Valley 8 foot coin-op

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jjinfla

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Why does Valley make their coin-op tables with 4 1/2 inch pockets? And with that heavy, metal filled ball, they are really hard to play.

Since these tables are in bars I would think that they would make the pockets as big a bushel baskets (at lest 5 inches) so that all the players would think they were really great players, the games would be fast, and they would collect more quarters.
$1 per game here.

I've heard too many people complain about how hard the tables are and so they won't play on them. How can that be good for business?

In fact the local pool halls here have gone away from the shimmed pockets on the 4 1/2 x 9's. No pros here, so no need for them. And the locals wouldn't play on them. House can't make money if nobody plays on them.

The bar our 9-ball team plays out of has 5 Valleys. Does give our team a decided advantage playing in the tournaments. Especially when the owner puts on that concrete rock called a cue ball. Drives me nuts. Can't draw it, can't slide it, and if not very careful it really throws the OB. Saw an APA 7 miss a one foot ball in hand shot to the side pocket last night. He left talking to himself last night and probably will never be the same again. LOL

Jake
 
JJ, have one of the older guys tell ya about the old Irving K 8 footers in the bars. Not many ran out on those things. Great tables though. Double tuff.
 
Hemi, The only thing older than me is dirt. I remember the old bar tables. Twenty five cents per game. But all I remember about them is putting my quarter on them for next game , playing, and usually buying the drink. I barely knew which end of a cue to hold. One guy always had a dozen shotglasses upside down in front of him. The dirty robber. LOL. But booze was cheap back then. JD on the rocks and you better not toss my rocks when you refill me. Jake
 
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