Tips on Billiards Skills

Scorpion Cues

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:59:11 +0000

One of the well designed billiard cues in the market today bears the name of Johnny Archer, the 2004 Player of the Year and 4-Time World Champion. Like the billiard great, Scorpion Cues is a champion caliber billiard cue that guarantees a power performance. Built from hard rock maple inner core and encased in a durable fiberglass shell, Scorpion Cues which are solidly built. One can choose between the leather or Irish linen wrap finishes that mirror its stylish appearance. Yet it comes as a surprise for most billiard enthusiasts that such a sophisticated and well-crafted billiard cue is affordable.

Aside from the popular Johnny Archer Series, Scorpion Cues have a wide range of billiard cues for both professional and non-professional players. These are the Natural Series, Titleist Series, Pro Series, Tournament Series, League Series and Utility Series. Still the most popular billiard cue in its product line is the one designed for Johnny Archer. These billiard cues are finished with unique overlay designs which signify strength, power, intimidation and a championship caliber.

Medici Pool Cues: Custom Fit for Less

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:09 +0000

Medici Pool Cues are created by Bob Meucci, the creator of the Meucci Pool Cues. They are manufactured in an offshore pool cue factor, but fine tuned and finished in the Meucci Pool Cue factory. They are all designed and engineered by Bob Meucci and, unlike the Meucci line, have a line of “colors” with different pigments than the traditional browns. They utilize Meucci butts and shafts to insured no deflection of cue ball, just like the Meucci Pool Cues. Similar to the Meucci Pool Cues, The Medici Pool cues are balanced right to insured correct hand placement for every stroke. To reduce cue ball deflection these cues are said to have a softer hit. This aids in a more accurate play. These cues also have the famous Meucci pro taper for smoother playing. In this instance you will get all of the great qualities of the Meucci Pool Cues with out having to incur as much of the cost.

Three Cushioned Billiards

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:17:43 +0000

One of the hardest games in billiards if not the very hardest is called three cushioned billiards. It’s been called by the name of the angle game, and also three-rail. What you’re supposed to do is hit the cue and be able to hit all three cushions before hitting the second object ball. It was thought the game was invented by Wayman McCreery.

In 1878 the first tournament was held. Many players however did not like the game much, the only way it was able to gain popularity was with a trophy being offered to the winner of a yearly tournament. With this trophy being introduced the game of three cushion became very popular, that in 1924 two giants of billiards said they would play a game of three cushion. Willie Hoppe and Ralph Greenleaf these were the two giants who said they would play and Hoppe won the match. However when Hoppe retired in 1952 the game lost its luster.

Three cushioned was perhaps the most difficult billiard game out there. At an average scoring of only 1 point per turn. This turns into a 50% success rate on their shots. In fact in the United States three cushion is the most popular carom game that is played. The game is also still popular in Europe and Asia.

It’s easy to see how this game would be a very hard game to play. It’s not really easy to understand even when you look at it in a simple way. Thankfully other pool games have also remained popular that are very easy to play and understand.

But if you want to attempt a game of three cushioned billiards more power to you, it would probably be a game that could last a long time with the success rate of shots being very low. So try the game, it’s always a great idea to attempt different things, this would be a good start for trying something new and different.

People who now play three cushioned billiards you should really thank the two greats who brought it even more to the forefront that again is Willie Hoppe and Ralph Greenleaf. If they wouldn’t have agreed to play the game it may not have jumped in popularity and might have died out and not been known to people in today’s world. So try the game and see what the hardest billiard game is all about.