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Beginners' tips for any 9 Ball matches  -  By Simon Burrows

When faced with the problem of not being able directly to hit the
lowest numbered  ball first  (thus not being able to make a legal
shot), here are the three steps you should experiment with before
giving up  hope.  Failing these three ideas, number four  (below)
gives some  ideas about  what to  do to  make  the  best  of  the
situation :-

(Alternatively, these  tips may  be used by more advanced players
in the  attempt at  potting  a  ball  which  would  otherwise  be
impossible to pot with a direct hit)

I.
First  of all you  need to see whether it is possible to hit
the lowest numbered ball by bouncing the cue-ball off one or
more cushions.

If you have the aiming tool turned onto 'full', it is easy to see
whether this  is possible,  because the aiming line will point in
the direction  the cue-ball  will bounce  off once it has hit the
cushion.   If you can't quite see whether you will hit the lowest
numbered ball  after coming  off the  cushion first,  because the
aiming tool's  lines don't  reach that far, increase the power of
your shot and the lines will extend.

II.
Next, you need to see  whether the use of side-spin combined
with bouncing  the cue-ball off one or more cushions will be
effective.

The use  of side  spin when  hitting  the  cue-ball  against  the
cushion will  affect the  angle at which the cue-ball bounces off
the cushion.   This  means that  if you  couldn't hit  the lowest
numbered ball  with no  side-spin because  the angles you got off
the cushions  weren't 'satisfactory',  you could  experiment with
the right and left spin options to see whether these give you the
right angles to hit the target ball with.

III.
Finally, if the angles you can get off the cushions with and
without side-spin  aren't enough  to hit  the required ball,
you can play around with the power of your shot too.

When playing  shots with  side  spin  against  the  cushion,  the
severity of  which the  cue-ball deviates from the 'normal' angle
depends on  the speed  that the  cue-ball is  travelling   -  the
faster it's  going, the more severe the angle is off the cushion.
This means  that as  well as  deviating the  angle that  the ball
travels off  the cushion with side spin, you can also do the same
by changing  power.   (As long as you use some side spin as well,
otherwise it  makes no  difference!!)   This is particularly good
because it  will change the angle in smaller chunks than fiddling
with the  amount of  side spin used, so it can be used for 'fine-
tuning' the shot.

IV.  
Failing all this, you need to decide how to make the best of
the  situation. This  depends on  whether you  are playing a
standard 9 Ball game, or whether you are in challenge mode:

Standard Matches:   
In standard  matches, the  penalty  for   not
hitting the  lowest ball  first  is  not  too
severe.  Because  of  this, I  think the best
idea would be  to simply thwack the  cue-ball
around  the  table and hope  you fluke it and
hit the desired ball off many cushions.

Challenge Matches:  
In  'Challenge Matches', the penalty  for not
hitting the  lowest-numbered  ball  first  is
very high   (three lives).  The only way I've
found which  can limit  the damage is to just
simply pocket  the cue-ball  without  hitting
any of  the other  balls, because the penalty
for this is only two lives!!!  I really don't
think it's worth trying a mad shot to hit the
correct ball because the penalty is v.high if
it doesn't work.

By Simon Burrows

In challenge modes, I've found that it  is often not best to
use full  power on  the first  shot, because  this tends  to
leave the  cue-ball in  an undesirable position for the next
shot.  Instead, using three-quarter or two-thirds power will
still pot  a couple  of balls, but should leave the cue-ball
nearer to  the middle  of the  table, ready  for your second
shot.