heated tables???
- Thread starter JMS
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Keeps the cloth dry. The table plays more consistant in all climate conditions. Not needed on a pool table because your only shooting 9 feet. Carom shots might require 50 feet or more. So the cloth needs to be dry and fast.
BTW - Who are these 3C players that won't tell you anything? Give me their names and phone numbers so I can give them a talking to myself! What's wrong with these guys? Are they TRYING to undermine the sport?
BTW - Who are these 3C players that won't tell you anything? Give me their names and phone numbers so I can give them a talking to myself! What's wrong with these guys? Are they TRYING to undermine the sport?
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I used to play in a room in Mannheim Germany where the billiard tables weren't heated, but the owner used a run a dry hot iron over the cloth before important matches...did the same thing to his snooker tables, too. The "wetter" the cloth the slower the rolls...the dryer, the faster. That's why the "TV tables" on televised pool events are so fast...the hot TV lights heat up and dry out the cloth.
My reaction too.
Either they don't know the answer or old school pool players thinking everything they know is a secret.
Shameful.
The real reason for heated tables.
Regionally, it varies as to "why" the tables are heated.
In Northern European countries, the tables are heated to thaw the ice off the cloth and to warm the cold-blood of the players.
In Central America, South America and the Philippines the tables are heated to remove the moisture caused by monsoon rains and tears of frustration from the cloth.
In Korea, it is a combination of the first two.
In Italy, Turkey, and Spain, it is because the players are too cool for their own good, and it reminds them that they are not that hot.
In the USA, it is because all of the players are so old that the heat helps sooth their rheumatism.
Remember folks, in the heyday of American Billiards, Hoppe, Schaefer and Cochran didn't play on any newfangled heated tables - and they played with balls 1.2mm smaller!!!
Regionally, it varies as to "why" the tables are heated.
In Northern European countries, the tables are heated to thaw the ice off the cloth and to warm the cold-blood of the players.
In Central America, South America and the Philippines the tables are heated to remove the moisture caused by monsoon rains and tears of frustration from the cloth.
In Korea, it is a combination of the first two.
In Italy, Turkey, and Spain, it is because the players are too cool for their own good, and it reminds them that they are not that hot.
In the USA, it is because all of the players are so old that the heat helps sooth their rheumatism.
Remember folks, in the heyday of American Billiards, Hoppe, Schaefer and Cochran didn't play on any newfangled heated tables - and they played with balls 1.2mm smaller!!!
Great comment FOX! You had me smiling.