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"When it comes to billiards, we control the table."
Billiard games are some of the most popular pastimes in America, and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool and Billiards" is the most comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to the subject on the market today. This updated edition includes: New sections on eight-ball and nine-ball?two of the most popular games An all-new section of show-stopping trick shots anyone can do Dozens of new photos and a completely...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Bestselling Author. Hall-of-Famer, and master teacher Robert Byrne presents his most impressive effort yet: an exhaustive compendium of more than 350 pool shots that will take its place among the game's classic instructional books. Byrne's Complete Book of Pool Shots takes players on an accelerated trip from pool kindergarten to graduate school. Most of these expertly diagrammed shots are not widely known and many are described here for the first...
6) Sticks
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
With the help of his grandmother, his dead father's best friend, and his own best friend, a math genius, ten-year-old Mickey prepares to compete in the most important pool championship of his life, despite his mother's reservations.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Master one of the worldś most popular games with the help of a mechanical engineering professor who has a passion for pool. More than 80 principles of the game, presented with 250-plus precisely scaled illustrations and photographs, offer players of all levels a thorough overview of the fundamentals of 8-ball and 9-ball, including grip and stance, basic shots, position play and strategy, bank and kick shots.
10) The Everything pool & billiards book: from breaking to bank shots --all you need to master the game
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Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
16) The hustler
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.
17) The hustler
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
In the dangerous high-stakes world of illegal keno-pool gambling, veteran ace Nick is enamored of smart, tough, and charming newcomer Diana and is determined to stake her. Diana must prove herself in a man's world to win a match against DuBinion, the world's best shooter. Soon Diana and Nick find themselves in more danger than they ever imagined.
19) Kiss shot
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Out of cash, out of a job, and soon-to-be out on the street, single mother Sarah Collins returns to the pool rooms of her youth to hustle the money to pay her home mortgage bill, only to encounter a globe-trotting, pool-playing ladies' man.
Series
Criterion collection volume 79
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
This compilation of films pays tribute to America's cantankerous comedy genius, W.C. Fields. Legendary one-liners and slapstick routines are preserved in these early shorts that chronicle the development of Fields' irascible screen persona.
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