L.S. Dennis
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Cloth tournament GREEN, 7 Ball MAROON 5 ball ORANGE 4 ball DEEP PURPLE! Old school, yeah and proud of it!
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I miss Powder Blue Simonis that was used throughout the late 90’s and 2000’s. To me it’s the perfect middle ground between the tournament blue thats almost neon it’s so harsh, and the bland shark grey. I get Simonis needs to stay fresh with new colours just like Aramith does with their black series balls, but to me it’s a downgrade.
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When I used to cover tables as a side hustle I would out right refuse the job if it was red. LolCount yourself lucky. The trendiest bar/poolhall in Houston in the 90's had red cloth.
I’ll never understand it. It’s mostly people who just want a table at home but don’t really play that seem to want red cloth and I never understood why lolDan,
I have a friend with a 7’ Brunswick pool table……it is lovely but the dumb SOB had red cloth installed.
It looks like it belongs in a brothel and just looks awful. But his Harley Davidson & speedboat are also red.
That’s my favorite color for a diamond but I was going to have a long wait for it and I’m not good at waiting lol a black one I could have in a couple weeks so I was fine with it. The only down side is I’m anal and finger prints really show up so I’m always wiping it down.My new Diamond Professional is going to be Oak/Cherry.
This conversation makes me wonder what color of cloth will I put on it when I have to decide that?
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This is where I play pool which has monthly and annual memberships. The Blue cloth is what the room originally had 2 years ago. This week all the tables were recovered with gray cloth. Change can be good but IMO, not this time. But it’s obvious the owners must have a winning formula because Sierra Billiards & Bar opened in May 2023 and a 2nd pool room is underway and scheduled to open by year end. It will have a even larger bar which is already the largest assortment of alcohol between San Francisco and LA. The liquor inventory at Sierra presently exceeds in excess of $400,000 in booze.I recall my initial resistance when the room I played in at the time forsook the standard green and switched to the Blue Cloth brought about by the owner of Diamond.
Then once I played on it, I could see that the reasoning of the research Greg at Diamond did, indicating Blue was easier on the eyes was true.
The advent of Grey, ugly balls, and cheap Rasson tables, all byproducts of a bad personnel choice by Barry of MR in Emily Frazier, I don’t enjoy those. Many point to MR and “how good it is for pool”, I don’t necessarily agree. Yeah, pros make better money, that serves me no benefit. It has also led to the Grey cloth, ugly balls, and crap tables I note above. That’s now bleeding off into pool rooms which does affect me and everyone else that plays this game as a gambler or league or hobby player.
How? in a time where the number of rooms opening pales as compared to the amount closing, I’ve seen 2 new rooms open within my area, both with crappy Rasson tables, one with crappy grey cloth and the other with a mix of Grey and Blue. My point? Bad decisions by unqualified personnel at MR now leaks over to the pool world outside MR, with the reason given as, “that’s what the pros play on now”.![]()
I like green but that seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur.
Is that the color they used for bonus ball?
My wife doesn’t like the tournament blue but said powder blue would be acceptable. So I’ve got 860 powder blue cloth coming. I’m praying it will be fast enough. I’ve been looking at Andy and Championship cloth but for now I’ll be stuck with the 860.I like the look of the gray but it's not available in 860hr. We learned that the hard way when our favorite room put it on last year.
I think everyone was surprised at the difference in play/speed between the 860hr and the plain 860.
They went back to the hr at the next cloth change...
Red cloth is a nightmare..........Count yourself lucky. The trendiest bar/poolhall in Houston in the 90's had red cloth.
Never played on a Rasson table: why are they so crappy?I recall my initial resistance when the room I played in at the time forsook the standard green and switched to the Blue Cloth brought about by the owner of Diamond.
Then once I played on it, I could see that the reasoning of the research Greg at Diamond did, indicating Blue was easier on the eyes was true.
The advent of Grey, ugly balls, and cheap Rasson tables, all byproducts of a bad personnel choice by Barry of MR in Emily Frazier, I don’t enjoy those. Many point to MR and “how good it is for pool”, I don’t necessarily agree. Yeah, pros make better money, that serves me no benefit. It has also led to the Grey cloth, ugly balls, and crap tables I note above. That’s now bleeding off into pool rooms which does affect me and everyone else that plays this game as a gambler or league or hobby player.
How? in a time where the number of rooms opening pales as compared to the amount closing, I’ve seen 2 new rooms open within my area, both with crappy Rasson tables, one with crappy grey cloth and the other with a mix of Grey and Blue. My point? Bad decisions by unqualified personnel at MR now leaks over to the pool world outside MR, with the reason given as, “that’s what the pros play on now”.![]()
My wife doesn’t like the tournament blue but said powder blue would be acceptable. So I’ve got 860 powder blue cloth coming. I’m praying it will be fast enough. I’ve been looking at Andy and Championship cloth but for now I’ll be stuck with the 860.