Earl Strickland vs Shane Van Boening 10 Ball Race to 100

It was a snooker table converted to a pool table. I don’t think they changed the height of the wood rails though, but only changed the cushions. I’m also unsure if the slate cutouts were changed.

There was a space heater or 2 under the table. I was there in person one day and the temperature did not feel right in the room. The room was a big warehouse type room at the back of a bar business, bleacher seatings, etc. It might have even been a metal building. I recall it was cold and damp. Too difficult to heat that big of a space. I think without the space heaters under the table, the rails would have played wet and bouncy.

That said Earl was running out like 1984 on that table. Shane kept missing balls that would have also missed on a modern table. Earl simply outplayed him by a mile that one set.

I believe a couple years later Mark Gregory got ahold of the table and did the conversion properly from the ground up. It ended up in a short-lived streaming setup in Florida that also had a 9’ Centennial. If you search his name from around 2013 I’m guessing you might find his posts on reconstructing that table. I may be confusing tables in my head, however, and the table Mark did might have been another one all together:) .
Extreme Pool I think was the name of the place in FLA.

I thought the 10 footer there was a Centennial?

I didn't know the TAR 20 table was there as well.
 
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