How do you think the game on the table has changed over time?

[RG1]

Opening post asks tous compare the skill set required today to forty or fifty years ago. Efren certainly wasn't part of that old time crowd.

I agree with you, but i decided to go with the safe answer.

 

[BRKNRUN]

Hmmmmm.....the pockets have changed and the cloth has changed...should the strategy remain the same?

 

[BeiberLvr]

But the thing is...the level is higher now though. There are a lot more great players now around the world, just less great american players.

That's my point. In any sport, the players of the future [as a whole] will be better than the players of the past.

Take any NFL team from 50 years ago, and put them up against any NFL team from today and the team from the past will get blown out. They're stronger, faster and just flat out more athletic.

No different in pool. Players today know more, have better technique, more aggressive, etc.