I presume that Ike banked that 13 back to near his hole and left you pinned to the stack, forcing you to come out from behind the stack to move the 13 ball away from his hole.
Is that what happened? And did you get any of those balls by your hole?
Darrell, :sorry, but this game happened 3-4 weeks ago and I can't remember what Ike shot next...but I do know that it didn't go well for him, as I won this game 8-0 or 8-1, I forget which.
Ghost, the bank on the one does the same thing but the cue ball is over by the side pocket and the balls moved apart by the hole.
Brother Todd, with all joking aside, I'll explain my thinking here...
I know that I'll successfully execute the shot that I chose 8 or 9 out of ten tries...conversely...
Being half-jacked by the 8ball, I would probably execute the bank of the one ball
successfully 1 or 2 out of ten tries...and when I say execute the bank successfully,
that means none of these things can be allowed to happen:
Strike the 1 poorly so that it doesn't bank to anywhere near my pocket.
Control the cueball unsuccessfully and go short and hit the top of the stack....or go too long, too slow, or too hard, and thus get no cover from the stack....or I scratch cross-side.
Or I bank/get the 1ball near my pocket, but Ike is able to respond by kicking off my long rail into the 1, sending it at his pocket while leaving me behind the three-ball-cluster.
And even if I avoid all of these pitfalls and hit the bank good = leaving it near my pocket but but not making it...Ike can just shoot the 4-rail billiard and have his cueball end up by my pocket/behind the 1ball.
All of that, is why it was a no-brainer for me to choose the "close to my work" and very effective, twice across and into the stack shot.
- Ghost