I'm getting tired of using gloves because of several reasons:
1) the periodic cost
2) the cut finger style doesn't go up high enough, the shaft ends up riding on the bare fingers.
3) my larger hands require a 2XL that is difficult to find.
4) they tear easily
I have been playing without a glove with my Rogue/Pechauer cf shaft and am ok with this setup. I use a bit of baby powder when my hands get sticky, and the shaft glides smooth.

Rolls play a role.

I think this is a preference/philosophy issue. In general I am of the opposite outlook. Needless to say 10 ball is not my first choice to play or watch.

Perfect justice is not always found in the results of a particular shot or rack IMO.

I played on a Predator barbox at last year's Expo for about 20 minutes. It played perfect to me, including the pockets. The only thing I didn't like was the "tink" sound the balls made when hitting the pocket.

You guys are forgetting that most players, even serious players, can't run a rack on a Valley. Easy pockets are ok imo. (And the Predator pockets are nowhere as easy as a stock Valley). Super tough pockets like on a 9' Diamond take the fun out of the game. Medium tough pockets like on a 7' Diamond (shorter shelf than the 9' with the same pocket cut) is about the max difficulty tables should be for 99% of the players, imo.

David Sorensen said:

I’d like to get a ABE RICH TRUE SNEAKY

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If you are still looking for a true Abe Rich sneaky, I just aquired 3 of them from a collection, 1 is signed and dated and 2 are unsigned. I'm not sure of the value yet, I know they are pretty rare, but we can discuss it.

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GoldCrown said:

Neat looking....

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Glen would probably be chucklin but it works. Yeah that's the ticket, it's a working table not a show table. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

gregcantrall said:

View attachment 887251 Kind a like uh folk art. It does look better from a distance. It does play Hella Good though.

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Neat looking....

Didnt see the final, but the lack of a shot clock in the semis was too much for me. Morra was incredibly slow in his final racks vs. Corteza.

Nice win over SVB, of course. Seems Morra's participation in the PLP really sharpened his game for the Griffs event.

If yours is half full, appreciate it, and enjoy it while you have it. If it is half empty, very little will fix it. The truth is, as Mike was saying above, pool has changed. Somewhere in the last 20 years, we made some big turns and our old world of pool is not even visible in our rear view mirrors. What happened? I am not smart enough to figure the whole thing out, but seems to me much of it was financial.

The pool room model of old just doesn't float anymore. The proliferation of legalized gambling now satisfies a need that was met, in so many different ways, for so many years, by our pool halls. Also, life today is fast, getting faster, and pool is slow. For us old cats, the pace suited us -- pool and pool halls were comfortably slow, just like us -- shoot a few games, shoot the shit, and shoot a few more games. What kid today could possibly want to invest his time in such a way?

Without recruitment, everything will fail.