iusedtoberich said:

This table was a result of a merger/aquisition between Brunswick and a bar box company sometime decades ago. I think the Gold Crown 2000 was only around a couple of years. Its very obscure, even pool nuts rarely know about it.

I thought maybe that's what the OP was looking at when he/seller mentioned coin-op, but his pictures clearly show a "real" Gold Crown.

I guess the Gold Crown Coin has a similar story in recent years. Made with a partnership with Global, but only a handful were ever made and installed in the past few years.

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I was sure I played on some coin op GCs 30+ yrs ago in the Carolinas(I think)

Maybe it was a 9' Valley and im mis-remembering

Oh, I think I finally figured out the 10 ball break. The HARD break was not working on this table. We were using a Magic Ball Rack brand rack (the best one imo), and it was making everything perfectly tight. I took some speed off, but still bridged and hit the same way as the hard break, and I had a ton of success. I'm using a high closed bridge, as high as I can without raising my palm, and striking down on the CB. I'm getting a good pop, stopping the cb center table, and pocketing some balls.

I don't know if that will work in Vegas. The Outsville rack being used there does not rack nearly as tight as the Magic Ball Rack. Well, I at least have a few more breaks than I did last year's Vegas event.

Thats good for the guy posting. Since you have both what do you like better from one brand to another

Oh, 2 types of shots I remember why I missed and was mad at myself afterwards for knowing better but still doing it. One was the typical deceleration of the stroke that causes the swerve to be maximized and ends up cutting the ball a lot differently than intended.

The second was high inside or outside when very close to the rail, and how the CB almost exclusively turns into the the direction of the spin, and there is zero squirt in the opposite direction, ending up striking the OB a full ball differently than anticipated. Yikes, that shot is brutal how much the CB moves sideways.