Practicing on a Smaller Table

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I just moved into a new apartment building with a couple of small Olhausens in a lounge room. When I toured the place I thought they were 8-footers, but after closer examination it appears they are 7-footers. Pockets are about average, maybe 4 1/2 to 4 3/4 inches, and the rails are a bit slow.

I usually play on 9-foot Gold Crowns. Does anyone have any tips on how to practice on the small tables while doing minimal damage to my 9-foot table game?
 
Your big table game will improve. You will become a lot better at shooting off the rail, over balls, banks, clusters, etc. that come up more frequently on a bar size seven footer. In many cases, you have to be even more precise in your positioning that you do on a full size table. Don't under estimate how much you can learn on the smaller tables.
 
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Gregg said:
Your big table game will improve. You will become a lot better at shooting off the rail, over balls, banks, clusters, etc. that come up more frequently on a bar size seven footer. In many cases, you have to be even more precise in your positioning that you do on a full size table. Don't under estimate how much you can learn on the smaller tables.
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This is true. I played a little straight pool on there recently and there were so many clusters under the rack area.

On the other hand, going back to a 9-footer felt like playing on a snooker table. It looked so much bigger. That worries me.
 
It's right opposite for me!I've got a valley bar box at my house but when I go to the pool room and see all those big Diamond 9 footers it scares the daylights out of me!
 
Need to get on both regularly

tsw_521 said:
I just moved into a new apartment building with a couple of small Olhausens in a lounge room. When I toured the place I thought they were 8-footers, but after closer examination it appears they are 7-footers. Pockets are about average, maybe 4 1/2 to 4 3/4 inches, and the rails are a bit slow.

I usually play on 9-foot Gold Crowns. Does anyone have any tips on how to practice on the small tables while doing minimal damage to my 9-foot table game?
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The little tables will help your game as long as you get on the big tables regularly too. Spend too much time on either and adapting can be hard. I had a four by eight with buckets at my house when I was a teenager, it still helped me a bunch but I played three to six nights a week in the streets too. Then when I started playing snooker to tune up and gambling on bar tables, . . . well that is when it became a second income, sometimes a first! :grin:

Hu
 
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