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Snooker and Pool are great games, and there is a large group of people who don’t end their playing when they leave the snooker hall or their local bar. Instead, when they get home, they can do what thousands of other people do on a regular basis. They go online and play some virtual pool and snooker. There are several ways to play, and there are several versions of the game to play on the Internet. When you’re looking to get your bearings with online snooker and pool play, check out the following tips to help guide you. You can also check out these gambling articles for more hints and tips for online gaming.

Here's my analysis of the screw back shot - I hope it helps you all... The first requirement for successful execution of the screw shot is to aim at the bottom of the cueball not by lifting the butt end of the cue into the air but by lowering the whole of the cue parallel to the bed of the table. A good tip here is to flatten your bridge hand. Whereas in the standard position the cue rests around about 2" above the cloth (at the point it crosses your thumb-forefinger rest), by flattening your bridge you should be able to lower this.

This practice exercise can bring massive benefits to your game. First of all it helps in finding the correct potting angle for the black and develops your cue-ball skills by making you play stun, screw, stun run through and side to keep good position to pot the black ball next time.

Another one of our short but very useful snooker practise routines for all to try. If your bored with the usual practise routines give this second one of our new series of single player practise routines a try out as i am sure it will keep you going for hours and hours.

A short but very useful snooker practise routine for all to try out next time. If your bored with the usual practise routines give this a try out as i am sure it will keep you occupied for hours upon hours.

Can anybody spare a pearl of wisdom or 2. The problem I have is my head keeps moving up during the shot. Whilst I concentrate on the problem I can keep it under control but as soon as I relax or concentrate on a more difficult shot the problem returns. Any sugestions would be gratefull. Okay...here's a couple of tips that should help you to resolve your problem, which is of course a common one...my answer is drawn from both a psychological and physical perspective.

Q. When i press my fingers into the table and turn my thumb.i soon feel stress in my hand, especially in my thumb. When exert low pressure i feel a loss of rythem in my cue action, please tell me something about it. I use my left hand as bridge and when i turn my head to place cue under my left eye i feel myself unbalanced. i then counter my balance by turning my elbow to right. but that is wrong. and i am in confusion which disturbs my game, i also feel unbalace when bridge hand is at a distance from cue ball approximatelly 10 inches, please help me out?

Q. I have been playing snooker for two years. Reading the Tutorial section and forums frequently a made a practice plan for myself. I defined goals (as milestones). My first goal was to pot all the six balls from yellow to black. My second goal was to pot five reds (randomly placed between pink and black spot) with black or pink.I have made it before the deadline. My practice routine is that I must make these two goals every day before start practicing the third goal. (pot five reds with colour and make the clearance from yellow to red in one break) It should be become easier and easier to make the first two goals because I make it every day but unfortunately not! Sometimes I make the six ball clearance at first attempt but other days the success comes only after the...

Q. I am a left eye right handed player and my question is that i find it very uncomfortable to have my back leg straight, so after playing 2,3 frames my game gets poor, i also need your help that to have my left eye over cue i have to tilt my head, so my head is not parrallel with cue? Please give me your advise.

Q. What is the definition of timing and are there any drills to improve ones timing?

Q. My question is that i find it difficult to align myself with the shot .i stay behind the line of shot but find it difficult to judge that either the ball is half or 3/4 or 1/4. can you please tell me how to find the contact point of the object ball, so i can easily judge it, actually i have followed ghost ball theory but that needed more concentration. I grip the cue in my right hand. and...

Q. Dear Maximumbreak, i have been playing for about a year and my maximum break is 38 i have a good cue action but just seem to miss simple balls and i am not confident with my breakbuilding i dont feel like i am going to score heavily , i just pot good individual pots any tips

Q. I always seem to miss the ball on the same side i always overcut , my right eye is dominate but it does not seem comtable moving the cue further to the right. I have been trying to line up the shot and then compensating for the over cut, any tips on how to line up the corect potting angle?

