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The Pool Whisperer . . . . . Lance McGill much to know. Here s some of what to pay attention to. If you miss and leave the object ball on the short rail near your pocket: if you leave the cue ball at the long rail on your side you are leaving them a 2 rail bank. And if you take this same object ball and leave them away from that long rail ANYWHERE up table you re leaving them that free no, no and a nothing to lose position. And let s go over one more thing that puts you in a position to win more one pocket racks when you leave the work in this article. This tip will be ESPECIALLY GOOD for those of you that play on the same table regularly. And I promise you that when you use it you will be in racks immediately that you were not in yesterday. Please remember that I am only recommending this to those of you that are playing on the same table almost daily. For you nasty boys you have the touch and feel to use this anywhere so I would just suggest that when you re on the road: warm up and read this shot without anyone knowing what you re looking at. It should only take you 3-5 hits. Here s the shot: first-from the spot that we all want to leave the opponent when we use the standard break, learn to get to their pocket with a 3-rail kick. You will be able to get behind that end ball that didn t go (and came off of the short rail) with a good safety and likely you will have turned the break around. If you re using this and it is the correct shot what you will be satisfied with is a BACKSCRATCH. GETTING THE GOOD SAFETY IS JUST A LUXURY. There are patterns in break shots that right from the start leave you in what looks like one of those positions where you gotta go. One option is to back scratch 2 and make m run 10 instead of only having to run 8. The option that I like is to be willing to take the first back scratch like this and actually play for the safety. On a table that you know it is really easier than it sounds. Certainly easier when you design it as a back scratch and come out of it with a good hit. Learn, no, master this from 4 positions. If you do you will win games by being able to turn breaks around. Position #1 is at the diamond (3rd. down from your pocket) then each of the remaining 3 positions is one cue ball up toward your pocket. Learn to play this shot to hit anywhere from one and one-half diamonds from their pocket on the long rail. Do this work and I assure you that your wins will increase. So the third mistake that the newbies make is easily worked out. They shoot for nearly impossible safeties. When you
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think that the position is difficult look for a simple solution. I suggest doing so directly. Difficult to simple, that is a good sound text to eliminate the 3 one pocket uglies. The email votes that I received were well in favor of the poolroom etiquette over communication. I want this opportunity to be spent well and spent on teaching. If the next article is short enough I will include etiquette at the end of the one pocket instruction. I care that people get from my articles to winning more racks in as short a time as possible. I actually want it done in impossible time. For those of you that want to hold me to it or were looking forward to it email me and I ll write and send the etiquette article to all of you at once. I have a favorite student this month and it s because of her work ethic that I want to mention her. Martha Hartsell from the Eugene/Springfield area came up and worked this month. I can tell you that she is putting in every hour that is available to her. If she continues along that path and her opportunity stays in place she will get there. I encourage the pool community there to support her effort and they may one day be housing a player to be reckoned with. And now I have a story that s about the language that you all seem to enjoy so much. I played a young man 9-ball recently and I only charged him $2.00 per rack. He liked the fact that I said that I won t play you for $2.00, I will charge you........ So now he s runnin around chargin everybody. That however isn t the language that I want to share with you. He was going into his jeans about every 3 minutes and we were really having a good time. After watching him go in his pockets over and over again, I said to him, Hey, you know what? Why don t me and you just trade pants? I am soooo funny. For the record: consider for yourself the condition necessary for hating a person. No matter the experience. How can we do so without knowing everything......EVERYTHING about them? Your hating is akin to you taking the poison and expecting us to get sick. I am so out of hereOTB Do the work -- McGill
When you are new at one pocket the biggest mistake you ll make is to take a stab at a shot we call the no, no. ....
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