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dquarasr said:
Can anyone explain the physics or reasons a certain type of table inherently yields consistently un-runnable layouts? Explain it to me as if I’m as dumb as I actually am.
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a) divot at the head-ball spot
b) balls out of round
c) balls not absolutely identical in size
d) slate is not absolutely flat
e) cloth is not absolutely flat on absolutely flat slate
f) divots on balls
g) dirt on balls
h) surface finish on balls is not perfect

all of these things down in the 0.001" size tolerances.
{F, and g} can be considered as b}
 
dquarasr said:
Can anyone explain the physics or reasons a certain type of table inherently yields consistently un-runnable layouts? Explain it to me as if I’m as dumb as I actually am.
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There is no such type of table.

Let me qualify that slightly... If the table is so bad that all the balls roll over to the downhill rail, the runouts will be harder until you learn how to run combos along that rail and keep the cue ball off that rail. For any normal table, the patterns a competent breaker will face will be of about the same difficulty. The main normal difference will be in the average number of balls made on the break. Fewer balls left = easier run.
 
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GoldCrown said:
I have a GC4 and Diamond Professional. I cannot make a solid break on either. I struggle to run a rack, I have good-bad days. I'll never amount to anything. I do not compete, play for $$. I quit 100times. I should buy a 3x6 table with 6" pockets. I'm not an Indian, have a lot of arrows.... question is?....does anyone here give a fk?
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i care also so get rid of that crap and get an old brunswick with drop pockets that are the 5 plus inch ones and then you can enjoy the game again. and play position easily and cheat pockets and slow roll balls and fire them in and touch a rail and they still go. as pool was designed to played in the past when it was invented.

no charge for the best advice you can get.
 
maha said:
yes the periodic table is definitely very uneven by all standards. and certainly unstable past lead.
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Even the status of the first element, Hydrogen, is open to different interpretations. It is not what it should be. But did you notice how all of the heavy elements rolled to the bottom of the table?

(Let's hear it for Lawrencium. I went to school with Lawrence's daughter.)
 
Bob Jewett said:
Even the status of the first element, Hydrogen, is open to different interpretations. It is not what it should be. But did you notice how all of the heavy elements rolled to the bottom of the table?

(Let's hear it for Lawrencium. I went to school with Lawrence's daughter.)
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i got lost on the chart decades back as the numbered ones when high enough numbered ones, were made up elements, which seemed counter intuitive to me. old people cant adjust to change well.
but i was fascinated by the isotopes of uranium years back.
and has led me to get interested in how we need un godly amounts of power for data centers, so i made tons of money buying uranium stocks in the near past. maybe our paths are not random. and the data centers may bring on the heat death as so called.
 
dquarasr said:
Can anyone explain the physics or reasons a certain type of table inherently yields consistently un-runnable layouts? Explain it to me as if I’m as dumb as I actually am.
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Could be something as simple as humidity.

I went into a room and broke and ran the first 5 racks, of course this was right after the doors opened around lunch time.

They turned on the heat and the stove/cook top right away and by the 6th rack the humidity/temp changed to where I didn't make another ball on the break for hrs even with changing speed, location, etc, I tried everything and couldn't make a ball on the break
 
dquarasr said:
Can anyone explain the physics or reasons a certain type of table inherently yields consistently un-runnable layouts? Explain it to me as if I’m as dumb as I actually am.
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I was joking above - as far as I know there's nothing inherent in the design or construction of a Gold Crown IV that would not yield a "runnable spread" - absent a video I doubt anyone could analyze the claimed issue, if it's real. I'd bet any amount of someone else's money if there is some real issue with breaking it's down to technique of the player and nothing else.

Edit: seeing the post that just came in, I'm talking about the OP's claimed issue which is that his table apparently refused to allow the balls to spread after breaking into any pattern that would allow a runout - seems a little silly.

Variables changing break conditions or affecting pocketing a ball or certain ball on a break? Sure.
 
This thread has a hidden message …… nobody can see through it. Give it some thought and you’ll see …Like is about breaking balls. It’s how hard you bust them.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
I don't need the loosest table possible.

I don't need one that gives up balls on the break.

For the 10,000th time - I NEED A TABLE THAT WILL GIVE ME A RUNNABLE SPREAD AFTER THE BREAK! A TABLE THAT ISN'T JINXED!!!

For whatever the reason my GCIV just never seems to do that. And it's been a problem for the most part for 23 years now as it was delivered in the early part of January of 2003.
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Maybe gaining some knowledge of the "Break Shot" would help you with your dilemma...
 
ceebee said:
Maybe gaining some knowledge of the "Break Shot" would help you with your dilemma...
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As I read DrCue's posts I'm starting realize I need a reason to buy a Mark Gregory ...and would that be I suck on the Diamond Pro & GC4
 
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