The Anatomy of a Pool Shark

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(top level professional pool player)

Written by D.W. "Diamond Dave" Thayer, January 2012

To begin with let me show you why some players are such exceptional great shooters and even show YOU HOW to become a top level pro and pool shark. Thus being able to win against all opponents in every game you play!

Often there are shots on the pool table that are seen only by the most knowledgeable and profecient player. These shot situations may not often come up when you are at the table, but when they do you must know what to do although a shot seems impossible to the uneducated eye of your opponent.

These are shots that must be made to win the game or to at least avoid a scratch (foul) that will cost you the game.

When the shooter has to come up with a great shot such as in each of the following diagrams, nine hundred and ninety nine players out of a thousand would not see a shot or know how to shoot it if they do see it. See following diagrams from Hot Shots Plus eBooks.
 

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Diagram 1
(found in BOOK 5 - HOT SHOTS PLUS Great Shots, Position, & Play)

The cue ball is surrounded by and trapped by your opponents object balls and the end rail. You must sink the Eight ball at far end of table to win or at least hit it to avoid scratch. (For solution read book 5 of Hot Shots Plus)

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Diagram 2
(found in BOOK 5 - HOT SHOTS PLUS Great Shots, Position, & Play)

The object ball is frozen to the rail and your cue ball is frozen to the object ball. You can not shoot cue ball around table using Diamond system as your opponents object balls would prevent a good hit on your object (target) ball.

Hot Shots Plus eBook 5 will show you how to make this shot any and every time it comes up.

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Diagram 3

The game is Nine ball and of course the balls must be made in rotation. You have no clear shot at the next object ball and playing a safe shot is too difficult. If you do not make the shot your opponent has an easy run out. If the game is Eight ball and you are shooting for the eight ball to win the game and/or to at least contact it to avoid losing game by a scratch. Your opponents object balls prevent you from making this shot.

Knowing the simple arithmetic of the Diamond system will allow you to make this shot with ease.

Readers of BOOK 2 - HOT SHOTS PLUS Kick Shots and Diamond Numbering Systems and BOOK 4 - HOT SHOTS PLUS Bank Shot Systems & Making Tracks of Hot Shots Plus learn the Diamond system math and the hidden tracks of diamond system on any and every size pool table.

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Diagram 4A and 4B

Can you see a clear shot to pocket the Eight ball? It seems to the unknowing eye that all avenues of approach to striking Eight ball with the cue ball are blocked by opponents object balls.

Shooting cue ball into diamond #1 will cause It to miss Eight ball by a mile. But if you shoot cue ball into #1 diamond using DRAW on cue ball it will increase the angle as it rebounds off diamond #1 and create a three rail shot directly into the Eight ball.

Making other seemingly impossible shots are taught in BOOK 5 - HOT SHOTS PLUS Great Pool Shots, Position, & Play and BOOK 6 - HOT SHOTS PLUS Everything Else You Need to Know about Pool and Billiards of the Hot Shots Plus series of eBooks.

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Occasionally we get to watch professional Nine Ball Tournaments on ESPN TV.

We get to see the worlds top players play for big money. Once in a while we will hear the announcer say “Did you see that shot?"

He was able to make it because he knows the Diamond System or else he never would have made it.