When you’re first learning how to play pool, your goal is usually just to get as many balls into pockets as possible each turn, and hope that you’ll somehow get to the eight ball before your opponent does. The easier the ball is to shoot in, the more likely you are to shoot at it. Your plan is to tackle the really tricky shots last, and you probably aren’t even worrying about them or how to deal with them until you absolutely have to. But if you want to have more success in your billiards games, you will need to adjust your thinking in regards to those shots that are marginally easy to very easy to make. Those shots can serve a better purpose.
Those shots can be used as safety outlets for when things go wrong, or for when you might need a ‘filler’ shot to get you back on track in a run-out pattern. Almost every pool game can have at least one ball in your suit that is easy to shoot in from almost anywhere, and that, because of its nearness to the pocket, offers a variety of positional choices from it to somewhere else on the table. You do yourself a great disservice when you choose to clear those easy balls off the table too early. Instead, I challenge you leave them hanging around, and imagine ways that they can be put to use to improve what might otherwise be a very difficult table.
One choice is to decide which balls in your suit are the trickiest to get position from to somewhere else you need to get the cue ball to. You know you could probably make the shot, but you’re thinking “Then what’s next?? Maybe I’d better just leave that shot for last…” when you could be thinking “How about if I take out that trouble ball, but instead of trying something fancy and difficult, I’ll just let the cue ball roll naturally over to that spot there…” and that spot there gives you a good line on the ‘safety valve’, an outlet-shot which, even though it might be farther than y...
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