Really high quality content especially for 18 subs.Bro i have done the worst videos on the whole platform and got 100.Definately subscribing. IDK why youtube hasnt given you space to blow up!
I purchased this table on 1/15/2025. Wanted to add a few things after my first day of use. - My table is completely balanced with no warping - The manufacturer fixed the issue with stables in the pockets. My table came with a rubber guard over the staples so the adhesive leather isn't needed - Definitely would recommend it for people looking to get into pool or play casually if you don't have a club nearby
I've been keeping my gosports 7ft outside and so far so good. It's only been a week since I got it, but I put down small pavers under the feet to keep it off grass and to level out with. Used a small car jack and 2x4, and 2x8 to keep the middle from sagging. When not in use, I put foam board insulation on the table surface cut it 37x74 I believe. Then purchased heavy duty weatherproof tarp, tied it down and set a ladder on top. It has D rigs so I'll probably get stakes for it. It's not a slate table but it's great for practicing in my opinion. I work a lot but I play APA double jeopardy on Thursdays and as a 6/6 I get matched against people that play all the time. And I'm saving some quarters. I have a video I'll put up showing how it plays outside. Props to OP for his awesome video review very detailed!
Definitely saving some quarters. Thanks for the awesome comment! You should definitely put up a video, I'm sure plenty of people looking for mods for this thing. Myself included.
Great vid! I have one too. Slate is 1 inch MDF, looks like it can be removed and replaced with new felt. Someone recommended placing expanding shower rods between the legs (along the long rail) to keep the table more stable. Another said that ironing the felt makes the table play faster. I haven't tried that yet. A friend already took a huge chunk of the felt with his sloppy power break, so maybe I'll try ironing it sooner than later. When I have friends over, we drag the table outside to my apartment building's rooftop BBQ. It's nice.
That’s an awesome and honest review on the table! I’m hoping to get one as well eventually, especially in the 7ft version with red felt for me! Plus where can buy the leather for covering the staples in the pockets?
Hey thanks, glad to hear it! I got the leather on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C4PQQBV1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=formerapa3-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=4bd785f9110ee273651b6c6286a31fdb&camp=1789&creative=9325
thanks, I appreciate the pro's/con's...I've been studying many tables for sometime now in my price and space range and for my all white modern minimalist decor....I'm going with this one, I'm gonna build a whole new base, of modern art/Jetsons look..very modern built in LED effects....bought the 7' blue felt table...expecting it in a few days.... when done will be a couple inches taller but able to remove the whole table top if needed...oh and making it all white....I love a challenge... to make it appear meatier....everythings white in my place...but tons of hidden ambient and special effects to turn anything white to any color of the spectrum...thinking of adding clear tube ball return...easy peasy...
Hi, do you by chance have the measurement in inches from the nose of the cushion to the opposite nose of the cushion for the 6 foot, (in both directions), like this video shows? The nose is where the ball hits the cushion. That info is not available anywhere. That's the only number that matters for determining if a room is big enough for the table. Thanks!
Great review. I purchased the 8 ft. table with Oak Finish and Black Felt. Per your review, I purchased the Aramith Cue Ball, Leather for the pockets, a GoSports table cover and the Willard Cue tip shaper tool. All great suggestions. Have been playing on it now for 2 months. Very happy with the quality. My table has a slight sag toward the middle also. Wondering if you found a good fix for this and do you have any recommendations for a better pool cue that can be purchased from Amazon?
Hey there, thanks for the kind words. Table sag: haven't solved it, but I will say I notice it less now than when I started with the table two years ago. I guess maybe it's all settling. Also I haven't moved the table much. Cues: I have three cues of varying price and honestly the one I am most comfortable with is the cheapest--it's made by Action, looks like you can find them for $100-150 on Amazon. I also recommend taking a look at the Pool Dawg website if you really want to browse. I believe they also have free returns. Happy shooting!
I think square profile rubber is common to Snooker tables and perhaps other forms of overseas billiards, that might by why yours are square. It also facilitates different ball sizes, where pointed profile rubber really needs to be 1/X of the ball height high to play well, and I know that some varieties of overseas billiards use smaller balls than Americans do.
Hey there--granted I don't have a calipers, but after 5 minutes with a tape measure I can say they're between 2 3/16"-2.25". They appear to be the exact size as my Aramith Super Pro cue ball, which is billed as 2.25".
