Dominant eye is the weaker eye in terms of far sighted vision.

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I am left eye dominant but my left eye is weaker than my right eye in terms of vision. Can this an issue for people in playing pool?
 
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It can but it doesn't have to be. As long as you can determine which way is directly forward, you can learn to align your stick.
 
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Meaning your eyes don't make the shot and getting your cue on the shot line is the main thing about aiming. You can see finer adjustments with good vision - maybe; but that's still secondary to physical alignment.
 
Do search for how to find your vision center
Then learn to put your head over the stick in that position
IOW so you look down the stick in line with you vision center
You should be fine
 
I was right eye dominant for years until my surgery and my left eye became dominant eye. It took quite of while to make the adjustment. The key is alignment with your stick and your personal vision center whatever that ends up being. It takes awhile for sure.
 
All depends on how bad your vision is and how dominant your strong eye is. After a lifetime of heavy myopia (near sightedness), glasses/contacts and LASIK 10 yrs ago, and now struggling with Prespyopia (age related near vision degrading) in both eyes I’m left with R eye sharp for far and left eye sharp for close, but my R eye always remains dominant. Its annoying for daily life, and a bit for pool but doesn’t really bother me too much. Advice & links given in this thread are good, everyone has to figure out their own center vision & solid alignment using it. I think the biggest challenges to pool are for folks with really bad vision that can’t wear contacts and are forced to wear glasses during play and also cross-eye dominant folks - they have to wrestle a bit harder, but plenty of examples of amateurs & pros that make any/all work at a high level.

On a side note, if you are able to pursue corrective surgery, my general advice is go investigate it! I wish I had done mine in my early 30’s but didn’t bother until contacts became uncomfortable for me in early 40’s (wore soft contacts 12+ hrs daily since my teens, then suddenly developed an irritation to them).

Good luck!
 
I have the same situation although I'm right eye dominant. It was only meaningful in some shots where I was very close to the object ball and cutting to my left. I learned to intentionally sight things with both eyes while I'm standing up and keep that mental image while getting down and use both my eyes to look at the ball and pocket. It's kind of weird because you use both your eyes anyway and you don't really have conscious control of that. Maybe it was a bunch of hooey mentally but it fixed that rare problem.

Otherwise I agree with @dr_dave. It should be obvious that there is no single right way to sight a shot from all the different ways very sharp shooting pros take a stance. If you find what's comfortable for you and train yourself to have a consistent routine in approaching a shot, your muscle memory will automatically keep you aligned, and I think consciously trying to do it in a way based on your dominant eye will just throw you off. Clearly a whole bunch of people know nothing about dominant eyes and shoot straight.
 
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