My Wife played it at NYNY with the center post and a lot of tweaks. But still a lot of cheap drains so she wasnt impressed at all and said there was something wrong with it. I however played the crap out of it and thought it was a lot of fun. Still I would never buy it for my collection, just not my kind of game.
We played it at beach hut deli without a center post, she played 2 games and all the balls drained before any one of them could be flipped.
She walked away from it and said it was broken.