Won't that make one pocket easier because less scratching and you can play shape out of the corners and bank where the side pockets would have been?
Imagine if pool tables had no side pockets. Would pool be more interesting to watch?
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Won't that make one pocket easier because less scratching and you can play shape out of the corners and bank where the side pockets would have been?
The way to make pro pool a tougher game was already done, Chinese 8 Ball tables. But, then you take away the fun to watch hard spin shots since you can pretty much never get away with pocketing a ball that way on those tables.
Do we want pool to play like snooker? Where they view any shot from past 75% of the table a tough one or a good safe is just leaving the cueball far away? I don't think I do.
Do we want pool to play like snooker? Where they view any shot from past 75% of the table a tough one or a good safe is just leaving the cueball far away? I don't think I do.
I have never played on one of those tables...but I think the pace would be a little faster...
....there would be more shots to go for.
A lot of folks like to fiddle around with their posts.
Yes, yes, indeed yes.
This is the way pool was intended to be played by intermediate and above players. Why would anyone need more that two pockets??? One for you to put balls into and one for your opponent (if they ever get to the table)....
The ills of the world would be solved quickly if everyone just came to the realization that One Pocket is the answer to everything.
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I dont think you see any real difference in 8 ball between 7' and 9' tables. You have shorter shots on a 7' table but you also have more traffic and clusters. Adding 20" to a shot does not make it that much more difficult, especially for a pro. I think that breaking on the small table is tougher because its way more likey the cue ball is going to get kicked around and maybe even pocketed.
I like that
That table is missing a side pocket. Maybe it's for the undecided group.??
Never saw a set of balls like the two sets in the middle before. What are they for, cutthroat?
No.........either would putting a hole in the middle of a 3 cushion table.:thumbup:
The 16 ball set looks like it's for three-handed eight ball....three groups of five.
The cloth installation would make RKC wanta scream...looks pretty loose.
I for one agree with you. I think 9' tables with 4.5" pockets and NO jump cues. They should have the skill to figure out a modified 3-5 or 2-4 rail shot to hit the object ball and on a 9' table they'd have the room. I fully realize the set up for tournaments would be a headache compared to the one piece covered slate on the 7' footers. They've got to think about and figure out why European snooker players are paid like our pro golfers. Could it be that it's amazing to watch the skill required to pocket balls and run out on a 12' X 6' table with extreme tight rounded pockets?
How do you demonstrate perfect pitch with an accordion? When you can throw it into the dumpster and it lands on the banjo without hitting the walls.
It's an instrument all right, but of what?
Speaking of torture, when Earl and Darren played their long set on that four-pocket table I think there was only one runout in the whole match.
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Great reply. Greenie time.It's easy to fall into that line of thinking. I, for one, think it is faulty thinking, and maybe even lazy thinking.
Sure, the pros make it look easy. That does not necessarily equate to it being easy. When you see the pros seldom missing shots, you can take one of two attitudes towards it. You can say it is too easy for them, and then it becomes boring to watch and you learn nothing.
Or, you can look at your own game, and then compare it to what you see the pros actually doing. What is possible to do. If you do that, you then appreciate just how skilled the pros really are. And then you can appreciate just what it is that you are actually watching.
You say you want to make it harder for the pros. In other words, you don't want to see them run out as much, but want to see them miss more.If you want to see more misses, just watch lower level amateurs play. You can go down the totem pole and see all the misses you could ever want to see.
So, is it really that you want to see them miss more? I don't think so. Not really. I think what you really want is to be able to appreciate just what it is that you are seeing. And, that, is all in what your attitude is when watching them. No one can change that but you.
Exactly.
