The best pool hall in Fresno, Sierra Billiards & Bar, opened two years ago. It has become a huge success and
is now opening a 2nd location in downtown Fresno which has been undergoing revitalization the past couple of
years with new stores, bars and restaurants opening. It also will only have Diamond pool tables and have decided
to use gray cloth at the new location that’s trying to open by year end.
The new location is progressing on schedule and so when they ordered the new tables, the owners decided that the existing location should recover the tables and decided to use gray cloth as well. I do not like the color choice and IMO, it will look like crap a year from now. However, one thing I will readily concede is the installation being performed that will be finished today is by far and away the best installation of pool cloth I’ve ever seen and that includes home tables. It is absolutely immaculate and one mechanic did all the tables by himself. Apparently, aside from being a former top pro pool player, his table workmanship also distinguishes him as being the best. Oh well, the color sucks but it is the finest cloth installation I’ve ever seen and the pool tables are in amazing shape. I tried to get one of the 9’ table pocket size reduced to 4” from 4.25” but got outvoted by some of the regulars who convinced the owner not to do it. They also happen to be players that like playing on the tables with 4.5” corner pockets.
Oh well, I lost in both counts…….didn’t get the color I’d have preferred or the smaller pocket size either. But the pool hall looks fantastic. Here’s a couple of photos from yesterday. The one thing that does work better with gray cloth versus the Championship Blue color is photographing your cues. On a gray cloth, the background really accentuates the colors in a pool cue so much more than the blue cloth did. The cloth is installed by Villamos out of Las Vegas.
is now opening a 2nd location in downtown Fresno which has been undergoing revitalization the past couple of
years with new stores, bars and restaurants opening. It also will only have Diamond pool tables and have decided
to use gray cloth at the new location that’s trying to open by year end.
The new location is progressing on schedule and so when they ordered the new tables, the owners decided that the existing location should recover the tables and decided to use gray cloth as well. I do not like the color choice and IMO, it will look like crap a year from now. However, one thing I will readily concede is the installation being performed that will be finished today is by far and away the best installation of pool cloth I’ve ever seen and that includes home tables. It is absolutely immaculate and one mechanic did all the tables by himself. Apparently, aside from being a former top pro pool player, his table workmanship also distinguishes him as being the best. Oh well, the color sucks but it is the finest cloth installation I’ve ever seen and the pool tables are in amazing shape. I tried to get one of the 9’ table pocket size reduced to 4” from 4.25” but got outvoted by some of the regulars who convinced the owner not to do it. They also happen to be players that like playing on the tables with 4.5” corner pockets.
Oh well, I lost in both counts…….didn’t get the color I’d have preferred or the smaller pocket size either. But the pool hall looks fantastic. Here’s a couple of photos from yesterday. The one thing that does work better with gray cloth versus the Championship Blue color is photographing your cues. On a gray cloth, the background really accentuates the colors in a pool cue so much more than the blue cloth did. The cloth is installed by Villamos out of Las Vegas.
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