Patent ID: 7144328

Claim:
A method for determining where a cue ball must cause an object billiard ball to strike a bumper of a billiards table in order to drive the object ball into a selected pocket of the billiards table of the type having two opposed end rails and two opposed side rails, comprising: (a) on a template having a scaled playing table portion and at least one interconnected scaled mirror table portion wherein each of the table portions is scaled with similar X-Y coordinates, locating the coordinate of the center of the selected pocket on the mirror table portion of the template; and (b) plotting a first line between the coordinate of the center of the selected pocket on the mirror table portion of the template and extending through the coordinate of the center of the object billiard ball to a point where the line intersects the outer edge of the object ball on the playing table portion of the template, wherein the line crosses the end or side of the playing table portion of the template at the point where the object ball will desirably strike the bumper of the billiards table in order to rebound into the selected pocket.