Action challenge on a 10-footer - anyone interested?

OK,

So, if TAR were to make this happen, how many people would pony up $25.00 for the Pay Per View?

I ask this for a reason! JCIN would gladly put together any match that he could if he knew he would make money from it!

Imagine spending thousands of dollars and many hours of time to put this together only to have a few hundred buy the PPV.


I for one would put my $25.00 up right now. JCIN, if we get 1000 people to put up the $25.00 now, before the match. Do you think you could put it together?


Royce Bunnell
www.obcues.com
 
What, nobody wants to take me up on this?

Let's get together and tell JCIN that we want him to put this thing together!

Somebody join me and offer to buy the feed now. We need to show TAR that we mean business when we ask them to do something for us!

Royce
 
RBC, you have a point here we'd better show we mean business. What I think about that is let's see how manu users will buy upcoming 10-ball challenge Appleton vs Hatch and divide that number by two. Yes, I think regardless of the participant players this would draw less interest. At least for the first time.

CreeDo, I suppose (I can only guess, have never seen the game on such eqpt and it must be my first reason to do so) the game should change. Some common position play patterns should work different, if ever. Interesting to see how the players adopt to that.
 
I wanna see pros miss like I do so heck yeah I'd be in to see some of that. If you let Earl play in the match I'd buy it twice. Earl is still a straight shooter boy I think the tougher the table the better his odds.
 
Back in the day!!

That's all they played on back in the day, I think it should be brought back. Who ever is worried bout playing on one they have no heart with/in there personal pool game.

Frankie
 
RBC said:
What, nobody wants to take me up on this?

Let's get together and tell JCIN that we want him to put this thing together!
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What Royce is proposing here is perfectly legit and understandable...

People come on here all the time and say, "TAR should do this, TAR should do that" without thinking about what it costs them to stage an event in both time and money...

I think TAR should collect all monies up front before staging these streams...

If the money makes sense, proceed. If not, everyone gets a refund.

9-Ball on a 10-footer with 2 champions?

I'm in today... Just say the word Justin and my PayPal is on the way...
 
JCIN said:
I think it would be cool to see Diamond make a 10 footer with 4 inch pockets just to hear all the curse words and phrases that get invented by the people who play on it.
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Diamond does offer 10-foot tables, although I don't know how often they get an order for one. They'd have to be asked whether they would loan one out for such a proposition match, if both parties put up the sand.

But 4-1/2 inch pockets would be PLENTY small on a 10-foot table. 4-3/4 would make even more sense.:smile:

Doc
 
i'm definitely up for Royce's idea and it's fair enough! How about it JCIN - set up a seperate paypal account with a counter on the website and let's see if we can all raise the neccesary funds!
 
So do you only watch bar box tournaments, then?

CreeDo said:
For once I gotta disagree with you Vahmurka :(

It will be just like watching the pros play regular pool, only with more misses and tougher position. I get more excited when they don't miss a ball for half an hour.

I wouldn't mind seeing and playing on one of these just for the novelty of it though.
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StevenPWaldon said:
So do you only watch bar box tournaments, then?
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So Steve, CREEDO said they would miss and get out of line every shot. Well I dont agree w/ him. That means place a bunch of "C" players to play on the 10 footer and make the pockets 5inches........LOL I just dont understand some of the post by people.
Frankie
 
ehh, don't be tools. I said they'd miss more often and get out of line more often. There is no disputing the simple fact that bigger table = more misses. That doesn't mean they'd miss every single ball and I never said it did. It just means that instead of making 99% of their shots, they might only make 97%. To me, it is not exciting to see more or less the exact same thing we usually see, but with 2% more missed shots.

If you want to argue the point about getting out of position I'd be game, maybe a large table means more room for error so you don't get out of line as much. And maybe the added size means you can do certain things that aren't as sensible on a 9 footer (like playing for the short side of a ball?).

Steven, I didn't say I'd rather watch all barbox tournaments. You're normally not an ignorant poster so I'm not sure why you'd say something like that. I only made the bold claim that seeing guys play on a bigger table will be less interesting (to me) because I expect it'll be similar to seeing them play on 9 footers, but they'll miss a little more often. That statement doesn't automatically mean I think smaller is better and therefore I only want to watch pros shooting on 7 footers. There is too big and too small, and in between there is the 9 footer, which I like best. If anyone disagrees... then go ahead and disagree but don't try to intentionally twist what I'm saying into a completely different statement.
 
I contacted Diamond a while back regarding a 10 footer and received the run around, considering they are the reps here for Gabriels you would have thought it would be very doable

I think Olhausen may make them, but any custom table shop could easily do it

for the record, I think 10 footers are the Grand Daddys of the game and should have a place in todays pool scene
 
i think the 10 footers would seperate the men from the boys but of course that is debatable

l also believe you'd see more artistry along the lines of carom, i.e multi rail kicks and power strokes
 
Big difference between a 9 footer and a 10 foot. One is the break shot in 14.1, the angle of the rubber is decieving. I have several friends come over and 8 ball is the favorite game. Second is the cloth, you need a super fast cloth or your english play will need to change. I have a 20 year old cloth that has held up great, but is doesn't compare to a simonis 860.
One big benefit on a 10 footer is practicing the diamond system for carom or three cushion billiards.
I dont think you are going to see Billiard Halls put one in because of the room it takes up and the amount of players you would get. one other game which is alot of fun is Pee Pool. Mitch
 
worriedbeef said:
i'm definitely up for Royce's idea and it's fair enough! How about it JCIN - set up a seperate paypal account with a counter on the website and let's see if we can all raise the neccesary funds!
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that is well worth the try imo. Like McKinneyMiner said, refund (or maybe it counts for future ppv) if we fail (I hope we not).
 
C'mon guys!

Everyone wants TAR to show more hot matches. Let's show them we mean business.

Remember, it's $25.00!

Most of us spend more than that on Alcohol over 3 nights of playing pool!

There are thousands of people reading this site, surely there are at least 1000 who would pay this small amount to watch 3 nights (at least 18 hours!) of some of the best pool on the planet! We spend way more than that going out to eat 3 times!

JCIN, you know you've got my money!

Royce Bunnell
www.obcues.com
 
A little pool hall here just put in a 10 footer today I cant wait to stop by and check it out but have SVB and Mika come down to Charleston and play a little straight pool I would love to see it.
 
You can come to Omaha and can get played on a 5X10 snooker table playing golf for a decent bet. PM me if anyone is interested.
 
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I don't think the top players would have any problem with a 10 footer. The game play on a 5x10 is just different. In some ways it is easier as there is a lot more space and less traffic - more than twice the area of a bar box (24.5 vs. 50) I have a 5x10 pool table and like to practice playing carom games like bottle pool and cowboy as well as equal offense and Fargo. It is fun to play pea pool with large groups. I letthe mechanic talk me into putting 4 3/4 pockets - wish I would have held firm for the 4 inch... His argument was you need to be able to sneak a ball past or your game will change and suffer. The best thing is the long straights as any flaw in your stroke will show itself. I would sell this table though and buy a 5x10 american snooker table if there was a market - but of course there isn't.

Chris in Denver
 
Well, I guess we won't find out by watching it on TAR!

I can't believe there aren't more people who would commit to the PPV.



So, as far as the pro's on 10 foot tables? Well, let's just say that John Schmidt became a pretty sporty snooker player in just a few months! With several centuries and a very respectable high break of 145, and yes it was all on a 6x12 snooker table to boot!


The best players in the world are just that, the best players in the world! The table doesn't matter that much.

Royce Bunnell
www.obcues.com
 
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