Russian Billiards tables?

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Are there any Russian Pyramid tables (I believe 6 x 12 ft?) in U.S. pool halls that you know of? I love this game!
 
i've never heard of any...i have a hard enough time finding a snooker table in the US. would be cool to try russian pyramid, i've only seen videos of it
 
There is a pool hall in Glendale CA called the Green Room. I've worked on these tables a couple of times. They had World of Leisure build these tables for them years ago. I don't think there a 100% true to the ones in Russia. This is the only place that I have seen or heard about pyramid tables.
 
Darn, looks like that's a pyramit table, not pyramid. Must be a different type.
 
Russian Table

There was one in Orlando (OBC) when that room closed last year. I set the table up there after picking it up in New York. The table is now in storage in Port St. Lucie, FL., along with ten GC IVs and ten Diamonds. The owners of the equipment are looking for a building and it should be a super room when opened.
 
If anyone has not seen a game played and has a chance to....watch it. It's an interesting game. Man....they slam those balls in the pockets and makes a loud noise.
 
One of my very good friends is a russian billiards jr. champ back in kazakhstan. Tough game to play. But it paid for his American education.
 
Those pockets look wayyyyyyy to small for anything but straight in shots. Some of the smallest I every seen. Looks very hard.

ez
 
ez2h8 said:
Those pockets look wayyyyyyy to small for anything but straight in shots. Some of the smallest I every seen. Looks very hard.

ez
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Most shots are made as caroms; shooting one ball off another ball into the pocket. The pockets are a hair smaller than a tight snooker table and the balls are somewhere between the size of one of our standard pool balls and a billiard ball. The table size doesn't stop at 12' either. I've seen videos of 15' tables. It takes an hour to walk around the damn thing.
 
i've never seen a 15' table, that has got to be huge! someone commented on how they slam the balls into the pockets. that's because doing that compresses the points and gives you a better chance of pocketing the ball. at some cut angles it is the only way the ball will fit into the opening!
 
Drew said:
Most shots are made as caroms; shooting one ball off another ball into the pocket. The pockets are a hair smaller than a tight snooker table and the balls are somewhere between the size of one of our standard pool balls and a billiard ball. The table size doesn't stop at 12' either. I've seen videos of 15' tables. It takes an hour to walk around the damn thing.
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I will keep that in mind if I need a new piece of fitness equipment. :)

lol
ez
 
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I really wish their were more "aficionado" rooms that had several different tables, i.e. snooker, these huge russian tables, billiards.....there probably won't be a big market for it, but I'll dream on.
 
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