Power shots
Power shots
Here are a couple more 'power' shots I might try depending on the speed of my opponent and how well he shoots long shots. I like option #1 best as it gives me a chance to get out of the break. The stronger the player, the more likely I am to shoot a more aggressive shot to get out of the break, as biding time will often just keep putting me back in worse and worse positions.
1. 3-13-2: banks the 2 towards my pocket. It looks like it might go clean or maybe I'd get lucky and hit another ball towards/in my pocket. I'd hit it pretty hard with a little draw and float the cue ball off the long rail and try and park it on the end rail. Ideally, I'd want to leave him straight in on the 5, which would also hide the striped ball near his pocket. Another option would be to leave him more towards the middle of the end rail and use the stack to hide the striped, although I don't want to leave him much of an angle so that he could shoot at his pocket and go across the table and leave me behind the stack. This second option seems less ideal to me as it will be easier for him to remove any balls near my pocket and if I fail to get a ball near my pocket, he can just go into the right side of the stack, push more random balls towards his pocket and use the stack to hide his pocket.
2. 1-6: banks the 6 towards my pocket. Less desirable than option #1. The only way to make this work is to freeze the cue ball to the 4. However, the angle might be such that the 6 goes straight across the table and come right back into where it was, which would be bad as it would probably hit the cue ball. This option also likely leaves him a return bank or some easier way to get out of it. Now that I'm writing this, I guess you could also even draw off the 1 and go down table, but if you're trying to leave distance, I prefer option #1 above.
