Now updated throughout and expanded with new material on strategy in eight- and nine-ball, trick shots, and billiard memorabilia, this comprehensive guide to cue games remains “the definitive work on pool and billiards” (National Billiard News). Index; diagrams and photographs.
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In the world of cue sticks and side pockets, this is the gospel, the 1998 revised, standard version of the 1978 bible. A champion player, indefatigable writer, and inexhaustible promoter of his sport, Byrne racks his book into two halves, the first a primer on pool, the second on three-cushion billiards. Beginning with the fundamentals, he goes on to run the table with lots of readable advice and detailed diagrams for how to play individual shots, including trick shots, strategies for eight- and nine-ball, and rules for the major pool games. Then it's on to billiards, where he banks from the fundamentals to the art of shot making and tactics for play at every level, touching on every conceivable cushion along the way. --Jeff Silverman
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In the world of cue sticks and side pockets, this is the gospel, the 1998 revised, standard version of the 1978 bible. A champion player, indefatigable writer, and inexhaustible promoter of his sport, Byrne racks his book into two halves, the first a primer on pool, the second on three-cushion billiards. Beginning with the fundamentals, he goes on to run the table with lots of readable advice and detailed diagrams for how to play individual shots, including trick shots, strategies for eight- and nine-ball, and rules for the major pool games. Then it's on to billiards, where he banks from the fundamentals to the art of shot making and tactics for play at every level, touching on every conceivable cushion along the way. (Amazon.com Review - Jeff Silverman )
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This is a book I come back to time and time again. As someone who plays off and on, I often refer to the book when pool is 'back' in my life. This is a keeper!The diagrams, the history, why shots do what they do, how to play the angles, you can't beat it. Its both informative and entertaining.
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How to run a table & Shot you can't learn anywhere else!,
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Robert Byrne has set the standard. As a state ranked player I decided to read this book. My game went to the next level. His checklist for running a table, his description of different types of "throw" shots and his simplifying the stroke all were instrumental. In pool, unlike other sports, there are few real teachers, Robert Byrne is a great teacher for the beginner to the very advanced player. It's the least expensive pool lesson you'll ever get.
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All I Needed,
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I have only been playing for about six months, so I am not too good. If you are like me, and you want to improve your game, buy this book. It is fun to read and extremely helpful. I probably won't be able to master every technique in the book in ten years, but the two or three things I have learned have taken my game to a whole new level. I love it. It is all I need.
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ducking kisses, getting positron, centerball hit, diagrammed shot, cueball hits, interfering ball, cueball path, cueball control, cueball position, cueball speed, shoot softly, first object ball, fifteen draw, deliberate safeties, fuller hit, thin hit, soft speed, diamond system, fourth rail, ghost ball, fifteen balls, second rail, spin shot, break shot, draw shots Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Byrne Collection, Willie Hoppe, Byrnes Advanced Technique, San Francisco, Byrne's Advanced Technique, Equal Offense, Power Pool Workout, Bob Jewett, Book One, Book Two, Byrne's Standard Video of Pool, Illustrated Police News, Mike Shamos, Billiard Congress of America, Byrnes Standard Video of Pool, Harcourt Brace, Lucien Davies, Modern Billiards, Welker Cochran, Willie Mosconi New!
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- Pool and Billiards by Byrnes on 5 pages
- Billiards As It Should Be Played by Willie Hoppe on page 230, page 307, and Back Matter
- The Howard Hughes Affair by Stuart M. Kaminsky in Front Matter, and page 211
- The Wedding Gamble by Cait Logan in Front Matter, and page 211
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards by Michael Ian Shamos on page 38
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- Byrne's Complete Book of Pool Shots: 350 Moves Every Player Should Know by Robert Byrne in Back Matter
- McGoorty: A Pool Room Hustler (Library of Larceny) by Robert Byrne in Back Matter
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