i will share with everyone what a pro showed me about pattern breaking,
what he does first is find a spot where he is making a ball with a soft break or a cut break on a table a power break is a last resort. After he has established making a ball on the break, then he racks them with the 1 on top then the (23) below, then (456), (78) and the 9 on the bottom so the balls are awalys in the same spot everytime, then he breaks them, and watches where the balls go, and watches for kisses etc. soon as the balls keep stopping where they do, he makes a note of where balls stop to see what what balls end up where. Then he adjusts where he puts the balls in the rack except the 9 in the middle and the rest in the spots where he has a reasonable expectation of them stopping with out kisses. This way he can know where to place the balls in the rack so he has a good idea of where the 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 end up after the break giving him the easiest pattern to run out. He usually makes a ball so he just has to account for the other 8 balls and assuming no kisses the balls end up in a easy pattern to run out.
This works to some extent in 10B look at Shane the 1 usually ends up near the left corner pocket right next to him after he breaks.
the above plan is critical in a race to 100 format where your gonna play along time on one table, when your in a tournment and using different tables its hard to predict.
One more thing I noticed is in the 9 ball pattern racking I get the same 3 balls out of the rack up table 60-70% of the time and the same 3 balls stay down table and 2(if you make a ball) or 3 are kinda random. this is useful even when you break bad as I do because if i'm getting the 5 out from a champion and can rack my own I can get the 3 low balls up table 60-70% of the time and that gives me a good chance at getting to the 5 better. When the "Pro" showed me this he said "its typical that with a hard break to get the same 3 balls up table, when you put them in the same spot in the rack everytime". The trick is finding the right 3 places in the rack thus practicing the racking pattern above to figure things out. He is right, it works for me and the spot in the rack those 3 balls are at changes from table to table, thats also something he said, interesting. Its different on every table, this is no BS.
I watched 2 Top Pro's/Champions doing this and didnt say a word for 45 minutes. Afterwards I spoke to one of them, the one who was showing it to the other champion and asked me, he helped me and explained it to me. I'm just passing the information so if you dont disagree dont shoot the mssanger, go try it and see. thiswas done on a GC 5 and my diamond, and a few Diamonds by me.
I wont say who told me this but he is known for breaking real good.
