Do you own more than one table?

mattman

mattman

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I currently have a 4.5 x 9 foot table. We are moving soon and the basement is huge, big enough to add another table. Since I mostly (away from home) play on a bar table, I am considering getting one. We have parties about 4 or 5 times a year and there is always a waiting list for the pool table.

Anyone else own more than one table?

Thanks
Matt
 
always wanted a bar table to go next to my 9ft brunswick, it doesnt fit though. Maybe one day ill expand the house 1 or 2 feet then i could get it. I wanted it to help me warm up for league play.
 
shoot, my 8 footer hardly fits... wish I could fit a 9 and a box in my house. Maybe the next house.
 
Icon of Sin said:
shoot, my 8 footer hardly fits... wish I could fit a 9 and a box in my house. Maybe the next house.
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^ exactly what he said
 
I have a 9' but am dying to get a 3c table...need to yank the staircase and put in a circular one though, to keep both.

Don't think the Wife is gonna go for it:o ;)
 
Black-Balled said:
I have a 9' but am dying to get a 3c table...need to yank the staircase and put in a circular one though, to keep both.

Don't think the Wife is gonna go for it:o ;)
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Wait till she goes to work then have the contractors yank the old one out and put a new one in voila! Tell her it was a gift for her. By then itll be to late to undo it anyways:D
 
two tables

i built a 24 by 28 room addition for the brunswick highlander 8 foorer, i also have a valley bar table at my jewelry store. chuck
 
Well...at least it's good to know that others want both size of tables. My mom thinks I am crazy and my wife don't really care. She says the basement is all mine. It's unfinished now, but it will sport two tables, a TV area, woodstove and a custom bar. I have to move a wall, but it's non-load bearing and just studed in now. The main body of the room measures 24 x 25, with an additional area off it measuring (after moving wall) 14 x 12. It's shaped like the letter "L" with the long part measuring 36'. The two tables will set end to end with the playing area overlapped by a few feet.

Seems as of late I shoot great on my 9' table, but when I go to the bar table my confidence on my shots go down also. I think practicing on a bar table will improve my play on a bar table.

Thanks
 
I have a 8 foot table in my basement and I am in the process of adding a 16x22 room on the back of my house. I'm debating on keeping the 8footer in the basement or getting rid of it. I think it would be a good table for kids to play on while saving the 9 footer for advanced players. (actually, I wouldn't be able to play if it was only for advanced players ha ha)
 
Pass The Gravy, Please

"Do you own more than one table? "


Yes, I'm very well covered.
I have the main table, the children's card table and several TV trays.
Doug
( let's eat )
 
mattman said:
Seems as of late I shoot great on my 9' table, but when I go to the bar table my confidence on my shots go down also. I think practicing on a bar table will improve my play on a bar table.
Thanks
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I have the same problem when I play on my 9 footer alot. I start really hitting em well but then when i go to leauge on barboxes im completely off. Weird.
 
Smorgass Bored said:
"Do you own more than one table? "


Yes, I'm very well covered.
I have the main table, the children's card table and several TV trays.
Doug
( let's eat )
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we own 2 tv trays. it's a betch, to say the least, cause we like inviting friends for smorgasbords.

x-mas time we usually rent a table in the pool hall..
 
I have a 9' pool table and a 10' snooker table in a 24' x 24' room. They are about 2" too close to the walls on one side of each table and 3-4" too close to each other, but it's definitely worth it. I don't like playing on bar tables, either, but have a strategy for dealing with it. First, when you get to the bar, spend the first rack or two of practice making sure of your angles to the pocket. The angles will be different, so you need to train your brain where they are now. Second, take a bunch of speed off, just enough where you can still overcome most table rolls. Lastly, I found a BCA league that plays all their matches at a pool hall with 9' tables. Problem solved!
Sorry if this is redundant, but after buying the pool table, I realized that I really liked snooker as much as pool and that I could always play pool on the snooker table, too. As it worked out, I got both and just love it. I can have 7 people over and keep them all playing all night. Four people play snooker and the other 4 play partners 8-ball or switch out playing 9-ball, winner keeps the table.
 
