I don't disagree with you, because a person who plays great on a 7ft bar table, beats all his friends and other players in the bar, leagues and where ever else they play on 7fts, don't mean they have the same skills on a 9ft, and 9fts have been know to humble even some of the best bar table players. 8fts are either 44×88 or 45×90, or 46×92. And that much closer to the 9ft to transition to a 9ft at times, but not totally.
In my area, the term barbox refers to when the cabinet is made of plywood. A Diamond Smart Table, or the new Gold Crown coin op prob wouldn't fit the definition of bar box.
From your experience do most bars now own their equipment, or still have vendors?
Depends on the region.
Lots of home style tables, the bodies of the table are made out of MDF or plywood.
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With Biado's victory, I think the count of wins and finals' appearances in the US Open 9-Ball (Pool) Championship by Filipinos is now:
AND, since 2006 only 2 Americans have won the US Open 9B event, John Schmidt in 2006, and SVB 5X since then.
I completely understand that Glenn. But my point is not all 7 foot tables should be considered Bar Boxes... For instance the Diamond Pro-Am, the smart table, and probably the new gold crown. I don't think I could in good conscience call any one of them a bar box.
But what about the coin operated pool tables built by Quality Billiards, Global, Thea Billiards, they all had feather stripped rails? Like I said, if its coin operated, its a bar box, no matter what size it is.
7 pack was a good crown with 5 inch buckets ....I was playing a lot then.
Awh....don't start what you can't finish.
Yeah, they do, so what, nothing of note is played on 8 footers...
I wonder if there are countries in Asia, where most bar tables are 8ft, producing world beating pool players.
Hey, I don't think we should be playing anything big on anything other than 9 or ten footers. My favorite tables in order are: 10 foot diamond blue label, 9 foot diamond blue label/Ernesto tightened gold crown, 9 foot gold crown, any other 9 foot, diamond red label 9 foot, diamond blue label 7 foot, any other 7 foot.
I don't understand how this relates to the post (mine) that it appears to be a response to
Ok then, maybe I gave your post too much credit for high level thought then. It seemed to me that it was tongue in cheek stating that there WEREN'T any countries overseas using the smaller tables and producing high quality players. I was commenting based on that supposition.