Funny…..considering he was walking around a table adjacent to the women’s open matches at the SBE this year running his mouth loudly while practicing and damn near bumping into the ladies several times who were playing their semifinal match.

What do you have above your light on the ceiling? What is it and what's its function?

I put my qty 2 LED 2x4 panel lights flush to my 8' ceiling above my GC4, against all the advice of xyz height from the slate. I had zero regrets. It lit the table as good or better than any pool hall I've ever been to. Zero fixtures to be in the way of the stick or my head. Zero fixtures to be hanging down and blocking the view (table was in my living room).

I think those height recommendations we still see quoted from sales people like the post that resurrected this thread are obsolete with the LED panels. Maybe in the 3 shade incadecent light days they were ok. Those heights are regurgitated recommendations over decades. I doubt anyone today has actually hung a modern light at many heights and compared them to form new guidelines.

that kazakis is a nice guy doesn't help the viewer experience.. i hope it won't be kaci vs kazakis in the finals because they're two slow players. stencil jesus* and shane better bring their a-game today

* autocorrect misnomer he got on here when he was new on the scene. could have been when earl threw a tantrum playing him at tommy kennedy's tournament, or maybe that was a separate incident

I'm not buying the argument that the US has a shortage of 9 foot tables, and establishments that allow people under 21 are more likely to have 9 foot tables anyway.

I'm also skeptical of the idea that the US needs to be nothing but a sterile, European billiard academy style of environment for us to produce pros. However, access to pool tables in the formative years is important.