Worst pool table ever!!!

smokeandapancak

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Last night I decided to pass up on going to one of my 3 regular rooms that are stocked with plush 9fts and go onto post and shot on the bar box they have there. This is the only real life quater table I have seen around here. the thing was horrible.. knicked, stained, lose felt.. a very pronouced lean to one side..terrible... but I figured I needed the exposure to the bar boxes that way I wont be totaly out of the water when I move back Stateside.. there isnt an aboundace og 9fts where I am going...

Either way I almost walked out but I caught a guy who wanted to play some...so I figured "what the hell"...

First frame... I scratch into the pockect that the lean is drawing to (bottom right corner)I notice right there that pretty much anything sent to that end of the table with a slow roll WILL go in that pockect 10 out of 1o times. I adjust and actualy use that to my advantage for the rest of the night.

Some time later I find myself with a table lenght kick.. so I line up to go down and back and put a decent pace on the CB.. it hits the foot rail propmtly jumps up about 6 inches and lands about middle table.... the rails on this thing were so shot out that if there was any force on a ball when it hit the rail that the rail would collapse and on its rebound itwould throw the cb/ob across the table... it was like shooting into one of those 3way baseball trainers (pitch and catch)...

That was by far and away the worst table I have ever seen.. good news is I didnt have to spend a single dollar will I was there, cause I had my fish on the hook for the games and the beer!!!

What was the worst table you have ever played on?
 
smokeandapancak said:
Last night I decided to pass up on going to one of my 3 regular rooms that are stocked with plush 9fts and go onto post and shot on the bar box they have there. This is the only real life quater table I have seen around here. the thing was horrible.. knicked, stained, lose felt.. a very pronouced lean to one side..terrible... but I figured I needed the exposure to the bar boxes that way I wont be totaly out of the water when I move back Stateside.. there isnt an aboundace og 9fts where I am going...

Either way I almost walked out but I caught a guy who wanted to play some...so I figured "what the hell"...

First frame... I scratch into the pockect that the lean is drawing to (bottom right corner)I notice right there that pretty much anything sent to that end of the table with a slow roll WILL go in that pockect 10 out of 1o times. I adjust and actualy use that to my advantage for the rest of the night.

Some time later I find myself with a table lenght kick.. so I line up to go down and back and put a decent pace on the CB.. it hits the foot rail propmtly jumps up about 6 inches and lands about middle table.... the rails on this thing were so shot out that if there was any force on a ball when it hit the rail that the rail would collapse and on its rebound itwould throw the cb/ob across the table... it was like shooting into one of those 3way baseball trainers (pitch and catch)...

That was by far and away the worst table I have ever seen.. good news is I didnt have to spend a single dollar will I was there, cause I had my fish on the hook for the games and the beer!!!

What was the worst table you have ever played on?
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In Detroit I was playing a tourney at Cue cushion and brew (I think that was the name) and it was on 8 ft. tables that were covered in this real thick velour-like cloth...it even had a nice shimmer too it...LOLz...it was so old it had deep furrows in it from break shots...it didn't play so bad but you had to really slug the CB to get it to move...
 
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smokeandapancak said:
What was the worst table you have ever played on?
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There used to be many pool tables in places with wooden floors. Cardboard beer coasters under a leg or three to level them seemed to be an unwritten rule. By looking at the number of coasters under each leg you could get an idea of how soft the floor was and how likely ball roll was to be affected by someone walking by when a ball was in play. Sometimes balls moved when someone walked by before you shot. The general rule was that these balls were respotted where they had came from but sometimes fierce battles erupted when the roll gave a player an advantage.

Bad pockets and ripped cloth that was of legal voting age was pretty much the rule. Dirt, sweat, hair oil, cigarette ash and things better forgotten gave the green cloth a grayish sheen. Broken rails required banks to be fired at near warp speed. Knowing the rolls of the table gave a huge homefield advantage. Add poor lighting and the table too close to a wall on a side or two and these tables were plain bad. Since I played on dozens like this, trying to remember one as the worst would be impossible.

I have found one still like this and I go play on it once in awhile for old times sake and to support a good guy's business. It does give a great appreciation for the GC's and Diamond's I usually play on that are well kept up.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
There used to be many pool tables in places with wooden floors. Cardboard beer coasters under a leg or three to level them seemed to be an unwritten rule. By looking at the number of coasters under each leg you could get an idea of how soft the floor was and how likely ball roll was to be affected by someone walking by when a ball was in play. Sometimes balls moved when someone walked by before you shot. The general rule was that these balls were respotted where they had came from but sometimes fierce battles erupted when the roll gave a player an advantage.

