Funky ball sets. WTF

[jtompilot]

I’ll at Shooters in Port St Lucie, all their Aramith ball sets are 2 1/8”. Crazy

 

[couldnthinkof01]

Did you ask a regular?
Was the counter guy looking at you strange like, this is how we play here?
Home advantage gambling tactic?
Were all the pockets rounded?

I have so many questions

 

[garczar]

I’ll at Shooters in Port St Lucie, all their Aramith ball sets are 2 1/8”. Crazy

Did you tell them? Did they even know? That's pretty damn clueless if true. Wow.

 

[Bob Jewett]

I’ll at Shooters in Port St Lucie, all their Aramith ball sets are 2 1/8”. Crazy

Do the banks go long?

 

[GoldCrown]

I’ll at Shooters in Port St Lucie, all their Aramith ball sets are 2 1/8”. Crazy

Like the WNBA...the ball is smaller

 

[Benelli]

I’ll at Shooters in Port St Lucie, all their Aramith ball sets are 2 1/8”. Crazy

Damn Europeans....

Find a room run by, and for, Americans!

 

[alphadog]

Are the wallabuskas snooker cues?

 

[Bob Jewett]

Damn Europeans....

Find a room run by, and for, Americans!

2 1/8 is the American size for snooker balls. I'm guessing that those balls are for Americans to play American pool on American snooker tables. Real snooker balls are about 2 1/16.

American snooker sets also commit the atrocities of numbering the "colours" and having an orange six ball.

 

[alphadog]

Never seen a orange 6 ball. How would you play the pink is wild?

 

[sudocrushms]

2 1/8 is the American size for snooker balls. I'm guessing that those balls are for Americans to play American pool on American snooker tables. Real snooker balls are about 2 1/16.

American snooker sets also commit the atrocities of numbering the "colours" and having an orange six ball.

Hell with it, make all the balls orange. Just to make @Fatboy happy.

 

[iusedtoberich]

Are you sure it's the balls and not an Rx change? ha ha

 

[jtompilot]

One of the regulars told me they were all small. I said “no fing way”. I pulled out my Willard ball gage and sure enough all of them were small.

 

[Bob Jewett]

One of the regulars told me they were all small. I said “no fing way”. I pulled out my Willard ball gage and sure enough all of them were small.

Most pool hall balls are small (from wear), but 2 1/8?!?

 

[Chicagoplayer]

Damn Europeans....

Find a room run by, and for, Americans!

Don’t be bigoted.

 

[Chicagoplayer]

2 1/8 is the American size for snooker balls. I'm guessing that those balls are for Americans to play American pool on American snooker tables. Real snooker balls are about 2 1/16.

American snooker sets also commit the atrocities of numbering the "colours" and having an orange six ball.

My first introduction to snooker, is a table at Chris’s Billiards that was from the 1989 BCA Trade Show to mark the inauguration of the American Snooker Market.
I was gobsmacked by the size of the table and the balls.
Here’s a couple of shots of the rails.

 

[kling&allen]

2 1/8 is the American size for snooker balls. I'm guessing that those balls are for Americans to play American pool on American snooker tables. Real snooker balls are about 2 1/16.

American snooker sets also commit the atrocities of numbering the "colours" and having an orange six ball.

Is there a reason for the size difference? Someone thought a 10ft table required larger balls?

 

[Bob Jewett]

Is there a reason for the size difference? Someone thought a 10ft table required larger balls?

I'll guess that Brunswick felt going down to 2 1/16 was too much change. At about that time the championship size for pool balls was 2 5/16.