Game of Pool/Billiards: Sample Resources

Table Skills
Improve your pool game with this website, chock full of pocket billiard news, discussions, pool lessons and more. Watch billiard video clips, play online, learn offensive and defensive pool game strategies, practice with ball control drills and English side drills as well as important shots. Articles contain information about dealing with missed shots, billiard tips, pocket billiards, learning tools, pool laws and more.

TAP Pool Tabulation Method
TAP tabulates your billiard completions, misses, balls made on the break, safeties and the number of balls you or your opponent had left on the table after your game. These are just some of the eighty computations we do on a weekly basis. All of your matches are tabulated at one computer at TAP's corporate office and not by individual league operators across the country. We believe this makes for a much more accurate and fair competition. This is the website of the National Pool Players Association, which features a pool photo gallery, pool and billiard rules, a TAP score sheet, division stats, pool division schedules and a pool message board.

Billiard Information
Whether you're an old pro or if you've never touched a pool cue or chalked up your hands before, this site has information about pool, billiards, and snooker that will definitely be of interest to you. For the beginning pool player there are articles on rules and technical information about the game that are priceless. There are articles on pool cue care, illustrated principals of the game, free lessons, ways to meet other players, links to additional articles on the game, information on tournaments, places to play pool, links to professional pool players' websites and their standings, links to billiard magazines, additional billiard sites, billiard web rings and much more. If you're into billiards or interested in learning more about the game, this site has everything you need.

Cue Times Billiard News
This is a pool industry newsletter to promote recreational and competitive pool playing. Tournament results, including the Hunter Classics Amateur Women's pro-qualifier tournament and the BCA Nationals. Links to upcoming pool events, information about how to run a pool tournament of your own, instructions and pool tutorials, as well as a varied section of billiard links is included.

Free Pool Lessons
This site offers free lessons, advice, tips, and tricks for how to learn the game of pool, or become a better player. Grips, stances, aiming, bridges, addressing the ball, banking, putting English on the ball, combos, masse, kiss, and the jump shot are just some of the topics covered. There are also links to instructional DVD's, billiard supplies, sports news, club peek, problem shots and cues 4 you. The instructor who runs the site is a pool champion with many titles under his belt. There's also a message and discussion board called Shoutbox, where people can exchange ideas an advice about the game of pool.