[LibWhacker]

In case you always wondered what a "perfect" break would look like.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Two in the corners, and the 5-ball doesn’t move. Cool.

[ClearCase_guy]

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I used to do it all the time but I was drunk and don’t remember how.

[JohnnyP]

I’m also JohnnyP on azbilliards.com

Anyone else post there?

[Brother Cracker]

[Yardstick]

Very cool. Interesting that some of the balls wind up rolling in the “upstream” direction.

[RegulatorCountry]

In my experience, breaking head-on and straight like that is a recipe for scratching. Of course, that was in the real world with imperfections of the table, the cue, etc. When I played regularly I always had more success when I broke slightly from the right.

[Vendome]

I smack thst thing a bit further to right and 8-12” draw.

[M-cubed]

it ain't perfect till the 8 ball goes in!

[norwaypinesavage]

it looks like not only a ‘perfect break’, but also perfectly round and homogeneous balls, a perfectly flat surface, maybe no aerodynamics or friction, only two degrees of freedom (no up, or down), and more. All the “hard” things have been removed.

[mrsmith]

"Big John, do you think this boy is a hustler? "

[loungitude]

That’s cool, but I broke a large plate glass window on a break at the Holiday Inn in Boulder in about 1992.

[Brandonmark]

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I got myself a regulation sized Snooker Table, 6’ x 12’ brings new meaning to a lot of green.

In snooker a maximum break is 147. If you haven’t seen one, watch this, the guy is amazing:

http://youtu.be/bpeBugHSCnU

[Political Junkie Too]

Chalk up!

-PJ

[G Larry]

Well....let’s inject the variable of reality in here.

A “perfect break” first requires a “perfect rack”, and that not that easy to come by.

If you have new felt, that’s a good start, so the balls don’t move apart when you release the rack.

Next YOU have to be able to set the rack perfectly square, and that just isn’t a natural happening.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Should be more like the 8 ball in the corner pocket on the break!

[smoothsailing]

Given that the 11 and 15 balls dropped in, the next shot is the 1-5-8 combo left bottom pocket for the win!

Yeah, easy for me to say.lol

[edzo4]

If it’s eight ball the eight is in the wrong place in the rack looks like they are in numerical order top to bottom left to right. The eight ball (black one) should be in the middle where the five is. (the orange one).

[freepersup]

Yeah but who racked em' ? Takes a perfect rack to get a perfect break.

I know I know, it's a hypothetical conversation starter. Not trying to be a Debbie Downer. I get plenty disappointed when I think I've given my opponent a good rack and it comes out dead.