Frequent Yahoo! Pool tournaments and many rooms in which to meet players online (150-plus social rooms plus hundreds of game rooms at all skill levels) make for an ever-growing community of gamers.
Simple Play
Game play is limited but also functional and simple. Use the mouse to position the cuestick, then press the right mouse button to develop power in the stroke. Drop and drag the cue ball for ball-in-hand shots.
Fine aiming adjustments may be done with the arrow keys on your keyboard, giving you a bit more control, but forget jump and massé shots and other pool subtleties.
Get Into Training
Don’t rush to play others, take advantage of Yahoo! Pool’s training mode. Practice as you like in single player mode, even to clicking on and dragging object balls around the table to wherever you like for practice or trick shots.
Stay Honest
The adage says you’re only cheating yourself, but there are aiming tools circulating on the Web an unsavory player can use to give themselves a huge advantage against all comers.
But a contrasting view of these programs, such as YPool Aimer, is that they give the player a chance to analyze somewhat real world pool and virtual game situations, think ahead, and defeat entire tables of balls with thoughtful, careful strategy. Building one’s mental game is always healthy.
Earn Points
Remember, once you have enough practice to be satisfied, try to compete with players higher ranked than you at Yahoo! so you can earn points faster and increase your own rank and prestige.
