Zany, dauntless, and flashy, Minnesota Fats is considered one of the greatest pool legends of all time.
Born Rudolf Wanderone on January 19, 1913, it didn’t take this ace pool player a lifetime to earn his reputation. By the age of thirteen he defeated the former nine-ball champion, “Cowboy” Weston. Soon after, he also managed to defeat another exceptional opponent “Smart Henry”, giving Wanderone his first nickname, Double-Smart.
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1.) Celebrities & Stars Shooting Pool
A bunch of pics of celebrities playing pool.
2) Talent Is Overrated
Talent Is Overrated is a great book. Highly recommended for those who want to take their game to the next level (or their life for that matter) Don’t have time to read? The promotional video for the book explains a lot or you can listen to the book on Audible.com
3) Huge Eightball
Tim Chin is selling a Huge Eightball on his website
4) www.thisisamesmister.com
Best name for a pool website! Looking for a new pool cue? This site has links to some
5) Cue Track
If you got a bad stroke, you got a bad shot! Here’s a neat tool to help align your stroke.
6) The greatest pool shot ever
The greatest pool shot ever by Efren Reyes.
Johnny Archer has some 9-ball break shot tips for FastMikie. Then FastMikie gets the 9 ball on the break!
FastMikie has a great blog called “D I A R Y of a P O O L S H O O T E R”. He also has a great youtube channel with a ton of great drills like thePat 1-1 Speed drill.
The American Poolplayers Association (APA) has a series of instructional pool videos by Tom ‘Dr. Cue’ Rossman, the Doctor of Billiardology and World Masters Trick Shot Champion. Here is a list of 40 of Dr. Cue’s lessons to make it easy to find the lesson you want to watch!
there are more videos located on the APA’s YouTube channel
Dr. Cue Pool Lesson 1: Chalking Up!!
Dr. Cue Pool Lesson 2: The Stance
Dr. Cue Pool Lesson 3: The “Open, Tower, or V Bridge”
Dr. Cue Pool Lesson 4: The Closed Bridge
Dr. Cue Pool Lesson 5: The Grip
Dr. Cue Pool Lesson 6: Aiming Read the rest of this entry »
An excerpt from Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959). a very helpfull tutorial on banking using the diamond system.