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jbart65 said:
Concerned, no. My life will be fine with or without pro pool.

Why bother? Why not? The subject obviously interests me, and, well, this is a forum to talk pool. My kids are grown up, and evidently I have a lot of time on my hands.

Besides, if we only talked about things we could actually change, we wouldn't have anything to talk about on this board!
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Agree. Well said. I find every post of your informative, relative and fair. Clearly you love the game. Me2. Keep posting please. Thx
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Higher skill pocket billiards players - 9 ball or snooker players?

Jaden
Swighey said:
Shaw said afterwards that he played safeties he knew Trump didn't know how to get out of. He also of course is a much better pool player.

It is apples and oranges - snooker players who had dabbled in pool have done well in tournaments but probably need to get lucky with layouts/patterns against the top players (high 700s and 800s) to have a chance of beating them. The very best pool players on the otherhand will rarely make breaks bigger than 50 or 60 and will lose to top amateur players in a race to 4 pretty much all the time.

Snooker is harder. Pool involves skills that snooker players rarely master. That's about the long and short of it.
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I have to call bullshit. I can count the number of times I've played snooker on both hands and have an 83 break and several breaks over 60. I have to think that a top pool player who puts in the time would easily get higher average breaks.

edit: I have played on snooker tables more than that, but not actually the game of snooker. I used to play rotation and 8 ball on the snooker table with the skill balls, which are snooker sized balls in 1-15.
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Need help identifying this table.

Banger
Check the rubber on the rails. It's not uncommon for import tables to use a cheap rubber, that can turn hard as a rock over time. Then, it's like trying to bank a ball off of a 2 x 4. That "free" table can start to get expensive if it needs new cushions put on the rails. It happened to my "furniture style" table.

But, if it is in good condition, it may be worth the effort to go for it. It's not a commercial table, but you can still have a lot of fun with it.
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