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How To Play Pool: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Pool, Billiards, 8 Ball, 9 Ball, & Snooker
Inside How to Play Pool , you’ll discover the rules for many popular variations of the With this book, you can strengthen your pool game with the right posture, physics, and geometry. You’ll learn to execute many different types of shots, such as straight, angled, and spin shots. For example, you’ll learn to combine top/back with left/right spin and get all kinds of impressive results! How to Play Pool explains how you can use your cunning to plan ahead and out-strategize your opponents. You’ll find out why to use just the right amount of force to avoid reflections and “own” pockets. By targeting clumps of balls, you can set yourself up for a great endgame layout. If you pay close attention to the cue ball’s trajectory after it hits the target ball, you’ll set yourself up for shot after easy shot. With these simple and powerful pool-playing tips and techniques, you’ll dominate the table – and the competition! You’ll even learn how to pull off a variety of crowd-pleasing trick It’s fast and easy to order – just scroll up and click the BUY NOW WITH ONE CLICK button on the right-hand side of your screen.
49 pages, Paperback
Published September 9, 2017
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January 6, 2023
Very poor how to play Pool book. - 1 out of 5 stars.
It started off pretty good, doing a history recap of the game, going over snooker, carom, and even ground billiards variants, golf and croquet origins, and even a very cool takeaway of the core term 'pool' relating to gambling/betting pool, as the game was heavily focused on that aspect during its initial inception.
So after a pretty sweet opener... this book quickly becomes a hard dud.
The amount of meat on sandwich is appalling. You will come out with absolutely nothing to help you play pool better in any way, shape, or form.
One thing that I wanted to highlight too is the authors atrocious attempt to discuss physics, geometry, velocity, etc. The fact that it is only ~3 pages in length and just so poorly done, it is quite offensive. No way should this have made it into a BEGINNERS GUIDE TO LEARNING. If you want to go down this path, actually give it some respectable page count and call the book something like "the science of pool"... not a how to guide. Again too, if you are going to do it... do it right as well. Massive critical fumble here.
Then after you get over that abomination, he goes straight into ridicluous trick shots and discussing pocking the 8-ball upon break. Again... what are you doing? Things like this do not help new players. Where are the fundamentals? Where are shot scenarios? Where is a in-depth deep dive on how English actually works?
Terrible how to play pool book.
If I had a free copy, I would totally send this to someone I hate as a gift. If they actually read it, surely they would be highly pissed off on such a low blow I delivered them.
It started off pretty good, doing a history recap of the game, going over snooker, carom, and even ground billiards variants, golf and croquet origins, and even a very cool takeaway of the core term 'pool' relating to gambling/betting pool, as the game was heavily focused on that aspect during its initial inception.
So after a pretty sweet opener... this book quickly becomes a hard dud.
The amount of meat on sandwich is appalling. You will come out with absolutely nothing to help you play pool better in any way, shape, or form.
One thing that I wanted to highlight too is the authors atrocious attempt to discuss physics, geometry, velocity, etc. The fact that it is only ~3 pages in length and just so poorly done, it is quite offensive. No way should this have made it into a BEGINNERS GUIDE TO LEARNING. If you want to go down this path, actually give it some respectable page count and call the book something like "the science of pool"... not a how to guide. Again too, if you are going to do it... do it right as well. Massive critical fumble here.
Then after you get over that abomination, he goes straight into ridicluous trick shots and discussing pocking the 8-ball upon break. Again... what are you doing? Things like this do not help new players. Where are the fundamentals? Where are shot scenarios? Where is a in-depth deep dive on how English actually works?
Terrible how to play pool book.
If I had a free copy, I would totally send this to someone I hate as a gift. If they actually read it, surely they would be highly pissed off on such a low blow I delivered them.
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