Hi, you did a nice job! I can see you can play sum;) I have spend my whole life playing on Gold Crowns and Diamonds at the pool room, and was looking into the 6 foot version of this table as that's all that would fit in my house. You showed some player specific stuff, as opposed to banger only stuff. The cushion nose to cushion nose measurement, which is absolutely nowhere I could find, the cushion profile, the pocket mouth, etc. The metal sticking out of the pocket would ruin even Aramith Tournament sets. Good job showing that and the solution. Great job overall. Question: Can you tell if the "felt" is cloth like Simonis (only much thicker), that wraps around the "slate" and gets stapled or glued to the edges of the "slate"? Or is it like "felt flocking" that is sprayed onto the "slate"? A few comments: You can buy a Dynasphere Tungsten set for about $100 new on ebay. They are as good as the Aramith Tournament set, no lie, and better than the Aramith Super Pro set. I have about 7 phenolic sets to compare them. They also come with a thick paper template rack. Not as good as the mylar Magic Ball Rack, or the Outsville rack it looks like you were using, but still works well. Then your whole set will be super smooth, consistent, and hard. The pockets, even though 4.25" at the mouth, won't play anywhere as hard as a professional table like a Diamond or Gold Crown. The reason is the facing angle in your video looks about parallel, and the "slate" shelf is extremely shallow. If a hits anywhere inside the points of the pocket on this table, it will fall. On a professional table, if the ball rubs the rail on the way in, but still lands inside the points, it will often bobble out.
Hey Nick! Thanks for the nice comments. Re: Felt: The closest thing I can compare it to in my experience is snooker table baize. I've been watching more Chinese 8-ball lately and it looks similar to that material as well. Given that it's made in China, this makes sense. It is nothing like Simonis that I've played on. It is wrapped, not sprayed. You can see where it's stapled on in the underside shot of the net pocketing in the video. Thanks for the tip on the Dynasphere--I've never played with them. Maybe this'll end up being a Christmas present to myself. You're right on those aspects of the pockets. I definitely experience fewer rattlers, hangers, or balls "wiping their feet" compared to playing at pool halls. Take care, hope this helped!
@@formerAPA3 Thanks so much! Yeah, the dyansphere is my favorite set. I have Aramith Super Pro, Aramith Tournament, Brunswick Centennials, Rashig from W. Germany, Cyclop, and a Disney set made by Aramith. The Dyansphere is better than all of them IMO, and dirt cheap.
Hey great video, and thanks. I wanted to ask you. Were you able to perfectly level this table? Because despite my best efforts with a level Etc adjusting the legs. I just can't seem to get it perfectly level. It always seems to be somehow off with extra roll in One Direction or another on slow shots. Have you found that to be the case with yours or maybe mine's defective?
Hey thanks. I don't think I've "perfectly" leveled it, but I have noticed in the year since I published this video that it has settled a bit in a good way. I'm seeing way less unexpected funk than I did initially. I also haven't moved it in quite some time. Hope this helps.
have had this table for 7 months, the balls bounce out of the pockets on about 30% of the shots, cues it come with are junk, the balls are okay but i purchased a set of aramith crown standard balls recently and they do perform better in my opinion. definently reccomend for a first pool table or if you dont have a lot of space. i am thinking of getting a olhausen table soon to replace this one
My experience is the same as your's, but I have no issues with the balls bouncing out of the pockets. Maybe they fixed the problem. I don't like any of the accesories. I also got Aramith balls and they are better. The sticks and rack are also trash. Overall, it's better than nothing if you don't have the space or need to move it around on occasion. It's not light, but a slate table is basically unmovable. The felt is very slow. The playing surface has some minor uneveness. I'd recommend getting a slate table like you're planning to do. There are used ones for the same price.
Howdy, thanks for the excellent review! Think all the information shared was helpful, especially for a newer player. I have been thinking about buying this table lately. One thing that has held me back was that i wasn't sure it could be reclothed when the time came. I know you said it couldn't be reclothed in the video....but are you sure it couldn't be done? I would even consider replacing the playing surface with new MDF/etc playing surface if that could be done. Can the table be taken apart at all? Is a little hard to see the bottom side of the table. Sometimes if there is a will there can be a way for someone who really wants to make it happen. Again, thanks for the review and any thoughts on this matter would be appreciated.
