A friend says his Filipino bartender was talking about such a table, including a story about Efren playing on one. Is this a thing?
Eight-pocket Filipino table?
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Been there a million times and never seen one yet. It’s all nine footers there, in poolrooms and bars!
In thirty plus years of being around pool I have only seen one. It was in a little neighborhood bar in northern Indiana.
Was it the L table above or rectangular with four pockets per side or maybe something else?
I suppose you have an octagonal table with pockets at each corner, or a square table with a pocket in the middle of each rail.
There are lots of pictures for octagonal bumper pool tables but they don't have eight pockets.
middleofnowhere
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I played on one at the BCA show years ago. Never seen one in the real world though. Tommy Kennedy was working their booth. It got a lot of attention.
Was he talking perhaps about that game that is more like air hockey and has cylinders instead of balls? I saw videos of those years ago from the Philippines, but forgot how many pockets they had.
I think that's the game called carrom, which has a square board and four pockets.
Somebody posted an 8 holer in the funny section. Shop maybe. A real one would be the nuts in the Philippines. Now all the guys standing around could play instead of yelling at each other.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
In the 90s they had a Z shape... well, think the tetris piece. It was like you took 2 tables, pushed them side to side so the corner and side pockets lined up. It was pretty neat but back then when pool was 25 cents a game I think it cost $2 or $2.50. We played on it once, it was fun but we were all just high school aged kids and just hitting balls for fun.
If I remember correctly it was a coin operated L shaped pool table with 8 pockets.
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