With 90% Of Pool Played ON BB?

Johnnyt

Johnnyt

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With about 90% of all pool in the states played on a Bar Box, don't you think there would be enough viewers buying PPV for it? I know that 90% BB and 10% 9' tables are just #'s but it is a very wide difference. Maybe it's because a bigger % of 9' players watch PPV than the BB crowd. I'm talking match ups like TAR, not tournaments. I for one would pay to watch 2 top players on a BB playing 9 ball or better yet...10 ball. Johnnyt
 
Johnnyt said:
With about 90% of all pool in the states played on a Bar Box, don't you think there would be enough viewers buying PPV for it? I know that 90% BB and 10% 9' tables are just #'s but it is a very wide difference. Maybe it's because a bigger % of 9' players watch PPV than the BB crowd. I'm talking match ups like TAR, not tournaments. I for one would pay to watch 2 top players on a BB playing 9 ball or better yet...10 ball. Johnnyt
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Pretty sure Darren vs Scott was a PPV on a bar box.

I think we'd have the same demographic and the casual average recreational league player isn't going to be paying for it at their house.

Freddie <~~~ just one man's opinion
 
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Last time I played in an 8 ball league, I would say 80 to 90 % did not follow pro pool, most have never heard of Earl, Efren, Johnny, and others. I'm wondering how many poolrooms buy and show PPV to their customers. It seems that is a good way to spread your base of customers. This may be common knowledge, but I don't know how widely this is done.
 
Johnnyt said:
With about 90% of all pool in the states played on a Bar Box, don't you think there would be enough viewers buying PPV for it? I know that 90% BB and 10% 9' tables are just #'s but it is a very wide difference. Maybe it's because a bigger % of 9' players watch PPV than the BB crowd. I'm talking match ups like TAR, not tournaments. I for one would pay to watch 2 top players on a BB playing 9 ball or better yet...10 ball. Johnnyt
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I haven't seen a barbox in a couple of years, all 9 footers where I play.
 
bb pool it's a region joke.

Johnnyt said:
With about 90% of all pool in the states played on a Bar Box, don't you think there would be enough viewers buying PPV for it? I know that 90% BB and 10% 9' tables are just #'s but it is a very wide difference. Maybe it's because a bigger % of 9' players watch PPV than the BB crowd. I'm talking match ups like TAR, not tournaments. I for one would pay to watch 2 top players on a BB playing 9 ball or better yet...10 ball. Johnnyt
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Any time you HAVE to require alternating break to prevent people from running awry with matches, it's easy too easy. ..

Jaden
 
I buy my share of ppvs and then some, but I wouldn't be interested in a bar box match at all. The only exception may be if it was 8 ball. I don't really care for playing on bar boxes or watching pros play on them.

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If its pool related ill watch it. I don't care what table it's on. Could be bumper pool as far as that goes. If it helps our sport I'm all for it.
 
Bumper pool!

Allen Brown said:
If its pool related ill watch it. I don't care what table it's on. Could be bumper pool as far as that goes. If it helps our sport I'm all for it.
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Are you channeling me? Stop it!

Seriously, I got my feet wet gambling on a bumper pool table in 1955!

I've always wondered why bumper tables weren't marketed more. They fit in a small space and you can make up a number of fun games, just like on "regular" tables.
 
Donny Lutz said:
Are you channeling me? Stop it!

Seriously, I got my feet wet gambling on a bumper pool table in 1955!

I've always wondered why bumper tables weren't marketed more. They fit in a small space and you can make up a number of fun games, just like on "regular" tables.
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I shot a ball for the first time on a bumper pool table in an ice cream parlor with my Pops. They are fun. I play on one every time I find one somewhere.
 
I love the barbox streams but have to disagree with the 9-ball part. I've been watching the Music City stream this weekend and on the Diamonds guys are routinely dropping 3, 4, even 5 balls on the break. Not much fun to watch those runs. I'd rather see the players navigate an 8 ball rack with more clusters.
 
Donny Lutz said:
Are you channeling me? Stop it!

Seriously, I got my feet wet gambling on a bumper pool table in 1955!

I've always wondered why bumper tables weren't marketed more. They fit in a small space and you can make up a number of fun games, just like on "regular" tables.
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Good thing you didn't gamble on Bumper pool in NY. I would have busted your A$$ in the 50's. :D. Johnnyt
 
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I don't know why Valley or some other table company doesn't bring the 3x6' back. I believe the kids might start to play on them and maybe work their way up to a 9'. They fit in where there is not enough for a regular BB. Johnnyt
 
Johnnyt said:
I don't know why Valley or some other table company doesn't bring the 3x6' back. I believe the kids might start to play on them and maybe work their way up to a 9'. They fit in where there is not enough for a regular BB. Johnnyt
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I grew up on 6 foot tables in a bowling alley. They were Valley and Cougar tables. I consider them pool tables, but I guess that some do not.
 
I have a 9' table but shoot leagues on BBs. I like watching non Pros on BBs, like some of the APA tournaments.
 
joe76195 said:
Bar boxes are not pool tables.
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While zillions of people would disagree, I share your perspective.

Chess is a great game

Golf is a great game.

Poker is a great game.

Bridge may be a great game, dunno, I don't play it.

And... BB may be a great game also. Dunno, i dont play it. :wink:
 
Bust my A$$?

Johnnyt said:
Good thing you didn't gamble on Bumper pool in NY. I would have busted your A$$ in the 50's. :D. Johnnyt
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Bust my A$$?

Maybe, I was only 12 in 1955. But I was banned from that bar because my dad was winning too many drinks and dollars betting on me...
 
Maybe it could be paired with a Tiger Woods, Phil M, Freddy Couples, John Daly skins game on a putt-putt course.........uhhhhh I vote no. I play on bar boxes but see it as a diversion while drinking at a bar. Serious pool to me is on a big table.
 
I'm always interested in watching streams of "good" player's on barboxes, cuz the whole thing is foreign to me.

We may be backwoods here in Maine, but we got 9' tables everywhere, even coin op 9's in a couple bars here in town. There is one room two hours away that has 7's, and of course that's the room we end up playing our States league matches at. Otherwise, its 9's everywhere you go.

Strange foreign beast, this 7 footer you speak of.
 
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