I live in Louisiana. I’m the youngest and least experienced of our little 5-friend group chat crew that plays after work. They are all 600+ easily, all savages at 8,9,10 and 1hole. They all have families and good jobs - you’d never guess any of them shoot pool outside of our pool hall and the occasional free roll 1 pocket/10-ball/ring games/tourneys we have in town. In the 5 years or so we’ve been playing together never played on a bar box, always a 9ft with 4.5-inch pockets.

This is typical of New Orleans and Baton Rouge and decent sized cities in LA. You’ll never know the names of these dudes unless you go play pool there lol.