Hey there, thanks! Looking at the table now, there are multiple screws along the sides and bottom. I think if you really wanted to, you could find a way to take it apart. To be honest though, I'd be concerned about overall stability of the table after you put it back together just because of the materials it's made out of (plywood). I don't think they're resilient enough to be screwed back together and be as stable/square/level as before as compared to slate tables designed to be refelted. I could be wrong, but that's just my hunch. Either way I'd love to see someone try.
I don’t know why everyone is saying it can’t be taken apart and modified. It had to be put together, so that means it can be taken apart. At minimum to change the felt/bumpers so the table plays faster. Pretty sure these net pockets can be changed out too. How thick would you guesstimate the mdf board is? Why does it sag, when the two parallel bars are supposed to add rigidity and prevent sag. I understand its limitations and its intended purpose at its price point hence majority of us have searched “folding pool table.” Thus is not the iPhone of pool tables, its more like Obama phone and it functions/performs its intended purpose.
$600 and the whole thing is made of irreplaceable shit material and held together with staples? Oh, and if you want it to be usable in the slightest, you have to buy a bunch of extra stuff on top of that. Doesn't seem worth it tbh. Good, honest review though.
Really high quality content especially for 18 subs.Bro i have done the worst videos on the whole platform and got 100.Definately subscribing. IDK why youtube hasnt given you space to blow up!
Appreciate the kind words! Think I need to make more than one video...working on it!
Great video, thanks. Been researching tables. Lots of useful info here. Keep making your videos!
Great tip with the adhesive leather.
One of the best reviews I've ever seen. Thanks for taking the time it's answered every question I had.
Absolutely! Thanks for the nice comment.
I purchased this table on 1/15/2025. Wanted to add a few things after my first day of use.
- My table is completely balanced with no warping
- The manufacturer fixed the issue with stables in the pockets. My table came with a rubber guard over the staples so the adhesive leather isn't needed
- Definitely would recommend it for people looking to get into pool or play casually if you don't have a club nearby
Very well done. You covered some influential aspects others don't. Good work and much thanks!
Thank you!
I've been keeping my gosports 7ft outside and so far so good. It's only been a week since I got it, but I put down small pavers under the feet to keep it off grass and to level out with. Used a small car jack and 2x4, and 2x8 to keep the middle from sagging. When not in use, I put foam board insulation on the table surface cut it 37x74 I believe. Then purchased heavy duty weatherproof tarp, tied it down and set a ladder on top. It has D rigs so I'll probably get stakes for it. It's not a slate table but it's great for practicing in my opinion. I work a lot but I play APA double jeopardy on Thursdays and as a 6/6 I get matched against people that play all the time. And I'm saving some quarters. I have a video I'll put up showing how it plays outside. Props to OP for his awesome video review very detailed!
Definitely saving some quarters. Thanks for the awesome comment! You should definitely put up a video, I'm sure plenty of people looking for mods for this thing. Myself included.
Be careful, because MDF tables are NOT supposed to be left outside, your MDF bed is going to warp very VERY quickly.
Great vid! I have one too. Slate is 1 inch MDF, looks like it can be removed and replaced with new felt. Someone recommended placing expanding shower rods between the legs (along the long rail) to keep the table more stable. Another said that ironing the felt makes the table play faster. I haven't tried that yet. A friend already took a huge chunk of the felt with his sloppy power break, so maybe I'll try ironing it sooner than later. When I have friends over, we drag the table outside to my apartment building's rooftop BBQ. It's nice.
Nice! Nothing like outdoor pool. Thanks for info on MDF. So far the best thing I've done for the felt is run a Roomba on it.
@@formerAPA3 Ha! I bet the roomba is great at straight pool
That’s an awesome and honest review on the table! I’m hoping to get one as well eventually, especially in the 7ft version with red felt for me! Plus where can buy the leather for covering the staples in the pockets?
Hey thanks, glad to hear it! I got the leather on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C4PQQBV1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=formerapa3-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=4bd785f9110ee273651b6c6286a31fdb&camp=1789&creative=9325
thanks, I appreciate the pro's/con's...I've been studying many tables for sometime now in my price and space range and for my all white modern minimalist decor....I'm going with this one, I'm gonna build a whole new base, of modern art/Jetsons look..very modern built in LED effects....bought the 7' blue felt table...expecting it in a few days.... when done will be a couple inches taller but able to remove the whole table top if needed...oh and making it all white....I love a challenge... to make it appear meatier....everythings white in my place...but tons of hidden ambient and special effects to turn anything white to any color of the spectrum...thinking of adding clear tube ball return...easy peasy...
