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2026 JOY Heyball Grand Masters Finals

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GideonF said:
50” X 100” is the standard 9’ pool table size.

It’s not just the size of the pockets, it’s the fact that they are rounded - you can’t play off a pocket facing like an American table. Historically you just couldn’t play a ball down the long rail with any regularity. More recently the Chinese players have learned that if you pound the OB down the rail you can compress the pocket nose and force the ball in.

The top Heyball players are great at cross side banks to deal with balls near the side pockets.
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It’s noticeably smaller than a 9 foot American pool table. At least that was true of the Joy table I played on. As kingwang noted, it is also higher off the ground.
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Sharing my old Brunswick table

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Tried a search with that data with Google's AI, and it returned something about The Brunswick-Balke-Collender "Brilliant" (and its very close relative, the "Nonpareil"), apparently made in sizes such as 6x12, 5x10, and 4.5x9, known as a Professional Ninth. Don't know how full of it this is; it is AI after all, but maybe that helps?

Also speaking of Canadian makers, it mentioned Samuel May out of Toronto? Now you see why I asked here, the search brings more questions :D
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Sharing my old Brunswick table

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iusedtoberich said:
He’s in Canada. They had different models there. Even a 6x12 GC snooker table that was never in the USA.

From what I recall reading Brunswick had a Canadian factory for the Canadian market. Idk if that factory was as early as this table though.

Btw why do we think it’s a Brunswick?
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Good info. Looking at it on my phone, Lions for base pedestals, there were not a lot of manufacturers making a base like that.
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