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How To Seek the Right Billiards Instructor

Finding a billiards instructor who knows how to instruct billiards is less easy than most think.

How To Snap the Break

Crushing a pool break in billiards is simple when you learn how. Here are super tips on breaking with style.

How To Use a Buck for Pool Tip Shape

One of the coolest uses for money at the pool hall has nothing to do with gambling for your pool tip shape. Check out this tip for your cue stick's tip!

How To Remove the Cue Shaft Finish

Some find the slick finish manufacturers add to their cue shafts distracting during play. Learn how to remove and replace a cue shaft's finish.

How To Examine the Master Joint

The master joint on a custom cue stick is crucial to a dead solid hit. Made of steel, you can bash open a break shot or if wood-to-wood in make, stroke with confidence and maximum feel.

How To Draw Pool Instant Improvement

Here is an exhaustive list of draw pool stroke techniques every billiards player will want to aid them with the sometimes challenging draw stroke.

How To Choose a Tip Material

Pool cue tips range in hardness and widths besides material composition. Learn what pool professionals consider in this, their most important investment--the cue tip!

How To Play Soft (Safety) Breaks

I'm all for pounding the break balls in during an open game. But softly also does it, even for old favorites like Eight Ball and Nine Ball.

How To Straighten a Bent Shaft

Don't throw away a bent cuestick! A warped shaft can easily be straightened again and the cue made ready for play.

How To Test a Cue's Straightness

It takes seconds to see if a cuestick is ramrod straight--if you know how to do so accurately.

How To Avoid the Wrong Tips

The glossiest looking pool cue is worthless without a quality tip on its end. Here are the things to avoid in a cuestick tip.

How To Round Your Tip

It takes just a few minutes' time to care for your cuestick's tip, and the effort is well worth it.