The BREAK

Because there is no certain way to make a ball on the break in your own pocket, the conventionalOne Pocketbreak is designed to open up the rack on your own chosen side of the table, without leaving anything that goes into your opponents pocket. You want to break in a controlled fashion, so that you get the benefit of loose balls near your own pocket, without leaving loose balls near your opponents pocket. Once you learn how to break inOne Pocket, it becomes a big advantage, and that is why an alternate break format is used inOne Pocket rather than winner breaks.