Throughout
the site I have emphasised the extreme importance of cue
ball control. 
This
is especially important around the black, the area of the
table that most large breaks are compiled from. Large breaks
can also be made around the pink but tend to involve a higher
degree of positional and potting accuracy.
Players
favour the black because it is the highest scoring ball
on the table and also because it is ideally positioned for
break building. The fact that the black is close to the
top pockets, the top cushion and ofetn the majority of the
reds, makes it the perfect colour for maintaining position
when compiling breaks.
The
top cushion is used continuously by the best players when
break building. Players will attempt to gain the correct
potting angle on the black and then use the top cushion
to obtain ideal position on a red. In this way the red-colour
sequence is m
anaged
throughout the break.
The
blue and pink balls will inevitably feature somewhere in
the majority of breaks made. The baulk colours however,
are almost exclusively used as a stop gap position for keeping
a break going and are rarely used for the bulk of points
scored.
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