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If the cue ball doubt mastered the stop shot you can put that Instruction With Tom were at point X the com- concept to work for you on caroms. With your bination shot would be cue find the track that you need off the top of the www.tomrosspool.com straight-in and much eas- two ball to pocket the nine. Now find the line ier, though still not a perpendicular to that; it happens to meet the first Note from Editor: Due to an ongoing piece of cake. From this diamond on the short rail in this example. To health issue, Tom will not be contributing cue-ball position cutting pocket the nine simply aim to shoot the two into new articles for awhile. For now, we will the two precisely into the that first diamond and play a stop shot. Now you dip into his vast archives while he’s on the nine is very difficult and are playing a shot that employs two things you mend. Please keep Tom in your thoughts carries a strong possibility know very well. One, you are aiming to shoot an and prayers. of a miss that leaves the nine hanging with the object ball at a specific target, the most funda- two nearby. mental objective in pool. May 2001 And two, you are using the In this situation the stop shot, the one that you’ve Sometimes the difference between win- carom is clearly the better mastered, to give you a pre- ning and losing a nine-ball match rests on the out- choice. Playing to hit the two cise track to the nine ball. come of one’s attempts to convert early opportu- and pocket the nine with the Practice the shot now com- nities to make the nine ball. It’s very common to cue ball is not easier than the bining all of the necessary hear a player saying something along the lines of, combination, probably more elements including the proper “I had the match but then he made a nine on the difficult, but the carom shot speed to leave the two ball break and two more on combination shots.” I’m will separate the two and nine and cue ball at opposite ends referring to a well-played match, not a grenade in case of a miss. Play the of the table. You may find fest with both players taking ridiculous flyers on shot a few times working to that the best way to play the the nine and hoping for some luck. control the speed so that the shot is to focus on shooting two ball and cue ball are at the two ball at its target with Many times a player jumps on an oppor- opposite ends of the table after a stop shot while giving no tunity to play the nine and then loses the game the balls stop rolling. thought to the nine ball. If when the missed attempt leaves the nine hanging we were billiard players per- in the pocket for his opponent. More often than Here is a reliable tech- haps we would feel the shot not such an outcome can be avoided by choosing nique for playing many carom as a carom but as pool play- the carom shot over the combination. Look at shots. A couple of months ago ers we are more comfortable Shot A in the diagram and imagine what you we discussed hitting stop shots doing what we do most, aim- would do with it. This a good example of a situa- when cutting a ball to track the ing to shoot an object ball tion where going for the nine ball is the best shot cue ball on the line perpen- somewhere. since it lies right in front of the pocket with no dicular to the line of the ball to good shot on the two ball. However the shot is the pocket. Since you have no continued to page 13 Home of the Rocky Mountain State Games! 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