"An Open Shot with a Good Sequence"

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Figure 36 shows you a useful open shot, a working knowledge of which will be worth more to you than anything you are likely to do when all three balls can be covered by a dinner plate. The red is on the billiard spot, the white is 10 3/4 inches from the top cushion and 8 inches from the side cushion. The cue ball is in hand, and ordinary amateurs invariably play for a cannon off the wrong ball and in the wrong way. They may make the cannon off the red by placing their ball on the left-hand spot of the "D," and using screw and side to get the cannon off the top and side cushions, a difficult shot which leaves nothing. Alternatively, they may play from somewhere near the centre spot of the "D" to cannon from red to white off the top cushion. This may be reckoned a fairly certain method of making the cannon, but a good leave comes "more by luck than by judgment." The correct shot is made by placing your ball 4 inches from the left spot on the baulk-line, and by playing a plain half-ball off the white to make the cannon via the side and top cushions as shown by the dotted line in my diagram. Strike your ball centrally, and play at the right strength to bring the white back off the top cushion into position below the middle pocket. Your ball will then cannon on the red and leave the excellent position shown in my diagram. Your next shot, if the balls stop exactly as per diagram, will be to pot the red to leave the lucrative cross-loser off the spotted red. This brings the red over the same middle pocket where the white lies handy, and with your ball in hand you have the choice of a simple middle pocket loser off either the white or the red, and what better break-building position can you wish for?

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