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Take your pool game to a higher level! Are you a beginner? A pro? Regardless of your pool playing level, we have books, videos, DVDs, computer CD-ROMs, and audio tapes on a variety of subjects. Some of our books are actually novels, while others are intended to instruct you on the steps you need to take to become a more competitive player. Some of our favorites are The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool and Billiards (for the novice player), Capelle on Nine Ball (for the aspiring pro), and Inside Pool magazine, great for everyone! Also check out the Artistic Pool Manual and Trick Shot Templates, two great CD's for your computer. The Pool Hustler's Handbook is another great book, showing you fifty great ways to never have to pay for a drink again.
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Learn the secrets of artistic pool players. Photo, video, and text CD FlipAlbum® for PC usage. Over 630 Mbytes of data. Page printing allowed. Details on 40 professional skill level artistic shots and 5 show trick shots. 295 full screen pages. Includes thumbnails for each page, a table of contents, and an index all with links to the pages. More than 50% of the content is diagrams, shooter's eye views, overhead views, and side views. 400 color images Shot setup descriptions from the World Pool-Billiard Association Artistic shot program. More that 52 video clips with audio. See each shot being made. Insider tips on each shot. See how to adjust if you are missing the shot. Fundamentals on table testing, squirt measurement, throw testing and maximum english application. Images of top artistic players making shots. Virtual Pool 3 (VP3) images show close up details on the shots. Images are annotated to help you make shot corrections. 40 files that can be loaded directly into VP3. Hints on using VP3 for shot analysis and practice. Artistic spreadsheets for practice and competition scoring provided as XLS and 123 files. Pro contact pages that include web sites and contact information for lessons. Pro bio information submitted by the pros themselves. PC only, no Mac support from FlipAlbum® at this time. | | Artistic Pool Trick Shot Templates CD
This lower cost 59 page book on a CD-ROM contains some extracts from one discipline of the "Artistic Pool Manual" and also contains new information. Artistic Pool is the umbrella word, like gymnastics and Trick and/or Fancy shots is a discipline to "Artistic Pool", like parallel bars is a discipline to gymnastics. This CD is a good place for amateurs to build a foundation for "Artistic Pool". Learn how to quickly setup several trick shots, no extreme english or squirt knowledge required. You can learn 7 artistic show shots or trick shots. You can create full scale B/W or color template drawings of each shot for your own pool table to aid setup and learning. These templates can not be found in the "Artistic Pool Manual". Insider tips on each shot. See how to adjust if you are missing the shot. Photos, video, and text all on a CD-ROM FlipAlbum® for PC usage. Page printing allowed. Includes thumbnails for each page, a table of contents, and an index all with links to the pages. More than 50% of the content is diagrams, shooter's eye views, overhead views, and side views. Product includes more than 20 video clips. You can see each shot being made. Fundamentals of ball "throw" testing and "tapping in" that was also in the "Artistic Pool Manual". Color Virtual Pool 3 (VP3) images that show close up details on the shots. 7 VP3 files, one for each trick shot, can be loaded directly into VP3. Product includes table images that show close up details on each shot. | | Bca Official Rules And Records Book
This excellent book contains over 200 pages of information for the pool player: Rules for Pocket Billiard Games, Eight-Ball (World Standardized Rules), Nine-Ball (World Standardized Rules), 14.1 Continuous (World Standardized Rules), Seven-Ball, Ten-Ball, Rotation, Bank Pool, One Pocket. Other Popular Billiard Games: Baseball Pocket Billiards, Basic Pocket Billiards, Bottle Pool, Bowlliards, Bumper Pool, Cowboy, Cribbage, Cut-Throat, Equal Offense, Internet Equal Offense, Fifteen Ball, Forty-One, Honolulu, Line-Up, Pea Pool (Kelly Pool)...and many more! This book also contains rules for Snooker and Carom games, including Three-Cushion. Want to learn the diamond system? It is all in here, too. Read the amateur and professional tournament records and results going back as far as 1878! Also included are pictures and bio's of the BCA Hall of Fame Members. If you are serious about pool, this book is a MUST-HAVE! | | |  | |  | |  | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool and Billiards
This is the best billiards book for a beginner that we have found. It covers a lot of material in a very easy-to-read format. Co-written by female professional Ewa Mataya Laurance and famed billiards editor and author Tom Shaw, you will be thoroughly entertained and thoroughly educated by the time you finish this. There are 444 pages full of pictures, lessons, facts, and jokes in this great book on billiards. The book covers everything from buying a pool table or a pool cue to how to play position or play straight pool. | | The Black Widow's Guide to Killer Pool
