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Banking With The Beard - The Movie Vols. l & ll

This special TWO VOLUME DVD SET provides comprehensive instruction on how to make banks. Players learn the effects of cut angle, speed and english on the bank path and how to correct the aim to score. These simple banks win games and ordinary players will soon be making banks better than they dreamed possible. This special TWO VOLUME SET has three hours of instruction on 2 DVD discs. $49.95

Banks That Don't Go -- But Do! Vols. l & ll

After a fifty year stretch as a professional pool player, Freddy "The Beard" Bentivegna reveals the secrets that made him one of the most feared money players in the country.

These two volumes explain game busting shots previously known only to a handful of elite players. These shots solve bank pool and One pocket positions that many good players consider "safe." The lessons provide solutions to "impossible" positions. Learning these top secret shots will upgrade your bank pool and One pocket play and put you in the winner's bracket.

These unnerving shots put real fear into an opponent's bones when you demolish "lock safeties" and run out. The psychological damage done be breaking out of "jail" wins matches.

This special TWO VOLUME SET has 2 ½ hours of must see instruction on two discs. $49.95

The GosPool
by Freddie the Beard

This is the long-awaited sequel to the popular Banking with the Beard. It has about 100 pages of banks and 140 pages of photos and pool stories by one of the great hustler-storytellers of our time. If you like Freddie's first book...you'r gonna love this one! Read about all the great pool players of the last forty years. Lots of back room Stories! Order on the More Books section of the order page. $29.95

KILLER ONE POCKET #1
by Cliff Joyner

Cliff Joyner is one of the top One Pocket players in the world and in this series of DVD's he shares many of his secrets. Assisted by Wade Crane, a former World 9-Ball Champion, this first video (about an hour long) starts with the break. Cliff shows what to look for so you can determine whether you are getting a good rack or not. Then he shows you how to break them correctly. The next section is devoted to responding to the break and how to take that advantage away from your opponent. This follows naturally to other shots: such as how to move balls when they are close to your opponent's pocket and how to go three rails for a safety. The importance of "pocket speed" and "playing the score" are explained and so is following the cue ball in and jumping the balls off the table. The rest of the video is full of tips on running balls and breaking out clusters. $29.95 (KOP1)

KILLER ONE POCKET #2
by Cliff Joyner

Cliff gets loose in this video (about 40 minutes long) which is devoted to high-level play. He plays the ghost with Wade Crane acting the role of the opponent but with Cliff shooting both innings. This is a fantastic DVD. You will learn his moves and why he does what he does at every moment. You'll learn exactly how to execute each shot as he compares his shot selections with Crane's. Cliff is always trying to accomplish a little more with each shot. There are a lot of different concepts presented in this video and Wade Crane makes sure you get the point. $29.95 (KOP2)

KILLER ONE POCKET #3
by Cliff Joyner

This is a short video (only about 28 minutes long) but the entire thing is devoted to game winning shots. Many are probably ones you have never seen before. Each one is an exotic, high-power One Pocket shot that can let you win when you're not supposed to. Cliff shoots each one (with Crane commentating) and shows you how to execute it. A great video! Don't let your opponents see it before you! Jam-packed with great shots! $29.95 (KOP3)

THE ROAD SCHOLARS DVD from Diana Hoppe

Pool photog and historian, Diana Hoppe has just released the DVD of the famous bull session at the Derby City Classic in 2008. It was an informal taping of a get-together of 11 Old School Road Warriors, sharing drinks, stories, adventures, good natured woofin, and camaraderie. The party lasted nearly 8 hours and Diana has edited the DVD down to an hour and 10 minutes of goodness.

It’s a hilarious, ribald, raucous, and unexpurgated romp, through the glories and oftentimes misadventures of the venerable Road Scholars.

