Is this tourny a defo Joey?
How many players, torny fee etc?
I will defo be playing in this, 10 foot table boys from men
Yes, it is definite. Lots of pool for every level of player, sweator and bettor.
What happened to all the 10ft Diamond talk?
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Yes, it is definite. Lots of pool for every level of player, sweator and bettor.
So then, what you're saying is Earl, having as much experience playing on Diamond 9ft pool tables....shouldn't have lost in a race to 100 the first time he played against Shane by a score of 100 to 63 then, right? The table wasn't a gaff circus table, so what do you think is going to happen when a Diamond 5'x10' ProAm plays the exact same way as a Diamond 9ft ProAm? When we see what happens between Shane and Earl in their upcoming TAR match playing on a Diamond 9ft ProAm with 4 1/8" corner pockets that play right, then what's everyone going to say....the table played to GOOD for Earl to win on? I like Earl and Shane both, I just DON'T like to see two of the greatest pool players today grinding it out on a piece of shit, then sitting back and calling that "REAL POOL".
Glen
thanks Joey, i will put this 1 in my calender of tournaments to play in for next year. Looking forward to playing on the 10fts
I kind of like seeing the pros play on a piece of shit table. I would call that real pool. The same type of pool that we play every day. No tv lights, no refs, dirty balls, dead rails, etc.
But I digress. I completely understand what you mean. I didn't call the table they played on a gaff table but plenty of other people did. Those same people blamed Shane's loss on the table conditions. Your point about Earl losing to Shane on a perfectly good 9ft Diamond was exactly my point, also.
Earl outplayed Shane on the 5x10, gaff table or not and Shane would be the first to admit it. Buy the Tar dvds and you'll see.
All I know for sure is that when pool is played and promoted on junk pool tables, then all the hard work that I and others have done to help improve the industry one table at a time has gone to waste and is all for nothing. That's the problem with this country and industry, there's just no standards. With the few great table mechanics that there is in this country, not one of them was called upon to make sure that table Shane & Earl played on, would play right to help promote this sport at a higher level. I mean, if that kind of table is acceptable to the public, then WHY even manufacture better pool tables for people to buy, when junk will do. I'd have to say that the AZ members on here are more educated in what makes a table play right and wrong than any other public forum on this planet. I've spent years on here educating the public about tables and the pockets, cushions, rail height, calibration of the rails, and I'm not alone in what I've tried to do. There's other great table mechanics as well that work to a higher standard because they care about the work they do, Mark Gregory, Jay Spielberg, Bob De Turk, Zach Jonas, Jack Zimmerman, Donny Wessels, just to name a few, and I know I'm leaving several more out when mentioning them. If the public don't get behind the change to make this industry play better, then what's the point of trying to improve this industry for the better?
Earl proved that he could overcome the table conditions, Shane fell victim to them, that's the bottom line of that match they played. What pisses me off, is that it DIDN'T have to go that way, not if the promoters of that match really cared, but what it did prove, is that the promoters are just as ignorant to the play of a quality table....as the public is.
Glen
Just wondering, do you have the DVDs of Shane beating Earl on a 9ft Diamond 100-63? Wonder what happend to Earl in that match up. I don't think a loss of 100 to 82 on a circus table is nearly as bad as having your ass weights handed to you by a margin of 37 games on a real playing 9ft Diamond...do you?
Glen
I see what you did there ..... :grin: .... Nicely played sir, nicely played.