Pool-playing legend Jeanette Lee -- "the Black Widow," who wears only black during tournaments and devours her opponents -- explains every aspect of playing to win, from holding the cue to performing combination, kiss, and trick shots. Lee shows wannabe winners of every level how to compete intelligently, lose gracefully, win frequently, stay focused, and achieve goals in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. This hip, engaging guide to the game is designed to turn you into the player to beat--in basements, bar leagues, local tournaments, and beyond. "Jeanette Lee is a natural, like Wayne Gretzky, Babe Ruth, or Michael Jordan. You may not become a world champion pool player, but this book will help you be the best player you can be." --David Brenner, comedian/actor/owner of Amsterdam Billiard Clubs of NYC. Jeanette Lee, pool player extraordinaire, is also a model, an actress, and a motivational speaker. She has earned Player of the Year honors from both Billiards Digest and Pool and Billiard magazine. | | The Pool Hustler's Handbook
NEVER BUY A DRINK AGAIN! This is one really cool book. Subtitled "The Fifty Best Billiard Brain Teasers", hustler extraordinaire Chef Anton shows you some great ‘proposition’ shots that will allow even a novice to win a lot of bets. From the incredibly simple to some that are a bit more complex, you will easily learn through great diagrams and easy directions 50 delightful trick shots that will make you the talk of the town. This book will pay for itself in free drinks the first time you apply just one of the tricks! | | |  | |  | |  | Do It for the Game
This is a very entertaining work of fiction. Tired of reading instructional books that make your head hurt? This will be a refreshing break, while still helping you to get your daily dose of billiards! Brian Dwyer was living the good life with a beautiful family, a big house in the suburbs and a nice corporate job. Then, one by one, he lost everything. When he returns to his hometown to bury his father, he visits the pool hall and discovers some long forgotten lessons. Meet the regulars at The Cue, an old time neighborhood pool hall. Join Weasel, Snake, Zig Zag, Al and the other colorful characters as they try to out hustle each other. Tag along to the tournaments and sweat the money games. Come into The Cue, have a cold beer, watch some football and play a game of pool. | | The Lesson
The Lesson may well be the finest pocket billiards instruction manual anywhere in the world. Large pages are loaded with illustrations upon illustrations which explore every possible area of the game of pool. The Lesson is spiral bound so you can lay it flat on the table and follow each step perfectly. When you master The Lesson, you are the master. Never again will you be confused wondering what to do. Often times you can run a rack simply by shooting "lessons." Each shot will be featured in The Lesson. When you are faced with a problem your lesson experience will help you solve it. A problem solved allows you to focus one hundred percent on your execution. The Lesson will take you to the next level. | | Point The Way
Point the Way is already considered a "classic", a "must have", a "get-your-own-copy-or-die" book. Learn the Inner Game of Pocket Billiards. "Point The Way is the only book that sheds some light on the mental part of the game. Everyone who plays pool should read this book. The Monk Billiard Academy should become a huge success." - Suzanne Weinstock, Columnist, The Snap magazine; "I predict that the top ten players in any pool league will have a copy of Point The Way. I do." - Grady Mathews, Professional ; "It's a great book for all levels of play. If someone is in the pool doldrums, Point The Way will really snap their cord!" -Conrad Burkman, Publisher, National Billiard News This is the blockbuster book that swept the billiard world. Point the Way is used by both pros and amateurs to master the inner game of pool. Learn how the shot shoots itself. Master key ball syndrome. Point the Way shows you how to increase your concentration skills. Learn how to reach the "zone." | | |  | |  | |  | The 8-Ball Book
Use this book as a step-by-step guide to help you master the game of 8-Ball. The 8-Ball Book will teach you the shots you need to know how to play and to compete in league play and tournament matches. The 8-Ball Book will teach you practice sessions necessary for your improvement and complete development as a pool player. The 8-Ball Book will teach you position play as well a how to ser up and successfully complete a runout. The 8-Ball Book will teach you 8-ball strategy and subconscious conditioning so that you can be a true champion. Master new shots, learn how to practice, discover 8-ball strategy, learn perfect position, understand deflection, learn how to runout, master concentration, and learn 8-ball survival. | | Consistency Through Concentration
How many times have you lost games due to poor concentration skills? Consistency through Concentration is the latest audio tape series from The Monk who can reach you how to organize your concentration skills and develop better concentration through meditation. | | Focus on Winning: Your Guide to a Winning Self Image
