Pool Accessories

When you are playing pool off-line, does your bridge hand often get too sweaty to grip? Does your glasses frame disturb you from seeing the full picture? Lucky for you, greater minds have found solutions to these issues.

Pool Gloves

Wearing gloves while playing pool often feels awkward and makes it difficult on the bridge hand, on the other hand, pun not intended, bare hands tend to get too sweaty, and the result is a chain reaction that starts with the cue stick slide and ends with a miss. Nancy Cote special "ungloves" or "finger slides" were designed to prevent such occurrences. This unique pool accessory is made of breathable fabric and it covers only the part of the hand in touch with the cue at a closed or an open bridge, i.e. the middle and the index fingers, the web between them and the thumb. The pool finger slides come in 4 different sizes and 4 colors, and they are priced at 15$ a pair.

Pool Glasses

Being a bespectacled pool player is not easy: when aiming the glasses slip down your nose, when trying to peep at the cue ball above the lenses, a blurry image of the pool table appears in front of your eyes. So, if you don't want to wear contact lenses or look like Dennis Taylor, special billiard eyeglasses can solve this problem. There are several products designed especially to deal with short sighted pool players. Most of them offer more or less the same thing: undersized frame, large spectacles (usually start from the middle of the forehead all the way down to the middle of the nose), higher bridge and those handle extensions to protect the glasses from falling or moving out of place (as in children's glasses).

More Pool Gadgets/Gifts for Christmas

Following my Christmas gift post, here are some more (or less) cool pool gadgets you can buy the ones you love for Christmas:

Starting with the ultimate present for pool players, in fact, the ultimate present:

What would you say about a full size, 8-foot billiards table that comes with LCD TV screen, stereo speakers, DVD player, and a bar? Not the ideal table to practice your trick shots technique, but it certainly has some class, just try to scrap 12K of your piggy bank and it's yours.

If you are still in that generous mood, you might find thisVolkswagen Bus billiards table something you want to hide beneath the Christmas tree.

Stay tuned for more modest ideas for pool Christmas gifts.

Pool Gifts for Christmas

What are you buying your beloved pool fan for Christmas?

Providing he/she already have a key ring in the shape of an 8-ball, a more original idea is required. In this post and probably few other posts (yes, I dig this continuance posting thing) I will review some of the coolest, useless pool and billiards gadgets around.



The first one is a 3D pool table, a 3-floor pool table that can be played both vertically and horizontally. It comes with 2 cues, 2 cue balls and 8 object balls of two different colors. The object is to pocket all balls to the lowest floor and to tackle the opponent by shooting the balls up to the highest floor (or at someone's eye).

To be honest, if I had to choose between this pool table and a USB Christmas tree I would go for the latter, but that's the kind of holiday spirited I am! Anyway, I haven't try it myself, it is just a superficial impression. If you have, I'd be happy to hear about it. If you have any other ideas for desirable Christmas gifts, please let me know.