Play Your Best Eight Ball

Play Your Best 9 & 10 Ball offers a complete course on two of America's most popular pool games. The book features over 500 illustrations (230 taken from professional tournaments), all drawn perfectly to scale. Book 1 focuses on shotmaking, position play, patterns, safeties, kick shots, strategy, and how to practice - everything that you need to know to excel at 9 Ball. Book 2 is all about 10-Ball, a close cousin to 9 Ball that has been rising in popularity among more advanced players. There is detailed instruction on the break and practicing 10 Ball, and two big chapters present over 120 lessons and 180 shots played by the pros in major competition. Spiral binding makes it easy to set up the shots for practice. 544 pages.

For players of all levels with 355 diagrams and many tips on how to improve.

To round out your complete course in pool you'll find chapters on the mental game, competition and how to improve that will tell you how to think like a winner and compete successfully in tournaments, leagues and money games.

The definitive work on pool and billiards (National Billiard News) by champion player Robert Byrne Now updated throughout and expanded with new material on strategy in eight- and nine-ball, trick shots, and billiard memorabilia, Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards is the classic guide to cue games complete with detailed diagrams and photographs to help improve play at every level."

A New York journalist recounts how she took up playing pool as a means of alleviating stress, in a memoir that traces her experiences from her attendance at instructional classes and her attempts to find a team to her unexpected wins and losses.