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About Play Your Best Straight Pool
Product Description Play Your Best Straight Pool is the most comprehensive course on the game ever published. This 416 page book provides the reader with 355 illustrations that makes it easy to learn the game's shots and strategies. Playing pinpoint position is the heart of straight pool. The book contains 72 diagrams devoted to controlling the cue ball. A big chapter on pattern play will show you how to read the table and plan your runs. To achieve high runs you must be able to play break shots effectively. Over 50 illustrations cover virtually every break shot that you'll ever encounter. A special chapter illustrates all of the concepts of position play and patterns as it takes you shot by shot through a 28-ball run. Chapters on strategy and safety play will help you to take control of the table. Several strategies and practice routines which isolate specific skills will help you to develop a complete game. Finally, you will be provided with a game plan that will help you break your all-time high run record. Review "...the best and most complete instructional ever written on the game of straight pool." -- Tony Robles, High Run of 148 at the 2000 U.S. Open"A wonderful adventure in straight pool knowledge is this worthy effort by Phil Capelle. You must have it." -- Grady The Professor Matthews"It's a Straight Pool lover's treasure chest." -- Tom Shaw, Pool & Billiard Magazine, November, 2000 The quality and quantity of diagrams is exceptional. -- Mark Whiteside, The Amateur Billiard News, January, 2001 anyone playing any billiard game would benefit enormously from the information Capelle shares. -- Chalk and Cue, December, 2000 From the Back Cover Learn the Secrets of Straight PoolThe most comprehensive book on Straight Pool ever publishedDesigned for players of all levels of experience and skill355 diagrams make learning fun and easy - 416 Big PagesNew Players Guide identifies sections for new comers to learn firstChapter Contents 1 Position Play (72 diagrams)Teaches you about precision cue ball control.2 Pattern Play (106 diagrams)How to read the table and plan your runs 3 Secondary Break Shots (16 diagrams)Take the danger from breaking clusters4 Cluster Management (9 diagrams)How to separate small groups of ball5 Break Shots (54 diagrams)All about the game's most important shot6 How to Run a Rack (16 diagrams)The three phases of a rackTwo complete racks of 14.1 analyzed, shot-by-shot7 Safety Play (27 diagrams)Win the battle for control of the table8 Strategy (10 diagrams)Play smart and outthink your opponent9 Shotmaking (26 diagrams)How to adapt your game to Straight Pool10 Learning to Play Straight Pool (16 diagrams)How to make the most of your practice time11 All About High Runs (8 pages) How to set your personal record high run About the Author Phil Capelle is the world's best and most prolific billiard instructional writer. His three books on pool total 1200 pages, with several more in various stages of development. He has been voted the top billiard instructional writer by the readers of Pool & Billiard Magazine the last two years. His column has appeared in every issue of the magazine since May, 1996. In June of 1996, his Play Your Best Pool was voted one of the three best instructional books ever by Billiards Digest only 6 months after it was published! His books have been widely praised by world class players, major pool publications, numerous industry experts and, most importantly, readers like yourself whose games have benefited from his teachings. Mr. Capelle has been continuously involved in the sport as a player, teacher and student since 1969. He is one of the original members of the BCA Certified Instructors, having joined the program in 1993. In 1995, Mr. Capelle founded Billiards Press with the singular goal of providing serious students of the game with the finest instruction possible.
