Does anybody know the IPT room requirements. I play in Marietta at the Pool Room and am concerned about going to slow cloth. We might have to live with it for a long time, so I am concerned about the changes.
IPT requirements
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bustinbob_99 said:
Hey Bob,
Just returned from the IPT website.
Clicked on "Official Equipment", thinking I would see their equipment requirements. I was Shocked upon seeing the following.
Left side of the screen, "IPT Offical Equipment".
The following items were listed:
Balls, Chaulk, Cloth, Diamond Pool Tables & Sardo Racks.
To the right of each of these, was the following:
"Coming soon!"
What does this mean????
"Have a nice day"
Lamar
as an ipt member, who's played on the offical ipt eqipment, there are only 2 brands that are set in stone, diamond ipt tournament tables featuring one piece slate. and the sardo M-5000 tight rack retail $59.00. everything else is still up in the air. they did use Mali cloth at the king of the hill. the table played great, but banks very very short compared to K-66 profile which is used with the typical brunswick gold crown tables. however the plus side of the diamond table is it's one piece slate, what this enables the player to do, is this: if an object balll is in the worse possible place on the table, frozen against the cushion by a side pocket, you can cut the object ball all the way down into the corner passing the side pocket and the object ball never leaves the cushion and never hits a side pocket point!!! all because of the one piece slate. the Mali cloth played fantastic! it was medium speed in it's best sense. weather or not Mali will always be used i don't know, if i could put my two cents in, i beg you deno please keep the cloth EXACTLY the same, it was great! the pockets played tough but not incredibly tough, all in all the equpiment was top notch.
8-ball bernie said:
What would a one piece slate have to do with cutting a ball down the rail? A ball not hitting the points on the side pockets has to do with the table being set up properly so the rails are square at all the corners and not out of alignment at the side pockets.
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macguy all i know is i was sitting with the owner/designer of diamond and he said that is the reason why the object ball sticks to the cushion, the one piece slate, i believe him.
I know that the Pool Room in Marietta does not have Diamonds. However, as Macguy said, since it is only a qualifier, it may not matter.
Thanks for helping, though.
Thanks for helping, though.
8-ball bernie said:
Properly levelled and with correctly installed and covered rails there is no reason this shot can be made on any table with three-piece slate. Next time you see this person from Diamond remind him of your conversation and ask them if they put a warning on the Diamond three-piece tables that such shots cannot be made. I'm sure he will quickly qualify his statement to say of course they can, it's just easier to setup a one-piece if you are in a hurry, such as setting up table for a few days in a hotel that is not a dedicated Pool Hall environment.
8-ball bernie said:
What he is referring to is not the relationship of the rails to the slates but the slates to each other. On a three piece slate table the slates can get out of level to each other and yes a ball going down the rail as it moves to the next slate, (not at the side pocket), may come off the rail, this can't happen with a one piece slate. Having said that if I loosen the bolts on the rail assembly at the side pocket on the table and bump it with my knee as I re-tighten it, I can promise you the ball will not go past the side pocket even on the one piece slate table. The rails have to be squared up, centered on the table and aliened at the side pockets on any table for it to play right. You misunderstood what he was referring to.