Harder to Break and Run on a 7Footer?

Lots of talk about pocket size and clusters, but I've got another angle to discuss. What about people like myself that has to wear reading glasses when shooting? On a 7 footer I have no problems. When I get on a 9 footer and have a shot where the cueball is on the end rail and the object ball is way up-table, the object ball starts to look a little blurry. If the room/table has bad lighting, the problem is magnified. For my eyes I'll take the 7 and 8 footers everytime (8 footers are borderline fuzzy on a long shot like I mentioned above).

Maniac
 
Maniac said:
Lots of talk about pocket size and clusters, but I've got another angle to discuss. What about people like myself that has to wear reading glasses when shooting? On a 7 footer I have no problems. When I get on a 9 footer and have a shot where the cueball is on the end rail and the object ball is way up-table, the object ball starts to look a little blurry. If the room/table has bad lighting, the problem is magnified. For my eyes I'll take the 7 and 8 footers everytime (8 footers are borderline fuzzy on a long shot like I mentioned above).

Maniac

Not to be sarcastic, but a visit to the optometrist might be helpful!
 
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In my opinion 7footers are easier for both 8&9 ball if you really think about it the question is kind of ridiculous. Music City Open is this weekend watch what pro players do to bar boxes. They get ahold of the cue ball an won't give it back. I would like to bet somebody runs 10 racks this weekend.
Pinocchio
 
VIProfessor said:
Not to be sarcastic, but a visit to the optometrist might be helpful!

I've been to the optometrist. What do you think I'm wearing reading glasses for? They're prescription alright, but they only amount to the same $7.00 pair of reading glasses I could've gotten at Wal-Mart (I also have several pair of those too).

Maniac
 
Maniac said:
I've been to the optometrist. What do you think I'm wearing reading glasses for? They're prescription alright, but they only amount to the same $7.00 pair of reading glasses I could've gotten at Wal-Mart (I also have several pair of those too).

Maniac

I had to graduate to lineless bi-focals and finally to a specially prescripted pair of Decot shooters glasses. They're made for optimum vision from 3 to 12 feet. My lineless bifocals don't do too bad a job for me if I use an elastic strap to hold them high on my head so I don't have to raise my head so far up.

I've always considered 7ft tables to be considerably easier than 9ft. If a shot is attempted and is maybe 2 degrees off at the point impact with the cue ball then it's going to miss the pocket on a long table while on the short table it might catch the pocket. Also it's easier to comfortably reach more shots on the short table. Usually the pockets are bigger and cut more favorably (usually!) and psychologically I tend to believe I'm going to do better on the 7 footer. It looks so easy it give me confidence. :D
 
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Pinocchio said:
In my opinion 7footers are easier for both 8&9 ball if you really think about it the question is kind of ridiculous. Music City Open is this weekend watch what pro players do to bar boxes. They get ahold of the cue ball an won't give it back. I would like to bet somebody runs 10 racks this weekend.
Pinocchio


If the pros could consistanly make balls playing 8 ball on the big table like they do on the bar box you would see alot of 6 packs on the big table. After attending the derby and watching alot fo 8ball being played the only player consistanly(4 out 6) making balls on the break was Cliff Joyner and he was consistantly running out also.

For me I would guess that on a big table 8-ball when I break and make a ball I will run out about 60% of the time. On a bar table I would estimate that to be about 50%.
 
jediphil said:
i agree in the UK we play on 6ft tables with tighter pockets and smaller balls we normally use reds and yellows instead of spots and stripes and it is very difficult to run out as everything is always in the bloody way

Yikes, there are still some pubs with 6ft tables over there? I thought those had all gone the way of the dinosaurs! I really hope I never have to play on one of those again! Although I have played on worse, one of the pubs in a summer league we used to play at had a 5ft table & still had hardly any room around it! They had the obligatory short cue available but we'd just shoot with the shafts of our own cues! The sad part of it was they'd win most of their home games but then get hammered on everybody else's 7ft tables! That sure does bring back some memories!
 
Southside Louie Lemke - Five Time National Bar Table Champion
"Because you have room to move around on a nine foot table, its' actually an easier game on the big table.

On seven foot tables you're a lot more restricted. Its' obviously a tougher game. Your cueball control has to be better on a bar table"

The pockets are much smaller, sides vs. the corners where you can't fit two ball in the side as due to a big table, unless the pockets are very tight. I go from eight and nine foot tables to seven foot table on tuesdays. It use to be tough as the space like Louie said is restricted. But now i learn to move the cueball around more better, and can run racks either it being eightball or nineball. So i would have said it was harder then but now, its sorta the same but i would rather play on a bigger table LOL.
 
supergreenman said:
What problem? clustered balls and such add to the challenge of the game, I don't see the need to make 8 ball easier. But your game sounds like fun practice.

I enjoy breaking up a cluster or the stack and developing shots also.:)

The 8Ball/9Ball or Short rack game is great when you have a bunch of folks that like to play 8 Ball waiting to play the winner, it makes the games go faster.:D
 
CaptainHook said:
I solved this problem many years ago with what I call 8Ball/9Ball.

On a small table, rack 4 solids and four stripes in a diamond with the 8 Ball in the middle. It will look like a rack of 9 Ball.

Break, then play 8 Ball as usual.

This pretty much elininates clusters, you mostly make something on the break, and the games are faster, cause you only have to make 5 balls total.

problem solved.:D

cool idea:cool:
 
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