Pool/Billiards Ideas and Resources

Cue Sport Magazine
The global snooker pool magazine offers features about the billiard industry, including tournaments. The cue clinic offers tutorials and pool classes. The Ask the Referee section offers pointers, tips and advice to help pool and snooker players improve their game.

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.

Cue Sport College Pool and Billiard School
Cue Sport College is a pool and billiard school offering courses that help people improve their pool game since 1963. Courses are available for beginners, intermediate, advanced and professional players. The courses teach fundamentals of aiming, stroke, stance and delivery.

Pool and Billiards Articles
This web page features links to several articles on pool and billiards. Topics covered include instruction, from bank and cut shots to safety plays, the physics of billiards, the stretch, the throw, breaking, the kiss out, etc. There are also sections on tournaments, bar rules, hustling, gambling, the official rules of pool, and a large section on 3-cushion billiards. Also included is a list of links to various pool and billiards associations like the North American Pocket Billiards Association and links to online lessons and sites for instruction.

American Poolplayers Association
Request your copy of the American Poolplayers Association magazine. The American Poolplayers Association (APA) was founded by professional poolplayers Terry Bell and Larry Hubbart in 1979 as the National Pool League, which became the American Poolplayers Association in 1981. The two realized the popularity of the sport, but knew that, different from other sports, there was no existing recreational league system. You must be a member of the American Poolplayers Association to do so. This website provides a request form to obtain your copy of the pool and billiard magazine.