Basic Techniques (106)
For too long, myths have prevailed on how to inject power and style into your pool game. Enjoy the articles and step-by-step demonstrations and illustrations within. Watch your pool and billiards soar to stellar heights!
Game Rules & Strategy (26)
Learn exciting new games that will teach you skills to change your game for the better. Entertaining practice games are included plus new variations on old favorites, with bonus strategies and hot tips.
Equipment (56)
What's a "tip tapper"? Is there a "magic bullet" training aid that will improve my game forever? From a typical catalog listing over 1,000 pool accessories, which do I really need? Enjoy our search for top flight equipment and cue selections at reasonable prices.
Custom Cues (37)
We have in-depth information on choosing a personal cue for you, which like Little Bear’s porridge, will be just right! This topic at pool.about.com will prove priceless for you, since hundreds of cuemakers are vying for your business now, and new craftsmen introduce their wares (good or bad) into the market constantly.
Pool Glossary (141)
This alphabetical glossary helps pepper your pool playing language. You'll nod knowingly deciphering Hustlin’ Dave’s “He called the case nine in the side, a two-railer. He bounced it off the point with a major choke, it banks in the corner and he slips on the wrap, flips the stick out of his grip, and miscues. With ball-in-hand on the five I hooked him behind the six for the nine ride.”
Style & Etiquette (5)
What equipment can or should you bring to a tournament at your local hall? The most important item to bring is a thoroughgoing knowledge of the behaviors that make for the best competition and fine sportsmanship. And, you will look good, too. Learn how to move in the poolroom before you visit.
Trick Shots (21)
Pool and Billiards has an exciting subculture of players striving for more and more extraordinary trick shots and (sometimes dangerous) stunts. Juggling six pool balls won't help you shoot them in the pockets (other than improving your hand-eye coordination) but studying trick shots, you might learn a technique to take to a real game situation to win.
Fitness (11)
You might not consider a pool player an athlete, but many hours bent over, stroking and striking the cue ball, and smashing break shots wide open, requires mental alertness and physical fitness.
Pros & Personalities (47)
Some think top professionals and pool hustlers never cross paths. Is it possible instead that pros and top hustlers are one and the same people? Explore pool's darker side and greater lights with us, and some pool shootin' celebrities, too.
Pool & Billiards Culture (94)
How will you choose the right pool league for your needs and wants? Which movies and TV have great pool shooters attached, not just "stuntmen" with sticks? Pool culture offers fun options we'll explore together including humor, hotspots and more.
Online Games (6)
A plethora of choices not dreamed of 20 years ago surrounds today's pool shooters--24/7 pool halls are available online. Some games are limited, others defy the imagination in their complex physical theorems, the closest you can get to pool without a real cuestick in your hands.
