Opinions wanted: Would you play SNOOKER on a 9' or 10' club/room table?

K2Kraze

K2Kraze

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Given the significant challenge of the game of snooker on a regulation table AND the space required of a 12' dedicated and exclusive "snooker" table, would YOU play SNOOKER on a properly marked 9' or a 10' table with 4.5" tournament cut and sized pockets (think CSI/league rules and specs) found on your typical new Diamond or Gold Crown Tournament table -- using Aramith 2.25" snooker balls? Or would you - or anyone else you think, not find the game of snooker enticing or enjoyable to play at all or not on a smaller table?

The line of thinking is the game can still be played on a 9' or 10' table (like they were marketed and sold as snooker tables by Brunswick back in the day) and the same table can be used for any other pocket billiard games as well - using any set of 2.25" balls - whereas a dedicated Riley snooker table with its special cut pockets and rail height using the smaller 2 1/16" or even 2 1/8" balls proves to be a tad daunting to most players - and thus it doesn't get played - or even attempted.

What I'm NOT looking for is any analysis from a dollar per square foot perspective compared to x amount of typical league sized tables. This is purely from a playable and flexible - yet practical - perspective.

Your thoughts everyone?






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im lucky to have three at the poolhall i go to, 10 carom tables and 30 pool tables. old warehouse. 10 foot is fine, i dont see why not. they are enourmous the 12 footers
 
No, it's not snooker. The only thing that resembles it is the red colour red sequence. You lose the safety play, all of the strategies, the long potting everything that gives snooker it's identity. I'd much rather play straight pool or any other proper pool game on those tables.
 
don't know about that set-up

I don't know about that set-up but I would happily play snooker on a ten foot snooker table. Pool or snooker, I think ten feet is the right size for a table. Too much crutch work on a twelve footer and a ten footer is plenty challenging put together properly.

Not much lost in trying but the more I think about it, I don't think many people will play snooker on a pool table. It's a ten foot table, might as well play pool on it. No real draw to snooker for the average player in the US.

I would prefer a ten foot snooker table with the option of the same sized balls to play pool games with. Just thinking how interesting straight pool or one pocket could be for the players with a tough ten foot snooker table and twenty-one balls . . . . That would be an attention getter!

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I'd welcome 10ft. tables, as there are ZERO Snooker tables in the greater
Sacramento area currently. I play regularly (5+ yrs.) on a friend's 6x12
Burroughs & Watts, and played several nights a week in my Teen years on 10ft.
Brunswicks at the local Bowling Alley, but the 12ft. is much more challenging.

When we get moved to our spacious home near San Francisco, I will have a 5x10
Brunswick Pool Table and a B&W 6x12 Snooker table installed.
 
As a young boy, I learned how to play Snooker on a 6ft tale then stepped up to the big boys table once I could pot a few. :thumbup:
 
So far, based on the comments generated on this thread and ones gathered in the local clubs, would it be safe to say that IF there were to be any snooker games played, it should at least be on a dedicated and properly set up SNOOKER table - perhaps a vintage 10' Brunswick snooker table?

That way, numerous snooker games can be played on that one table such as 3 reds, 6 reds, Chase the Green, Golf or even Power Snooker and keep the spirit and historical perspectives in check - and offer the challenge and respect it deserves.

Basically - don't short-cut the game. Don't compromise pool games and snooker games with one table. Keep them separate as intended...

So ------ would a 10'er do the trick and offer enough of a challenge?

Would a 10'er be a reasonably challenging game for snooker fanatics and enticing for newbies as well?

Thanks for the thoughts so far everyone - much appreciated!



LIVFST
 
Guess I'm lucky, we have a 10' Olhausen snooker table at our senior rec room in Arizona, get to play on it all winter. Very challenging table.
 
I would not be interested. As a change of pace, perhaps once or twice a year but I would not invest time or in equipment. I imagine you wouldn't find many new players and the table makers already came to that conclusion. I suspect your answers will show that most existing players will want to stay with the game as it is and most others will not be interested in adding another game to what they already do.
 
i'm lucky that we happen to have an old 10' snooker table at my pool room. gets tons of play, actually. there is a group of old timers that plays for probably 4-6 hours every tuesday. i'd say i probably play on it about 5-15 hours a month. great for dialing in the stroke.
as to the OP question.....probably not. too many other games i'd rather play on a regular pool table. you lose too much strategy playing snooker on a pool table.
 
All American snooker purists are adamant that the game can only be played on a 12 ft. table, they having no 12 ft. tables.

So, lacking 12 ft. snooker tables, they play pool on 10 ft., 9 ft., 8 ft., 7 ft., and 6ft. tables.

Americans are a funny people. :D

Stephen Hendry, seven times World champion, started on a 6 ft. snooker table.

Brazilians play on 10 ft. tables.
 
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Scaramouche said:
All American snooker purists are adamant that the game can only be played on a 12 ft. table, they having no 12 ft. tables.

So, lacking 12 ft. snooker tables, they play pool on 10 ft., 9 ft., 8 ft., 7 ft., and 6ft. tables.

Americans are a funny people. :D

Stephen Hendry, seven times World champion, started on a 6 ft. snooker table.

Brazilians play on 10 ft. tables.
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Would anyone know how we arrived at the 12' snooker table being the "standard" we recognize today? From what I know and have found is that the game has been played on every size table throughout its history around the globe. Why is it 12' today?

With today's players, will a 12' snooker table just sit there on display as if it were some ancient relic with an interesting past - or get used? Which led me to the original question and now morphed into dedicated snooker spec tables - will a 10' snooker table get more attention and play TODAY than a monster looking 12'er or will that 12'er be viewed as a challenge and attract play?

I think it's safe to say that having a 9' or 10' pool table (even with tighter 4.5" corners) wouldn't really attract anyone to play snooker on it - even though once you've tried it, I can promise the GAME of snooker is fabulous to play on any sized baize - even the 9' GC. Emphasis being the game - the rules - the options. The strategy. The safety play. You get it.

On to the OP - Basically - if we had two OPTIONS:

1) 12' snooker table like a Riley

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2) or 10' snooker table like a Brunswick Centennial?

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Which would attract the most PLAY?


LIVFST
 
I like that idea...our local pool hall recently changed ownership, and the first things to go were the snooker and carom tables. He replaced them with 7 footers, What we have now is like five 9 footers, and twenty 7 footers.
 
I just bought a gc1 10' table... Never had a chance to play on 12' er.
( tough enough on 10!)


* wish I had started this crap earlier *
 
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