These pockets are a little tight!
Posted Aug 20, 2016, 2:52 PM UTC
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Looks like side pocket cuts to me. Were all the side pockets correct?
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Probably like soccer nets.
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Side pockets are generally cut the other way, with the points jutting outward like this: _/
*edit not sure why the back slash is not showing up.
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Isn't that how those are cut?
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I don't have a great picture of the whole table, but even the side pockets pointed in slightly, all the tables in the house were like this, so I guess they just like the challenge. This was at Billares Euro Club in Cartagena, Colombia
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Interesting, smaller gap at the points, but if you get into the jaws it is going in. No rattling out with those pockets. Never seen that before.
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I kind of like that idea in principle. If you make the shot, you will sink it for sure. I'm sure it would drive me insane on the table though.
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That's fucking evil.
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I've heard South American tables typically have tighter pockets, not sure if that's true of all tables tho. I played in Costa Rica and remember the pockets being much tighter than I was used to.
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Seems the balls are too big to me.
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That is the dumbest and most incompetent pocket cut I have ever seen.
Properly shimmed rails are supposed to leave the facings still almost parallel to each other, or at least to match the original angle of the facings out of the factory
When they're angled like this, you can't touch the facings anymore and balls can only go at a limited range of angles. They can't realistically go off the rails for example. That isn't pool anymore. That's basically a russian pyramid table.
I can't believe people would ruin a table like this, or pay money to use it.
I'm pretty sure the people who play on it don't look at it that way. Part of the beauty of pool is in its infinite variations. I'm sure they have specific games they play on a table like this, and I'm sure they enjoy it.