How to Play a Safety in Pool

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Part of the video series: How to Play Pool

Summary: Play a safety in nine ball to if you need to prevent your opponent from hitting the 1 ball. Learn how and when to play a safety in pool in this free billiards video lesson.

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By Mike Lopez
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Mike Lopez has been playing pool in all of its forms for roughly sixteen years. He was the East Carolina University Nine Ball Champion in 1999. He currently is the top ranked player in...read more

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"This is Mike Lopez with Expert Village and now we're going to go over how to play a safety. Safety is put in place usually a 9 ball. We're going to go over some safety, the 9 ball safety is cause you have to hit the 9 ball. The reason why you use a safety is to try to prevent your opponent from hitting the one ball. So in essence of hitting a scratch you have the ball in hand, and what you want to do is you want to take the cue ball and set it on the opposite side of the pool table with all the other balls in the way so your opponent cannot hit the one ball. So all you're going to do is you're going to hit the one and your cue ball is going to come up this rail and send it down here towards the 9. "

eHow Article: How to Play a Safety in Pool