The app said, and I quote , "Preventing pro players from performing where they belong (9ft)."
The point I was trying to make is it is just as easy, or just as hard, to hit a 5-in pocket at 7 ft, as it is 4 1/4 inch pocket at 5 ft. The difficulty is the same in my opinion.
The first time we actually played games on our 9-ft, I had two break and runs back to back. I have never in my life been able to do that on a 7 ft. And yes I do have a witness. So yes, I think the game of 8 ball is easier on a 9-ft table, if you can control the cue ball, which that day I did.
The difficulty might be the same for pocketing but there is much more to this game than pocketing.
Lets apply that MOA stuff to position play. The reason it works is because there is a linear relationship. Well the same thing goes for position play but in reverse. Basically if you are off a little bit in direciton on the 7 footer you dont notice it much because the distance traveled is short. But when you start making that distance larger you end up off by a lot.
The same thing with speed. Sure, on a 9 footer you might be leaving yourself the same relative shot as a 7 footer, but on the 7 footer the distance between the balls is still much shorter which makes cueball control much easier for the 'same' shot.
Also, on the 7 footer you dont need to power the ball around like on a 9 footer with worn cloth.
Basically, sure you can make a 7 footer just as hard or harder to pocket balls on as a bucket 9 footer. However, there the distances involved on the 9 footer make direction control and speed control much harder. The same goes for a 10 footers vs a 9 footer.
There is a reason at the local 9 footer tournaments these young bar box players show up one time, leave themselves shots they cant reach all night long, blame it on only playing bar boxes, then never come back... Or they end up leaving themselves a shot they have to muscle and cant do it effectively.