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Play Your Best Straight Pool
Play Your Best Straight Pool is the most comprehensive course on the game ever published. This 416 page book provides the reader with 355 illustrations that makes it easy to learn the game's shots and strategies. Playing pinpoint position is the heart of straight pool. The book contains 72 diagrams devoted to controlling the cue ball. A big chapter on pattern play will show you how to read the table and plan your runs. To achieve high runs you must be able to play break shots effectively. Over 50 illustrations cover virtually every break shot that you'll ever encounter.
A special chapter illustrates all of the concepts of position play and patterns as it takes you shot by shot through a 28-ball run. Chapters on strategy and safety play will help you to take control of the table. Several strategies and practice routines which isolate specific skills will help you to develop a complete game. Finally, you will be provided with a game plan that will help you break your all-time high run record.
A special chapter illustrates all of the concepts of position play and patterns as it takes you shot by shot through a 28-ball run. Chapters on strategy and safety play will help you to take control of the table. Several strategies and practice routines which isolate specific skills will help you to develop a complete game. Finally, you will be provided with a game plan that will help you break your all-time high run record.
416 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2000
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April 3, 2022
Capelle's Play Your Best Straight Pool is one of his series of Play Your Best books, all of which are outstanding. This one is no exception. With a complete coverage of the game and all its nuance, Capelle has created a classic, by far the best book on the game.
If you play straight pool, or want to, you need to buy this book, study it deeply and practice what you learn. Remember: "To learn and not to do is not to learn". If you do, you'll know more than your opponents, have a better understanding of what to do and why at every turn, and enjoy the game more and more as your skill increases.
I've read quite a number of book on pool and this one is near the top of the list. It's chock full of accurate diagrams and explains not just what to do and how to do it, but tells you when and why as well.
I've read it twice now and I'll be coming back for more as I expect to see things that went over my head or I undervalued the significance of the first two times. Five well earned stars.
If you play straight pool, or want to, you need to buy this book, study it deeply and practice what you learn. Remember: "To learn and not to do is not to learn". If you do, you'll know more than your opponents, have a better understanding of what to do and why at every turn, and enjoy the game more and more as your skill increases.
I've read quite a number of book on pool and this one is near the top of the list. It's chock full of accurate diagrams and explains not just what to do and how to do it, but tells you when and why as well.
I've read it twice now and I'll be coming back for more as I expect to see things that went over my head or I undervalued the significance of the first two times. Five well earned stars.
November 6, 2014
Straight pool A to Z. If you're interested in straight pool, this is the book for you. Especially helpful if you're new to the game.
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