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A while back I was lucky enough to be selected as the winner of another member's Pay it Forward thread. I got an AZB patch and a 9/10 ball Magic Rack. A condition of the giveaway was that I had to make my own thread. I said that I was going to give away the Magic Rack and a box of 2 new cubes...

I'd say that my mood (depending on all things going on at the time) affects my play substantially more than my level of play (one of a variety of constantly changing factors) affects my mood. How often one is able to play, and whether they depend wholly or in part on pool for income, would...

It would be nice to have a 7' table play like a scaled down 9' table. With slower cloth, I could use close to the same stroke and speed for position on both tables.

I would rather have a giant mechanized apparatus mounted over the table that drops a Sardo-like rack of balls onto the spot. Kind of like bowling pins.

Your thinking is correct... making them call the extra money ball takes 5 pockets out of play on the break (with the added bonus of making them concentrate on hitting the rack in a likely different and possibly less effective way chasing that extra money ball). It also takes away the "strategic...

Let's say he hadn't practiced breaking for a cumulative (imaginary number) 5,000 hours. That's 5,000 hours he would've put into kicks, banks, shotmaking, patterns... I think you can see where I'm going with this.

If you search ebay for "players shaft" or "Meucci shaft" you'll find a lot of options with no pilot. Many of the sellers will put on a hard tip if you want for free or cheap. I would contact the seller in your link and see if he has what you want.

I feel like it needs more scoreboards and hockey jerseys...

I had to second this without further delay. Being a medium skill player is often worse than being terrible when it comes to the shot that's left when I walk away from the table.

The value of one particular handicap can vary based on who the two players are (ability), so I would imagine a list being nominally useful at best. Just imagine an APA 3 getting the breaks from SVB... Now imagine Orcullo getting the breaks from SVB.

The balls being discussed came up in a google search for "Aramith 9 ball set." Everywhere I saw them for sale listed them as being Aramith Premier balls... which, from what I understand, are not of the same quality as the Raschig set. Still good, and the difference is reflected in the price.

I thought of RKC and his glue method, but I figured it was not exactly the same as what the OP was advised to have done. You're right; glue or staples hold the cloth when properly installed in a similar manner and shouldn't play markedly different.

The billiards, hot tubs, and camping supply warehouse type places glue down cloth on their tables... like perimeter glued vinyl flooring installation. You can tell when those guys recover a table, because the residue that they don't scrape off accumulates at the pocket shelves and causes slow...

If you're talking about having it glued down on the surface of the slate, I'm pretty sure that's a bad idea. Properly installed Simonis (by Mark Gregory of PerfectPockets fame) is doing fine on my 9 foot table in a temperature controlled basement in Georgia.

I don't want to live in a world where TAR shuts down and Bonus Ball gets TV coverage.

In a group of 15 people, there's bound to be a few who will get used to coming to that bar. Tournaments get people in the doors... maybe 10 of them pay entry only and drink water with a net of zero gain for the bar. The other 5 might not spend big every time, but the bar will be a default go-to...

Next time, spend the extra money on a certified, pre-owned sarcasm detector. The recalibrations are included in the maintenance plan.

The second-ball break is surprisingly repeatable with regard to moving the 8 toward the side pocket. That Triple Play thing sounds like a neat incentive... the kind of goofy thing I'd dig. When I played APA last, I got to be around a 15-20% favorite to make the 8 on the break on the worn cloth...

Safety play at the professional level is supposed to take into account the route of both object ball and cue ball. With the exception of maybe 5% unlucky rolls, slopping in a ball and leaving yourself safe should be punished.