in Pi, we call them "junior tables".
And I've heard you don't have any of them in the PI, right?
... Anyone who continues to say how much a joke it is for pool to be played on 7' tables for pros...
For 8-Ball, at least, 9-footers and 7-footers produce about the same stats. Here are the percentages for B&R's and for games ending in one inning:
• 2016 US Open -- 53%, 86%
• 2015 US Open -- 52%, 87%
• 2014 Accu-Stats Make It Happen (9-footers) -- 50%, 85%
• 2014 CSI Invitational (9-footers) -- 54%, 88%
Couldn't help but get a chuckle out of this thread. Can't help but wonder if one would have heard the same comments when the pros went from the "real" 10' tables down to those toy 9' tables a little over half a century ago if they would have had the internet back then.
Maybe. The reduction in playing surface is 20% going from a 10-footer to a 9-footer, and 36% going from a 9-footer to a Diamond 7-footer.
... I believe the central issue is what the events are called and in this case the words "Bar Table" should be inserted right after "U.S Open." ...
How about "Smallfoot" {to go with "Bigfoot" for 10-footers)?
... I can't remember ever seeing a ball potted on a bar table and thinking to myself "wow what a shot!". ...
Now, that's a bit extreme. [I saw lots of "wow" shots.]
There's no doubt that the best players will still be at the top of the list (although I'm not sure Rory Hendrickson would be in the finals of the US Open 9-ball on 9-foot tables). ...
On 9-footers, what's the likelihood that Hendrickson and Bowman would ever finish ahead of
all of these: Pagulayan, Bustamante, Morris, Dominguez, Hohmann, Bergman, Deuel, Dechaine, Schmidt, Morra, and Klatt?
[Repeated, from another thread today]
I actually don't mind the pros playing on 7-foot tables. It is still exciting to watch, and in fact, you rarely see a safety being played -- it's all offense. (I think that I heard the commentators say that they recall seeing only 2 safeties the entire tournament). ...
The number of streamed games involving one or more safeties was 9 -- 4.6% of the 197 games. This was way up from last year, when the number was 5 -- 2.1% of the 233 games.