Play Your Best Pool: Secrets to Winning 8-Ball & 9-Ball

Play Your Best Pool "Tops all previous 'how-to' books" on pool according to National Billiard News. Here's why: It offers you a complete course on pool with hundreds of secrets, strategies, & illustrations that will help you improve all aspects of your game – whether you are a beginner, top amateur, or even a pro. Forty photos demonstrate the correct stance, bridge, grip & stroke. Next is a complete course on aiming, followed by a big chapter on shot-making that shows you how to pocket cut shots, banks, combinations, billiards & carom shots. The lessons on using english (side-spin) will prepare you for a comprehensive course on play that will teach you how to control the cue ball like an expert. Also covered: the position routes you must know, & 22 principles of position play. Your success at 8-ball & 9-ball depends on your knowledge of each game. In 2 big chapters (packed with over 170 illustrations) you'll learn all about offensive & defensive strategies. In addition, your game will benefit from solid advice on kick shots, safeties, pattern play, break shots & much more. It takes practice to develop a strong game – so Play Your Best Pool provides you with a skills-building program that includes over 20 exercises & a game plan for making your practice sessions as fun & productive as possible. Complete discussions on the mental game, competition, & how to improve will teach you how to think like a winner, & how to win tournaments, money games, & in league play. Capelle is the most prolific writer in the history of pool & for 17 years has been the lead instructional columnist for Pool & Billiard magazine. "This one is one of those rare books from which you can actually learn something. Highly recommended". —George Fels, Billiards Digest.

This is the fundamentals book, on which Capelle's more specific other books rely.

Note: This PDF is an OCRed scan of the original paper book, with all the illustrations, though it lacks the detailed table of contents of the ePub.