Funny thought

[JoseV]

Funny thought, I have access to six different tables to practice on for free now these tables are not leveled and you can see the balls drift. If your really focused on the game and make all your shots and no balls caught a drift does it mean that the table still drifts ?

I'm playing on tables like this so I know how to deal with drifts so I can learn how to hit the balls firmer to avoid drifts and how to use drifts to an advantage on other tables I come across on I do not consider this cheating its just adapt and over come


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[decent dennis]

Funny thought, I have access to six different tables to practice on for free now these tables are not leveled and you can see the balls drift. If your really focused on the game and make all your shots and no balls caught a drift does it mean that the table still drifts ?

I'm playing on tables like this so I know how to deal with drifts so I can learn how to hit the balls firmer to avoid drifts and how to use drifts to an advantage on other tables I come across on I do not consider this cheating its just adapt and over come


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I don't get your drift.

 

[King T]

Not sure?

Well you cant play One Pocket on tables like that, there are to many shots that have to be rolled in to fight drift.

 

[SKUNKBOY]

Well you cant play One Pocket on tables like that, there are to many shots that have to be rolled in to fight drift.

But you might be able to play the drift to get around another ball. So I'd say...play away. Just remember you won't have the say 'drift' on the next table.

The only way it might be cheating is if you played somebody on that table and did not tell him about the drift. Right up until he figured it out and gained the same experience you have, you'd be cheating that guy.

L8R....Ken

 

[JoseV]

I hear ya, no two pool tables play alike there like finger prints I hear a lot of people complain about the drift I always tell just hit it firmer to avoid the drift but I get looked at like huh ?

Now one pocket you need a lot of finesse to make balls as well in straight pool finesse shots and drifts are worse that ( insert direct tv commercial here)

I think it will work better for 8,9 and 10ball.


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[ideologist]

Funny thought, I have access to six different tables to practice on for free now these tables are not leveled and you can see the balls drift. If your really focused on the game and make all your shots and no balls caught a drift does it mean that the table still drifts ?

I'm playing on tables like this so I know how to deal with drifts so I can learn how to hit the balls firmer to avoid drifts and how to use drifts to an advantage on other tables I come across on I do not consider this cheating its just adapt and over come


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Tables like that give me nightmares. When I try to play a full-table safe and I watch the table roll drift the cueball away from even hitting the object ball, let alone just missing the safe.

They are fine for 9-ball, maybe 10-ball. Not 8-ball, not 14.1, not One Pocket. Full rack games require more of these 'fine touch' precision safes over great distances, much more often.

 

[John Novak]

this neither gives you an advantage or a disadvantage .If there is logic here Im not seeing it....Every table is imperfect to one degree or another. Ive heard of a lot of special training methods but this one is the first....

 

[12squared]

I'm confused. So the games you play on this table do not include the use of a cue ball - you just fire the object balls into the pockets directly? The cue ball will have to slow down and come to rest at one point and if the table plays as bad as you suggest, how do you know that you'll have a next shot? Or that you'll end up on the right side of ball for position afterwards?

Drift affects all the balls that are set in motion, not just the ones you're pocketing that you can hit harder to make.

dave

 

[JoseV]

Dave I am using a cueball when I'm trying to pocket the ball you know when you shoot a shot and it missed caused of a drift in the table ? I'm trying to teach my self to adjust if I see someone or my self shoot a shot and miss cause of the drift by hitting the cueball a little more firmer (harder) if the same shot came up for that pocket the object ball will not catch the drift and should go in cause the shot was hit harder I think speed might come into play because your hitting the ball harder which mean they should be moving a little to fast to catch the drift.

I'm not looking to reinvent the wheel here I'm just trying to see if anybody out there ever gave it a try and share there input.


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[allanpsand]

I don't get your drift.

Sounds to me like when we played shag marbles on a concrete floor when I was kid.

(Rules: from a designated line, roll your marble into either a small hole in the ground or stop within a circle. It was handicapped by the distance you had to roll the marble, compared to your opponent. Average was about 5 steps from the target.)

Just like in golf, you had to learn the angles in order to get your marble into the target. I've played on tables where the same slate rolled in different directions.

Once you know the hills and valleys, you were a tougher player.