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.
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, …
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 …
Long before Title IX and decades before women were welcomed into professional sports leagues, a petite, soft-spoken Japanese woman in an elegant kimono stepped up to a 10-foot pocketless carom table in San Francisco and rewrote sporting history. Her name was Masako Katsura (nicknamed “Katsy” by American sports journalists). In 1952, Katsura became the first …
While 8-Ball and 9-Ball dominate television broadcasts and league night, your slate pool table is capable of hosting dozens of rich, historically fascinating cue sports. Exploring alternative billiard games sharpens your position play, teaches tactical defense, and makes game night thrilling for groups of any size. In this 2026 compendium, we break down the rules …