Opinion please on space for a table

I don't know Krupa, I think that if you just flip the shot and practice it from the side with the clearing, it's still the same shot.
 
crazysnake said:
I don't know Krupa, I think that if you just flip the shot and practice it from the side with the clearing, it's still the same shot.
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It isn't for me... I don't know if its an eye dominance thing or what but I have more trouble cutting balls to the right than the left. (I realize that the shoot shown is to the left, but you get my point)
 
krupa said:
It isn't for me... I don't know if its an eye dominance thing or what but I have more trouble cutting balls to the right than the left. (I realize that the shoot shown is to the left, but you get my point)
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I hear you.
 
pt109 said:
Shove it into a corner...you got one side and one end to practice on.
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With an 8-footer in a 10' x 16' room, you've got enough space to move it away from the corner a bit. I'd put it about 3 feet from a short wall and about 1 foot from the intersecting long wall.

That will give you two sides usable for all shots with a full-length cue, one side usable for some shots with a full-length cue and some shots with a short cue, and one side that you can just sneak in sideways to get the balls in the side pocket or pick up stuff on the floor.
 
pdcue said:
"Real 4 x 8s are 46 x 92... 44 x 88 is the dreaded "home" table. Adequate for
laundry storage perhaps, but not pool.

Dale
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44 x 88 follows the same proportional formula (In relation to the nominal size) as 4.5 x 9. Which is 50" x 100".
As Bob Jewett explained above. 50 x 100 = My favorite!!!:thumbup:
 
Bob Jewett said:
Not exactly.

Pool table dimensions are according to a secret formula. I will now reveal that formula. The smaller dimension (such as 4.5 feet) is defined as "the green part the short way". That means the playing surface plus two inches on each side for the green part of the rail. For a 4.5-foot table, that's 54 inches total (4*12+12/2) and when you subtract four inches for the cushions you get 50 inches nose-to-nose the short way. The long way is twice the short way, nose-to-nose, on all tables but snooker tables.

I'll leave it to the clever student to figure out how large a "4x8" table should be, nose-to-nose. A 5x10 foot table is 60-4 inches the short way and 112 inches the long way.

As for the OP, the table-in-the-corner trick works for some people but I'd hate it. I have better uses for a room that large.

As for the on-line guidelines from manufacturers about needed room, just remember that those guides are tools to sell the largest possible table to recreational players and are not designed to make serious players happy with their situation. But most serious players already know how much room they're comfortable with, even if they don't know the exact number of feet.
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Yes exactly:).

Mathematically correct - but alas, irrelevant. I am sure you are old enough to know
the 44 x 88 crept into the pool world in the 60s when flat rail tables had supplanted
the T-rail. It was a way the industry could continue to use all that 4 x 8 slate for T-rail
tables they had filling up warehouses, and the suppliers could continue to cut a size
they knew how to do so well.

Besides, sizes are nominal - like lumber. How many actual dimensions has a
2 x 4 had over your lifetime?

Dale(who, once upon a time, knew all the slate dimensions)
 
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