Those present at the round table were Ronnie Allen, Danny DiLiberto, Jimmy Fusco, Freddy the Beard Bentivegna, Truman Hogue, Billy Incardona, Wade Crane, Eddie Kelly, Grady Mathews, Jimmy Reid, and Vernon Eliot.

$20.00 (TRS)

ROAD PLAYER: The Danny DiLiberto Story by Jerry Forsyth

A lifetime of stories from the vibrant memory of Danny DiLiberto, one of Accu-Stats Video’s most popular commentators. DiLiberto was one of the fabled road players, beginning with the Johnston City Hustler’s Tournaments. He excelled in four sports: baseball, bowling, boxing, and pool. Boxing was his first love, but his own hands could not stand the power of his blows. He was forced to quit because he punched so hard that he kept breaking the bones in his hands. Pool gave him the greatest fame and that’s what this book is about. From Las Vegas to Hollywood to the smallest towns on the most distant highways, this is the life of the roadman. A gambler’s tale in his own words. (all copies autographed) Excerpt from Freddy B’s book, The GosPool According To The Beard:

“Most Talented Pool Player: Probably Danny Diliberto from Buffalo, NY. Danny could run over 200 balls and was undefeated in 14 pro fights (12-0-2). Diliberto was an AA minor-league baseball player and a 200 average bowler who once bowled a perfect 300 game. Danny had a phenomenal throwing arm. He could throw a golf ball farther than anybody in the world. Danny could make a field goal on a football field with a golf ball by throwing it 100 yards through the goal-post uprights. He won the money doing that at Johnston City, IL. in the ’60s. Later, he trapped the late Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle at a Fort Lauderdale bar during Yankee spring training. Danny bet Maris he could throw a golf ball farther than Roger could. Diliberto won the bet from an amazed Maris by throwing the ball all the way across the waters of the Fort Lauderdale Causeway on Highway A1A. Roger didn’t even take his turn and tried to renege and call off the bet. Danny, who had a punch that could down an elephant, stood his ground and finally got paid.” $20.00 (RPDD)

THE CONCISE BOOK OF POSITION PLAY

Three Cushion Billiards! - This book by 3-cushion star Bill Smith, offers billiard players some great learning opportunities in an easily understood format with an accompanying DVD to demonstrate the concepts even further. This 270 page book is logical in sequence with great approaches to both common and complicated shots. It is spiral-bound, so you can take it to the table and lay it flat as you work with it. It is intended for the intermediate and advanced player and is a ‘must have” for learning how to control the position of all three balls. All of the various systems covered in the book are clearly demonstrated on the 80 minute long DVD. Some of the concepts Bill covers are: Foundation-basic Fundamentals, The Theory of Position Play, Big Ball Position Shots, Short Angle Position Shots, Four and Five Cushion Position Shots, Across The Table Position Shots, Shot Making versus Position Play and Simple, Effective Number Systems. $59.95

My latest endeavor to raise the awareness and importance of position play in the “Modern day” game of 3 Cushion Billiards is a 120 minute DVD entitled, “The Secrets EXPOSED Consecutive Scoring for a Higher Average”. This DVD is a compilation of video starting positions melding with narrative diagrams to instruct the player how to take advantage of some of the most common positions on the table.

The Concise Book of Position Play offers billiard players some great learning opportunities in an easily understood format with an accompanying DVD to demonstrate the concepts even further. This 270 page book is logical in sequence with great approaches to both common and complicated shots. It is spiral-bound, so you can take it to the table and lay it flat as you work with it. It is intended for the intermediate and advanced player and is a “must have” for learning how to control the position of all three balls.

Book and 2 DVD Set $89.95

The DVD will take the viewer thru a progression of, “starting positions”, which increase in their difficulty, to allow the player to accomplish a realistic opportunity for “Consecutive Scoring”. Each “starting position” will enable the player to make runs of 3 or more, the“Secrets” Smith exposes, are how to recognize the correct shots to start the possibility for “Consecutive Scoring”.

DVD $44.95