The Best Billiards Books for Beginners

Play Your Best Pool "Tops all previous 'how-to' books" on pool according to the National Billiard News. Here's why: It offers you a complete course on pool with hundreds of secrets, strategies, and perfectly drawn illustrations that will help you to improve all aspects of your game - whether you are a beginner, top amateur, or even a pro. Forty photos demonstrate the correct stance, bridge, grip and stroke. Next is a complete course on aiming followed by a big chapter on shotmaking that shows you how to pocket cut shots, banks, combinations, billiards, and carom shots.

The lessons on using english will prepare you for a comprehensive course on play that will teach you how to control the cue ball like an expert play. Subjects covered: the position routes you must know, fine points of position play, and Capelle's 22 Principles of Position Play (which alone are worth far more than the price of the book).Your success at 8-ball and 9-ball depends on your knowledge of each game. In two big chapters (packed with over 170 illustrations) you'll learn all about offensive and defensive strategies. In addition, your game will benefit from solid advice on kick shots, safeties, pattern play, break shots, and much more. It takes practice to develop a strong game - so Play Your Best Pool provides you with a skills building program that includes over 20 exercises and a game plan for making your practice sessions as fun and productive as possible. Complete discussions on the mental game, competition, and how to improve will teach you how to think like a winner, and how to win tournaments, money games, and in league play.Phil Capelle is the most prolific writer in the history of pool with nine big billiards books covering more than 3,300 pages! And, for the last 17 years he has been the lead instructional columnist for Pool and Billiard magazine. "This one is one of those rare books from which you can actually learn something. Highly recommended". - George Fels, Billiards Digest.

Pool Game book. Paperback. Author, Robert Byrne, A Harvest/HBJ Book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. Updated Edition. Includes black and white illustrations. Printed in the USA. 1987 Edition. Total 333 pages. There is a crease line on the spine where the book has been read. Approximate size, 7 x 10. The book spine is tight, straight, the pages are clean and free of markings or tears. "A complete guide to all cue games, from basic to advanced play, with over 350 illustrations." "Robert Byrne is a national class player of both pool and billiards.

He is also a novelist and editor, and his training as a civil engineer helped him create the outstanding illustrations for this volume. The book, which is for both novices and the very advanced, can be ruinous to family harmony, also health, you may never see the sun again." Excellent book that will teach you much about the games of pool. A very good buy at our offered price too! *11BC4.

Learn tips and tactics of pocket billiards from the very best, in this newly revised and expanded edition of the classic guide to playing better pool from Hall of Famer Arthur “Babe” Cranfield. Whether your next game will be a tournament match or part of a night out with a group of friends, this book will give you leg up on your opponent and help make the game for fun for you. Chapters include:. What to Look for in a Pool CueHand PositionThe Points of Aim, the Point of Contact, and the Difference Between the TwoCombination ShotsThe Draw ShotSpeed ControlStraight PoolNine-BallEight BallAnd much More!

They say that shooting a good game of pool is the sign of a gentlemen, and that shooting too good a game of pool is the sign of a misspent youth. Well, with the instructions here, your friends may question how you spent your youth.