Well as I understand it, you’re in Europe. As many Europeans recently discovered when visiting the USA for the World Cup, Americans are very different from Europeans.
Regarding the supply side thing. You have clubs where you live. Are any of the owners getting rid of 9’ tables to install 2 bar boxes in the same space, not really huh? Why, well because where you are there’s no demand for them. It’s the same in Taiwan and the Philippines, you don’t see bar boxes.
Sadly in America, they seem to be the preference for most players for the reasons I described in my initial post. I know a guy in the state I’m from that opened a room in the Southern part of the state where there were no places with 9’ tables hoping it would become an Action spot. He put in twelve 9’ Diamonds and twelve 7’ Diamonds for leagues. The area he’s in is notorious for its concentration of bar league players. Several months after opening he was barely treading water. They had 3 league nights which were jam packed, but only the occasional player on the 9’ tables. He ended up pulling out 10 of the 9’s and putting in 2 more 7’ boxes due to demand and the remaining space he put corn hole pits in for corn hole leagues, leaving only two 9’ tables for the couple of 1 pocket players that played there. He told me he was just speechless that the people from that area preferred the bar boxes and wouldn’t play on the 9’ tables.
