In the past traveling allot there are always those few spots with the right conditions and equipment and humidity that for just about anybody ''you don't have to win''. Are those places still very prevalent?
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I know I'm a dumb a$$ but could you explain what you mean by "prevalent" ?
Prevalent is a compound word meaning to: Prevail, or win.
When the suffix 'ent' is added it means: To win when there's a lot of humidity, and the tables are slow, and the balls are sticky. Prevalent.
When the suffix 'ent' is added it means: To win when there's a lot of humidity, and the tables are slow, and the balls are sticky. Prevalent.
To scare off a good player, the cues would have no tips. Havent seen that. The humidity would have to be really bad, like phillipines bad. You don't see those conditions often, so I'd say no, not too often. No matter how bad things get, you should still be able to hit hard and straight a little better than the next guy.
"Are crappy pool halls still the norm?"
Sorry, best I can figure, still only on my first cup of coffee and the Universal Translator is on my soldering bench at work.
You bring back memories of yesteryear
Funny,
I was thinking about this the other day.
My teens and early twenties years had me in many a weekend bar. The hometown weather was always HHH (Hazy-Hot- & HUMID) as the weather-people would say. Many bars hadda BB right there at or near the door. The tables were always wet & slow on top of the thick(er) cloth. You could count on not getting good (precise) draw on those tables.I had a "shoot & hide" strategy for those tables. They, (the ones close to the door), were always tight, and had to obviously deal with a lot of traffic.(in Pa., you could only buy beer at a beverage center or take out beer from a cooler at a bar.)
In hindsight, I did tend to like the bars with the tables toward the back of the establishment. :wink:
Tnx for the memory ! :grin:
Funny,
I was thinking about this the other day.
My teens and early twenties years had me in many a weekend bar. The hometown weather was always HHH (Hazy-Hot- & HUMID) as the weather-people would say. Many bars hadda BB right there at or near the door. The tables were always wet & slow on top of the thick(er) cloth. You could count on not getting good (precise) draw on those tables.I had a "shoot & hide" strategy for those tables. They, (the ones close to the door), were always tight, and had to obviously deal with a lot of traffic.(in Pa., you could only buy beer at a beverage center or take out beer from a cooler at a bar.)
In hindsight, I did tend to like the bars with the tables toward the back of the establishment. :wink:
Tnx for the memory ! :grin:
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It means widespread...
I dunno of any room where the equipment is so bad that being 5 balls better than the other
guy just doesn't matter. The better player, if you give him time to adjust, will win.
It's only when there's no time to adjust, that 'home team advantage' kicks in and
the better player might lose several in a row before adapting.
For humidity especially, it's not too terrible in the USA (though it depends on where
you live of course). But basically there's enough money here that every place has AC.
I'm sometimes surprised at how AC is not "automatic" in other countries.
Recently I was reading about how a UK heatwave has killed over 800 people this summer.
The newpapers reported temps "As high as 32C"... that's only 89 degrees in Fahrenheit,
which is not considered a big deal in the US, but most places have no AC and nobody's
acclimated to that kind of heat, so it takes a real toll.
I dunno of any room where the equipment is so bad that being 5 balls better than the other
guy just doesn't matter. The better player, if you give him time to adjust, will win.
It's only when there's no time to adjust, that 'home team advantage' kicks in and
the better player might lose several in a row before adapting.
For humidity especially, it's not too terrible in the USA (though it depends on where
you live of course). But basically there's enough money here that every place has AC.
I'm sometimes surprised at how AC is not "automatic" in other countries.
Recently I was reading about how a UK heatwave has killed over 800 people this summer.
The newpapers reported temps "As high as 32C"... that's only 89 degrees in Fahrenheit,
which is not considered a big deal in the US, but most places have no AC and nobody's
acclimated to that kind of heat, so it takes a real toll.
I am still not sure what exactly is being asked in the OP.
Is this prevalent in this thread ?
Is this prevalent in this thread ?
JC
Coos Cues
People providing answers are just guessing as to the question. In reality, know one has a clue WTF Bill is asking or why. Probably not even Bill.
Let me add though. I despise cues with the slip over tip/ferule setup. Give me one of those and a dynamo table with the Jupiter sized cues ball and I can lose to just about anyone.
I also do not like cats in the house, anchovies on my pizza or people who don't use their turn signals.
Is that prevalent to the topic?
JC
No idea but I think they are prevelent in the opinion of some people who feel the same way.