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lex1234556

lex1234556

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hi, I just started playing after a 2 year pause. I consider my self a good player , ill make really good shots and will miss an easy one to loose the game ,I have to work on my concentration. I normally play 9 ball.
I was thinking on buying a book, do they really help?
if yes any recommendations?
 
99 Critical shots in pool by Ray Martin great book
Also Jimmy Reid has a great set of videos out. If you do a search on here somone recently was telling where to buy them.
 
If your making hard shots until you get to the cheese, it's probably the choke thing. Most books won't help that. If your playing for cash, lower your bets until you find an amount that you don't think about while shooting the cheese, then work up little by little. When your shooting the money ball it should just feel like another ball. The rush you get when you make the money ball when your playing for more than you can handle is great, but miss a few and your in neg. with your cash. Johnnyt
 
lex1234556 said:
hi, I just started playing after a 2 year pause. I consider my self a good player , ill make really good shots and will miss an easy one to loose the game ,I have to work on my concentration. I normally play 9 ball.
I was thinking on buying a book, do they really help?
if yes any recommendations?
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Some people can learn from books and some can't. Try looking through what's available at Barnes&Noble or Borders -- they often have a good selection, and you can see before you buy. For the mental part, the one that will be easiest to get is Timothy Gallwey's book, "Inner Game of Tennis." It's not about pool, but a lot of pool players found it helpful.

Also, it may be that you have some important fundamentals that are missing, and unless you can really look at yourself, you might be practicing the wrong things. I think that as you work on making the basic shots, you will miss fewer of them.
 
lex1234556 said:
hi, I just started playing after a 2 year pause. I consider my self a good player , ill make really good shots and will miss an easy one to loose the game ,I have to work on my concentration. I normally play 9 ball.
I was thinking on buying a book, do they really help?
if yes any recommendations?
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Hi there. I wrote a pool book so of course I'll say books can help. My first book was Byrne's Standard Book on Pool and Billiards. Loved it. I'mproved my game by leaps and bounds. Of course it's all about how you use a book...do you actually take the time to master every shot? If you do, it will help big time. My book covers fundamentals for serious players and other important stuff. It's called Zen Pool. If it helps either spread the word or hide it from your pool enemies, haha :) To see some quotes from very satisfied readers go to www.myspace.com/zenpoolbook

Pleasures of Small Motions, The Straight Pool Bible, and Mastering Pool are some of my favorites...
 
Max Eberle said:
Hi there. I wrote a pool book so of course I'll say books can help. My first book was Byrne's Standard Book on Pool and Billiards. Loved it. I'mproved my game by leaps and bounds. Of course it's all about how you use a book...do you actually take the time to master every shot? If you do, it will help big time. My book covers fundamentals for serious players and other important stuff. It's called Zen Pool. If it helps either spread the word or hide it from your pool enemies, haha :) To see some quotes from very satisfied readers go to www.myspace.com/zenpoolbook

Pleasures of Small Motions, The Straight Pool Bible, and Mastering Pool are some of my favorites...
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Would you provide a link to your book?

I benefited from Byrne's stuff as well as Fancher's Pleasure of Small Motions and Ray Martin's The 99 Critical Shots In Pool. One of the first books I got and really go a lot from was Jack Koehler's The Science of Pocket Billiards.
 
Max Eberle said:
Pleasures of Small Motions, The Straight Pool Bible, and Mastering Pool are some of my favorites...
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I agree with all of these, especially anything that will teach Straight Pool. It's the best foundation for pool, IMHO.
Max, great to see you here! Hope you'll stay.
 
Dont forget to check out:
Banking with the Beard
Winning One pocket
Shots Moves and Strategies
The Pro Book

All of those books helped my game, and despite them being specialized books (like one pocket focused), learning all games improves any specific game. One pocket especially will give you better banking skills and safeties.

If you just want to kick back and read some fun pool books, I recommend
The Road Player (Danny Diliberto biography...great stuff)
Mcgoorty (sp?) its by Robert Byrne and its a fun read
Playing off the Rail

If you like looking at old pool stats and seeing tournament results from the 80s, Bob Jewett put up a link recently that had a large number of the old accustat newsletters that were chock full of great stats like who was the best kicker, what percentage of times the best players from the 80s ran out from the break, etc. Those things are gold, thanks again Bob for putting them up and of course thanks to Pat Fleming for producing them.
 
lex1234556 said:
hi, I just started playing after a 2 year pause. I consider my self a good player , ill make really good shots and will miss an easy one to loose the game ,I have to work on my concentration. I normally play 9 ball.
I was thinking on buying a book, do they really help?
if yes any recommendations?
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My book "Lessons in 9 Ball" is available in e-book download for $12.50 - also available in spiral bound and hard cover at this link:

Lessons In 9 Ball

I would also recommend "Guaranteed Improvement" by Joe Tucker - available at www.joetucker.net

Joe has some very good instructional products, books, and dvd's -

The Beard's material is priceless - anything with Freddy's name on it is a great investment for your game.

I also recommend playing 14.1 and building your entire game around it.If you have any weaknesses, the game of 14.1 continuous will exploit it. It is by far the game's best teacher. There are some great videos of Ray Martin and Danny Diliberto giving classes on 14.1 - it is an excellent opportunity to learn directly from the legends.

When you get hooked on 14.1 - get your hands on John Schmidt's 245 ball run - great stuff in there - and Danny Harriman's 280 is a great learning tool.

Also look into

Phil Cappelle - all of his stuff is awesome!
George Fels - Mastering Pool - awesome -
99 Critical Shots - Without a doubt, this is the best book ever written about the game of pool.
 
Zen Pool: http://www.maxeberle.com/

Welcome Max! VA misses you...

JimS said:
Would you provide a link to your book?

I benefited from Byrne's stuff as well as Fancher's Pleasure of Small Motions and Ray Martin's The 99 Critical Shots In Pool. One of the first books I got and really go a lot from was Jack Koehler's The Science of Pocket Billiards.
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Max Eberle said:
Hi there. I wrote a pool book so of course I'll say books can help. My first book was Byrne's Standard Book on Pool and Billiards. Loved it. I'mproved my game by leaps and bounds. Of course it's all about how you use a book...do you actually take the time to master every shot? If you do, it will help big time. My book covers fundamentals for serious players and other important stuff. It's called Zen Pool. If it helps either spread the word or hide it from your pool enemies, haha :) To see some quotes from very satisfied readers go to www.myspace.com/zenpoolbook

Pleasures of Small Motions, The Straight Pool Bible, and Mastering Pool are some of my favorites...
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Welcome to the forums Mr. Eberle!
 
Pleasures of Small Motions helped me move up from a APA lv 4 to a lv 6 in a strong division full of 15-25 years-experience guys. I was a mess before.
 
I wrote a novel titled Right on Cue. There's not a lot of instruction, just a few tips. What the story does contain are a lot of my own personal feelings about the game and some of the things I've experienced.

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http;//tommcgonaglerightoncue.com

I also teach the game.
 
Everyone has told you good stuff. For defensive play such as kicks, Grady's "only kicks" is a great video.
 
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