One Pocket Ghost
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Pat's shot, his pocket is at the bottom left --- the ball score is 0-0 --- the table/ball positions greatly favor Pat here, but what can he shoot here to keep me from negating that? ......wwyd?............................................................................
I'm curious what the consensus will be here...here's the situation:
You need to make these last two balls to win the game....you have this almost straight in shot to your pocket....if the cut angle was thinner, you would have a natural angle to shoot medium speed and come back 1 rail or 2 rails and get behind the 10 ball to get out....but in this scenario you don't have a lot of angle, so you would have to drill it in with a good amount of high english to get back behind the 10....and also the angle is such that you will need to have left english to be assured of ending up with an easily makeable shot on the 10...
So, my question is, would you, as I wrote in my previous paragraph, play somewhat tricky position for a straight in shot on the 10...or, since the angle is not natural and somewhat awkward to control perfectly...would you instead...
Opt to pocket the 3 with an easy stroke...coming off of the foot rail to approx. the middle of the table (position that you will achieve for sure)...and shoot the high % straight back bank to get out.

I'm curious what the consensus will be here...here's the situation:
You need to make these last two balls to win the game....you have this almost straight in shot to your pocket....if the cut angle was thinner, you would have a natural angle to shoot medium speed and come back 1 rail or 2 rails and get behind the 10 ball to get out....but in this scenario you don't have a lot of angle, so you would have to drill it in with a good amount of high english to get back behind the 10....and also the angle is such that you will need to have left english to be assured of ending up with an easily makeable shot on the 10...
So, my question is, would you, as I wrote in my previous paragraph, play somewhat tricky position for a straight in shot on the 10...or, since the angle is not natural and somewhat awkward to control perfectly...would you instead...
Opt to pocket the 3 with an easy stroke...coming off of the foot rail to approx. the middle of the table (position that you will achieve for sure)...and shoot the high % straight back bank to get out.

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