Sounds awesome! Hope you share finished product to the world.
Ella malaka. To ekanes? Or ekatses sto kolo sou? ha ha
I love my 6 foot! no sinking middle and the tight pockets make it more challenging than a bar table
Hi, do you by chance have the measurement in inches from the nose of the cushion to the opposite nose of the cushion for the 6 foot, (in both directions), like this video shows? The nose is where the ball hits the cushion. That info is not available anywhere. That's the only number that matters for determining if a room is big enough for the table. Thanks!
Thank you for the review! I recently purchased one and they have an 8ft table available as well.
Great review. I purchased the 8 ft. table with Oak Finish and Black Felt. Per your review, I purchased the Aramith Cue Ball, Leather for the pockets, a GoSports table cover and the Willard Cue tip shaper tool. All great suggestions. Have been playing on it now for 2 months. Very happy with the quality. My table has a slight sag toward the middle also. Wondering if you found a good fix for this and do you have any recommendations for a better pool cue that can be purchased from Amazon?
Hey there, thanks for the kind words.
Table sag: haven't solved it, but I will say I notice it less now than when I started with the table two years ago. I guess maybe it's all settling. Also I haven't moved the table much.
Cues: I have three cues of varying price and honestly the one I am most comfortable with is the cheapest--it's made by Action, looks like you can find them for $100-150 on Amazon. I also recommend taking a look at the Pool Dawg website if you really want to browse. I believe they also have free returns.
Happy shooting!
WELL DONE. You explained this excellently. Thank you.
Thank YOU!
I think square profile rubber is common to Snooker tables and perhaps other forms of overseas billiards, that might by why yours are square. It also facilitates different ball sizes, where pointed profile rubber really needs to be 1/X of the ball height high to play well, and I know that some varieties of overseas billiards use smaller balls than Americans do.
These are great points.
Excellent objective review. I think you evaluated it very well. Thank you!
Appreciate it!
You earn more sub for this deeply review product 👍👍👍👍 great job
what are the balls specific sizes? thanks for the reply 😊
Hey there--granted I don't have a calipers, but after 5 minutes with a tape measure I can say they're between 2 3/16"-2.25". They appear to be the exact size as my Aramith Super Pro cue ball, which is billed as 2.25".
Hi, you did a nice job! I can see you can play sum;) I have spend my whole life playing on Gold Crowns and Diamonds at the pool room, and was looking into the 6 foot version of this table as that's all that would fit in my house. You showed some player specific stuff, as opposed to banger only stuff. The cushion nose to cushion nose measurement, which is absolutely nowhere I could find, the cushion profile, the pocket mouth, etc. The metal sticking out of the pocket would ruin even Aramith Tournament sets. Good job showing that and the solution. Great job overall.
Question: Can you tell if the "felt" is cloth like Simonis (only much thicker), that wraps around the "slate" and gets stapled or glued to the edges of the "slate"? Or is it like "felt flocking" that is sprayed onto the "slate"?
A few comments: You can buy a Dynasphere Tungsten set for about $100 new on ebay. They are as good as the Aramith Tournament set, no lie, and better than the Aramith Super Pro set. I have about 7 phenolic sets to compare them. They also come with a thick paper template rack. Not as good as the mylar Magic Ball Rack, or the Outsville rack it looks like you were using, but still works well. Then your whole set will be super smooth, consistent, and hard.
The pockets, even though 4.25" at the mouth, won't play anywhere as hard as a professional table like a Diamond or Gold Crown. The reason is the facing angle in your video looks about parallel, and the "slate" shelf is extremely shallow. If a hits anywhere inside the points of the pocket on this table, it will fall. On a professional table, if the ball rubs the rail on the way in, but still lands inside the points, it will often bobble out.
Hey Nick! Thanks for the nice comments.
Re: Felt: The closest thing I can compare it to in my experience is snooker table baize. I've been watching more Chinese 8-ball lately and it looks similar to that material as well. Given that it's made in China, this makes sense. It is nothing like Simonis that I've played on. It is wrapped, not sprayed. You can see where it's stapled on in the underside shot of the net pocketing in the video.
Thanks for the tip on the Dynasphere--I've never played with them. Maybe this'll end up being a Christmas present to myself.
You're right on those aspects of the pockets. I definitely experience fewer rattlers, hangers, or balls "wiping their feet" compared to playing at pool halls.
Take care, hope this helped!
