It is what it is! There have been great bar table events in pool for decades now, as long as I've been around. And bar table pool has been a mainstay of our game in this country for just as long, with legendary match-ups for big money down through the years. The best bar table players are also legends, names like David Matlock, Keith McCready, Wade Crane and yes even Buddy Hall! Not shortstops by any means.
It bothers me not one iota that we have two more great tournaments put on by CSI that are being contested on Diamond seven footers, which just happen to be the best bar tables ever made by a long shot. CSI also produces the very successful U.S. Bar Table Championships held every year in Reno. These are great events that attract large fields of players who compete for some decent prize money. What's not to like about that? It may be true that lesser players like me have a chance to win matches and get in the money, but at the end of the day it's the champions who win the big money.
I don't really care to debate the merits of playing on a big table versus playing on a small table. It's all pool in my book and I'm glad we still have some good tournaments in the USA. I will enjoy this event just as much as I enjoy the Bigfoot tourney we do at DCC every year. I like to see good pool in all its various forms. And it will take some damn good pool to win the upcoming U.S. Open Ten Ball and Eight Ball tourneys. There will be myriad thrills and spills along the way and some of us will get to see it in person or on the stream and others (who don't like these kind of events) won't.
And that sir is the bottom line here. No one makes you watch it or not watch it! To that degree this is still a free country. :thumbup:
P.S. When you see great players like Shane, Dennis O., Warren, Dechaine, Bergman, Woodward, J. Hall, Frost and many others coming then you know there's going to be some great pool on display. It's just a little different test of their skills.
