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So guess who won the last three racks last night, including a runout from the break in the hill-hill game?
....one week later....guess who almost lost in similar fashion?
I was murdering this guy. Played a nice safety on the 8, but he cut it in from six diamonds out. Nothing to do but tip your cap and rack'em.
Then he sinks the 8 on the break.
Then he makes a ball on the break, and he suddenly can't miss, he's running out from the break on the last rack, an exact replay of what I did last week, its looking like I'm not gonna get to the table again (??!?)...but one of his balls is tied up, and he whiffed on two breakout attempts. He pushes it near a corner pocket and sits.
I've got two balls clustered right in front of the opposite corner, but if I can leave myself within an inch or two of the end rail, I can make one break out the other. I run the other five, wide open balls, trying to lag down to end rail for the last two... But miss my target zone by an inch or two. I play a rail-first safety behind these two balls, somehow leaving the cue ball an inch or two from the pocket and not scratching. Not only is he helplessly locked up, I've luckily nudged my clustered pair into a straight-in combo.
He fails to hit his ball--hell, he failed to get it halfway down the table--and I ran out. He told me that was the best safety he'd seen all year.