Build Pool Table

Eagle Lake Woodworking, hosted by John Nixon, offers great do-it-yourself guides for building your own furniture, especially in the American Arts and Crafts style, and turning your garage into an amateur woodshop. Search Eagle Lake on WonderHowTo for more carpentry tutorial vi ...more

Learn a few methods of evaluating the playability of a pool table. Many different factors affect the way a pool table plays.

A discussion of what to consider when buying a pool table. When on a budget, you can still get optimum playing conditions for about $2000.

Bert creates an 8-ball on a pool table from scratch with Adobe Photoshop. The pool table is made using the noise filter, pixelate>facet feature and the gradient tool. Learn to create your own virtual pool table in this Photoshop tutorial.

Trying to make your Minecraft world the fun, hangout Minecraft world? Watch this video to learn how to build a pool table in Minecraft. You may not be able to shark your friends on this pool table, but it makes a great addition to your Minecraft world.

These are drills on the pool table that can only make your billiards game better.

Richard Buccola has been playing pool most of his life, and enjoys teaching it to others Trick shots in the game of pool are often associated with hustling, or sharking. During the mid-20th century pool halls were often given an unfair reputation as dangerous, seedy dens of si ...more

Watch to learn some exercises to help you perfect your pool stroke technique. Some of them don't even require a pool table or billiard balls.

Pool is an amazingly challenging game that one can spend a lifetime mastering. If you're bored with it, however, and want to try a new game on your pool table that uses the same skills, this video will show you one. It explains the rules to a game called Carom Pool, which is a ...more

In this home-science tutorial from WonderHowTo favorite Nurdrage, you'll learn how to create hydrochloric acid using 140 grams of sodium bisulfate, a pH lowering compound available in most pool stores, and 60 grams of sodium chloride salt and an external heat source. Watch for ...more

Making fancy pool shots that send balls careening around the table may be impressive, but more often than not it's making short, easy shots consistently that will win you the game. This video will teach you an easy drill that you can use to improve your short-range cue control ...more

Snooker is played on a 12-foot table. It is similar to pool in that it has numerical balls; it also has red balls to pocket. The idea is to alternatingly pocket red balls and colored balls. Part 1 of 2 - How to Play Snooker. Part 2 of 2 - How to Play Snooker.

Learn how to sink a pool ball into a pocket. What do pool sharks know that you don’t about sinking a ball? Lots. You Will Need * A pool table * Pool balls * A rack * A pool cue * A pool table * Pool balls * A rack * A pool cue Step 1. Watch the pros Spend some time watchi ...more

Getting a good break in life is always nice. But when you're playing pool, it's essential. You Will Need * A pool table * Pool balls * A rack * A pool cue * A special pool cue for breaking Step 1. Position cue ball Position the cue ball as close as you can to the head stri ...more

80-ball is one of the many great games that you can play of your pocket-pool table, and involves all the layers of strategy of it's more mainstream pool game brethren. This video for 8-ball beginners will give you tips for evaluating and recognizing problems in different kinds ...more

Ever wonder why you were a quarter inch off your shot or why you just were not aiming right? In this video tutorial are some reasons why and how to correct them. See how to fix the parallax error in your pool shot. If you're looking in the wrong place on the pool table, it cou ...more

Use this tutorial for a simple and shot accuracy improving technique in pool! The steps for this tutorial are simple, yet effective in improving shot accuracy in pool. Align pool balls in a triangular formation at the far side of the table. Note that this is not the standard t ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to set up the L drill in pool. To do this, you will place all of your balls in an "l" shape on the pool table starting from the middle of one side of the table. Place the balls about two inches apart, then star to make the horizontal line for the ...more

Here is one method of banking a pool shot, which is usually called the mirror bank or ghost table trick shot. The first thing you need to do when you walk into the pool hall, or billiards room, is to measure the table. Then, just watch this video tutorial to see how to do the ...more

In this video, we learn how to push in pool. The push shot was designed to reduce the impact of the element of chance while playing pool. It's about creating a higher percentage shot or safety. The object is to turn a certain loss into a coin toss. Observe your opponent and be ...more

Are you a pool shark? Then you have to watch this amazing video. You will learn how to do an advanced and difficult shot. Start by making sure you hit the ball exactly in the center. Aiming your shot is probably the most difficult part of this shot and you will learn tips and ...more

You'll never be able to hustle people at pool if you don't actually know how to play. Watch this video for a beginner's tutorial on playing pool. You Will Need: * A pool table * Quarters * Billiard stick * And 2 or 4 players Tips: If there is a line for tables, mark that you ...more

In this video guide, we learn how to play On the Spot, a variation of pool and billiards where the objective is to hit a ball directly onto a designated spot on your pool or billiard table. For all of the details, and to get started playing On the Spot yourself, take a look.

