One-Pocket

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I have taken an interest in one-pocket recently and want to improve my one-pocket game.

I'd really like to find some experienced players to practice this game with.

I'd also like to find some instructional publications on this game.

Does anyone know of any good books dedicated to one-pocket?
 
Woof said:
I have taken an interest in one-pocket recently and want to improve my one-pocket game.

I'd really like to find some experienced players to practice this game with.

I'd also like to find some instructional publications on this game.

Does anyone know of any good books dedicated to one-pocket?
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http://onepocket.org/
a virtual bonanza of information, l personally reading every thing that artie bodendorfer has to say , he is a living one pocket pool god.
 
Watch tapes of Ronnie Allen, Efren Reyes, and Grady Mathews to see how to play one pocket. That is the best way to learn.
 
I go to Youtube.com,enter one pocket billiards in search box and there's lots of videos and link's to great sites, like Azbilliards.com for one and onepocket.org as mentioned above.Also Google search one pocket,great game...Ron
 
Great 1pkt instructional DVDs

Here are three sets of great 1pkt instructional DVDs:

Grady's 3 DVDs, Killer One Pocket, The Finishing Touch, The Finer Points.
order at:Http://www.bankingwiththebeard.com/grady.html/


Cliff Joyner's set of 3 DVDs also called Killer One Pocket
order at:
Http://bankingwiththebeard.com/dvds.html#cliff1

Billy Incardona's Instructional 1pkt DVD
order at:
Http://www.bankingwiththebeard.com/dvds.html#billydvd1

Reviews and more info on all three packages found on this blog page:

www.bankingwiththebeard.blogspot.com/


the Beard
 
The books Winning One Pocket and Shots, Moves, and Strategies. These come up on Ebay occasionally, but be warned, they are expensive,
 
Pushout said:
The books Winning One Pocket and Shots, Moves, and Strategies. These come up on Ebay occasionally, but be warned, they are expensive,
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+1. These are as close to the one pocket bible as you can get.

I believe you can still get them from Eddie Robin directly...

-td
 
Pushout said:
The books Winning One Pocket and Shots, Moves, and Strategies. These come up on Ebay occasionally, but be warned, they are expensive,
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What he said, except that the first of the two books published (I forget the name, but I think it's WOP, please correct me if I'm wrong) is very anectdotal, telling stories about past shots that all of the contributing writers recalled. The second book, SMS (I think), is much more geared towards game improvement. The book is filled with countless scenarios that are sure to come up in the games you play. The contributing writers (all great players) take turns explaining what their response would be to the situation and why. Even these explanations are supplemented by dissenting opinions of what the other writers would choose to do. Great book and well worth the money if you can get your hands on one.
 
One word....Accustats. Not only do you see great players playing, but the commentary itself is instructional and will improve your game stategically.
 
Woof said:
I have taken an interest in one-pocket recently and want to improve my one-pocket game.

I'd really like to find some experienced players to practice this game with.

I'd also like to find some instructional publications on this game.

Does anyone know of any good books dedicated to one-pocket?
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Books are worthless. Go to Phoenix Arizona and play San Jose Dick Moran $100 a game until you can beat him. Then you will have learned the hard way. Either you will be broke or you will become a good one pocket player.

There is no substitute for the Hard Way to learn to play pool. Of course if there is one book that "might" help you a tiny bit it would be Winning One Pocket but then ONLY on the pages where they mention San Jose Dick and whatever he did.

Me personally, I never learned the Hard Way and consequently I still suck. I did however learn A LOT from Grady Matthews' Tapes, from Billy Incardona's tape, from watching AccuStats, from reading Winning Pocket and Shot's, Moves and Strategies (although I should have paid more attention to where SJD was mentioned).

Willie Jopling has a good DVD with a lot of good one pocket moves on it.

Lastly, a book I owned but never really read was The Science of One Pocket or something like that by Jack Koehler. Someone else should be able to tell you if that is worth anything.

And Dick, I am JUST ribbing you. ;-)
 
JB Cases said:
Books are worthless. Go to Phoenix Arizona and play San Jose Dick Moran $100 a game until you can beat him. Then you will have learned the hard way. Either you will be broke or you will become a good one pocket player.

There is no substitute for the Hard Way to learn to play pool. Of course if there is one book that "might" help you a tiny bit it would be Winning One Pocket but then ONLY on the pages where they mention San Jose Dick and whatever he did.

Me personally, I never learned the Hard Way and consequently I still suck. I did however learn A LOT from Grady Matthews' Tapes, from Billy Incardona's tape, from watching AccuStats, from reading Winning Pocket and Shot's, Moves and Strategies (although I should have paid more attention to where SJD was mentioned).

Willie Jopling has a good DVD with a lot of good one pocket moves on it.

Lastly, a book I owned but never really read was The Science of One Pocket or something like that by Jack Koehler. Someone else should be able to tell you if that is worth anything.

And Dick, I am JUST ribbing you. ;-)
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there is no subistute for $100/game 1P in a fair evenly matched game. For basic stuff the video's are good to a extent but when your $$ is up an it matters then you will remember your mistakes and what got you paid.

not doing that you wont remember the lessions the same way. Look at the list of good 1P players....See any names on there of guys who just read books and watched video's??? No they wrote the books and made the video's-they got good betting their $$$$. So thats the honest truth there is no other way.
 
I took a lesson and promptly went hunting for some of my one pocket opponents.

I found one of them and challenged him to $100 a game right away. I got four games up and lost focus and let him get back to even. Why? Because we were playing on the wire.

My friend told me that if we had been paying off every game then I would have snapped him clean off as it hurts paying off that c-note every game. I have always remembered that and from then on it was pay by the game.

The very next time I played for $100 a game I won $800 and had two eight and outs.

But actually Fatboy a person can learn a LOT from the books and tapes but it all comes down to what they can remember to do when the situation calls for it.

For example in Grady's videos he talks about leaving the cueball uptable on the middle diamond and how strong a move that is. I watched his tape several times and it never sunk in. Then I had a guy from LA give me several hours worth of lessons and that was one thing he drilled into my head and sure enough that move got me paid plenty of times when I forced folks to take flyers shooting from the top middle diamond.

The game is so deep and there are so many moves. It's a lot to absorb and an aspiring player needs all the help he or she can get.

For a product of tapes though look no further than Evengy Stalev. When he first came here he snapped off some good one pocket scores from people who thought a guy from Russia wouldn't know how to play one hole. The story goes that he spent all year prior studying the game through AccuStats tapes and when he got here he knew his way around the game fairly well.
 
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