What size tables should you have in a new pool room

What size tables for a new pool room

  • (16) bar boxes with a few nine footers

    Votes: 30 34.9%

  • (16) nine footers with a few bar boxes

    Votes: 56 65.1%
  • Total voters
    86
  • Poll closed .
Hungarian

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Let's say that you are going to open a new pool room and planning on having (16) main tables for normal play and the occasional big tournament.

Plus you will also have a variety of a few different tables such as billiards and snooker and maybe a 10 foot pool table.

Here's the question, if you only have enough room for either (16) bar boxes or (16) nine footers what do you do?

1.) (16) nine footers with a few bar boxes
2.) (16) bar boxes with a few nine footers
 
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Personally I'd try to even it up if you have room for 16- 9 footers
You can split some of that room for the 7 footers.
 
joey900rr said:
Personally I'd try to even it up if you have room for 16- 9 footers
You can split some of that room for the 7 footers.
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Yes and no. If you plan on having some big tournys you need (16) of the same sized table. Hence the reason for the quesiton. Do people prefer nine footers or bar boxes as the main table?

Thanks,
Mark
 
My personal preference would be to have 9ft tables. Based on a business decision, I would have bar boxes. I my neck of the woods, 90-95% of tourneys are on bar boxes. I think bar boxes appeal to a larger range of players over the 9ft tables. Based on that I chose bar boxes.
 
Chembry said:
My personal preference would be to have 9ft tables. Based on a business decision, I would have bar boxes. I my neck of the woods, 90-95% of tourneys are on bar boxes. I think bar boxes appeal to a larger range of players over the 9ft tables. Based on that I chose bar boxes.
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Thanks, please don't forget to vote:smile:
 
Chembry said:
My personal preference would be to have 9ft tables. Based on a business decision, I would have bar boxes. I my neck of the woods, 90-95% of tourneys are on bar boxes. I think bar boxes appeal to a larger range of players over the 9ft tables. Based on that I chose bar boxes.
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^^ What he said, and yes I voted :)
 
Hungarian Nut said:
Let's say that you are going to open a new pool room and planning on having (16) main tables for normal play and the occasional big tournament.

Plus you will also have a variety of a few different tables such as billiards and snooker and maybe a 10 foot pool table.

Here's the question, if you only have enough room for either (16) bar boxes or (16) nine footers what do you do?

1.) (16) nine footers with a few bar boxes
2.) (16) bar boxes with a few nine footers
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Hey Hungarian Nut,
Real pool players love nine foot tables. Young just beginning to play people love bar tables. It is easy for them to make balls with a small table and very large pockets! Thanks.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
Heres my thought by way of Diamond Billiards Greg Sullivan.

If sixteen is the magic number, I'd have eight bar boxes and eight full size tables. A bar, "front" counter and snack / food bar in the center so one person can run the entire operation most days. Makes it easy to see and control the entire room. If the objective is to keep the payroll down, buy all sixteen tables as coin op's with a "key" override. If people don't want to pay per game, allow them to pay hourly or long segments but in advance. Don't want to worry about walkouts.

In past years, sixteen tables might have been too few. In most areas today, sixteen is too many 95% of the time. Make the tables "league" friendly as well. No tight pockets. Don't want to embarrass yourself in front of your date do you?

Lyn
 
cardiac kid said:
Heres my thought by way of Diamond Billiards Greg Sullivan.

If sixteen is the magic number, I'd have eight bar boxes and eight full size tables. A bar, "front" counter and snack / food bar in the center so one person can run the entire operation most days. Makes it easy to see and control the entire room. If the objective is to keep the payroll down, buy all sixteen tables as coin op's with a "key" override. If people don't want to pay per game, allow them to pay hourly or long segments but in advance. Don't want to worry about walkouts.

In past years, sixteen tables might have been too few. In most areas today, sixteen is too many 95% of the time. Make the tables "league" friendly as well. No tight pockets. Don't want to embarrass yourself in front of your date do you?

Lyn
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Thanks.

Agree with your concepts for sure.


But walkouts....really? not in the pool world
 
My personal preference is 9 footers. In a perfect world, everyone would play on them (opinion of course).

If I were to open a pool room and 16 was the number, I would do either 10 bar tables and 6 big tables, or 12 bar tables and 4 big tables. Around here, all of the tournaments are played are bar tables but most of the decent players gamble on big tables.

I would like to have room for a 3 cushion table, primarily because I have never played and would like to learn. So maybe 10 bb's, 5 9's and a 3 cushion. There are many ways to do it, but it would be majority small tracks.
 
Depends upon what area of the USA I'm building in.
East coast & West coast are all 9fts.

Anything in between are 7fts.

Go with the flow
randyg
 
Had a good friend that opened a hall a while back, had about 12-14 nine footers. He eventually sold some of the 9 footers and put in smaller tables. The 8 footers got a lot more play once installed.

I think the average weekend player prefers the smaller tables because it is more fun. It's easier to pocket balls due to the shorter distances of shots, and after all, pocketing balls is what makes the game fun. If they didn't care about pocketing balls, they would play on a carom table.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty great players that play on bar boxes and prefer them. Playing a great player that plays on bar a box is no easy feat.:smile: I'm not dissing anyone that loves bar boxes, just stating my opinion about the weekend player that will make up most of a halls business.:thumbup:
 
I didn't vote because my split would look like this:
6-nine footers for the serious players.
8- oversized eight footers for tourney play.
4- barboxes (w/quarter slots) for APA/league play or family outings.

I realize that this equals 18 tables, but if you originally had room for 16 9-footers, then you could fit 18 tables in the room if 12 of them were less than 9-footers.

JMO.

Maniac
 
I think the following mix would be better:

For every 9 foot table there are 3-to-4 8 foot tables
For every two 9 foot tables there should be 1 Bar Box tables
For every 4-to-8 9 foot tables there shold be a snooker table
For every 6-to-10 9 foot tables there should be 1 billiards table

This mix represents the average of the 3 pool halls I go to.
 
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