the other night muffy and i were perspiring a $50-per-game one-pocket match. (ladies don't sweat, do they?) we saw a type of one-pocket break we had never seen.
there were three breaks that i already knew about:
1) the standard break where you try to encourage balls over toward your pocket. (my coach told me to try to push at least one ball by the short rail and one by the long rail, but that's difficult. i scratch with this break so often.)
2) the break where you bank the cue ball into the side rail before hitting the stack. this is more fun, but i usually get even worse results with this one.
3) the break shown in here by jesse alred. this is the most fun, but i can hardly ever get my cue ball back to the back rail. in fact, almost never.
the break that muffy and i watched caused a big argument between the two players ... the opponent claimed it wasn't legal. (when i got home, i looked up the rules posted here and it was a legal break. i think.)
what the breaker did was aim the cue ball directly at the head ball and sort of stick it there in the pack. my flabber was gasted!
most of these breaks didn't leave the opponent much, but they weren't too effective in moving many balls toward the breaker's pocket. this might be a useful break for me until i learn to stop scratching on the traditional one. especially when you're playing for high stakes, e. g., a drink!
that new (to me) break got me wondering about other one-pocket breaks that i don't know about. how many ways to start the game are there?
education is my life,
sunny
p. s. i just read in here about a break where you hit between the 4th and 5th ball. i guess i'll check that one out too.
there were three breaks that i already knew about:
1) the standard break where you try to encourage balls over toward your pocket. (my coach told me to try to push at least one ball by the short rail and one by the long rail, but that's difficult. i scratch with this break so often.)
2) the break where you bank the cue ball into the side rail before hitting the stack. this is more fun, but i usually get even worse results with this one.
3) the break shown in here by jesse alred. this is the most fun, but i can hardly ever get my cue ball back to the back rail. in fact, almost never.
the break that muffy and i watched caused a big argument between the two players ... the opponent claimed it wasn't legal. (when i got home, i looked up the rules posted here and it was a legal break. i think.)
what the breaker did was aim the cue ball directly at the head ball and sort of stick it there in the pack. my flabber was gasted!
most of these breaks didn't leave the opponent much, but they weren't too effective in moving many balls toward the breaker's pocket. this might be a useful break for me until i learn to stop scratching on the traditional one. especially when you're playing for high stakes, e. g., a drink!
that new (to me) break got me wondering about other one-pocket breaks that i don't know about. how many ways to start the game are there?
education is my life,
sunny
p. s. i just read in here about a break where you hit between the 4th and 5th ball. i guess i'll check that one out too.