Get off my lawn, Things I hate in pool today

iusedtoberich said:
Another one: A lot of newer rooms today don't have any provisions to lean your cue against. No semi-circular cutouts in the shelves/tables, etc.
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I always carry a QClaw because of this. Even if they do have them they're often horribly positioned (too close to the table) or I don't trust them to not scratch up my shafts.
 
14oneman said:
I guess I'll jump in...why not???

1- The death of Straight Pool...the game I've loved since my Dad handed me a cue at age 3, is virtually non-existent...there are no local Straight Pool tournaments in my area...Hell...there aren't even any Straight Pool leagues!!!
2- Bar boxes...grew up playing on a 5'x10' Brunswick Centennial, and to the best of my knowledge the BCA in 1949-1950, chose the 4.5'x9' as the official table size...yet any amateur event at SBE, (including the Pro-Am) is on a damn bar box...when you go to a bowling alley, they don't ask if you want the 60' lane or 40' lane...amateur or pro everybody bowls on the same size lane...pool should be no different...
3- "TV balls"...the color of pool balls were just fine, for a hundred years, until some nitwit decided Pepto-Bismol pink, dinner mint green, and tan bark brown, would be better for television...
4- slop...games that do not require called ball and pocket...

I'm sure there are more things that grate my chalk, but those are the first to come to mind...
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Straight pool is still the best game. There are a few guys that meet up once a week to play it and I would always play 8b with one of them and their 8b acumen is on point. The safety play makes the game a lot interesting and these guys do it a lot.
 
billiards_watch said:
I carry one that holds 3 cues and that thing is pretty heavy. I already have a heavy case too. :oops:
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Weight is one of the reasons i don't bother with really nice cases. I see it as a consumable that's there to protect my cues and should be replaceable if it gets banged up (i still take really good care of it). Just need it to be clean and decent looking and hold all the junk i carry around.
 
sudocrushms said:
Weight is one of the reasons i don't bother with really nice cases. I see it as a consumable that's there to protect my cues and should be replaceable if it gets banged up (i still take really good care of it). Just need it to be clean and decent looking and hold all the junk i carry around.
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I'm learning that now because I just went ahead and got a leather one hoping it will fill my needs and looks good. Damn, I tend to go back to my cheaper and lighter cases. I swap them back and forth.
 
billiards_watch said:
Straight pool is still the best game. There are a few guys that meet up once a week to play it and I would always play 8b with one of them and their 8b acumen is on point. The safety play makes the game a lot interesting and these guys do it a lot.
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Awesome to hear it's still alive somewhere...wish it was more thriving in my neck of the woods...but, I'm old, and I've had my moments in the Sun...glad that you enjoy it...it is the best game, in my opinion...
 
fastone371 said:
Same with tight pockets, they miss on 5" buckets and think a proper practice table should be 4" pockets. o_Oo_O
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What is kind of fascinating is how the same mindset exist with high level players.

I've heard professional 3c players say, "isn't pool just all about making balls".

Or you get the snooker snobs that think pool is too easy with big pockets.

Yet the Russian pyramid pros aren't running out regularly on their equipment.
 
iusedtoberich said:
Another one: A lot of newer rooms today don't have any provisions to lean your cue against. No semi-circular cutouts in the shelves/tables, etc.
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100% agree, as it wouldn't be too difficult to accommodate the customers in either expense or work. It sure would add a nice touch to rooms instead of lining up cue sticks on drinking tables and such.
 
nmh2008 said:
  1. Incredibly slow players
  2. Players that come to play a little bit of pool between cigarettes. Nothing puts me on tilt quite like waiting around for an hour for my match to start and then needing to wait for my opponent to take a “quick smoke break”
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There are a few players in the league I am in that are incredibly slow, and it is a struggle to stay focused with a good attitude and not get upset at their slowness. It's like they are in a trance and got to figure out every angle from start to finish at that particular time.
 
League players who don't know the rules they're playing by and then arguing about said rules.
 
Texas3cushion said:
What is kind of fascinating is how the same mindset exist with high level players.

I've heard professional 3c players say, "isn't pool just all about making balls".

Or you get the snooker snobs that think pool is too easy with big pockets.

Yet the Russian pyramid pros aren't running out regularly on their equipment.
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I think a reasonable argument could be made that with modern tech we'd see snooker get "easier". At least for players that are already actually good. Playing with a modern carbon shaft with a decent tip instead of a hunk of ash with a piece of wallet on the end...

Isn't pyramid played with tree trunks and atlas stones?
 
sudocrushms said:
I think a reasonable argument could be made that with modern tech we'd see snooker get "easier". At least for players that are already actually good. Playing with a modern carbon shaft with a decent tip instead of a hunk of ash with a piece of wallet on the end...

Isn't pyramid played with tree trunks and atlas stones?
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Yeah I don't think it matters.

All games are much like straight pool where if you never miss, keep going.

If you can run a 147 cool, run two 147's

Pyramid is played with heavy cues to be able to hit the ball hard. And they have to hit the ball hard to force balls into the pockets because they are so tight. It's honestly kind of silly imo
 
Texas3cushion said:
Players that think the 9' is superior to the 7' but can't run-out a rack of 8b on the 7' because the games TOO EASY...
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Needs more context. Like the field in question or whose practice table etc... It's already been irrefutably demonstrated that tightened playing condition are a nothing burger. Evolution or extinction. Nobody's problem.
 
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