Picture Yourself Shooting Pool

Picture yourself dazzling your friends with your new and improved pool skills as you master the cue ball's movements and hone your aiming and shooting techniques. "Picture Yourself Shooting Pool" provides practical and accessible pool theory and instruction to beginners and casual players. Beginning with the basics of selecting the proper cue stick, how to grip and guide the cue, and how to align the body with the pool table, the book moves on to specific cue strokes for various shots, aiming the cue ball, and reading the table. Strategy and tips on how to read the table, as well as basic rules for different pool games, table etiquette, and even information on how to purchase and maintain a personal cue stick. Filled with full-color images and step-by-step instruction on each new skill and strategy, the book also features an accompanying DVD that walks the reader through step.

Matt Sherman directs the University of Florida's Pool League in America's best-appointed student poolroom at the J. Wayne Reitz Union in Gainesville, Florida, with its nearly 20 nine-foot regulation pool tables. The league builds students into champions for the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) annual tournaments. Half-a-dozen Florida Gators have won ACUI's top crown, each surpassing thousands of entrants as national champ. Sherman has taught hundreds of pool students the fundamentals and more advanced skills, and has won the UF crown many times as the best player among 65,000 UF students and employees. He is the Pool & Billiards Guide at About.com, a top five website with more than half-a-billion unique users annually. As an emcee and fan convention producer, Sherman has hosted events featuring over 120 Hollywood actors, authors, producers and screenwriters. He resides in Gainesville, Florida, where he studied Computer Sciences at Santa Fe Community College and Religion at the University of Florida, and where the local shark pool includes top hustlers, and greats named to pool's Hall of Fame. Matt's spouse, Janine, and his children, Alexandria and Benjamin, have followed him to the pool tables.