There is a skill shot on this machine, it also happens to be a great little trick to get to Cutthroat Countdown in your first ball while getting a ton of points without ever leaving the top corner of the play field.

Lightly plunge the ball so it bounces off the bottom of the bankshot drop targets onto the upper right flipper. Now flip the ball around the bankshot and catch it again on that same flipper (for the next part of the tip). If you completed this before the flashing green light on the bankshot goes out, then you got the skillshot.

Now continue to shoot the ball through the bankshot and catch it, repeat it. Each time you complete a lap around the bankshot you will complete a ball from the current game. Before you know it you have completed 8-ball, 9-ball, and rotation. You are perfectly set up to start your Cutthroat Countdown, just flip the ball a little harder on your last catch (and closer to the base of the flipper) and send it up and over into the 1 ball spot landing another cool million for your first ball of cutthroat.

If you continue to hit the bank shot over and over the amount of points grows quite fast, with in 8-10 times you are getting a million or more fore each loop. I have found no limit to the increase. Highest I have seen is 8.5 million per bankshot. The only catch is you must hit the next bankshot before the flashing green light goes out... if you don't then it starts the bankshot point value back at 30,000.

I will post a video of this trick as soon as I get my drop targets in working order. Without them the ball gets stuck a lot when i try this trick.