A drill that helps you develop the ability to force your opponent to make a low percentage shot when just the money ball is left on the table.

Learn how to perform several different methods of breaking clusters in pool. A cluster is a group of balls that forms an obstacle on the table. Part 1 of 2 - How to Break clusters in pool. Part 2 of 2 - How to Break clusters in pool.

This pool shooting tutorial demonstrates how to control the cue ball using reverse English, opposite to the one that seems obvious. This will help line the ball up where you want it, preventing it from going too far down the table and allowing you to win the match.

Most US bargoers think of Pool as the only billiard game of any note. There are zounds of these games though, and many of them are just as fun. This video will teach you the basics of playing one such game called 3 Cushion. It looks really fun, and if you've got your own billi ...more

Forcefollow will explain how to make practicing a break more efficient. To practice the break, place one ball on the rear center of the table and strike it as hard as you can to make the cue ball stop dead. Make sure to place a soft pillow at the end of the table so that the ...more

In this video, we learn how to play pool with the inside outside English drill. During this, you will pocket the balls into rotational order. The balls should be set on diagonal sides of the rail from each other. Set the cue ball in front of the first ball, then shoot using an ...more

In this video, we learn how to play pool doing the spot drill. You will run balls in rotational order without missing or touching another object balls. First, you will place the cute ball diagonally to the ball and then shoot the ball into the corner pocket diagonal to it. The ...more

In this video, we learn how to play pool with a lesson in 8-ball position play. If you are playing a game of 8-all and you are the stripes, it's good if you end up in a position in the middle of the balls. You want to increase the margin of error by playing for an area of the ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to increase accuracy while playing pool. First, place the Q-ball on the head spot of the table, then you freeze an object on the opposite and shoot the Q-ball into the object ball and make the ball come back in the same path. You will want to bal ...more

In this how to video, you will learn how to do a T drill in Pool. This is called a T drill because the balls are arranged in a T shape on the table. The point is to take the cue ball and try to run the balls in numerical order without allowing the balls to touch another. You a ...more

Controlling the cue ball in a game of billiards is very important for standard and safety shots. Get expert tips and advice on pool tables, cues, and skills in this free video. Part 1 of 11 - How to Control the cue ball in pool. Control the cue ball in pool - Part 2 of 11. Cli ...more

Making shots is the name of the game in billiards. Get expert tips and advice on pool cues and billiards tables in this free video. Part 1 of 10 - How to Make basic shots in billiards. Make basic shots in billiards - Part 2 of 10. Click through to watch this video on expertvil ...more

Positioning in all important in billiards. Get expert tips and advice on pool cues and billiards tables in this free video. Part 1 of 10 - How to Set up basic positioning shots in billiards. Set up basic positioning shots in billiards - Part 2 of 10. Click through to watch thi ...more

Some shot in billiards can be more difficult. Get expert tips and advice on pool cues and billiards tables in this free video. Part 1 of 10 - How to Set up more advanced shots in billiards. Set up more advanced shots in billiards - Part 2 of 10. Click through to watch this vid ...more

Positioning in all important in billiards. Get expert tips and advice on pool cues and billiards tables in this free video. Part 1 of 10 - How to Position the cue ball in billiards. Position the cue ball in billiards - Part 2 of 10. Click through to watch this video on expertv ...more

You can use english to make the cue ball end up where you want it. Get expert tips and advice on pool cues and billiards tables in this free video. Part 1 of 10 - How to Put English on the ball in billiards. Put English on the ball in billiards - Part 2 of 10. Click through to ...more

Strait pool, or 14.1 continuous, is an older form of pocket billiards. Get expert tips and advice on pool cues and billiards tables in this free video. Part 1 of 20 - How to Play straight pool. Play straight pool - Part 2 of 20. Click through to watch this video on expertvilla ...more

This video is about a particular pool or snooker game shot technique called "Shooting or Going around the Angles." The presenter, with a alias name of 'Forcefollow', first describes a particular 9-ball pool game situation that would require this technique, using a computer gen ...more

Here is the set up and description of a 9 ball break that you can use to control the rack. Make the 1 ball in the side pocket while keeping the cue ball near the center of the table. After watching this billiards video tutorial, you'll be able to do the 9 ball control break in ...more