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Originally Posted by Patrick Johnson
What effect does cut angle have on the shot? How far off straight on can the CB hit the OB and still make the shot? Seems the shot would be less likely the more cut angle there is.
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The cue ball can be quite far off the line of the two balls. Wade Crane wrote about shooting the double spot shot from the wrong side of the table and with follow. Mike Massey showed me one time that the object ball can be forced a little through the backer/blocker from 60 degrees off the line of the frozen balls with a relatively thin hit on the object ball (which sends it fairly full into the blocker).
I don't know if it is one of his books, but Bob Byrne related a "sharp practice" that Fred Whalen showed him. Fred was the promoter of the big Los Angeles (Burbank) tournaments in the 1960s-70s:
You are playing one pocket. That involves a lot of spotting balls for fouls and balls pocketed in wrong pockets and such. Suppose you have two balls spotted and frozen already. You make a ball in an extraneous pocket and it has to spot up. You freeze it nicely to the back ball of the pair, but you don't put it exactly in line on the foot string. Instead, you place it slightly towards your opponent's pocket. How much? Try and see.
Your opponent might even notice the misalignment and think that will help him eventually to move the back ball to his side of the table, and he might say nothing.
If you hit the front ball from nearly anywhere up table, the middle of the three object balls will get squoze (that's the technical term
) towards your pocket.
The front ball doesn't have to be frozen to the middle ball. The important frozen spot is between the ball that is to be squoze forward and the ball that blocks it.
