Visual Guide Straight Pool 14.1 Continuous Rules, Break Shots, Strategies

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0:00 Introduction
0:42 History of Straight Pool
3:00 Basic Rules
6:31 Legal Shot vs Foul
10:39 Opening Break Shot
16:10 Break Shots
25:56 Below-the-rack Break Shots
28:58 Rail Break Shot
30:20 Side Pocket Break Shot
33:40 The Straight Pool Mindset (insurance balls)
41:21 End Patterns
50:51 Safeties
1:03:30 How to Improve
1:17:08 Conclusion
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[@frankwcrespo]

Dude! You crushed it! Hands down this is one of the greatest contributions to the pool community. Thank you!

[@vincevita6872]

Truly a comprehensive look at the game of straight pool, just in time, as our group has been thinking of playing more of this game... Thank you for a great presentation... Vince

[@stevekurtzthecommish43]

Bob, I really have to say, this by far is your best video yet….very nice job giving a very thorough interaction to Straight Pool

[@ColinGaileyGuitar]

This is an absolute goldmine of information! Your explanations and teaching style really resonate with me. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!

[@MarkSlade-hn7sj]

Thanks! Great explaination to the game. Good vid production.

[@anthonykeller5120]

In the early 1970’s Willie Mosconi came to our campus to give us one of his exhibitions. Everyone played 14:1 or 8 ball in the Student Union game room then. Willie picked a friend of mine, John, to play him in a game of 14:1. A number of times when shooting the break shot (always a middle break) Willie would shoot the cue ball in such a way that after hitting the object ball (and making the object ball) the cue ball would jump off the object ball into the middle of the rack breaking it open. It was truly magical to me. I never did learn how he did it. I asked him after the game how he did it, but his answer was unsatisfying (either he didn’t want to say or it was so natural he couldn’t explain it.) Can you explain and demonstrate how he did it.

[@rivendellroad]

Yes, one of your best video to date!!

[@georgevaughn1884]

Best tutorial on Straight Pool I've found. Looking forward to more and am going to invest in your book. Thanks!

[@RadioTom103]

Loved it. Great job on this one Bob.

[@fares57]

There was a great self evaluation method based on str8 14-1 and willie mosconi's record. That was on the early 00s. I still looking for the rating charts... you were getting a nice rating based on how many balls you potted.

[@mlmcgahee1]

Great job Bob. Very informative

[@andreastschander5575]

great video, a must see for every billiards player

[@BrianPapocchia]

Great video!

[@ShortstopOnPool]

Thank you!

[@gman5051]

Great explanation of the game Bob , I’m more prepared now . Thanks again !

[@blkmoon33]

I'll have to watch this after league tonight 🎉❤

[@mhays2827]

Excellent video. I have your book on straight pool, but nothing beats visual examples with commentary. Thank you! Are you ever coming to the Tampa area to do seminars or lessons?

[@ShortstopOnPool]

Sorry, no. I will be in Norfolk late October but then staying in Arizona for the winter.

[@ytlimdivad1874]

in the opening break the 5-ball has to be on the left corner of the rack and the 1-ball on the right corner of the rack, according to CSI pool rules.

[@rustieturtle3753]

Love your info. Question on frozen ball. Normally when the Cue Ball is frozen to an Object Ball you can legally shoot through (shoot straight through). Is this a different rule in Straight Pool as you're describing 10 minutes in?

[@ShortstopOnPool]

In my example the object ball hit another ball while cue tip was still in contact. I could have been more clear. See rule 6.7 at link below. If touching you can shoot "through". www.poolbilliards.co/rules/wpa-rules-of-play/fouls/#6.6

[@billseymour2109]

Great video Bob, though it got kind of fuzzy toward the end for me... Don't think it was focus, but might have been.

[@randyboy13]

If for any reason a player intends to do a hard break in order to set a full open table, a break cue can be used or you have to do that with your playing regular cue like with the jump shots ?

[@testtest20022test]

Can the safety at 1:01:30 be used as an opening break? It seems like a more powerful shot than the standard break. Maybe it's harder to get two balls to the rail?

[@ShortstopOnPool]

Yes, it can and yes it is. As mentioned, players have experimented for decades and not found a better break. But, who knows.....?

[@bjarkenielsen8515]

Does the opponent ever get ball in hand? If yes, when and where?

[@ShortstopOnPool]

Only when the opponent scratches you get BIH in the kitchen and cannot shoot a ball also in the kitchen. (Kitchen = behind head string)

[@JohnSchwarz-wx6et]

I disagree for semantic reasons with the frozen rule and the that general rule for a legal shoot take precedence over frozen ball rule. Ie. …the tip of the cue must make contact with cue ball ….the cue ball fails TO CONTACT with an object ball. This means going from non contact to contact ie..a taking place over time not a static condition in contact and remaining in constant contact until acted by an outside force. Newton laws of motion state that an object has inertia which must be overcome to move. Thus if your stroke were steady enough you could make the cue tip make contact with the cue ball and not move it stop the cue stick there and say for 2 seconds and then continue your stoke . This is exactly what happens in the real world according to Planck because time is digital not analog like Zeno thought.

[@TheSweetnessjosh]

I know why you use shaft extensions because you are taller