14'3" x 26' room, 9 ft table??

[xianmacx]

another vote for 9fter. The 1% wall bumping is way better than shooting on a smaller table 100% of the time.

I would go with the league cut pockets. They will be plenty challenging.

I had 4 3/8 pockets on my diamond and they were too tight imo. frustrated me to the point of losing slight interest in the game. I now have a Gold Crown with 4.75 pocket and have played a lot more pool. The game is no fun if you aren't making balls. Not to mention friends and family. One game on the diamond and they were done. They could not make a ball unless it was hanging in the pocket. I will probably get flamed, but this IMO.

Ian

 

[drhanson]

very nice room dr.

Do you have more room on the side with the wall, verses the side with the window?n Yours is exactly 14'3?

I just measured it, it's actually only 14' even. I have the table perfectly centered between the smaller 14' dimension.

It's really just like playing position for anything else. You don't leave yourself so you have to stretch and use a bridge if you don't have to just like you don't leave yourself with the cue ball against the rail if you don't have to. It's just one more item to consider, no big deal. If I'm in stroke, I never need to reach for the shorter cue and I'm playing with a 59-1/2" cue.

 

[RussPrince]

another vote for 9fter. The 1% wall bumping is way better than shooting on a smaller table 100% of the time.

I would go with the league cut pockets. They will be plenty challenging.

I had 4 3/8 pockets on my diamond and they were too tight imo. frustrated me to the point of losing slight interest in the game. I now have a Gold Crown with 4.75 pocket and have played a lot more pool. The game is no fun if you aren't making balls. Not to mention friends and family. One game on the diamond and they were done. They could not make a ball unless it was hanging in the pocket. I will probably get flamed, but this IMO.

Ian

I couldn't agree more. Nothing is more denigrating to your confidence than constantly missing shots that should have otherwise gone in. IMO practicing on "tight" pockets is the opposite of warming up, but that's just me.

 

[3andstop]

If the walls are sheetrock and studs, you can pick up 4 more inches easily with a little work by turning some studs on their side in the area of the table and make little jogs in the wall.

 

[iusedtoberich]

Next big question is diamond pro cut(4.5") or league cut(4.75") pockets ??



I'm merely a C player. I play 95% 8b, but really would like to start playing 9b more. Always very passionate playing pool, but only have time to head out to the pool hall maybe once 2x month. When my buddy and I can get together, we would play 6hrs of pool no problem. Heck I wouldnt go watch a movie, but would pay 10-20 bucks to watch a pool stream.



My 5 older brothers all play as we use to have a 7ft table when I was a kid. Most of them haven't touch a pool cue in years though.



I don't want it to be too though that no one wants to play.

Fellow C here. Definitely get big pockets. I have 5" on my GC and love them. I have no problem gambling at the hall on 4.5" pockets. But at home, I want to stay loose and in stroke and have fun on buckets.

 

[3andstop]

Fellow C here. Definitely get big pockets. I have 5" on my GC and love them. I have no problem gambling at the hall on 4.5" pockets. But at home, I want to stay loose and in stroke and have fun on buckets.

I will second that also. If you want to improve, practice straight pool. If you do that, you don't want to bastardize your table.

 

[drhanson]

Next big question is diamond pro cut(4.5") or league cut(4.75") pockets ??

Mine are pro cut and as a C player I don't think 4.5" is overly tight. The tables that are shimmed to be tighter than 4.5" are silly tough for me; so tough that my position play becomes very limited which isn't any fun. If you go with 4.5" your home table will match up with what's out there in many pool halls.