john schmidt said:
i used to wonder myself which is harder. the 8ft is absolutely easier. furthermore i was in the ob1 booth this year on a diamond bartable.i was curious if i could run 100. i walked in first shot 830 am ,dress clothes ,balls were even kinda dirty,no glove and not my obcue.a different obcue and ran 181 . bob jewett sweated most of it and my ob1 guys saw whole thing.
at first i said to myself thats gotta be like running 400.
actually it was easier than 9ft because i could reach every break ball easy and all the shots werte almost unmissable.
a 4by 8 is even easier.
trust me on 4by8 big pockets i think i would run over 500 within a 2 year period.
in closing i promise 4by8 is easier and if someone thinks different they can take a week on 9ft and ill take week on 4by8 and see who runs the most.jmho
While JS is considered one of the best 14.1 players these days, I am perhaps the worst 14.1 player these days that can play pool.
I read the first post, got to Johns post and stopped reading and am making this post, I firmly believe the 8' table is 100% the easiest size table for 14.1. A 7' box is brutal because there are just to many traffic jams the balls look huge and the game just dosent work on that size table. A 9' foot table is much harder because your target is smaller, its harder to cheat the pocket. The 8' box is the perfect compermise there arnt many traffic jams and the size of your target(pocket or cluster) is much bigger on a 8' table but not congested like a 7' table.
The reason my perspective is credible is because I'm a reasonalby good player, I have played 25 years and am very experienced, I just dont have the coordination to be a great player-but I have been around top players for years and learned alot. 3 years on a 8' table at home so I have a bit of experience on that size table.
My 14.1 game is so weak that I can really tell when I have the slightest advantage, when you are so bad at something you notice anything that helps because I do know how to play pool and when I do play 14.1 on a 8' table I can run 12 or 13, and 8-10 on a 9' table. On occasion I can break and run a 4 pack playing 9B so you can see that I can play a little, i have a weak break, If I could break I might get to 6 but not better than that.
I hope hearing from a champion and the worst 14.1 player in one post helps the extreme ends of talent I think lends credibility to this argument, I'll give John 90% and take 10%, hows that?
John break the 526 please, Seriously Bonds broke the HR record I would love to see you do it buddy, I mean that-your one hell of a player and capable and I promis you the last 15 balls getting to that record will get your heart pounding and test your heart, not really test but you'll grow stronger from beating that record as a player so when your in finish line in games in the future they will be easier, because you'll be that much stronger, thicker armour. DO IT MAN!!!!!!
