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Pool is based on your skill, the effort and the practice you put into it. It comes down to you.
Pool playing tips for the beginner. Get started with these fundamental billiard drills.
...more on billiard fundamentals and basics.
Pool playing tips to help you master the art of the break shot..
| Improve Break Shots | Billiard Break Shot Control |
| How to Break 9-Ball Billiards |
...more on billiard break shot and breaking tutorials.
Learn all about controlling the balls to your advantage during your shots..
| Billiard Shot Planning | Position Play Billiard Tips |
| 3-Ball Perfect Position Drill | Cue Ball Control and Shape Drill |
| How to Put Spin on the Cue Ball | Billiards Position Play With Rails |
...more on position play and cue ball control.
Pool playing tips for safety play and defensive billiard play..
| Defensive 8 Ball Strategy | Defensive Billiard Strategy |
...more on safety play and defensive billiards.
Billiard and pool playing tips around shot making, aiming, and execution..
| Pool Shot Aiming Drill | Billiard Stance |
| Finding Your Dominant Eye | Hal Houle Point and Pivot System |
| The Straight On Shot Stance | Billiard Shot Aiming Technique |
| Holy Light System |
...more on aiming and execution tutorials for billiards.
Pool tutorials around billiard shot making and shooting tips..
...more on billiard shot making and shooting tutorials.
Pool playing tips and billiard tutorials for using english and spin on the cue ball..
| What is a Masse Shot | Billiard Draw Shot Cut Technique |
| Billiard Follow Shot Techniques |
...more on application of spin and english to billiard balls.
Billiard tips for controlling the speed or velocity of the cue ball when making shots..
...more on speed and billiard ball control.
Pool playing tips to help you master the mental aspects of pool and billiards..
| Billiard Practice and The Art of Improvement | Mental Preparation for Billiard Shot Making |
| Preparing Mentally for Billiards |
...more on the mental aspects of billiards and pool.
Pool playing tips to help you master controlling the speed of the object balls..
| Object Ball and Cue Ball Control and Speed Drill |
...more on object ball speed control.
Pool playing tips for making bank shots and kick shots..
| To The Moon Masse Trick Shot | Fantastic Five Masse Trick Shot |
| Billiards Diamond System | Timing Masse Trick Shot |
...more on billiard bank shot and kick shot techniques.
Lists the pool playing tips and billiard tips that don't fit neatly in any of the other pool playing tips categories..
| Taking Pool Playing Lessons | Warm Up Fast for a Pool Tournament |
| Four Ball Scramble Trick Shot |
...more on miscellaneous pool playing tips.
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This content, Pool Playing Tips, was created by Billiards Forum Editor on 5/1/2006 12:22:00 PM, and was updated on 2/26/2012 2:44:00 PM.
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Where can I find the rules for playing "The Ghost"?
Hi Billy, welcome to the Billiards Forum. Can you give me a little more detail about what you are looking for? I probably have a copy somewhere, I'm just not exactly sure which rule set you are looking for specifically.
Cool site, it has some good information! The one thing I haven't been able to find out much about is cues and specifically cue tips. What I am wondering is; 1. There are a number of tip sizes (diameters) (11 - 14-mm). I assume the smaller sizes would be for the smaller snooker balls, the larger for 9-ball, etc., but is this a hard and fast rule? Is it more personal preference ? What size tips do the top professional 9-ball players use? 2. There are a number of hardnesses for cue tips. I have been told the harder tips offer more control when used by better players. Is this true? It seems to me that the cue tip would be critical, are all cue tips created equal? Are the tips the pros use the same as the ones I can buy in my local store? Some information on the selection and use of cue tip hardnesses would be appreciated? 3. I play with a pretty good cue, maybe $100. I see on the internet "professional" cues with prices in the $1000 - $1500 range. What is the difference between the $100 cue and the $1000 cue? Is it just prestige, or is there a real difference? Is it the tip? 4. Since the actual contact between the cue and the cue ball is the chalk, I am wondering, is all chalk created equal? Is the chalk the pros use the same as what I can buy? Again, some general information would be useful. It's -30C (-40C with windchill) tonight, so we'll be playing a lot of pool in the next few months. But it's a dry cold............
The day of the social pool player is fading. It is being supplanted by the idea of becoming a steadily learning and improving contender. This is a concept many miss completely when starting out.
How do I follow through on a billiard shot. I seem to stop short after hitting the cue ball?
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