@@formerAPA3 Thanks so much! Yeah, the dyansphere is my favorite set. I have Aramith Super Pro, Aramith Tournament, Brunswick Centennials, Rashig from W. Germany, Cyclop, and a Disney set made by Aramith. The Dyansphere is better than all of them IMO, and dirt cheap.
Hey great video, and thanks. I wanted to ask you. Were you able to perfectly level this table? Because despite my best efforts with a level Etc adjusting the legs. I just can't seem to get it perfectly level. It always seems to be somehow off with extra roll in One Direction or another on slow shots.
Have you found that to be the case with yours or maybe mine's defective?
Hey thanks.
I don't think I've "perfectly" leveled it, but I have noticed in the year since I published this video that it has settled a bit in a good way. I'm seeing way less unexpected funk than I did initially. I also haven't moved it in quite some time. Hope this helps.
Does it comes with the true pool balls size.?
Yep, they seem the proper size to me.
@@formerAPA3Thanks for the info..
Will you recommend this to become better ? If you don't have to go to your local bar?
Yeah that's pretty much why I bought it. I think I've actually come out ahead not running up bar bills at this point!
have had this table for 7 months, the balls bounce out of the pockets on about 30% of the shots, cues it come with are junk, the balls are okay but i purchased a set of aramith crown standard balls recently and they do perform better in my opinion. definently reccomend for a first pool table or if you dont have a lot of space. i am thinking of getting a olhausen table soon to replace this one
My experience is the same as your's, but I have no issues with the balls bouncing out of the pockets. Maybe they fixed the problem. I don't like any of the accesories. I also got Aramith balls and they are better. The sticks and rack are also trash. Overall, it's better than nothing if you don't have the space or need to move it around on occasion. It's not light, but a slate table is basically unmovable. The felt is very slow. The playing surface has some minor uneveness. I'd recommend getting a slate table like you're planning to do. There are used ones for the same price.
Howdy, thanks for the excellent review! Think all the information shared was helpful, especially for a newer player. I have been thinking about buying this table lately. One thing that has held me back was that i wasn't sure it could be reclothed when the time came. I know you said it couldn't be reclothed in the video....but are you sure it couldn't be done? I would even consider replacing the playing surface with new MDF/etc playing surface if that could be done. Can the table be taken apart at all? Is a little hard to see the bottom side of the table. Sometimes if there is a will there can be a way for someone who really wants to make it happen. Again, thanks for the review and any thoughts on this matter would be appreciated.
Hey there, thanks! Looking at the table now, there are multiple screws along the sides and bottom. I think if you really wanted to, you could find a way to take it apart. To be honest though, I'd be concerned about overall stability of the table after you put it back together just because of the materials it's made out of (plywood). I don't think they're resilient enough to be screwed back together and be as stable/square/level as before as compared to slate tables designed to be refelted. I could be wrong, but that's just my hunch. Either way I'd love to see someone try.
Great review man.
Thanks!
Thanks for the video man!
This was super helpful!
Thanks!
Anyone that has this table did, you find a solution to stop the balls from popping out of the pocket?
I haven't yet. My solution has just been to laugh it off.
I don’t know why everyone is saying it can’t be taken apart and modified. It had to be put together, so that means it can be taken apart. At minimum to change the felt/bumpers so the table plays faster. Pretty sure these net pockets can be changed out too. How thick would you guesstimate the mdf board is? Why does it sag, when the two parallel bars are supposed to add rigidity and prevent sag. I understand its limitations and its intended purpose at its price point hence majority of us have searched “folding pool table.” Thus is not the iPhone of pool tables, its more like Obama phone and it functions/performs its intended purpose.
Who do you work for?
Myself.
I just ordered one
Save another 1000 to 2000 and buy a used slate table. MDF will warp and these never play true.
No argument there if you can swing it.
This. My best friend bought one on Craigslist, broken down, for $50. Spent another $250 or so on cloth and rails. Best table Ive played on.
The foldable part is what we need to put it away can't solve that with a pro table
@@formerAPA3still fun!
My local billiard dealership sells a 7ft slate olhausen for 3 grand. Can't beat that
You were awesome at explaining everything thanks
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$600 and the whole thing is made of irreplaceable shit material and held together with staples? Oh, and if you want it to be usable in the slightest, you have to buy a bunch of extra stuff on top of that. Doesn't seem worth it tbh. Good, honest review though.
Table is slow af and warped like a mf
Apa sucks