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In this next clip, I'm going to show you what to do after the fourteen balls, out of the
fifteen balls, are pocketed, in straight pool. Alright, I'm back. So you're playing the game
and all these balls have gotten pocketed and you're in a situation, now, where there's
only one ball on the table. A lot of times, guys as they're playing this game and the
balls start to get broken, because you're trying make shots to break this rack out,
a guy will actually see like five, six, eight balls on the table, will look for the best
shot, to give him position to make that ball and then to carom, into the rack but this
is the situation now, he got down to this way, it's his fifteenth ball, right there,
everything stops for a second. The rack comes out and all the balls come out, before resuming
play. You re-rack all the balls, keeping the head ball open, you put the balls where the
head ball would be, on the rack, making sure all the balls touch, then your opponent, after
you rack, gets to resume playing. Now he could do, like I said, most of the times a guy will
look for the best shot, on the table, leaving that ball last, like he did here, so you could
make the twelve and break this out. However he doesn't have to shoot the twelve, he can,
if he wants, shoot the rack and again, he might want to save this, for some reason,
or the reason he might to shoot the rack, is he didn't get a good "break shot," as they
call it. They will call this a good "break shot," so you make this and break out the
rack, to keep continued running. Say he didn't get a good shot, say this was over here somewhere,
when he racked, now he could elect to shoot the rack, if he wants, making one ball hit
a rail or the cue ball hit a rail and not breaking these up too much, leaving you a
hard shot. So there's your scenario, for after the fourteen balls are sunk and how to re-rack
them.