GCIV Update

[iusedtoberich]

If you play league/tournaments on Diamond tables, stick with Diamonds. Forget balls on the break, pro players make a ball about 50% of the time, the rest of us 5%-35%. So your opponent has the advantage most of the time after you break. Play second ball break or the cut break like the Chinese 8 ball players and bring the CB back up to the end rail.
The idea is to play defense on the break. Forget spreading 'em out and giving your opponent a clear open table.

God no! Safe break, yuk. I'd kick you out of the tournament for doing that if I was your TD. Does nothing but make games and tournaments take forever.

 

[Icon of Sin]

FYI here,
Remember how I always complained about how I rarely ever got a decent spread after the 9B break on my GCIV? And how that sort of prompted me to go and purchase the new Diamond Professional?



r/DCP

Actually I have no recollection of that.

 

[jay helfert]

FYI here,
Remember how I always complained about how I rarely ever got a decent spread after the 9B break on my GCIV? And how that sort of prompted me to go and purchase the new Diamond Professional?

For the first time in a few months I went downstairs and broke some racks of 9B on the Gold Crown IV today. After 17 break shots with not one chance of running out due to impossible spreads I just gave up. Just quit. Shut the lights out and came back upstairs.

Suddenly that Gold Crown VII is starting to seem more appealing.

r/DCP

Bad news. It ain't the table!