Island Drive said:

Yes.... Easy.... Not against top pros....
Good poker players can beat the top pros, tho only TX Hold'.
Per Robert Turner Bicycle Club in CA.
Good poker players will never lock up with top pros in any other games and win in the long game.

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I'm not sure what your idea of "good player" is... I consider myself a "good player". I've won tournament matches against a couple of monsters. What is a "top pro" to you? I understand the poker analogy...

sjm said:

nobody broke the balls as effectively as Shane, not even JL Chang, who had at least as good a 10ball break as Shane.

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This reminds me of being in the Pool Action TV room at the Derby in 2015 or 2016 and Chang was warming up to play Filler a set of 10b. Chang breaks like a cannon and Alex Pagulayan says “If I could break like that I wouldn’t have to play one pocket!”

Thanks for the confirmation
The guy I bought the table from just bought the house and the table came with it. He just wants it out of there and didn't have any information other than the table was about 5 years old.

I was expecting whatever cheap balls come free with a new table. So, Centennials are a bonus

I also wasn't sure if any cheaper balls are meant to look the same.

Do you have the CB? It is supposed to be a blue hollow circle. If its anything else, its not original.

skogstokig said:

bobbies don't carry "bangs". (except in belfast, but i don't know if they're called bobbies there)

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My point exactly

Great thread .. thanks to everyone adding their information and posting memories

tpoppa said:

That's what I was hoping, but I'm not sure. I just purchased a used table, and these are the balls it came with.

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Def Centennials. They were probably the most popular ball of all time until about 2010. Every single pool room I ever went to had them on their tables.

They are Centennials, but if they are old, they could have been made by Albany/Hyatt instead of SALUC (which also makes Aramith). The change in manufacturer to SALUC happened about 1988.

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skogstokig said:

lots of pride in the zhao vs ding match. interesting dynamic between the old pioneer of chinese snooker and the one who has benefited most from it. ding is hanging on, taking the last frame 62 - 61 to leave it 4 - 4 overnight

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It’s amazing to me that pros continue to have issues with the math (or maths if you prefer). Ding almost blew the counter clearance by playing position on the yellow when he needed at least the brown. Fortunately he was still on the brown and noticed it before he made the yellow.