Q. Maximumbreak, I love this site! Its amazing! Hopefully I will improve my game with your help. I have a technical question. I am 5 foot 4 inc tall, right handed, and have been playing this games for over 15 yrs without any dramatic improvement, making breaks of 20s only usually. On every shot making, I would walk into the shot, placing my right foot at a 45 degree angle to the line of shot, and my left foot pointing parallel to the line of shot and at about 7 oclock in relationship to the right foot (if right foot is at 6 oclock). I keep my right leg straight and left leg slightly bend. I keep my feet shoulder width wide. From these stances, I am now experimenting with 2 different upper body approaches to the shot, with similar efficiency/ failures. Please tell me which one is correct, if any.

Improving our breathing pattern, is an effective way of dealing with stress. This is an overlooked part of match play and can make a dramatic difference in your play when done the right way. Our guest speaker Mary Lennox gives us some advice on how to achieve a better breathing pattern under stressfull conditions.

This is a practice technique that can help give you better ball control during breaks.

This is an alternate method of holding the cue when using the cue rest.

This is a very useful test if you find that you are better at potting balls from one side of the table than the other. It's a way of finding out why this is happening?

Many professionals who have written books on the teaching of snooker have said that the grip is not that important too the players game? Why do they say this? Is it because they have all been successful in the game when they were playing in the top tournaments, and have never given a great deal of thought to the subject, presuming it was not at all an important part of the the players game to become a good player.

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The nap of the cloth on the table can have an effect on the white ball when playing a pot into the middle pocket from the top cushion end of the table (black spot end) which will make the line of the pot drift off the line the ball would normally take towards the pocket...

Knowing how to replace your own tip can save you tons of time and bother, and most importantly if it falls off during a game, you will know how to fix it by reading this tutorial.

To progress in the game of snooker you need the correct cue, and you should choose very carefully. Many people are always changing their cue, this can be very detrimental to your overall game. So my advice to you is to never keep changing your cue, try to stick with the same cue, this way you will start to feel comfortable with it, and begin to know how much...

In this article i am going to talk about an area of the game which many of us all tend to over look, it's an area that is a very important part of the game and is the key to consistency. What am i talking about ? The method or sometimes called the drill by others.

Cue Care This page is for players who have just started the game and is a rough guide on how to look after your snooker or pool cue.

Practicing simple pots and playing position on you're own is a very good way of learning what happen's to the cue ball after potting the object ball.

Same as the last exercise, position play, exercise 1. Practicing simple pots and playing position on you're own is a very good way of learning what happen's to the cue ball after potting the object ball.

Same as the last exercise, position play, exercise 1,2 Practicing simple pots and playing position on you're own is a very good way of learning what happen's to the cue ball after potting the object ball.

Same as the last exercises, position play, exercise 1,2,3 Practicing simple pots and playing position on you're own is a very good way of learning what happen's to the cue ball after potting the object ball.

Most new players to the game of snooker refer to this stroke/shot as something a little special almost magical, only available to someone who is a bit special and rather exceptional at the game of snooker. It's not true that you have to be someone special to play this magical shot! as i am going to show how you too can play this shot which is not that special but rather simple to master with the right amount of coaching information.

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This exercise is an excellent way of improving your long potting, To start off line six reds in line with the two middle pockets across the middle spot, and place them evenly apart. Place the white ball anywhere on the baulk line and start by trying to pot the end red of the line of reds.

If you play snooker often, then you need to keep your cue and kit in tip top condition, in this article there are some guidelines to help you to achieve this.

As a starting point the term side-spin is how it should really be referred to, rather than side as most people call it, as this is a very complicated subject.

Left hand side This diagram shows left-hand side being used to take the cue-ball back up to a safe area of the table. You could also try playing the shot without any side and aiming to hit the object ball slightly thicker, but the object ball will move across the table further than it would if you was hitting it on the thin side.

Striking the cue ball to the LEFT of centre will push the white off to the right of a straight line and visa versa if playing the shot with right hand side spin.

The problem most face whilst trying to keep the head still on the shot can be answered in a few ways? Hope they help you!