These four cassettes quit preaching and go right to meddling in on the going battle with self image. The difference between winning and just playing may lie within these stimulating tapes. They are designed to challenge and reinvent your mental attitudes. Transform your game. Build sound mental skills. Win the games you deserve to win. Suzanne Bosselman used Focus on Winning to win the 1995 BCA Open Women's Eight Ball Championship in Las Vegas. The very next year, Holly Sholes used Focus on Winning to win the 1996 BCA Open Women's Eight Ball Championship. Focus on Winning keeps you focused on winning. Flood your mind with winning thoughts! Train while you are driving your car, train while you are sleeping, and train on the beach. Master concentration and once and for all increase your confidence! These four tapes feature lectures, subliminal messages, and meditation exercises. | | |  | |  | |  | I Came To Win
Use this book as a guide to break through to the next level. Learn what is holding you back. Are you stuck at a plateau where you can't seem to break through to the next level? Have you reached a point where you just can't seem to improve your game? Unlock the barriers holding you back. The Monk has helped thousands of players break through to the next level. | | The Pro Book
This book brings the latest advancements in training methods and techniques into pool. Intended for the competitive player, it will produce dramatic results in your game if you supply the effort. Improve your ability to play using 130 reference shots, keyed into your memory with 16 primary shots. Expand your knowledge with reference safeties, kicks, kick safeties, and banks. Refine your table evaluation and pre-shot routines. Increase your mastery of peak performance with nutrition, mental training, and conditioning...and Organize your own training program for the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of pool. | | The Pro Book Video Series
The Pro Book Video Series is a complete training system for developing and maintaining advanced table skills. It is based on the high-performance reference training section of the Pro Book and can be used independently or in conjunction with the Pro Book. This four video set is an organized system for mastering the strategically important shots, safeties, kick safeties, kicks, and banks that form the basis for offensive and defensive play. Here’s an overview. Video 1, The Sweet Sixteen: Use the reference training breakthrough to build and strengthen your skill; Learn the training guidelines that can revolutionize your practice effectiveness; Open up your "A" game by mastering the 16 root shots of position play; Practice the 14 most important extended shots and become a master of the cue ball. Video 2, The Outer Limits: Understand the shot window concept and simplify your shot selection process; Discover the limits of your position tools and how to pick the right one for each task; Master the 22 boundary shots and eliminate shot selection doubt forever; Learn the extended boundary shots and master moving up and down the table. Video 3, It’s Hammer Time: Learn the seven principles of safety play and strengthen your ability to control the table; Practice the 16 root safeties and win many of the matches you are currently losing; Discover the seven principles of kick safeties and expand your ability to shift momentum; Master the eight strategic kick safeties and stun your opponent with come back ability. Video 4, The Great Escape: Understand the strategic kicking zones and reduce the times you give up ball-in-hand; Master the 12 most crucial kicks and be able to fight back with your confidence intact; Learn the eight most strategic bank shots and improve your ability to get back in line; Learn how to make the "hard to judge" banks and get out more often. | | |  | |  | |  | The Dead Stroke Tapes
Hypnosis works and helps pool players play better pool! The Dead Stroke Tapes will train your brain to "get into the zone". This is the follow-up series to the very popular "Overcoming Contenderosis" set of tapes. You can play your best game by discovering your hidden brain power. The purpose of the Dead Stroke series is to train your brain to produce dead stroke on demand. It’s not rocket science - you win more games, more money, and get the recognition you deserve. The twelve lessons on twelve tapes are: #1 Trusting your Subconscious; #2 Steps to Success; #3 Inner Criticism; #4 The Wipe Out; #5 Perfecting Abilities; #6 Playing in Trance; #7 It’s in your Memory; #8 Remembering the Best; #9 Future Attitude; #10 Rx for Discouragement; #11 Subliminal Prosperity; and #12 Pre-Match Psych Up. | | Overcoming Contenderosis
Remove the obstacles to your best game! Do you dog the 9? Does your arm shake on the hill? Are you nagged by fears? Worried about what others think? Do you lose concentration and choke under pressure? Now you can get rid of all that with "Overcoming Contenderosis", a hypnotic success program for pool players by acclaimed hypnotist Ryan Elliot. You can play your best game by discovering your hidden brain power! This powerful audio cassette program contains the newest techniques for inducing an altered state and is the original leader in the field of subconscious programming. It has been used by thousands to harness their mind power and produce awesome control on demand. It’s the nuts! This program contains 10 audio cassette tapes, each one a complete lesson. The lessons are: #1 Initial Hypnosis; #2 Successful Winning Principles; #3 General Pool Suggestions; #4 Personal Accomplishment; #5 Specific Pool Suggestions; #6 Goal Setting and Realization; #7 The Incredible You; #8 The Name of the Game; #9 Self Discipline and Persistence; and #10 The Winning Pyramid. | | A Mind for Pool
