The 99 Critical Shots in Pool: Everything You Need to Know to Learn and Master the Game (Other)

Decent little book to blast through looking for pointers on shots it's for American pool but the skill set transfers to all table cue sports it refreshed my brain on bank shots ect hopefully improve my game over the coming weeks but just remember it's a book and you need to practice you'll not be a pro overnight!

Awsome book for a avarage occasional player explains a lot of things i had no clue about

Rosser Reeves was one of the giants of modern advertising - his second string was pool and he shares it all here.

Very good for the regular player or novice. Some great tips and shot making hints.

Brilliant book

This book is for beginners. A lot of the shots explained are duplicated shots in different situations.. some aren’t explained well enough while some are.. the back 30-50 pages are basically useless and a glossary for words use in “American pool”. I perhaps benefited 5% in total. If you’re intermediate - professional don’t buy this book. Would definitely help someone who’s never played or just stared playing..

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Très satisfait de tout. Merci

Muy buen libro.Lo ideal por lo menos para mi que lo publiquen en formato kindle y en español Sería lo ideal.

If you are looking for a good book for beginners, this isn't it. This book is all about making a good pool player better. It assumes a basic knowledge of pool has already been established. If you're a beginner, check out Ewa Mataya Laurance's "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool & Billiards." It's a great straight-forward book to get you started right. But if you're already a pretty good pool player and want to add some great shots to your game, I highly recommend "The 99 Critical Shots in Pool." The book is not without it's drawbacks. This is a 220 page book. Of that, 50 pages are devoted to The Official Rules and Glossary of Terms. An additional 25 pages skim the basics of shooting form, etc. That leaves only 145 pages for the meat of the book, the 99 critical shots. Of the 99 shots, 22 are devoted to break shots for straight pool. If, like me, you play only 8-ball and 9-ball, then this book should be called "The 77 Critical Shots in Pool" because you'll never use the other 22. So, for me, this 220 page book has only 107 useful pages. The format of the shots section is great. Each shot includes a diagram of the whole table layout, a diagram of the cue ball showing exactly where to strike it to impart the draw, follow or English, and a text description of the shot. As others have pointed out, the text refers to a black ball (the object ball) and gray balls (all other balls), yet they are indistinguishable in the diagrams; they both look black. This is an annoyance, but does not keep you from understanding the author's intentions. Between the text description and the lines indicating the ball paths, I was always able to determine which ball was the object ball. If I still had my own pool table, I would have this book sitting right next to it. I'd study a single shot in this book and then practice it until I had mastered it. Then, when I'd mastered that shot, I'd proceed to the next shot and so forth. That would be the most effective way to use the book. Unfortunately, I have to go to a pool hall to practice. I don't know about you, but I don't really want to be seen reading a book about pool at the pool hall. So I have to study several shots and then practice them there from memory. Obviously, there's no substitute for practice. This book shows you WHAT to practice. Having told you that I only found 107 pages (77 shots) useful, you might get the impression that this book's not worth buying. Nothing could be further from the truth. Of those 77 shots, probably at least half were shots that I had either never even considered or had never fully mastered. You only have to add a few new shots to your game to make this book well worth the price. Buy it!