Nights at the Round Table??? You gotta see this

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That looks like fun.

Talk about a trap table. I can hear it now.

"You got 5 to 3 playing short rack banks for a $Gajillion......but you gotta play on my table" :D

And how do you call your bank?

"Two in the si...uhh...cross cor....uhhh....over there."
 
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I seem to remember seeing something like that about 20 years ago, although it may have been an octagonal table or something. LOL, I just want to see someone play a shot along the rail on that thing!!!
 
Wow, I want one so bad, that would be an awesome table to have just to play around on. And yeah, a rail shot would be pretty interesting on that, could you imagine some of the possibilities for trick shot artists on a table like this? I would like to see some of the top trick shot players get ahold of this and come up with new shots on it, it would be interesting to see what they could come up with.
 
actually kind of interesting

I have long wondered if a completely differently shaped pool table along with a new game might be what we need to attract the masses. I don't believe "round" is going to be the fix but who knows? If it would get viewers to watch and corporate dollars to sponsor events I would go for it.

Hu
 
I used to run the gameroom in college and for one semester we had an "L" pool table. I would jump the ball over the rails from one leg of the L to the other. I know I could come up with some sick shots on a round table. A buddy once opined that he would make an elliptical table with two holes, one at each focus. His theory was, if you hit a ball hard enough it would eventually fall into one of the holes. (He wasn't very good at pool, by the way.) ;)

-yow!
 
ShootingArts said:
I have long wondered if a completely differently shaped pool table along with a new game might be what we need to attract the masses. I don't believe "round" is going to be the fix but who knows? If it would get viewers to watch and corporate dollars to sponsor events I would go for it.

Hu
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Would you really? I mean what is the point if we have to change the game so radically to achieve popularity.

We already have the creepy things like 7-ball, and Poker 9-Ball.

I like the table - those round tables have come and gone for the last hundred years. They are fun to mess around on.

Can't agree on accepting them as a replacement for pool as we know it though.
 
Yeah I doubt it will become the replacement for the tables we all know and love, but could make for an interesting side game, plus this way all you need to do is have inserts for the pockets and instantly you have a poker table, perfect for game rooms *shrugs* plus I still think there could be some real sick shots on this, maybe Eric will get one and come up with some cool shots to show us.
 
it reminds of an infomerical product, yeah it looks awesome on tv and that it fills some need that other products dont but when you get it home you just dont use it that much or its just not very practical. Bottom line is, yeah its interesting, and completely worthless.
 
RunoutalloverU said:
it reminds of an infomerical product, yeah it looks awesome on tv and that it fills some need that other products dont but when you get it home you just dont use it that much or its just not very practical. Bottom line is, yeah its interesting, and completely worthless.
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Well I wouldn't say completely worthless, again, seems more like something you would have as a novelty or if you want to use it as a table for trick shots or in combo with a regular table to, again, come up with some interesting trick shots as well
 
All I can say is that if you want to play on this table, you'd better master your dead ball position play, cause sending the rock around the table (Oh boy, did I say aROUND?) becomes an entirely different proposition. There goes the diamond systems!:D
 
Eric,
Irregular shapes make for a very different pool game. Your friend had an interesting theory for an elliptical table. There is a proven theorem in mathematics that states if you start at a point (X) and travel through one of the foci (F1), the extended path will eventually intersect the other focus (F2). Several problems with this mathematical theorem being translated to a pool table. One: The speed of the ball would have to be judged sufficiently such that it did not roll over and past the pocket (seen frequently in golf - Tiger Woods' golf). Two: The mathematical theorem assumes perfect reflection after each interesection with the outer oval, which is not the case with any billiards rails. Three: The requisite distance to travel can be significantly more than one is able to make a ball travel on any surface with friction (felt).
 
yes

John,

Nobody says we can't play the games we prefer any time we want to but quite honestly if I could make a good living pushing anything around something resembling a table with a cue stick I would be in favor of it. I have waited almost forty years to see a real pool professional circuit that was a paying proposition. I doubt I have another forty to wait and my game may be a little off by the time I pass ninety anyway.

Hu



John Barton said:
Would you really? I mean what is the point if we have to change the game so radically to achieve popularity.

We already have the creepy things like 7-ball, and Poker 9-Ball.

I like the table - those round tables have come and gone for the last hundred years. They are fun to mess around on.

Can't agree on accepting them as a replacement for pool as we know it though.
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John Barton said:
Would you really? I mean what is the point if we have to change the game so radically to achieve popularity ...
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Besides, it seems like a shameful waste of good slate because of all of the edges that have to be cut and thrown away to make it round ... ;)

It IS nice construction, though. I used to be pretty damn good at bumper pool -- no one I knew could go through the center AND make a ball like I could, let alone banking off of the rails. So, I would try this Round Table maybe once or twice for a chuckle --

THEN, I would return to the REAL challenge of the traditional 2 x 1 aspect pool/billiards table. That Round Table would have to have at least a 16 to 20 foot diameter to present the full challenge given by common 8 to 10 foot tables. Think about it ...
 
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