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The Internet is an ideal guide to many an aspiring billiards or pool player. Just log on to find out how.
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FOR THOSE not hooked on to it, words like pool, billiards and snooker could well be just terms sans enthusiasm. But, if pool is cool and billiards is fun in your lingo, then the World Wide Web can be of great help to you. You can learn the games, master the tricks, improve your shots and download the latest shareware, and any information related to these games at these websites.
Inside pool
http://www.insidepool.com: The magazine focuses on amateur players. The "Facial Guide Points" is one of the stories here for improving your game — there are a lot of columns by experienced players. You can download some of the issues, get the tournament results and also get the live coverage of the tournaments online.
Improve your game
http://www.pool-hq.com/: Like any game, every pool player would be looking at ways to improve his game. This is a good starting point for finding out how, or where, you can do this. You'll find fantastic instructional books full of drills to improve your game.
Pool and billiards
http://members.aol.com/slmorey/: Here, you can check out some tricks on how to make critical shots in pool, the spot shot, the bank shot, thin shots, and bank the cue ball around the table. If you just recently started playing pool, go through these pages.
The snooker webring
http://www.algonet.se/bing/snooker.htm: This website is an imaginative idea by Michael Bingmert to establish a `ring' of valid snooker sites. You can branch out into the deepest regions of the World Wide Web right from here.
Virtual pool
http://www.celeris.com/games/pool/index.html: Over two million people worldwide have played virtual pool. Check out the links at this site for details on how virtual pool has made pool truly playable on computers. Also find tips to win this game and links to other virtual pool players' sites.
Pool shots
http://www.poolshots.com: Pictured illustrations, detailed explanations and downloadable videos that demonstrate each featured shot are available here. You can also order books and videos related to the game.
Billiards digest
http://www.billiardsdigest.com: An interactive Net magazine version of the monthly paper edition, this site is one of the sources for information about billiards. The site has real-time coverage of the events, as well as archived stories from the magazine, a sample story from each current issue, an updated calendar of billiard events worldwide, and plenty more.
Billiard world
http://www.billiardworld.com: It's an entertaining billiards site full of stories and information and is updated quite regularly. Be sure to subscribe.
Play pool online
http://games.real.com/genre.php?genre=5&src=0103 03realhome_1&mode=spnav: Although it's not nearly as pervasive as the real thing, virtual pool has been around in one form or another. Download Trickshot and play, this game is pretty good, you can play with an array of "boss" characters. The game has some good graphics. You can clearly see the table, easily understand the functions, and the sounds do sound realistic.
The billiards search engine
http://www.sound.net/: This is a comprehensive search site for all billiards related stuff. It's really exhaustive! You can search over 1,500 pages listed by keyword or by category.
AYYAPPA NAGUBANDI
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