Were Gabriel tables any good?

CanadianGuy said:
wow that speaks to some of the distributor issues

your pool room looks awesome, one of the photos shows $3 per hour, what year was that?

cheapest I ever played at a decent room in my neck of the woods was $8 in the 90s, $15 is the current norm in the few decent rooms left

if I grew up near your room I would likely be cutting class, chores, and life constantly to get down there and play, especially at $3
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$3/hour was the mid 80’s in NorCal for night time. $1.90/hr in the afternoons was the rate at most rooms.
 
Pretty sure there was/is a room in Ocalla, Fl that has Gabriel's. The complaint I heard was they were hard to set up due to using 1" 3 piece slate, (heavy) and that the 1" slate made balls more prone to bouncing. No complaints that I'm aware of regarding quality. Certainly I don't play well enough to make a judgement call as far as their playability.
 
Never played on a Gabriels pocket billiard table but have spent
many hours on a Gabriel Kronos 3 cushion table.
Amazingly solid table.
Sits on granite blocks.

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Chris' room in Boone, NC is glorious.

A must-visit stop for anyone in or passing through western NC.

Here's the 10':
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ChrisinNC said:
The only Gabriel’s Sentinel 10 foot pocket table that Gabriel’s ever made sits in our pool room at Family Billiards in Boone, North Carolina. It was a prototype table made for the 2016 Deurne City Classic 10 foot Challenge (Belgium) 16 player Invitational, headlined by Immonen, Chinakhov, Feijen, Shaw, and Boyes, among others, which was won by teenage phenom Joshua Filler.

Gabriel’s had originally planned to manufacture and offer the 10 foot model Sentinel pocket tables. I don’t know why but their plans fell through. Somehow I managed to talk Thierry Gabriels (company majority owner) in to selling us the prototype table, as he’d been promising me one for over a year, and our Poolroom was one of the few Poolroom’s in the US that already had Gabriel’s signature Pro Tables (since 2000) and still do.

I can tell you all our Gabriel’s tables play great, and stay in top shape, in no small part due to Ernesto Dominguez, who is the only table mechanic we allow to work on our tables.
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About ten years ago in Las Vegas I played on a 10' Gabriels pool table at Best Billiards. Probably not the Sentinel model. But it was a great table.
 
If my memory serves correct, G-Cue Billiards in Chicago has Gabriels. I thought they were nice tables. The pockets were of a different material and held I think an entire rack.

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Knowing what I know about the design of their pocket tables, I wouldn't own one today. Not when there's better tables that can be bought for less money, and less problems down the road!
 
realkingcobra said:
Knowing what I know about the design of their pocket tables, I wouldn't own one today. Not when there's better tables that can be bought for less money, and less problems down the road!
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Although I really like the way our Gabriel’s tables play as well as the uniqueness that we are the one of the only poolrooms I know of (at least in the southeast) that has them, if I had to do it over knowing what I know now, I would have chosen Diamond’s.

Mainly because replacement parts for discontinued Gabriel’s models are just too hard if not impossible to get from the company in the Netherlands. Also, the one piece I-beam steel frames which do not come apart is very impractical for moving, which would make it very hard to resell or move to another location.
 
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