What is a chinese 8 ball table?

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I saw in another post that Jayson Shaw was selling his pool table and going to buy a chinese 8 ball table.
What is a chinese 8 ball table?
 
kaznj said:
I saw in another post that Jayson Shaw was selling his pool table and going to buy a chinese 8 ball table.
What is a chinese 8 ball table?
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The ones used in the recent big events have been 4½ x 9 (playing surface of 50" x 100") but with snooker-like pockets -- smaller than on a normal pool table and with rounded jaws.
 
AtLarge is right

In effect it is a 3/4 size snooker table. The rubber cushion profile is different to an American pool table and the cloth used is different. The pockets are cut like a snooker table.
However because they are using standard American pool balls, the rails are slightly higher than on a snooker table......I believe this is what makes it a Chinese 8ball table.
 
Just today I watched my first match, here's my take on play. It's almost identical to tight Diamond bar table eight ball, with more play area, tho balls being tied up are nearly non existant. This larger playfield with rounded pockets completely changes the game, to almost a 3/4 Snooker game but run out, if ya can't make it on the Pro Snooker Tour :)))). Because of that I much prefer the dynamics of bar table eight ball on a tight box with creative offensive and defensive board play at times. The Chinese game makes young eyes have more advantage, not knowledge is my take. It seems like a game you'd never have an Efren at sixty years old in the mix during the finals, which is sad.
 
GB Basher said:
AtLarge is right

In effect it is a 3/4 size snooker table. The rubber cushion profile is different to an American pool table and the cloth used is different. The pockets are cut like a snooker table.
However because they are using standard American pool balls, the rails are slightly higher than on a snooker table......I believe this is what makes it a Chinese 8ball table.
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Yes indeed, essentially it is a 9 ft English Snooker table with the L shaped
cushions at a height for 2 1/4 inch balls - or, as we say, a table for people
who hate pool.

Dale
 
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I have played on English 8 ball tables and they are much harder than a Diamond 7 ft table.
the Chinese tables appear to be a bigger, harder version of the English 8 ball table.
I am sure others on here know a lot more about them than I do.
 
lakeman77 said:
I have played on English 8 ball tables and they are much harder than a Diamond 7 ft table.
the Chinese tables appear to be a bigger, harder version of the English 8 ball table.
I am sure others on here know a lot more about them than I do.
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+1

Any Diamond is a walk in the park compared to those tables.

Dale
 
For 22 weeks a year over 8 trips per year, I worked in Novo Hambergo, Brazil, Rio Grande del Sur, from 1984-1994. We stayed in the Hotel Suarez, Campo Bon. They had one of these tables. Durung these trips there was alot of down time so playing pool would have been great. However, the table was so miserable to play on that we quit playing. It simply was not fun as it was to hard to make balls.

I think anyone would have it.
 
phil dade said:
For 22 weeks a year over 8 trips per year, I worked in Novo Hambergo, Brazil, Rio Grande del Sur, from 1984-1994. We stayed in the Hotel Suarez, Campo Bon. They had one of these tables. Durung these trips there was alot of down time so playing pool would have been great. However, the table was so miserable to play on that we quit playing. It simply was not fun as it was to hard to make balls.

I think anyone would have it.
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pretty sure these tables did not exists in 94, sounds like you played on a 9ft snooker table with pool balls, which might even be tougher since the rail height would be off
 
the table in the video looks sick, crazy attractive, steel block cushions, thick slate, and I'm assuming he means 1.2 "metric" tons since he says it weighs more than a 12 foot snooker table which is 2645 punds....insane

oh and "double shaved" cloth, lol, whatever that means
 
Island Drive said:
Just today I watched my first match, here's my take on play. It's almost identical to tight Diamond bar table eight ball, with more play area, tho balls being tied up are nearly non existant. This larger playfield with rounded pockets completely changes the game, to almost a 3/4 Snooker game but run out, if ya can't make it on the Pro Snooker Tour :)))). Because of that I much prefer the dynamics of bar table eight ball on a tight box with creative offensive and defensive board play at times. The Chinese game makes young eyes have more advantage, not knowledge is my take. It seems like a game you'd never have an Efren at sixty years old in the mix during the finals, which is sad.
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Haha diamond barbox tables have buckets for pockets. lol this guy has jokes
 
lakeman77 said:
I have played on English 8 ball tables and they are much harder than a Diamond 7 ft table.
the Chinese tables appear to be a bigger, harder version of the English 8 ball table.
I am sure others on here know a lot more about them than I do.
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This. Chinese 8ball tables are the toughest pool tables in the world. Period.
 
so much buzz and hype now at the shiny nickel. I see a "why don't we have these, in tournament here" discussion in the future like at a make-it-happen or in place of the big foot. But yea, that video on the table made me hate those guys even more for how easy they make it look.
 
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