A brand new set of quality balls, with a brand new cloth, and perfect climate control low humidity all will cause balls to enter pockets much easier than a set of table and equipment circumstances that are polar opposite of this set - up. When I watch many pro events on the tube, I see balls hit a half diamond away on the rail from the pocket and still go into named table 4 1/2 inch pockets.
Going into most rooms today with Diamond 4 1/2 inch pockets- if the room does not maintain pro tournament type table and ball set- up and climate control-------- you will be totally frustrated as the pockets will reject balls that one sees the pros pocket on TV.
THIS is my main issue with Diamond 4 1/2 tables in MOST commercial rooms- the maintenance standards are not sustained for the benefit of players who desire to be more serious about their play.
For rooms that I see using sloppy table mechanics to " convert" Gandy's , Brunswick's etc. to Diamond pro cut imitations- the results are even worse - tables that I would not gamble even 5 cents on- bc the results on every shot are so unpredictable in every way!
