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It seems like a terrible way to celebrate a victory. The table deserves more respect!

I worked in a pool hall as a teenager racking balls, sweeping floors, etc. House rules there were strict, but admired by most because the tables stayed in good condition over the years. From that background I was appalled when I first saw a player jump on the table after a victory. It seems like...

I appreciate everyone's response and find this situation interesting because, for me, it's hard to decide what the ruling should be according to the BCA rules. I thing the BCA and OnePocket.org rules are essentially the same with respect to this situation. The specific situation deals with an...

Thanks to all for your responses. In our situation we are not dealing with a forgotten ball. Our situation is: You owe a ball, and your opponent makes a ball in your pocket. When does that ball get spotted? Or stated another way, When is the soonest that ball can be spotted? Some look at the...

You owe a ball, and your opponent makes a ball in your pocket. When does that ball get spotted? In discussions at our Center, one view is that it is spotted after your opponent's inning, i.e., before you shoot. Another view is that it isn't spotted until after you shoot and have completed your...

Thanks Bob, Good suggestions.

Thanks Bob. Spotting all the balls closest to the headstring to get down to four behind the line at the end of each inning is what we've been doing, and seems to work reasonably well as long as the prior shooter keeps this in mind when leaving the cue ball after the shot that adds a 5th or more...

At our senior center one pocket pool is being played more frequently this year, and sometimes the games take a long time to finish. Our general policy is not to play long duration games such as 14.1 and one pocket when people are waiting to play. We have recently started using the...

How long does it take for a 9 ft pool table to settle into a stable position after installation of a new rug? Our community center recently installed a new rug in the billiards room by jacking the tables up, sliding rug sections under the legs, and lowering the tables. The tables are all way off...

The manufacturer's chief fitter came on 4/24/18, disassembled, checked everything, and reassembled using Strachan 6811 cloth at the insistence of the table manufacturer. Staff had asserted that Simonis 760 has a weave created in the manufacturing process that causes ball roll off. The ball roll...

I didn't expect him to be using any filler after he had cleaned away the Bondo carefully. When I noticed the filler type activity I asked about it. He didn't discuss exactly why he had to use it, but pleasantly explained that plaster of Paris is favored by the manufacturer as a filler since it...

I've uploaded four photos to illustrate the slates (5) on our 5 X 10 snooker table, the striations on the slate that don't match from section to section, and the area where plaster of Paris was used by the chief fitter at his visit on 4/24/18. The link to the photos is...

I don't see my last post written on 4/25/18, the day after the table manufacturer's chief fitter came to address our concerns about our new 10' snooker table. Perhaps the post was lost during the recent AZ server problem. After asserting that our ball roll-off observations, following the initial...

Ball roll-off videos we took yesterday afternoon are available for viewing at https://photos.app.goo.gl/AmRMiAu2c5mlSxuG3

Thanks for your replies; I greatly appreciate the benefit of your knowledge, experience and insights. The link to the ball roll-off tests isn't currently active, but may be restored today. The table installation was completed on 2/16/18, and the ball roll-off tests were done on 2/27/18. No...

We took some videos recently to assess ball roll-off on one section of our new snooker table. They are available for viewing at https://photos.app.goo.gl/u7G8ZBESI5EKPBR53 . Could the ball roll-off we saw be primarily due to the Simonis 760 cloth weave? Thanks for your assessments!

Does anyone know about Simonis 760 cloth causing ball roll-off? I heard from a snooker table manufacturer recently that the way Simonis cloth is manufactured creates a certain weave that at slow ball speeds causes ball roll off. Does anyone know about this, or have experience to the contrary?

I think the "why" is historical, not physical. I don't know a lot of the history, but I believe that Phelan developed the triangular pointy-nose profile around 1850. It seems not to have migrated back to the old country, which appears to have had a separate rubber-cushion evolution. You may want...

Yes, it does seem that the broad cushion design may integrate the properties of narrow nose cushion designs. The Brunswick snooker table I played on previously had the narrow nose cushion design, which seemed to perform okay within consideration of its old age, probably 50 yr.. Some sections of...

No, I'm not a fitter. I'm a retired chemist, with access to a senior center facility with 3 pool tables, and 1 snooker table. We mostly play Golf on the snooker table. The new snooker table with the broad profile cushions is interesting, and puzzling to consider why the cushions are designed...