I could never pass up that combo... However I would play it rail first so the shape would come out better.
Rail first allows you to have a thicker hit on the combo so your cue ball will travel less distance and take a better line.
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I'm banking the 12 to my hole and putting the cue on the side rail next to the 2nd or 3rd diamond, if it goes I get out... the combo next to my pocket is too easy to miss and as Grady would say is "fraught with peril"...
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Double ditto, rail first on the combination looks like the shot here.I could never pass up that combo... However I would play it rail first so the shape would come out better.
Rail first allows you to have a thicker hit on the combo so your cue ball will travel less distance and take a better line.
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Wow, the thing that amazes me about these threads the most is how different obviously good players see things. I would never even think, like not even remotely, about anything else other than shooting the combo BALL FIRST. The rail first would never even enter my mind. I'd use right and go right at that 3, but even if i hit that 4, id still have the first ball in the combo to shoot next. Anyway...
I could never pass up that combo... However I would play it rail first so the shape would come out better.
Rail first allows you to have a thicker hit on the combo so your cue ball will travel less distance and take a better line.
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I'm with Tyler here. Also, I would not try to break up the two balls Frank wants to go for. They don't go for my oppo, are blocking 2 more balls on his side, and I don't need them to get out. As a friend of mine says, "you fell on a duck farm."
Maybe 2 rail the one ball making the nine in the side and leaving whitey in its place.
After the shot you have to picture the cue ball where the 9 is and the one ball by your hole and the 9 ball spotted up if you don't make it. Looks like a good position to have then.
If you make the one ball it looks like you might have a couple of shots after that.