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Summary: The best book on pool written in king's english
Review: A pure classic. The first book to buy. Just bought another copy for a friend.
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Summary: Outstanding mixture of good advice and enjoyable lore.
Review: Byrne presents a great tutorial for serious pool players,
covering American pool and billiards. He discusses
basics (stance, bridge, grip), techniques (everything from
straight shots to masse), exercises, and rules; while
interspersing his lessons with anecdotes, histories, and
a good sense of humor. Not only a practical and extremely
helpful tutorial, the _Standard Book_ is also a great read.
It is far and away the best pool book I've read. Buy it
if you play pool with any heart.
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Summary: Went from running 1 rack of 10 to 5 of 10!
Review: I had been playing pool for approximately 10 years before i read this book, 3 of the 10 years were in "a" leagues and competitive nine and eight ball tournaments. before i read this book, i was able to run one rack out of every ten, after reading this book my game improved 500 percent. i was able to consistently run 5 racks out of every 10. the book has very explicit instructions and absolutely superb illustrations and examples of several methods of setting up shots. i expecially liked the procedure for running a table, it has some very good advice and if anyone follows it and can shoot just a little bit they will be able to run racks. i can't say enough about the benefits this book has had for my game. in my opinion robert byrnes, is the best teacher of the game of pool bar none! i read this book in about eight hours. it's a page turner if you want to improve your game or even are thinking about learning how to play the game, this is the book for ! you.
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Summary: The BEST book in Pool & Billiards!
Review: I have been playing pool for 40 years and played quite a bit of three cushion for a few years in the 1980's. This book is the best teacher of both games that I have found. I have bought it for many friends of mine who were trying to learn the game. Although I had known about concepts such as "throw shots", "transferring english" and "squirt", I still learned a tremendous amount. Buy it, you'll like it!!
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Summary: If you buy one book on billiards, buy this one!
Review: I have been playing pool for 40 years and played quite a bit of three cushion for a few years in the 1980's. This book is the best teacher of both games that I have found. I have bought it for many friends of mine who were trying to learn the game. Although I had known about concepts such as "throw shots", "transferring english" and "squirt", I still learned a tremendous amount. Buy it, you'll like it!!
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Summary: The BEST book in Pool & Billiards!
Review: I have read just about every book on this subject, there is no better book than this one! In fact, I recommend all of Robert Byrne's Pool & Billiards books and videos. He is an accomplished player, teacher and author.This book will meet and exceeds everyones expectations on the subject!
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Summary: The BEST book in Pool & Billiards!
Review: I have read just about every book on this subject, there is no better book than this one! In fact, I recommend all of Robert Byrne's Pool & Billiards books and videos. He is an accomplished player, teacher and author. This book will meet and exceeds everyones expectations on the subject!
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Summary: The BEST book in Pool & Billiards!
Review: I just learned about this NEW publication, which is a revision of the one I read "Byrne's Standard Book of Pool and Billiards", Copyright © 1987, 1978 by the same author Robert Byrne. I have read just about every book on this subject, and there is no better book than this one! In fact, I recommend all of Robert Byrne's Pool & Billiards books and videos. He is an accomplished player, teacher and author. I have no doubts that this book will meet and exceeds everyone's expectations on the subject!
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Summary: The BEST book in Pool & Billiards!
Review: I just learned about this NEW publication, which is a revision of the one I read "Byrne's Standard Book of Pool and Billiards", Copyright © 1987, 1978 by the same author Robert Byrne. I have read just about every book on this subject, and there is no better book than this one! In fact, I recommend all of Robert Byrne's Pool & Billiards books and videos. He is an accomplished player, teacher and author. I have no doubts that this book will meet and exceeds everyone's expectations on the subject!
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Summary: If you only buy one Billiards book in your life, this is it.
Review: I've played pool most of my adult(and teenage) life. I've spent time on several tours and am always looking to learn something new. Byrne covers an amazing array of pool and billiard situations and does an outstanding job of diagraming and explaining the physics involved(Robert would insist that I give credit to Bob Jewett for this). If you think there's nothing in this book that's new to you you're most likely mistaken. Byrne's other books are outstanding as well. By the way, Bob...you've got the eight and one going to 7, bet high.:-)
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