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For good players that can judge deflection well the gain comes from guaranteeing consistent throw from the balls on unreliable equipment. Basically any Inside causes skid when sliding or rolling at slow speeds. For those you use TOO. The contacts are more consistent with either TOI or TOO...

What I get out of all of pj and his centerball crew is they play on prestine equipment in controlled conditions. Anyone with extensive experience playing on a variety of equipment (some of which are skid machines with inconsistent throw) and rooms with changing humidity knows centerball is a...

The pockets were easier

Yea. I have a tight pro 8 and can go either way. The problem is as you said you are not overwhelmingly better on either. A lot of the guys at the 9 foot hall are surprised at how good I am on the bb though. Most constantly blow shape. And the bb players are surprised how good I am on a 9...

I had this happen too except the cherry from a cigar fall off and burnt through my pants and burnt my junk while driving.

I'll take a look at that but the balls we use on the other tables are the same and those tables seem to play more on system.

I play at a tournament in a room where at least one table is regularly sprayed with chalk-off. The table is a Brunswick Anniversary with the original rubber. I play fine on the tables that don't have the chalk-off on them but when on the 'clean' tables I have serious trouble controlling the...

Someone had a jflowers cue at my pool room and I hit some balls with it and estimate it deflected about as much as my Z3.

I feel the exact opposite about 8-ball. Around here the only fargo tournaments are 8-ball and I am much better versed in the nuances of 9-ball and feel I play significantly stronger in it. My fargorate started out at 645 when it was all 9-ball games and has fallen to about 600 with the...

I know an installer who has some of these for like 45$ a tip installed and I am wondering if anyone has tried them? He says someone he knows claims they brought their game up 2 balls but I am skeptical. He only has the mediums right now. EDIT: I suppose these are called athlete tips and are...

Except for golden breaks and wired 9-balls after the break. I can see in a game like 10-ball where you can't win off the break shot it not mattering as much, but it should be pretty obvious if you can win games in one shot and are guaranteed N/2 shots then in a game against a strong player a...

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Yup and especially with stuff like golden breaks where it doesn't take much skill to win a game it should be pretty obvious it could affect the final score.

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Thanks. I got so many responses it was hard to keep track of everything along with all the noise.

This sounds like a good thing to try. Thanks. Last night I tried what glenn suggested and choked up on the cue on the softer shots and it along with the softer tip seemed to help a lot. My cueball speed improved significantly. I haven't tried the harder tip along with choking up yet and I...

Speed (energy transfer) is the only difference when it comes to tips.

These are not normal tables.

"he prefers the action he gets with a very soft tip on the CB with extremely soft shots" This sentence is key. On these tables you constantly hit extremely soft shots as they have fast rails that are boingy from humidity and championship 3030 cloth which is faster than 760. The soft tip does...

LOL. Responses like this are from the 400 players....