Trading Safeties

Here is a shot I made last Monday night during my match against a SL3. Without going into the details, my opponent had won the first game on an unintentional safety that resulted in him getting ball-in-hand on a pocket-hanging 8 ball. This put him one win away from the match, so I had to play the next two games extremely carefully. Before I knew it we had passed the one-hour mark. This is a shot I played in the final game, a kiss off the 8 ball to have it come off the rail and block my opponent's 15, leaving the cue ball as far away as possible. I was pretty happy with it and regretted that most of my team was out smoking when I made it. My opponent could actually see a little bit of his 15, but he slammed into the cue ball and ended up scratching, leaving me with ball-in-hand on the pocket-hanging 8. We took the evening 4 games to 1 and are headed home to Sophie's tomorrow night.