Is there an emoji for "anguished groan"? 4.25 inch Pockets or smaller, really? I can't believe how good People are that they need Pockets that small not to run the set out.
Where I live there are tons of complainers about Pocket sizes, mostly they want them smaller, because "that's what the pros use". Now when they watch the pros, they don't take into account that they play on brand New cloth which makes the table play easy, nor that they play on often factory new tables with brand new pocket facings etc. They also seem to forget that they are pros. Maybe more importantly, they forget that they themselves are not pros, which is quite a bit harder to comprehend for me personally, especially since all the pocket complainers here are generally terrible, or average players at the very best (being generous). So they spend all their time on the tightest table, banging balls into the rails, while simultaneously whining about the Pockets being to big.
Practising Your technique will make you a better player, a tighter table to play on will not.
There is no standard to anything in pool, which is why it is in it's current, lamentable state. Every Tom, Dick and Harry who has two dollars to rub together can hold a tournament and dictate every aspect of the Equipment and generally if they have enough Money get the tournament approved by the governing bodies. The WPA regulations are fairly decent (though a bit out of touch and would need more detailed guidelines), except most tournaments nowadays seem to ignore them completely. In an ideal world, we would have Pocket templates like in snooker, but we're decades away from that. For anything like it to work, you'd need extremely detailed specs and governing bodies that actually had a possibility of sanctioning People who didn't conform. Being that pool has no Money anyway, there isn't a chance of that, and without proper rules and specs there is not chance of the Professional game coming back. It's an impossible situation.
