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    How To Play Pool: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Pool, Billiards, 8 Ball, 9 Ball, & Snooker
    How To Play Pool: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Pool, Billiards, 8 Ball, 9 Ball, & Snooker
    How To Play Pool: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Pool, Billiards, 8 Ball, 9 Ball, & Snooker
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    How To Play Pool: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Pool, Billiards, 8 Ball, 9 Ball, & Snooker

    By Tim Ander

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    Take Your Pool Skills to the Next Level and Win Big!

    Inside How to Play Pool, you’ll discover the rules for many popular variations of the game:
    • Eight-Ball
    • Nine-Ball
    • One-Pocket
    • and Snooker
    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 shots:
    • Pocketing the Eight-Ball on the Break
    • Jumping Over Obstacles
    • Sinking the 4-in-a-Line Shot
    Don’t wait – Take the plunge and become a pool shark today with How to Play Pool!
    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCRB Publishing
    Release dateMar 10, 2018
    ISBN9788827502341
    How To Play Pool: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Pool, Billiards, 8 Ball, 9 Ball, & Snooker

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    How To Play Pool - Tim Ander

    HOW TO PLAY

    POOL

    a Guide

    Tim Ander

    Copyright © 2018 by Tim Ander .

    All rights reserved.

    No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Brief History

    Equipment

    Different Variations of the Game

    with Rules

    Eight-ball

    Nine-ball

    One-Pocket

    Snooker

    Strengthen Your Game

    Posture

    Hitting the Ball – Types of Different Shots

    Physics and Geometry Behind Every Shot

    Planning Ahead – Strategy

    How to Amaze Your Friends?

    Pocketing the 8 Ball During the Break Shot

    Jump Shot

    4 in a Line – Trick Shot

    Conclusion

    Introduction

    Billiards (or cue sports) is a term for a lot of different games which generally include the use of a cue stick, billiard balls, and a billiards table. The sport itself has evolved into a lot of different sports and activities with different rules and regulations and it’s safe to say that playing and mastering every variation of the game is fairly difficult and challenging. In order to have a better understanding of the wide variety of games included in the term billiards, there exists a division of three major types of games which are played using similar equipment:

    Pool is definitely the most famous and widely played variation of billiards and it is also known as pocket billiards in North America. Pool is played both casually and professionally since pool tables can be found both in billiards clubs and regular bars. What makes is distinct in the family of cue sports is the fact that it's played on a table with six pockets (holes) and the table is somewhat smaller than the one used for other billiards games. The decision does not stop here since there are hundreds of different pool games. The most famous ones include nine-ball, eight-ball, straight pool. Pool is the most beginner-friendly variation and the book is going to focus on this variation the most. The usual goal is to pocket all of your

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