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How to Use Math to Improve Your Pool Game

Impress your friends with the power of dynamical systems.

How Much Does a Pool Table Cost?

Learn about the factors that affect the cost of a pool table, including materials, size, style, and features for a unique playing experience.

How to Take Care of Your Pool Table

Pool tables are a big investment to your home, so make sure you get your money’s worth by taking proper care of them.

Ask Ewa: Getting Kids to Say Game On to Billiards

Question: Me and a friend run a program called POOL (providing opportunity otherwise lost) where we give lessons to kids for a few hours once per month. What are some good drills to keep the kids i…

Learn Pool & Billiards Trick Shots

Congratulations! You’ve finally decided to get a pool table! Now, you just need to know how big of a table you can get to fit in the room where you want it. After all, you don’t want this happening to youGet Your Room DimensionsThe first thing you want to is to get your room dimensions . Be sure to account for anything that could get in the way while playing. Things like pillars, fireplace mantles, or shelves protruding from the wall…

Beyond Billiards: Winning Shuffleboard Secrets

Shuffleboard (aka American Shuffleboard, Indoor Shuffleboard, Slingers or Shufflepuck) can provide hours of entertainment in the game room. But how does one excel at the game? Here are 5 tips to he…

How 19th-Century Billiards Hustlers Created the Ideal Bar

Bowling alley and pool table maker Brunswick also, for decades, outfitted drinking establishments.

DIY Your Own Pool Table With This Simple Hack

15 Cool Pool Tables You Will Love

A pool table is something you may want for ages but you always lack either place or money or time to buy it. This post is intended to solve any problems you may have, so

“Antique” Sofa has a hide-a-bed style pool table built in

What a great idea. This is a sofa which as a pool table built into it hideabed style. Okay, actually, it's a snooker table, but still. What an ideal addition to an apartment/mancave. According to Craziest Gadgets the couch is about 6 foot long and apparently, it's quite popular in the UK where they're fairly cheap. Made as a joint venture from Pierce Upholsterers and Accrington and Riley - makers…

Have a Ball With Your Billiard Room

Decadently plush or based in a barn, these stunning billiard rooms show how much fun it is to take style cues from a pool table

Playing snooker improves your mental health

Popularised by the likes of Ronnie O'Sullivan, potting balls allows adults to escape the pressures of real life, scientists from Anglia Ruskin University believe.

5 exercises without a cue that will make you a better pool player

Are you fed up with playing pool sometimes? You’ve played enough drills, matches and tournaments? And still you’d like to do more to become a better player? Not all practice has to be at the pool table. Like basketball pros aren’t running around on the court all day, you don’t have to play pool all …

Open Your Pool: The Checklist

Opening your swimming pool for the year signals that the cold of winter is over and the fun of summer is upon us. We have talked about the chemical and pool safety precautions to take when opening your pool. Remember that checking the equipment pad for cracks and unusual wear can save you money in the long life of your pool. Finally, make sure that your pool water chemistry is balanced.