Playing 9 Ball in Billiards

Video Transcript

"Alright in this next clip I'm going to show you how to win the game in nine ball. Alright so winning the game in nine ball, you, you?re shooting the lowest ball on the table, now there's different scenarios, real quick I just want to go over one scenario. Running all the balls in numerous order from 1 to 8, hitting the nine on a legal shot. Or you could use one of the object balls on the table as the first one your cue has to hit, and actually hit that ball into the nine and if the nine goes in you win the game. Let me show you two different ways, alright let me show you a scenario, there's a few balls left on the table the five is the lowest one, so I just might want to play the five ball, stopping it dead like so. The seven ball would then go on the side like so. I now could shoot the eight ball, this is running the balls in order, the eight ball will go in the corner. And you see now that once now I have the nine ball in corner, it's game over I win in one game in maybe a set of seven to 11, you usually have to win minimum of seven games in a tournament. You know you play up to 11 as well it depends. Alright so that's one scenario for winning the game in nine ball. Alright here's another scenario, I have the one ball the object ball that I have to hit first. But you see the nine ball is down in the corner, right here, where the five ball is in front of it. It's pretty much hanging in the corner, so a fair shot, might be for me to play the one into the five, five into the nine. Now since I hit the one first it's the object ball it's a legal shot, if the nine goes in I win the game, let me show you. And you see as simple as that you can win the game. Fast game nine ball, remember you got to have seven or eleven games to win the match."