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BasementDweller said:
All those shots are hard to judge because of the new cloth. I think that's the difficult part of setting up these tournament tables. Even with 4 inch pockets balls are going to slide in with new cloth and then everyone will complain about the setup. We've seen similar shots go in during the Mosconi Cup and supposedly those pockets we're as small as 4 1/8".

I've wondered if the cloth manufacturers couldn't figure out a way to provide broken in cloth just for tournaments.
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garczar said:
I've often thought same thing. There's got to be a way to reduce some of new cloth slickness at the mill. I know it goes away pretty quickly but at a lot of major events new cloth makes the tables look like big bar-boxes.
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At the mill would be too much to ask.

My old mentor, George Chenier, did a lot of exhibitions as he got older....
...often on a newly set up table.
He would go the day before and walk around the table with a rubber mallet...banging away
the tightness thereby making the rubber livelier....and brushing the table with a HAND brush
takes some of the slide out of the cloth.
 
BasementDweller said:
... I've wondered if the cloth manufacturers couldn't figure out a way to provide broken in cloth just for tournaments.
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At carom, how the cloth plays is even more important than at pool. They've figured out at least a partial solution for the major pro tournaments. Start qualifiers three days before the main event and run a lot of matches on the tables. Then on day four the rails are a lot closer to normal.

I think in general the slippery new cloth gives an advantage to the top players because they have a lot more experience playing on it than the part-time players who have sticky year-old cloth back in their home PH.
 
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pt109 said:
... My old mentor, George Chenier, did a lot of exhibitions as he got older....
...often on a newly set up table.
He would go the day before and walk around the table with a rubber mallet...banging away the tightness thereby making the rubber livelier....
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Is the idea to get the rail cloth a little looser?
 
It's a pity shane undisputedly number 1 pool player in the states and one of the best player of all time had been booted out early in the tourney otherwise he could have made an impact in the knockout stages and possibly a different set of winners. A scenario of what could have been. A hindsight by the organizer to have put in one group Shane, Shaw, Soquet, Mario He, Alosius Yapp, Kaci Eklent.Wan Can, & Jeong Young Hwa. These are all experienced and calibre players with the ability to beat each other in any given time. Not to say that the other groups are easy but the organizer could have done one better if the favorites were distributed evenly in the groups.
 
jerome38 said:
It's a pity shane undisputedly number 1 pool player in the states and one of the best player of all time had been booted out early in the tourney otherwise he could have made an impact in the knockout stages and possibly a different set of winners. A scenario of what could have been. A hindsight by the organizer to have put in one group Shane, Shaw, Soquet, Mario He, Alosius Yapp, Kaci Eklent.Wan Can, & Jeong Young Hwa. These are all experienced and calibre players with the ability to beat each other in any given time. Not to say that the other groups are easy but the organizer could have done one better if the favorites were distributed evenly in the groups.
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Wow, that's one tough group to make it out of!
 
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