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Position Play and Cue Ball Control

Learn all about controlling the balls to your advantage during your shots.

Position Play and Cue Ball Control

Welcome to the position play and cue ball control pool playing tips page. It has been said that position play and cue ball control is a skill separates the good players from the novice pool players. Once players realize that there is so much more to good shot making that just pocketing the balls, their game escalates to a whole new level. These billiard tutorials focus on pool playing tips for position play and cue ball control.

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Position Play and Cue Ball Control

  • Title: Position Play and Cue Ball Control
  • Author: (Billiards Forum)
  • Published: 4/4/2008 1:05:00 AM

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Position Play and Cue Ball Control Comments

  1. Rod in NCRod in NC from Apex, NC on 11/24/2011 6:42:40 PM

    To learn position play you need a starting point and that is to learn where the cue ball wants to go when hitting it with a stop shot stoke.

    Make this the fundamental starting point when looking at each shot as you decide how to play it. When hitting this way the cue ball naturally follows the tangent line. If this line does not take the cue ball where you want it to go it's time to alter the direction by using some form of English that will cause the cue ball to move away from the tangent line toward where you want it to go.

    Don't assume that you have to put English on the cue ball all the time, often the tangent will take it where you want it without looking to get fancy.

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