Kick the 6 ball, move the 7 to the foot rail by my pocket, leave the CB in the stack.
I think I might try to kick gently into the 13 and try to leave the cue lodged against the six seven. If I hit the six seven first it should still be ok the way I'm going to hit it..
bingo.....we have a winner......Kick the 6 ball, move the 7 to the foot rail by my pocket, leave the CB in the stack.
I would never leave Efren near the stack in this situation, he can easily kick 1 or 2 rails under the stack into the 3...and with a high % of success.
Getting whitey up table where he has a high risk takeout shot would be my move, and if I can get him on the rail up there, even better. If I can't thinly fan the 13 with a lot of inside english to get there, I'll take a scratch to get there.
I would never leave Efren near the stack in this situation, he can easily kick 1 or 2 rails under the stack into the 3...and with a high % of success.
Getting whitey up table where he has a high risk takeout shot would be my move, and if I can get him on the rail up there, even better. If I can't thinly fan the 13 with a lot of inside english to get there, I'll take a scratch to get there.
I'd agree if our shot weren't moving the 7 into the zone also. I think he'd be unlikely to find a viable kicking path.
Playing off the 10 to long rail - bottom rail from there looks to me like no problem for Efren. If I'm right, you're back where you started, your 10 is now in the stack, and you're maybe on a foul.
On the other hand, your judgment on these is better than mine most of the time, so I'd like to see what your thoughts are about my points. (If Efren can't hit the right side of the 10, my whole argument crashes and your choice looks pretty good.)
I'll feather/spin cut the 3 ball to the foot rail and leave it right next to the pocket, cue ball to split the 10/1 gap and park whitely in the middle of the head rail.
Efren would indeed shoot off the 10 and try to get me back there again. My thought process runs along the lines of, "what's harder to execute with the highest % of cue ball speed control?" I've seen top 1P players, and Efren is far better than most of them, nail those 2 rail under the stack kicks with such a high degree of accuracy that I immediately would be expecting to be under the 3 ball on my next shot, with the 3 further away and less of a threat. Shooting from 7 or 8 feet away, and if I'm lucky off the rail, he might not get exactly where he wants and leave me something.
However, if you kick your shot well, and the 7 comes to that bottom rail, Efren is in huge trouble from there. If executed correctly it's a game winner for sure, but that kick has enough risk that it might sell something out. In my experience kicks into the stack are 50/50. If Efren puts me right back there again off the 10 ball, I probably would kick at that point and go for it.
Another shot I was thinking of was just shooting the 13 straight on with follow and put the CB on the long rail behind the stack. I realize he has the long rail bank shot on the 12 he could shoot but if he makes it he is probably 1 and done and if he misses it I may clean up.
On further analysis, I think that's my shot instead of the kick.