How to Call Safety in Pool

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Hi, I'm Michael Lamendola with expertvillage.com and today we're gonna shoot some pool. Alright, in this last batch of shots, I want to show you what to do if you don't have a shot. Now, let's pretend that these are my balls; the seven and the three and my opponents ball is the eleven. Now, I'm thinking about and thinking about it, and I can't find a shot. I'm just out of options and I feel that I can't make either of these. So, what I want to do is leave my opponent tough on his next shot. So, I'm going to call a safety. Now, a safety means my intention is not to make a ball at all. So, to do so, in order to have a safety, you must hit one of your balls, and then one of your balls or the Q ball has to hit a rail. That's sort-of a gentleman's way to do. I mean, no one's going to twist your arm if you do it at a pool hall or at a bar, but if you want to be legal and friendly about it, that's how you do it. So, to give my opponent a tough shot at the eleven, I'm going to try to run the Q ball down the table and, hopefully, put it somewhere around there where my buddies Mr. Seven and Ms. Three are in the way of Senior Onze. That's Spanish for eleven. So, a little bit of high left English, hitting the seven ball and trying not to scratch. I said trying not to scratch Q ball. Thank you. I have now left my opponent real tough and real long to make his eleven. Now, this has another turn for it, because if I look down here and I see that that Q ball cannot see the eleven done, what I've done is snookered my opponent. Snookering means you've not given him an option. He can't see any of his balls clearly. And in this case, if all he has is the eleven ball and he can't see it, well, he's snookered. And now he's got to kick for it, like we talked about earlier. But, that's not my problem. That's his.

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