Are you a Pool player or Bar Box player?

Who are you?

  • Pool player on the 9 footer

    Votes: 60 72.3%

  • Bar Box player in leagues

    Votes: 23 27.7%
  • Total voters
    83
I play APA on 9 footers. So does most of our entire state.

Your poll doesn't work.

Silly stereotypes.
 
I play APA and have a 9ft GC3 at home. I think most of DFW plays APA on 8ft tables though. Going to be playing on 7fts this coming August in Vegas though =).
 
Anything Pool related is usually up my alley, I find 9ft tables more challenging than bar box ..

Its been my experience, that it takes very little adjustment for a player who plays on 9 footers, to switch to 7ft tables..
Its the opposite for players who only play on bar box,I think it'd be harder for them to adjust to a 9 footer
 
Looks like we still got a majority of 9 foot players, no matter how popular APA and other leagues are.

Looks like this site is filled with old school players and this forum isn't flooded with the bar box players like most pool rooms around the country.

You Rock AZ!
 
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Used to be only bar table.......

dom_poppa said:
Since the recent threads about leagues killing the game of pool and recent arguments stating that leagues bring people to pool halls and the argument of leagues being very popular.....

If you take the time to take the poll....I want to see how many members fall into a certain category...

Please take the time to vote who you are....

Thanks in advance
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Years ago I only played on the bar table. I didn't know how hard it was to switch back and forth.

Now I like the 9 footers. The only time I play on the bar table is to gamble or play in a tournament.

Most of the better players play on 9 footers more. When they play in the tournaments they have to do some quick adjustments especially with how to play the patterns.

If the bar tables disappeared right now it would make no difference to me at all in fact it might be good for pool. How Knows?

Geno.........
 
on my sunday night apa dj league there are not enough bar tables for all the teams. so every week different teams rotate playing on the 9 footers .

example : every session each team will play 12 weeks on bar tables and 4 weeks on 9 footers. also i go down to the pool hall where my gf works and play the owner on the 9 footers occasionaly.

so i guess i would fall in the both category.
 
genomachino said:
Years ago I only played on the bar table. I didn't know how hard it was to switch back and forth.

Now I like the 9 footers. The only time I play on the bar table is to gamble or play in a tournament.

Most of the better players play on 9 footers more. When they play in the tournaments they have to do some quick adjustments especially with how to play the patterns.

If the bar tables disappeared right now it would make no difference to me at all in fact it might be good for pool. How Knows?

Geno.........
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you are pushing products for every gimmick pool manufacturer under the sun....

Why do you hate the people at Valley tables Gene?

Are you claiming that the people at Valley make an inferior product??

does Perfect Aim somehow not work on a bar box?
 
7' Diamond Pro/Am at home where I play most often. Barbox 8 and 9 ball league player.
I have no problems playing the 9' but rarely do since I have a table at home...


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There are more bar boxes in the US than 9' tables and the percentage will only get lager because of the cost of square footage. 7' tables with tight pockets (4 1/4" or less) and good rails set up right can be just as much of a challenge as a 9' with standard pockets on them. Not all games, but most. Johnnyt
 
I have my own 9 footer at home as well. I'm growing very tired of playing on garbage bar boxes for the APA.
 
dom_poppa said:
Looks like we still got a majority of 9 foot players, no matter how popular APA and other leagues are.

Looks like this site is filled with old school players and this forum isn't flooded with the bar box players like most pool rooms around the country.

You Rock AZ!
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Why do you associate APA players with bar boxes?
In the past 10 years I've played in 3 different APA league divisions and I have always played on 9 foot tables. I assure you, not all APA players are low level bar box bangers, as you imply. I've seen local APA players beat pro players in regional tournaments.
You really have to adjust your stereotypes.
 
PocketPoint said:
Valley tables are inferior. At least any of them that I have ever played on. Diamond 7' tables are of course in a different breed. Tough tables, but still not real pool.

On most valley tables, you can miss the corner pocket by a foot and it still goes in. Makes the game different than real pool.
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That's because they were built for bars and game rooms. They were made to be easy to make the games faster and suck up more money. They were never made to play as hard as a 9'. But you can make them play a lot harder than the stock versions. Johnnyt
 
PocketPoint said:
Just one example.....

In bank pool a primary strategy is to leave the cueball frozen to the head rail. A straight back is extremely difficult with the cueball frozen.

If you now switch to a 7' table, that straight back becomes a whole lot more makeable. It changes the game. It's not what it should be. Especially if it's on a Valley. Diamond 7' tables are very nice, but not right.
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Then pool on a 9' table is not pool. Pool in the US started with 10' tables. Johnnyt
 
I am like a lot of players and play on all sizes of tables. I play on a traveling bar box league on Thursday night. On Wednesday night, I play in an in-house BCA league that is played on 8 ft over sized tables. I practice and play at home on my 9' GC shown in my avatar. The pool hall I play out of has a 12' snooker table that I play on occasionally.

In my opinion, a player that loves the game will play on almost any table. They may prefer one size to another but they will play on the others if there is a tournament or action.
 
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