European Snooker Pocket Size vs American

[Samiel]

For those of you that have been to Europe and played on Professional 12 foot Snooker tables, do you find them somewhat easier than American Snooker tables? I've been told a lot of American Snooker tables are tightened up, but I'm not sure how true that is.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Many American tables were tightened up to play the game of "golf". I have seen a 10-foot table where it was nearly impossible to make the black off its spot. Often snooker/golf tables were fitted with the fastest cloth available. They are generally unusable for snooker.

Lately, most of the snooker tables I've seen in the US were 12-foot and set up with napped cloth for snooker.

 

[garczar]

Many American tables were tightened up to play the game of "golf". I have seen a 10-foot table where it was nearly impossible to make the black off its spot. Often snooker/golf tables were fitted with the fastest cloth available. They are generally unusable for snooker.

Lately, most of the snooker tables I've seen in the US were 12-foot and set up with napped cloth for snooker.

Magoo's in Tulsa has a 10ft B'wick Royale table they use for golf. Pockets are tiny and they use super-fast 3c cloth. They play with pool balls. Tough game when it gets to be 6-7 handed.

 

[alphadog]

For those of you that have been to Europe and played on Professional 12 foot Snooker tables, do you find them somewhat easier than American Snooker tables? I've been told a lot of American Snooker tables are tightened up, but I'm not sure how true that is.

If you ever played on that 6×12 at Wilts it was quite like the professional tables.

There used to be a man in Houston with a pro quality table set up in house.