Kid, in an earlier post you said you finally shot a 500 series and are averaging 140-150. Rather than worry about ball surfaces, etc, focus on the basics and get to where you have a consistent release and are making most if not all of your spares. Ball surfaces, a 6 ball arsenal (from your profile), etc are things that really don't need to worry about at this stage. it's great that you wamt to learn, but you really need to focus on the building a good consistent game first.