small tight pockets in one pocket good or bad?

lfigueroa said:
Went there *many* times while my Mom was still alive living there.

Played One Pocket Richie there. Don't recall a kiddie table but would often play 3C there on the back tables.

To the best of my recollection, the pockets were tight but not 4".

Lou Figueroa
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The front 3 tables and 2 of the side ones were all 4” flat. Maybe you were just playing well lol
 
I would often play on those front tables by the rail.

So regardless it doesn't matter -- the room is gone.

Lou Figueroa
 
lfigueroa said:
I would often play on those front tables by the rail.

So regardless it doesn't matter -- the room is gone.

Lou Figueroa
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I’m just trying to make a point that a lot of rooms here have 4” pockets and plenty of patronage and action. I live here and frequent the rooms. Not sure why people are trying to argue with me. Don’t care anymore ✌🏼
 
highkarate said:
I’m just trying to make a point that a lot of rooms here have 4” pockets and plenty of patronage and action. I live here and frequent the rooms. Not sure why people are trying to argue with me. Don’t care anymore ✌🏼
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The room is gone — I’ve been around to many, many rooms all over the country from Seattle to, Montana, to SoCal, to NorCal, to AZ, to Atlanta, to Chicago, to Kansas, to Kentucky, to the north East Coast, to NYC, to NOLA, to FL, and more.

A few tournaments too.

Played on tables with all sizes pockets.

Played at HoB. Nice room.

Lou Figueroa
 
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lfigueroa said:
One thing I have learned over the years is that nothing stays the same.

I have been to pool halls that had 4.5" pockets, only to come back and find smaller pockets. Gone to other rooms filled with nice GCs and find half the room is GCs and the other half Diamonds.

IOWs, thngs change. When went to HOB I did not encounter any 4" pockets.

Don't know about Aloha, Ibertad, Crenshaw, Alhambra, or Sherman Oaks. In any case, people do stupid shit and ruin the game -- enjoy if you can.

Lou Figueroa
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It's just aesthetics to me. Same thing happened with everything that's ever been for public consumption. Food, cars, music's a good model. The product can even be considered an entirely different product now.
 
straightline said:
It's just aesthetics to me. Same thing happened with everything that's ever been for public consumption. Food, cars, music's a good model. The product can even be considered an entirely different product now.
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Uber tight pockets change/ruin the game.

Lou Figueroa
 
straightline said:
To you. I have no ingrained gamesmanship and welcome the difficulty. To me it's a productive endeavor. There for sure is more shooting to learn than being a gamester allows.
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What degree of tightest are you speaking of?

IMO, you can go too far and ruin the game — you have to be able to work the CB a bit for position to play real pool. If it’s all about just pocketing the ball you lose that.

There needs to be balance between pocketing balls with accuracy and enough room to work the CB, IMO.

Lou Figueroa
 
I played on a 1 pocket GC3 at a room in Philly 2 weeks ago. It was triple shimmed to 4.5" pockets (or possibly extended rails, I'm not sure). It was the main action table front and center. This used to be the "standard" for one-hole play.

I played 5 9 ball sets on it. Both me and my opponent were playing out of our minds and running out like water. It might have been the best I played in a year.

What struck me is when a ball brushes the rail a bit, it still goes on this table. On a Diamond Pro-Cut 4.5" pocket, with its different facing angles and deeper shelf, it rejects those same balls. (I already knew this, but this particular 9 ball session really reinforced it).

Going from a 4.5" GC to a 4.5" Diamond already increased the pocket difficulty by a large amount. Now that Diamonds are the standard table, taking them down to 4", 4 1/8", or 4 1/4" pockets for one pocket play is needless imo. It makes it TOO difficult.
 
iusedtoberich said:
I played on a 1 pocket GC3 at a room in Philly 2 weeks ago. It was triple shimmed to 4.5" pockets (or possibly extended rails, I'm not sure). It was the main action table front and center. This used to be the "standard" for one-hole play.

I played 5 9 ball sets on it. Both me and my opponent were playing out of our minds and running out like water. It might have been the best I played in a year.

What struck me is when a ball brushes the rail a bit, it still goes on this table. On a Diamond Pro-Cut 4.5" pocket, with its different facing angles and deeper shelf, it rejects those same balls. (I already knew this, but this particular 9 ball session really reinforced it).

Going from a 4.5" GC to a 4.5" Diamond already increased the pocket difficulty by a large amount. Now that Diamonds are the standard table, taking them down to 4", 4 1/8", or 4 1/4" pockets for one pocket play is needless imo. It makes it TOO difficult.
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Doesn’t necessarily make the game more difficult it just changes it. It makes pocketing more difficult. It makes taking balls out easier. It makes playing safe up table easier. It makes scratching less frequent. Etc
 
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