There's no threat on the shooters side, and leaving up table or down table on the left hand side leaves a pretty free shot at the 12 (either a bank and or a cut - and in either case, the cue ball is going to end up right back where it is next shot) or the 14 (at least getting another ball in play for the left pocket. Pocketing the 9 or the 14 puts a ball on the spot, but the cue ball is going to be somewhere that any spotted ball can be moved (probably unfavorably).
Given all of this, I think Collin has a great right idea. Move the 11 and the 6 but hitting the 11 on top of the 6, which pushes the 11 and the 6 away. But, I might leave the cue ball closer to the middle of the table.
A couple other options that might be viable (espceically since we can only see one perspective of the action) - it might be an option to cut the 7 down the the bottom rail and move the 6 that way, moving the cue ball up onto the 10, or even higher up onto the 4/7. It also might be possible to simply push the 11 to the left rail and use right english to come off the bottom rail and bump the top of the 6 or bottom of the 8, either of which should be fine. If this angle isn't there, it might be workable to cut the 11 into the 15 and use right english to do the same thing. Just can't tell from here.
There is definitely something you can do here and no need to take a foul or shoot a hero shot. It probably won't be spectacular, but you are simply trying to live to fight another day. Put differently, there is no way to win the game from here. But there are a bunch of ways to make you loose it faster... Shoot the highest percentage shot you can execute to give you best chance to win.
-td
Can you diagram this? I'm just not seeing how you get close to the 8. And unless you are prefect on this and actually freeze up on the 8 (or very, very close to it), you are going to leave a free shot - most likely on the 12 or the 10, but it could also be the 14 if the kick is short.
Just following up on this same concept - on the 3rd rail, if you hit the 3rd diamond up (closest to the side pocket) you can't nestle up to the 8 (either top or bottom). If you try to hit the 1st diamond (closest to the corner pocket) you can't either. So I read this to suggest you are trying to hit the 2nd diamond (for the 3rd rail) and then try to bet up to the 8 off the bottom cushion by the first diamond (close to the 6)? The 12 is pretty close to being in the way, but you could miss it on the high side. If you do this, I'm not seeing how you hit the bottom rail to get to the 8. A picture/diagram might help, as I'm not able to visualize this shot and apparently you are.
