Learn to play pool and snooker better. Practical training guides on stance, grip, aiming, breaking, and drills to sharpen your skills, from beginner basics to advanced techniques.
Enter almost any roadside tavern or downtown billiard parlor on a Friday night, and you may notice a quiet stranger sitting at the bar sipping a drink, shooting with a crooked house cue, and barely making routine shots. An hour later, after high-stakes wagers are laid down, that same stranger runs the table with hypnotic …
In the 1990s and 2000s, one athlete single-handedly transformed professional pocket billiards from a smoky backroom pursuit into a prime-time ESPN ratings powerhouse: Jeanette Lee, universally known around the globe as “The Black Widow.” With her striking signature black outfits, piercing focus, and ferocious competitive intensity, Lee dominated the WPBA Tour, rising to the #1 …
Whether tucked into the corner of a basement rec room or featured in a retro lounge, Bumper Pool is one of the most entertaining, fast-paced cue sports ever devised. Played on a compact rectangular or octagonal table fitted with 12 rubber-cushioned obstacle bumpers and two cup pockets, bumper pool requires bank-shot mastery, pin-point carom angles, …
When you have three players in your game room, standard 8-ball and 9-ball don’t work without someone sitting on the sidelines. Enter Cutthroat Pool—the ultimate three-player elimination game. In Cutthroat, your objective is completely inverted from traditional pool: rather than pocketing your own group of balls, your mission is to sink all of your opponents’ …