Trick Pool Shots - The Ultimate Trap Shot

Andy Segal: Hi, I am Andy Segal. Today, we are doing some masse pool shots and for this one we are behind the 8-ball in a big way. We are playing the game in 9-ball and we want to shoot in to the one to make the nine, but the problem is cue ball is trapped behind the four and five and the 8-ball is in the way for the cue ball to go straight into the one. So, what we are going to do is we are going to use two concepts that we learned already. We are going to use the compression Bankshot and the masse pool shot. I am going to lean over the table and shoot into the cushion so it compresses the cushion and the cue ball escapes and banks out this way and right here, I am going to have a little bit of masse on the ball. It's going to curve into the one and nine. To set this shot up, I have the cue ball frozen to the rail between the first and second diamond with the four and the five straight out forming a line.

The 8-ball is about an inch and a half away from the cue ball and I am going to have these balls lined up, just as blocking ball, so I can't go too far out. The one and the nine are hanging by the pocket. I am going to lean over and aim right about over here, probably that six inches off of this diamond, leaning over the table, aiming right here with 10 o'clock english. Now 10 o'clock which is high left. Here is the center of the cue ball, you go up here is 12, to the left is 9, 10 o'clock is this way. So, with high left English, with more of left English than high English and that's the way to win a game in 9-ball.

Now, the way to adjust on that trick shot, it's not that easy. This shot, if the cue ball comes out like this and does not curve what that means is, you are not hitting it with enough left hand English. If the cue ball comes in to the rail and hits these balls, that means that you are angling too much and you need to take a little bit off of it and of course, if the cue ball hits this rail, hits here and then curves back into the four, so the curve happens over here, you are not hitting it hard enough. You have to hit it hard enough so the cue ball travels this distance at least before the friction kicks in, and has the spin, curve it into the one-nine combination. Well, that's a second masse pool shot, titled the Ultimate Trap Shot but don't go away. We have two more exciting masse pool trick shots coming up.