To realize your full potential at pool you've got to master the mental game. A Mind For Pool gives you a complete course on the thinking side of pool. From the very first day that you pick up a cue your attitude towards things like practice, change, slumps and instruction all play an important part in your success as a pool player. The better you play, the more important the mental game becomes. In fact, when excellent players compete, the winner is most often the one who has learned to best handle the pressure, sharking, unruly crowd behavior and many other potentially game ruining factors. A Mind For Pool reveals the erroneous thoughts that can undermine your developments as well as your ability to compete successfully. In every instance the book then goes on to show you a more constructive way to view the situation. In the process you will learn how to concentrate on your game, minimize the impact of bad luck, win tournaments and much, much more. A Mind For Pool gives you 120 bite sized lessons on all facets of the mental game, each one a self contained unit. Each lesson is summarized by Capelle's Laws for Pool. You'll also find quotes from history's greatest thinkers that serve to reinforce each lesson. A series of 80 checklists enable you to easily evaluate all parts of your mental game. Icons point out tips, insights, warnings and pool facts. | | |  | |  | |  | Play Your Best Pool
This book has 400 illustrations on fundamentals, shot making, position play, etc. Over 140 of the 440 pages are devoted to 8-Ball and 9-Ball strategy, with good coverage of the defensive game. An excellent resource book for beginners and a valuable tool for intermediate and advanced players. | | Play Your Best Nine Ball
This is a big book with 480 pages and 470 diagrams. There are chapters on shot-making, breaking, position play, pattern play, running out, safety play, practicing, and lots more. Over 140 of the diagrams are of shots taken by top professionals in competition. | | Play Your Best Straight Pool
Straight pool is undergoing a small renaissance, but it is unlikely to produce a best selling book. In other words, this third book by Phil Capelle is a labor of love. Billed as a complete course, this user friendly book has over 400 pages and 355 illustrations. There are chapters on Pattern Play, Bread Shots, Cluster Management, Strategy, All About High Runs, and more! A good book. | | |  | |  | |  | Capelle On 9-Ball: Archer vs Reyes, VHS and Book
This book / VHS tape combo is an innovative approach to billiards instruction. The famed instructor, columnist, and author Phil Capelle has done it again! The video portion of this package is the complete famous match-up of Johnny Archer and Efren Reyes at the Sands Open 23 in 1996. This match was filmed and produced by Accu-Stats Video Productions, and is presented just as it was aired. Bill Incardona is the commentator. The second part of the video analyzes the 25 most important shots of this match in great detail. Using special effects, you can easily see the great moves and devastating mistakes the pros made, and learn from their experience. The book starts by taking you shot-by-shot through the match. Key shots are diagrammed to scale. In this first part of the book, there are over 100 lessons to help you improve your game. Learn pattern play, position, and defense. The second part of the book teaches you how to think and play like a pro. Learn how the pros use their time during a match. See the break techniques the players employed. See when they used what bridge. Learn what techniques worked for each player, and what things they did that hurt their chances at victory. Any pro will tell you that a sure-fire way to improve your game is to watch the pros. With this package, you can not just watch, but STUDY TO WIN. | | Capelle On 9-Ball: Archer vs Reyes, DVD and Book
This book / DVD combo is an innovative approach to billiards instruction. The famed instructor, columnist, and author Phil Capelle has done it again! The video portion of this package is the complete famous match-up of Johnny Archer and Efren Reyes at the Sands Open 23 in 1996. This match was filmed and produced by Accu-Stats Video Productions, and is presented just as it was aired. Bill Incardona is the commentator. The second part of the video analyzes the 25 most important shots of this match in great detail. Using special effects, you can easily see the great moves and devastating mistakes the pros made, and learn from their experience. The book starts by taking you shot-by-shot through the match. Key shots are diagrammed to scale. In this first part of the book, there are over 100 lessons to help you improve your game. Learn pattern play, position, and defense. The second part of the book teaches you how to think and play like a pro. Learn how the pros use their time during a match. See the break techniques the players employed. See when they used what bridge. Learn what techniques worked for each player, and what things they did that hurt their chances at victory. Any pro will tell you that a sure-fire way to improve your game is to watch the pros. With this package, you can not just watch, but STUDY TO WIN. | | How to Play Pool Right Booklet