I have a 9' Brunswick and a 9' A.E. Schmidt that are set up next to each other. The Brunswick is a home table from 1903 and the Schmidt is a commercial table from the forties.
 
If I had the room and money, I would at the very least own a 9-footer and barbox. Next would come a snooker table and then maybe another 9-footer or two. My dream would be a side addition to a house, maybe even separated off to the side, that would be devoted to pool tables. Possibly even something like a barn if I had the property to do something like that. Lots of thoughts run through my mind for design each time I see a new pool hall or someone else's room.

As of now, I have a 9-footer without any extra room.
 
yes i am one of the lucky ones,
I have a 9ft diamond pro and a 7ft diamond pro-am,
both tables get used, when i entertain the girls are on the
7 foot table and the guys on the 9 footer, my basement is 2000sq feet
so i have plenty of room, i only put carpet down and painted the
walls if white seal blocker, no ceiling, this elminates and tax
increases, currently 8 tvs down there also 2 of them 8 foot
projectors side by side
if the basement is all yours go for it, and do what you want with it
 
Lets see here...I know a guy in IL. that I delivered 1 9ft Diamond Professional and 1 Diamond 7ft Professional to. Then in ND, I delivered 1 9ft Diamond ProAm and 1 Diamond 7ft ProAm, who also had another 8ft table in the main upstairs....in his bedroom:D . Then in MN I delivered 1 9ft Professional who also had an 8ft for his kids to play. Then in OR. I just delivered a 9ft Diamond ProAm to a guy, that already had a 7ft Diamond Smart Table in the same room.

So, I guess it's not uncommon:D There's more, I just can't remember them all, with all the tables I've delivered over the last 5-7 years:D

Glen
 
Wow Mark...You added the 7' table since I saw you in Nov.! See you in June, when I'll be back in NJ again! He does have the KILLER batchelor pad!:D

A few others I know, around the country, who have multiple table setups...

My friend Rick Goulden, in Des Moines, has TWO 9' Diamond tables, AND a 7' Diamond Smart Table, in a 30' x 60' addition he built on his house! He has to have the premier setup of anyone I know.:D

A close 2nd is my friend SPetty, from just outside DFW, whose husband Leroy BUILT her a really nice pool bungalow, complete with a 9' Diamond, and a 7' Valley barbox. It also has a killer jukebox...AND a completely furnished apartment upstairs. Her room was featured in Billiards Digest a couple of years ago! SPetty posts here occasionally, but over on CCB all the time. She hosted many pool parties out at their place. Sadly, Pettypoint Pool Hall is no more, as they are in process of moving 'back to the city'!:(

A third friend and student, Bsmutz (who also posts here and on CCB), has a 9' pool table, and a 10' snooker table in his poolroom, which he remodeled from his garage, out in WA. It's a great setup and he hosts friends and acquaintances over for play quite often!

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

almarktool said:
yes i am one of the lucky ones,
I have a 9ft diamond pro and a 7ft diamond pro-am,
both tables get used, when i entertain the girls are on the
7 foot table and the guys on the 9 footer, my basement is 2000sq feet
so i have plenty of room, i only put carpet down and painted the
walls if white seal blocker, no ceiling, this elminates and tax
increases, currently 8 tvs down there also 2 of them 8 foot
projectors side by side
if the basement is all yours go for it, and do what you want with it
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TXsouthpaw said:
I have the same problem when I play on my 9 footer alot. I start really hitting em well but then when i go to leauge on barboxes im completely off. Weird.
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Try shortening up your bridge. Using a normal length (for a 9 footer) bridge will sometimes cause you to overstroke position on the barbox, and continually getting out of line and having to come with tougher shots works negatively on your confidence.

Try imagining your "barbox" stroke" as a smaller, more compact version of your "big table stroke". Hope this helps..

Russ
 
yes I do, i have been very lucky and finally after many years I finally bought a 6X12 snooker table, its on the water on its way here. Around the end of May or June it will be set up.

At most of the houses/Apts I have lived in the past 20 years I have had a table probably 33% of the time I had a table at home and of that time I used it about half the time, sometimes there just wasnt time, I have 9' Diamond now.

Someday I might get my nose open someday and get a 7' Diamond but that will be along time from now. But first I need to learn how to use the ones I have.;)
 
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