so the stands were filled. I can still recall the roar of the crowd as the 9-ball slid into the corner for the win, the hair on my arms are standing on end as I type this out.
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Tha "Fujinator"!!!
I was going for a safety, since the 9 does not go by the 8 into the side pocket. However, in order for the safety to work, I HAVE to pocket the opponents 4 ball, and suck the cue ball up behind the 8. Worked to perfection, and I got my BIH to get out.
No respect at all!!
This is one of the best escapes I have seen, and it was done to me by my little brother (Subdude1974). This game I had him locked up pretty good I thought. My game ball is in the jar, and he tells me he is going to make the 2 ball bank, my game ball, and scratch. I laughed at what he was thinking, since the 2 ball does not look to pass the 5. So he banks the 2 and bends it around the 5, and follows into the seven and scratches behind it. After that, I play a safe, he makes a two railer and runs out to win the game. You would think an older brother could get a little respect, but noooooooooooooooo
Mark
This is one of the best escapes I have seen, and it was done to me by my little brother (Subdude1974). This game I had him locked up pretty good I thought. My game ball is in the jar, and he tells me he is going to make the 2 ball bank, my game ball, and scratch. I laughed at what he was thinking, since the 2 ball does not look to pass the 5. So he banks the 2 and bends it around the 5, and follows into the seven and scratches behind it. After that, I play a safe, he makes a two railer and runs out to win the game. You would think an older brother could get a little respect, but noooooooooooooooo
Mark