Bad bar tables make me want to quit pool
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..... What was the thread about again? :scratchhead:
The bold is what pisses me off the most...
You can 'adjust' to the cloth, rails, and balls. But that damn wall ain't goin' anywhere...
It got to the point when I was playing in a traveling league where I ended up making a shorter, 16" shaft for my break cue, to switch in certain situations. It was a uniloc pin, so it swapped out pretty easily/quickly. And it had a garden variety leather tip on it.
So when we'd get to a bar with one of those walls, our team would have something to 'counteract' that wall with a short cue that actually had some playability to it (versus that short cue in the corner of the bar with a flat tip).
Yeah, it kinda sucked to have to create something specifically for that application (and it really can't be used for anything else)...
But, man, it came in handy more than a few times.
And the looks on the other teams faces when one of us would break that thing out, after they'd play a safety that put the cueball in a position that the wall came into play...
My guy: "Lemme see that short shaft you got."
(Screws shaft onto break cue. Makes shot, AND gets position)
Their guy:
Priceless
Best post of the year. I do that shaking of the head when I see a player pull out a jump cue and drill the shot because I can't use one:thumbup:
I honestly don't know if I'd keep playing if Jum closed the Cue Ball in Salem, Oregon...well maintained classic 9' Brunswicks...no loud juke, no booze meaning no ill behaved drunks. It's more than the tables that turn me off about bar table play.
http://www.thecueball.com/PoolRoom.html
http://www.thecueball.com/PoolRoom.html
Most tournaments in my area are on the bar table. I would love to play in more events on the 9 foots but they just don't have them around here. The better players still tend to win the bar table tournaments regardless. I like to compete regardless of the size of the table.
I would simply take my business somewhere else. I personally haven't been in a bar in over 20 years and don't intend on starting now. Give me a good ole pool hall any day.
I don't think the problem is with the tables...
Love playing on all tables! Shitty or not....doesnt matter to me. Both people are dealing with the same "issues" and I have just learned that a bad table means I need to hit harder to take out the bad rolls. If there is a bad rail or two, I just position play to avoid having to use them the best I can. Obviously I would prefer to NOT play on one, but if I were stuck on a deserted island in the middle of no where, I'd play on anything with a limp stick. :thumbup:
cluelesscuer
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Yea...I just need to avoid them. I'm sorry, it's not just my matches I'm in. It's matches everyone is in where it's coming down to everyone having an equal chance. In fact in the apa, if a team is on small tables on a certain week they will put the low sl's (who need to win less games) up on the bar tables more so than when playing on nice tables because they know there is a lot more luck and anyone can win.
Yeah, I pretty much stopped shooting on them unless it is a diamond box.
I like playing on junk tables. Allows me to practice adverse conditions. I view it as a challenge to rise to, not an annoyance to distract me. If you're getting beat 50% of the time, it's YOU, not the table... 
It's a head game, if you can't get your head around it you lose...
best,
Justin
It's a head game, if you can't get your head around it you lose...
best,
Justin
The solution is not to play in places like that. I guess it could be that you have nothing close to you aside from bad tables, then I'm sorry about that. Myself, I drive about 40 minutes one way to play in a couple of good rooms where I have a couple of rooms within 10-15 minutes of me. I just don't stop to play in the rooms I don't like.
In defense of the Bar Owner in the Valley of the Sun, the State of Arizona has allowed too many to open issuing too many Liquor licenses. Make competition tough for a pool of customers.
Plus it is a tough business, and if you are not there during open hours all it take id a few employees with their hands in the till, to make you profit go from Black to Red.
Sitting in a busy Bar we see people coming, and going. We see people spending copious amounts of money. We say gee whiz this place is a God Mine.
We have zero ideas about the debut or cost of operations, and thus the profit could also be low, or the owner work for sub minimum wage.
Plus it is a tough business, and if you are not there during open hours all it take id a few employees with their hands in the till, to make you profit go from Black to Red.
Sitting in a busy Bar we see people coming, and going. We see people spending copious amounts of money. We say gee whiz this place is a God Mine.
We have zero ideas about the debut or cost of operations, and thus the profit could also be low, or the owner work for sub minimum wage.
cluelesscuer
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Actually, I'm winning about the same. I have a much easier time on the bad small tables beating players I would never be able to beat on nice tables.
That's good!!! :thumbup::thumbup: It will make you a stronger player over time. Keep up the good work!
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I love the game too much to ever want to quit, but bad equipment puts me on tilt
and I agree it's discouraging seeing zeros shoot like heros on the 7 footer.
If ever get arrested at a pool hall, it will not be for fighting with a drunk, stabbing someone over a gambling debt,
or trying to steal someone's cues. It will be having a countertop positioned at exactly the wrong place and
wrong height, making it impossible to line up a shot on the rail without elevation.
So many times I've fantasized about just bringing both fists down on the shelf kirk-style
and knocking it completely off the wail.
and I agree it's discouraging seeing zeros shoot like heros on the 7 footer.
If ever get arrested at a pool hall, it will not be for fighting with a drunk, stabbing someone over a gambling debt,
or trying to steal someone's cues. It will be having a countertop positioned at exactly the wrong place and
wrong height, making it impossible to line up a shot on the rail without elevation.
So many times I've fantasized about just bringing both fists down on the shelf kirk-style
and knocking it completely off the wail.
Pretty much EVERY Bar Table in our local League is a POS that needs a
complete rebuild, but the Bangers, Drunks, and Druggies couldn't care less
what they play on, as long as they can get drunk and get high.
complete rebuild, but the Bangers, Drunks, and Druggies couldn't care less
what they play on, as long as they can get drunk and get high.
lol I was thinking the same thing. On the worst equipment bad players still don't beat me any where near 50 percent of the time.
When I feel I'm struggling on a bad table and it's getting in my head my thought process is "If you can play this game at the level you think you can ..make the adjustment bare down and get it done." usually works for me..
When I feel I'm struggling on a bad table and it's getting in my head my thought process is "If you can play this game at the level you think you can ..make the adjustment bare down and get it done." usually works for me..
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