At some point during a game of snooker or a break it will become necessary to try and split the pack of balls open that are still in their original set, for the break to continue. Disturbing the pack of red balls can be done when trying to pot a red but is more often done when potting a colour first to more or less guarantee being on another red ball to continue the break. Trying to split the reds when potting another red ball is often the wrong way to achieve the split because you have less chance of being on a coloured ball to carry on the break. This is shot is best used whilst potting a colour. Here are the four most used approaches to best disturbing the reds.

Not so many people like to play a shot using the rest, and you always here some one saying I'm no good at playing with the rest, and why do you think this is? Its because they don't practice with it. The best way to start playing better with the rest is to start potting some easy shots to start off with...

The purpose of this routine is to pot the reds and to keep the cue-ball within the circle of reds.

Same as the last exercise, the clock, exercise 1. Practicing simple pots and playing position on you're own is a very good way of learning what happen's to the cue ball after potting the object ball.

Once you have the five points above in place, you can now start by trying to hit the cue ball in the centre, one of the best ways of achieving this is to start by hitting the white ball up and down the length of the table bouncing the white off the top cushion and coming back over the black, pink and blue spots and finally back to the brown spot from where you struck the ball from. This is a very difficult thing to achieve and takes hours of practice to get right...

As in most sports, there is a responsability by the sports person to be a gentleman and show respect to their opponent, and in the game of snooker there is no greater example of this. For all the beginners in the game of snooker you should always apply these rules of etiquette at all times, whether you are in your local snooker club or playing in your local snooker league or even a professional game.

Sighting the cue ball is a subject that coaching books never seam to have approached, and have never given any clear info to the importance of finding out whether a player is left or right eyed when sighting up the cue ball to line up his shot.

A set of balls for a snooker table consist of 15 reds, 6 colours which are yellow,green,brown,blue,pink and black, and one white cue ball. Each ball has a diameter of...

If you take a look at a golf player for instance, each player has a slightly different stance than the other. But one thing you will notice is that they also have some similarity with each other, they all have started to stand in the right text book stance but have made little changes to them throughout their career and adjusted the text book stance to suite their own taste.

This practice routine has got to be my favorite and used on a regular basis by the professionals

Break building is not always just about taking the easiest ball on! to get another few more points, it's all about shot selection and choosing the right ball to help continue the break, clearing a path for the next ball to be potted, many average players tend to break down when they know they are getting close to their own personal highest break, this is because they tend to choose the easy ball 'on' to beat their highest break by a few points and forget that they should have taken the slightly harder shot to continue their break.

This is a tutorial showing you how to go about playing cannons after potting the object ball. This is a must have part of your game that you need to build upon.

There are many different approaches to this part of the game, but there is one golden rule that should always be adopted.

The cloth on the table can be of different thickness, club tables are usually fitted with a thick heavy duty cloth that tends to be of a slow speed. Match tables have a thinner cloth and tighter pockets , with these tables having a thinner...

It would be great if snooker players could always use the same bridge every time they visit the table, but as we all know this is not possible to achieve unless you are not bothered about addressing the cue ball the wrong way.

In order to control the cue-ball? a properly shaped tip must be used.

The first shot, the break off is a very important shot to be able to play well, as not just to start the game off, but a shot to try and put your opponent into a difficult position and apply some pressure straight away.

This is a very important part of the game you need to employ, when it is your turn to approach the table use this method and you will benefit from...

Cueing off the cushion is one of the hardest shots in the game to master. We all tend to leave this one alone, but really it is the one shot we should practice the most.

One of the many mistakes most players make is to line up the shot after they have got themselves down into their cueing stance, this is one of the biggest errors most new players make, you will see them shuffle about trying to find the line of sight to the object ball, this is the wrong way to do it! "don't ever do this" it will only get you into bad habits.

The first thing to do when achieving a good sound cue action is to keep the action consistent, this way you will feel comfortable and will feel like second nature to you. But first of all it has to be correct at the beginning.

To start off you need to put a mark on your...

Without a really good cue-action a player cannot consistently strike the cue-ball accurately in the centre.

If you've managed to master the last exercise of potting the red and following the cue ball into the middle pockets on a regular basis, then you're ready to try this next exercise