Play Your Best Pool "Tops all previous 'how-to' books" on pool according to the National Billiard News. Here's why: It offers you a complete course on pool with hundreds of secrets, strategies, and perfectly drawn illustrations that will help you to improve all aspects of your game - whether you are a beginner, top amateur, or even a pro. Forty photos demonstrate the correct stance, bridge, grip and stroke. Next is a complete course on aiming followed by a big chapter on shotmaking that shows you how to pocket cut shots, banks, combinations, billiards, and carom shots. The lessons on using english will prepare you for a comprehensive course on play that will teach you how to control the cue ball like an expert play. Subjects covered: the position routes you must know, fine points of position play, and Capelle's 22 Principles of Position Play (which alone are worth far more than the price of the book).Your success at 8-ball and 9-ball depends on your knowledge of each game. In two big chapters (packed with over 170 illustrations) you'll learn all about offensive and defensive strategies. In addition, your game will benefit from solid advice on kick shots, safeties, pattern play, break shots, and much more. It takes practice to develop a strong game - so Play Your Best Pool provides you with a skills building program that includes over 20 exercises and a game plan for making your practice sessions as fun and productive as possible. Complete discussions on the mental game, competition, and how to improve will teach you how to think like a winner, and how to win tournaments, money games, and in league play.Phil Capelle is the most prolific writer in the history of pool with nine big billiards books covering more than 3,300 pages! And, for the last 17 years he has been the lead instructional columnist for Pool and Billiard magazine. "This one is one of those rare books from which you can actually learn something. Highly recommended". - George Fels, Billiards Digest "His chapter on position play runs 89 pages, and contains some of the best writing on the subject ever presented. Beyond the position basics of draw, follow, and English, he takes you into the seldom-discussed areas of position zones, the right-side-of-the-ball concept, rail targets, two- and three-rail position, and much more. While his diagrammed examples teach position for no more than two shots ahead, sometimes three, his principles are eminently correct; this one is one of those rare books from which you can actually learn something. Highly recommended". -- George Fels - Billiards Digest Feb 1996 If I could only recommend one book out of all of the pool books in publication for new to intermediate players to purchase, this is it! In my opinion, it is the best comprehensive book on billiard instruction. -- Darwin's Billiard Emporium Play Your Best Pool Tops All Previous 'How To' Books -- The National Billiard News 1996 "His chapter on position play runs 89 pages, and contains some of the best writing on the subject ever presented. Beyond the position basics of draw, follow, and English, he takes you into the seldom-discussed areas of position zones, the right-side-of-the-ball concept, rail targets, two- and three-rail position, and much more. While his diagrammed examples teach position for no more than two shots ahead, sometimes three, his principles are eminently correct; this one is one of those rare books from which you can actually learn something. Highly recommended". -- George Fels - Billiards Digest Feb 1996 "If you can only buy one pool instruction book, get this one! This book is for beginner, intermediate and advanced players". -- The American Cueist 1999 "I recently had the good fortune to read Phil Capelle's book "Play Your Best Pool." Until I read it, I hadn't been a proponent of self-help pocket billiards books, but a strange thing happened as I got into this book - I started playing better. A strong part of my gains was in basics. Sometimes it is a good thing to get right down to the nitty gritty of stance, grip, stroke, etc., to be able to execute the more complex shots with consistency. The book is well organized into chapters that detail strategies for shotmaking, position play, 8-ball and 9-ball. In addition, attention is taken with competitive play, mental pool, English, and practice strategies. Easy-to-understand diagrams are all through this book, and there are strong, intelligent illustrations of dealing with a winning game plan". --Ken Cormier - Billiard Beat Feb. 1999 "PLAY YOUR BEST POOL, by Phil Capelle is the most thorough book on playing pool ever published. This huge tome is pretty amazing. It is well written - in fact, the style is exceptionally clean and neat, a reflection of its overall approach to pool. Though not really a book for raw beginners, Play Your Best Pool starts out with twenty-four pages on grip, bridges, etc. It then systematically covers every single aspect of the game right through to