After running a pool room for years I realized the masses could care less about 9 foot tables. Your fun casuals who spend money are use to bar tables and its easier for them to make balls which is more fun for them. Put them on a tight 9 foot and one game might take 30 minutes.

You also can fit more tables in your room which generates more revenue. Now as someone who loves the game and especially one pocket, give me the 9 footer with 4 inch pockets. You can transfer down to playing small tables but small table players will have a tough time transferring up to those bigger tables. Just my take.

If you think this is pricey for NYC try Amsterdam billiards in lower Manhattan - very pricey!

I like both.

Playing on Diamond bar boxes is fun as hell to me.

I have yet to see anything better than Diamonds for bar boxes

A little pricey IMO but a great place to play pool and very lively.

The equipment is nice, even the house cues.

kingwang said:

Great place to play. Half the room are barboxes, the other half are 9' Diamonds with 4.25" pockets. I've played several tournaments there, including Matchroom and Joss Tour events. The owner, Holden Chin, is a fantastic player and a nice guy.

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And the Barboxes are also Diamonds, with pockets that seem to be about 4.75

I have an awesome Samsara cue that I bought about 15 years ago. I didn't know that he passed away. I use a Predator shaft on it though. I get a lot of compliments on my cue.

Where do you play when you play there?

markjames said:

i wonder what you don’t like about him?

i’ve heard countless terrible pool announcers/ commentators, but jude sounds intelligent and helpful and not overly talkative

i often mute people because i don’t need to hear the table/room sounds, but i never considered it during this gerson/fedor match

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Thanks! I guess my commentary style isn't for everyone. I know that most of the audience is smart enough to know about cueing so I usually try to focus on what the shooter is trying to accomplish instead. As well, we try to be entertaining, bringing attention to key moments, especially when a difficult shot is in the forecast.

Anyway, I'm planning on doing more commentary so if there's something you guys think I should work on, please let me know. I can take it.

garczar said:

The snooker/golf table at Magoo's is an old B'wick Royale that had a broken slate. I don't know who did it but the break was clean and it was glued back on fine. IIRC they used some type of heavy duty industrial adhesive. They use Granito 3c cloth and you can't feel a thing where the break was.

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Hello, fellow Tulsan

Fore Rail said:

Very nice shooting. I have seen videos of you playing for years. I don’t need to know you to know a little about your game.

Now don’t get all upset if I tell you to go do the same with someone sitting in the chair at hill / hill just itching to get at the table.

Maybe you shouldn’t make veiled threats to someone you don’t know… just saying

Good luck with your game post shoulder replacement surgery.

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Well, first off thanks for the nice shooting comment. However, you have to understand that even when I was playing the mezz tour I had already stopped practicing except for playing barbox league for my tour sponsor, SoCal Tap. So videos that are out there aren't indicative of how I played from the time frame that most of my stories come from.

I ended up having run away diabetes (14.7 A1C) and being hospitalized and having to overcome and get control of that and then found out that I had no rotator cuff movement in my left shoulder with a 3 inch bone spur (I play left handed).I had been trying to just play through the pain but when your shoulder can't rotate it's not the pain that makes the difference. I had reverse socket replacement surgery last June and only started playing again 2 weeks ago and I'm already playing close to the level I did before I stopped practicing (before the Mezz West state tour).

So when you insinuate that I'm full of crap when I tell a story, it pisses me off. You dont know me or my game, especially if you have only seen the available videos. I wasn't making any veiled or non-veiled threats, but I'm a better fighter than I am a pool player, been training in combat and martial arts since I was 7, I'm also a Marine and former military intelligence so I'm not concerned about someone I don't know in that regard. Please don't take THAT as a veiled threat. It's not, just giving background.