You simply can’t beat the value of this booklet. Fourteen pages are packed with valuable information for the novice. Topics covered include the history of billiards, equipment specifications and recommendations, how to hold the cue, stance, how to make different bridges, how to apply English, aiming, stroking, playing position, and the rules of 8-ball and 9-ball. 25 illustrations greatly assist in showing you the fundamentals. | | |  | |  | |  | How to Play Pool Right Video
The BCA transformed the celebrated How to Play Pool Right booklet into an instructional video! Featuring BCA Master Instructor Jerry Briesath, this hour-long video teaches the fundamentals of stance, grip, bridge, and stroke and the advanced techniques of English, position play, and patterns. Replete with state-of-the-art graphics, this video can improve your game whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced player. | | The 99 Critical Shots in Pool
Subtitled "Everything You Need to Know to Learn and Master the Game", this is one of the best-selling billiards books of all-time. First written by Ray "Cool Cat" Martin and Rosser Reeves in the seventies, the information contained in this book certainly applies today. Maybe you already know the follow shot, the draw shot, and the cut shot, but could you perform a rail kiss shot if the match depended on it? Get this book, and add these shots to your arsenal. In this game, knowledge is power. Over 200 illustrations on over 200 pages show the proper form, technique, and approach to these shots. Most students of the game will tell you that they have learned some of their techniques from this book. | | Cornbread Red
This book takes the reader into the life and mind of pool’s greatest money player, Billy Joe Burge, known to most as "Cornbread Red". Taste the excitement of high-stakes gambling as you go head-to-head in competition. Be there when the cues are chalked, the stakes are raised, and the nine-ball rolls into the corner pocket. Born to a sharecropping family during the great depression, Cornbread Red’s early talent for billiards was encouraged and his passion to win made him a favorite among betting men. In a fast, thrilling, and sometimes dangerous culture, Red learned the "rules of the road" from hustlers, gamblers, con-men, and champions. This is a great book that reads like a story. Although not an instructional book as such, it does provide great insight into the mind of a competitor, while at the same time providing great entertainment. | | |  | |  | |  | Answer To A Pool Player's Prayers
Wow. Richard Kranicki's book goes into great detail, with sixty-four illustrations on 110 pages, on all matters of shooting, including stance, alignment, aiming methods, and cue tip aim compensation. This book can greatly help you improve your game, if you take the time to apply the lessons it teaches. If you are going to practice, you want to practice doing the RIGHT things. This book shows you what those things are. Here are some reviews of the book: He (Richard Kranicki) has invented, by necessity, a whole bunch of new terms and phrases. Nobody has ever taken this subject matter to the depth Kranicki has. In short, this is a serious book, compiled by a committed, creative, and inventive author. If you are looking for a new challenge, or if you realize the incredible impact of eye and head alignment on your consistency, I suggest you pick up a copy. -- Bob Henning, in The Billiard Newspaper; Richard Kranicki's new book is the mother of all treatises on the fundamentals of pool. Kranicki has taken the basics and broken them down to a level heretofore unprecedented. For the most part, he concentrates almost entirely on aiming and physical alignment. -- Jim West, in Billiard Digest magazine; Kranicki explores some areas that I've never seen before. As one example, seeing the contact point, aiming point, equator of the ball, etc. are all skewed by the fact that we are looking at a sphere from a standing position. The title doesn't tell much, but this is primarily a book about seeing and aiming - the first that has been devoted to this highly critical area. The benefits to your game could, and probably will be - AMAZING. It will get you thinking seriously about your aiming methods. It's on my must-have list.-- Thomas C. Shaw, Pool and Billiard Magazine | | Tournament Chart - 8 Player
This 8-player, wall-size, double-elimination pool tournament flow chart is a must for every tournament director, pool room owner, or billiard league operator. The chart measures 25" H x 36" W. | | Tournament Chart - 16 Player
This 16-player, wall-size, double-elimination pool tournament flow chart is a must for every tournament director, pool room owner, or billiard league operator. The chart measures 25" H x 36" W. | | |  | |  | |  | Tournament Chart - 32 Player
This 32-player, wall-size, double-elimination pool tournament flow chart is a must for every tournament director, pool room owner, or billiard league operator. The chart measures 25" H x 36" W. | | Tournament Chart - 64 Player
This 64-player, wall-size, double-elimination pool tournament flow chart is a must for every tournament director, pool room owner, or billiard league operator. The chart measures 25" H x 36" W. | | Tournament Charts - 128 Player
These 128-player, wall-size, double-elimination pool tournament flow charts are a must for every tournament director, pool room owner, or billiard league operator. The set includes three charts (A-Bracket, B-Bracket, Finals Bracket). Brackets A & B are each 25" H x 36" W. The finals bracket is 19" W x 25" H. | |
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