Today I’m going to show you how to properly break a game of 8 Ball. There’s definitely a technique to doing it correctly, so here’s my general routine when I play want to break a game of 8 Ball:
It’s your break, which means you can put your cue ball anywhere on the table, so be sure

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How to Break in 8 Ball Pool

Today we’ll learn how a good technique for doing a 9 Ball Break in pool. Generally speaking, you can break anywhere for the game of 9 ball, but ideally you want to try to start from the center and begin working your way to the outsides.
When breaking 9 ball games, we want to work

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How To Do 9 Ball Breaks in Pool

Today I’m going to show you my rules for 10 ball breaks in pool and billiards. The process of breaking the balls in 10 ball is essentially the same process as when you break 8 ball.
The general idea of a good 10 ball break is that you want to hit the 1 ball head-on, and

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Rules for 10 Ball Breaks in Pool

Pool Table Felt Colors
When you buy a new pool table from Billiards Direct, you also get to choose your pool table felt color.
 
The two most-popular pool table felt colors are Tournament Blue and Tournament Green; those pool table cloth colors are the colors most commonly seen on televised pool games.
 
Pool tables felt colors including

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How to Choose Pool Table Felt

I’m going to show you an easier way to get shape using your tangent lines; not going across them but rather going with them.
In the video above, you can see we’ve got a five ball on one end of the table and after I make that shot I want to get good shape. If I

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How to Get Shape in Pool – Tangent Lines

In an earlier video post, I discussed a technique for shooting the ball down the rail. A few YouTube subscribers like @MrSubhash1418 had some questions about the exact method for doing this technique, so I’m following that video up with this one.

A lot of the confusion likely comes from the amount of deflection your cue

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How to Shoot Balls Down The Rail – Follow Up About Deflection