fred bentivegna
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The table
The table
The Diamond table part was unavoidable. That's what they had to play on, no matter what. There are zero Diamonds in Chicago so that was a big edge to Shannon. The mistake however, was Jet's choice of table. He was allowed to pick the table, that was good. But that was the only really professional management move that Ed and he made in the match.
He picked the toughest table in the house! How is he supposed to develop any rhythm on a strange, tough table? Reverse the process. Imagine a road player is coming into your room to play you. What table do you want to play him on? The toughest table of course.
Some of the biggest guns on my beat list fell to me on table #24 in Bensingers. (4 1/2 x9 Gold Crown) Grady, Donnie Anderson, Steve Cook, David Howard, etc. This was after I couldnt get visitors to play anymore on the 5 x 10s. The box was a monster. Grady called it a "cold deck."
Bensingers was a great home court. If miraculously, somehow things went wrong on table 24, we would move to the 5 x 10s, starting with table 13, then to the little tougher table 17, then the even tougher table 19 with the flat snooker rails. Then finally, with no human ever getting this far thru the gauntlet, we had table 22. Dead, flat snooker rails, slow cloth, 4 1/2 pockets with deep wells. Dallas West never ran a 30 on this table.
Beard
The tables were all level of course. Just tough.
The table
usblues said:Hey Freddie,I know what you've seen in your travels which would be about everything so I had to re-read your #17 post and was wondering,I'm hip to the money stuff/angles but how do you know about the table being wrong?Just because it was a Diamond or something more?Just curious.....thanks,Bob
The Diamond table part was unavoidable. That's what they had to play on, no matter what. There are zero Diamonds in Chicago so that was a big edge to Shannon. The mistake however, was Jet's choice of table. He was allowed to pick the table, that was good. But that was the only really professional management move that Ed and he made in the match.
He picked the toughest table in the house! How is he supposed to develop any rhythm on a strange, tough table? Reverse the process. Imagine a road player is coming into your room to play you. What table do you want to play him on? The toughest table of course.
Some of the biggest guns on my beat list fell to me on table #24 in Bensingers. (4 1/2 x9 Gold Crown) Grady, Donnie Anderson, Steve Cook, David Howard, etc. This was after I couldnt get visitors to play anymore on the 5 x 10s. The box was a monster. Grady called it a "cold deck."
Bensingers was a great home court. If miraculously, somehow things went wrong on table 24, we would move to the 5 x 10s, starting with table 13, then to the little tougher table 17, then the even tougher table 19 with the flat snooker rails. Then finally, with no human ever getting this far thru the gauntlet, we had table 22. Dead, flat snooker rails, slow cloth, 4 1/2 pockets with deep wells. Dallas West never ran a 30 on this table.
Beard
The tables were all level of course. Just tough.