While I do agree that 9 foot pool is more rewarding and challenging in general, and it is what I want to play on 100% of the time if possible...it is NOT possible any longer. There are only two 9 foot tables in my city, and those are mostly bogarted by a new onepocket league that makes it impossible to become available for rent for practice. And my personal 9 foot diamond is in storage post-divorce, so that's that. 7 foot pool or nothing. Those well heeled 9 foot ideologues who want to invest their money in an American pool champion breeding program are certainly free to do that, and I will support their efforts. They will probably want returns on said investment howerver...and that is why 7 foot tables are the norm...real estate prices don't justify that much space devoted to 9 footers. I wish that weren't so, but, as Oscar Gamble is credited as saying "They don't think it be like it is, but it do".
