Play Your Best Pool

by Philip B. Capelle

Play Your Best Pool "Tops all previous 'how-to' books" on pool according to the National Billiard News. Here's It offers you a complete course on pool with hundreds of secrets, strategies, and perfectly drawn illustrations that will help you to 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 and stroke. Next is a complete course on aiming followed by a big chapter on shotmaking that shows you how to pocket cut shots, banks, combinations, billiards, and carom shots. The lessons on using english will prepare you for a comprehensive course on play that will teach you how to control the cue ball like an expert play. Subjects the position routes you must know, fine points of position play, and Capelle's 22 Principles of Position Play (which alone are worth far more than the price of the book).Your success at 8-ball and 9-ball depends on your knowledge of each game. In two big chapters (packed with over 170 illustrations) you'll learn all about offensive and defensive strategies. In addition, your game will benefit from solid advice on kick shots, safeties, pattern play, break shots, and 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 and a game plan for making your practice sessions as fun and productive as possible. Complete discussions on the mental game, competition, and how to improve will teach you how to think like a winner, and how to win tournaments, money games, and in league play.Phil Capelle is the most prolific writer in the history of pool with nine big billiards books covering more than 3,300 pages! And, for the last 17 years he has been the lead instructional columnist for Pool and Billiard magazine. "This one is one of those rare books from which you can actually learn something. Highly recommended". - George Fels, Billiards Digest

Genres: Reference

480 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1995

Reviews

[Cary Fitzgerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, together with Byrne's Standard Book of Pool and Billiards, is all you need to become a very good player (well, that and lots of practice). Those two books are head and shoulders above the rest.
Capelle gives great instruction, concepts you won't find elsewhere, wonderful diagrams, and even a little on the mental game. Go get this book and run some tables!

[Dabbo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I will be referencing this book, maybe forever....stressing positive thinking.
It really is a gem if you want to be a better pool player. I would also recommend "The 99 Critical Shots in Pool."

[Paul Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book so much information on the game!

[rey · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of great advice and i learned a lot just from the first chapter. only thing i wished had been added was the rules of 8-ball. such as what causes fouls, what shots don’t count and etc…

[Damon · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Play Your Best Pool" is the single best introduction to playing pool ever written. It is very imformative and covers a so many areas of this facinating game. The author writes intellegently and patiently, and provides excellent illustrations to explain his point. The author has helped me raise my game up higher than I ever expected and I'm sure this book will help raise your game as well. Be sure to follow up this book with "Play Your Nine Ball," "Play Your Best Eight Ball," and "Play Your Best Straight Pool."

[Gloryanna Boge]

I don't know if I should really give a review since I haven't read this whole book through. This was a Christmas gift from my mother-in-law and, unfortunately, I'm still a horrible pool player!