Bad pockets and ripped cloth that was of legal voting age was pretty much the rule. Dirt, sweat, hair oil, cigarette ash and things better forgotten gave the green cloth a grayish sheen. Broken rails required banks to be fired at near warp speed. Knowing the rolls of the table gave a huge homefield advantage. Add poor lighting and the table too close to a wall on a side or two and these tables were plain bad. Since I played on dozens like this, trying to remember one as the worst would be impossible.

I have found one still like this and I go play on it once in awhile for old times sake and to support a good guy's business. It does give a great appreciation for the GC's and Diamond's I usually play on that are well kept up.

Hu
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the coaster thing is funny.....this one last night hadcoasters under all 4 legs!!!...I guess somebody didnt agree wiht the first "mechanic's" opinion of level:D
 
one of those things . . .

smokeandapancak said:
the coaster thing is funny.....this one last night hadcoasters under all 4 legs!!!...I guess somebody didnt agree wiht the first "mechanic's" opinion of level:D
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One of those things, you can add coasters but must never remove any. I'm sure there is a book of rules somewhere concerning these laws . . . :D

Hu
 
key west

I played in a Key West bar where one corner of the table had a transmission jack instead of a leg. I tried a long shot (distance wise) down a rail. It hit the rail three times and went in the side pocket. That was the final straw, concentrated on drinking and carousing the rest of that night.
 
I played some hundred dollar sets on a barbox in Turkey Quarter , N.C. with duct tape on both end rails and one side rail, and four or five spots so bare that you could see the slate. It was also mid-July and no air conditioning. About as humid as you can get and 90 degrees. I forgot to mention the mudball, you know "the big one." Lot of fun. Took a while to adjust, but got the cheese.
 
By far the worst place I ever set foot in was a place in El Paso called Montana's I believe. The felt was torn and the rails were CAVED in, the corners were all warped, it was a sight to be seen.

Eric.
 
we are making pool tables now,will get same quality as ABC pool tables approx half year later,we are now working with their person
 
Slowhand said:
That would've been Cushion Cue and Brew, it's now called Snookers. Since it was an 8 ft. table with shag carpet for cloth, it must've been the one on Woodward. They also had the cheapest chalk you could get, it looked like something you would buy at K Mart in those combo packs with screw on tips. :D

But those tables were great compared to the bar boxes at Van Dyke Sports Center, most people called it Butterfly Suite because that was the disco in front of the place. The balls would get stuck in the returns, so the bouncer would come over and lift one end of the table up about a foot in the air to get the balls to roll out and then drop the table. One time I tried to slow roll a ball and it fully orbited another ball. Yes it went completely around that other ball , more than 360 degrees, and came to rest frozen on that other ball. I think they even bounced against each other a couple times before they came to rest. The diameter of the orbit was less than a foot, talk about low spots in the table. :rolleyes: The only way you stood a chance to win a game on one of those tables to be a ballbanger and hit them as hard as you can. Playing position was strictly a hit or miss proposition.

Oh the tables you were willing to play on when you're fresh out of high school and just looking for cold beer. ;) lmao
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Woodward rings a bell...it was upstairs too...I think...
 
my buddy told me a story about how he was out with some guys he worked with one night in vincennes indiana at some dive bar but the table only had 3 legs, the 4th leg was a car jack on wheels that you see in most garages, they got into with some of the locals and got pretty pissed off and decided they were gonna steal the jack so they couldn't play any more pool, so one of em releases the jack and another opens the door and he runs with the jack but theres a inch or so gap between the floor and the door way and the jack stopped right there and they took off
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The worst table I ever played on was at a bar in Benidorm, Spain in 1985. Torn cloth & beer stains everywhere but the best part was it was outside! The day we played there was windy as hell & every so often the balls would just move slightly in the wind. If the ball was rolling the right way it'd take ages to stop.

A very bizarre experience but one that had us in fits of laughter!
 
There was a dance club/resturant in North Dallas called Cocina Caliente that closed down a few years back. My friends got me out there one night and since I don't dance, I gravitated to the pool tables with one of my buddies. From a distance, it was a nice 8 ft table, looked like something you would see in someone's home, but up close, it was horrid. There were drinks spills all over the table, so that the balls & felt were sticky in many places...not to mention all the little holes in the felt. The 8 ball had a nice 1" smiley face yellow sticker on it. Of course, all the house cues were warped & felt like a chewed up pencil being run through your fingers. I shot the cue ball down the center of the table; it went straight all the way down, but when it made it back to the other side, I managed to pocket it in the left hand corner. I think I ever made more than 3 balls in a row on that table and when I did, they were all close to the pockets.
 
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