Would like to hear some stories or maybe even some pictures of the tightest tables you have seen or played on. We have a 5x10 snooker with 2 1/8 balls a few of us get together weekly and play golf on that is probably the tightest table i have ever played on. Ask Scott Lee, when he came through to give lessons on the bar box we stopped out and knocked a few around, gave him the normal challenge cue ball on head spot andshoot cueball into far corner pocket atleast 5 out of 10 trys for the first beer. After hitting a couple Scott said NO BET. Sure is fun to play on for a couple hours then go to leauge with bar boxes. Will post some pictures of the ball openings after work.
Tight Pockets?
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We also play on a 10x5 snooker table, but with 2.25" balls. I have several videos of us playing on it, even some clips showing near misses, balls rattling in the jaws despite looking like they are headed in... A ball on or very near the rail is *almost* impossible to pocket down the rail on this table.
Here's all the videos...we shoot on two tables in these vids. The 10x5 is the one that has a camera view from behind the short rail. The other table (diagonal view) is a 9-foot Diamond (also tight, but nowhere near the snooker table):
http://youtube.com/danvillepool
Here's all the videos...we shoot on two tables in these vids. The 10x5 is the one that has a camera view from behind the short rail. The other table (diagonal view) is a 9-foot Diamond (also tight, but nowhere near the snooker table):
http://youtube.com/danvillepool
Sorry no pics, but there used to be at least four to five 3 1/2" pocketed pool tables around here a few years back.
If you could not play on small pockets, you did not want any part of Cali
If you could not play on small pockets, you did not want any part of Cali
vrob said:
That's snooker though.
At Hard Times Bellflower, Big Bertha's (6x12) pockets are the same size if not smaller than the snooker balls
The tighest table I have played on was a table build for Russian Billiard.
The balls were 68 mm and the pockets were 72 mm.
An Ukrainian guy learnt me the game, and it was pretty cool to see him shoot those balls in the holes with great speed.... Check picture attached for ball and pocket size
The balls were 68 mm and the pockets were 72 mm.
An Ukrainian guy learnt me the game, and it was pretty cool to see him shoot those balls in the holes with great speed.... Check picture attached for ball and pocket size
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Tighter the better IMO
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Snooker Is Played On A Very Small Part Of The Table, They Are Also Allowed To Move Balls Without Hitting A Cushion. When Fisher Came To The Usa, She Was Complaining About The Huge Tables We Were Playing On. It Took Her Two Years To Adjust To The Nine Foot Table.
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Snooker Is Played On A Very Small Part Of The Table, They Are Also Allowed To Move Balls Without Hitting A Cushion. When Fisher Came To The Usa, She Was Complaining About The Huge Tables We Were Playing On. It Took Her Two Years To Adjust To The Nine Foot Table.
That snooker table at Hard Times in Los Angeles looks like a monster - I've never tried it.
The snooker tables here seem like they're incredibly tight, but when I travel internationally, the 5 X 10 tables aren't difficult at all.
The tightest tables I've ever seen were in Italy, in Sulmona, a small village in Abruzzo, central Itay. My brother and I were there with our wives, in my grandparents village, coming back from dinner. My wife saw a bar with some tables, so we decided to play and have a few drinks.
I thought I would show off and play in from of these villagers. They were snooker tables and I couldn't make anything at all. You had to set up your shot in front of the hole and force it in the pocket! I knew exactly one word in Italian - "stronzo" which means "butthole". My brother made a hard shot and I blurted it out - every head in the place looked at me and laughed.
Chris
The snooker tables here seem like they're incredibly tight, but when I travel internationally, the 5 X 10 tables aren't difficult at all.
The tightest tables I've ever seen were in Italy, in Sulmona, a small village in Abruzzo, central Itay. My brother and I were there with our wives, in my grandparents village, coming back from dinner. My wife saw a bar with some tables, so we decided to play and have a few drinks.
I thought I would show off and play in from of these villagers. They were snooker tables and I couldn't make anything at all. You had to set up your shot in front of the hole and force it in the pocket! I knew exactly one word in Italian - "stronzo" which means "butthole". My brother made a hard shot and I blurted it out - every head in the place looked at me and laughed.
Chris
There was a (long gone) snooker table in Cedar Rapids, IA that I used to take pool balls over to just to fiddle around on. You could put one 2-1/4" ball and maybe slide a piece of cardboard between the ball & the pocket. I would guess the pockets at 2-7/16". You couldn't make a pool ball from any appreciable angle.
I don't know if the pool table in Fargo still exists, but it was a converted billiard table. I played on it back in 1997 and the pockets were cut very straight and were ultra tight. I believe they called it the "King's Table" or something like that.
I don't know if the pool table in Fargo still exists, but it was a converted billiard table. I played on it back in 1997 and the pockets were cut very straight and were ultra tight. I believe they called it the "King's Table" or something like that.
old snooker tables
No pictures but I played on some old snooker tables for several years. The pockets were tight with rounded corners and most importantly the cut outs in the slate were small with deep shelves. You could jaw balls that would have been completely in the pocket of a pool table. Shots hit well without english could go if hit deeply enough into the pocket before hitting the inside walls. Favoring english on every shot that you didn't have a full hole to shoot into was the real secret. The slightest bit of opposing english and not being able to hit a ball directly into the back of the pocket was almost guaranteed to jaw it.
The owner used a short rack of red balls on these tables and the highest run possible was a 99. I didn't try for high runs too often but my best was an 80, took an easier shot on the six once and dogged a fairly easy shot on the five when I had the runout seemingly in hand.
A comment on snooker being a short game, only if you want it to be. I played these tables to tune for gambling on the pool tables and would have played anyone in the country banks on these tables at one time.
Shooting these tables two or three hours a day for several years made ball pocketing on anything else I played on seem simple.
Hu
No pictures but I played on some old snooker tables for several years. The pockets were tight with rounded corners and most importantly the cut outs in the slate were small with deep shelves. You could jaw balls that would have been completely in the pocket of a pool table. Shots hit well without english could go if hit deeply enough into the pocket before hitting the inside walls. Favoring english on every shot that you didn't have a full hole to shoot into was the real secret. The slightest bit of opposing english and not being able to hit a ball directly into the back of the pocket was almost guaranteed to jaw it.
The owner used a short rack of red balls on these tables and the highest run possible was a 99. I didn't try for high runs too often but my best was an 80, took an easier shot on the six once and dogged a fairly easy shot on the five when I had the runout seemingly in hand.
A comment on snooker being a short game, only if you want it to be. I played these tables to tune for gambling on the pool tables and would have played anyone in the country banks on these tables at one time.
Shooting these tables two or three hours a day for several years made ball pocketing on anything else I played on seem simple.
Hu
i agree!
sorry what were we talking about again?
Hi there,CrownCityCorey said:That's snooker though.
At Hard Times Bellflower, Big Bertha's (6x12) pockets are the same size if not smaller than the snooker balls
I have played on that snooker table at Hard Times and I can tell you that those pockets are tighter than official match snooker pockets that I practise with.
With that old napless cloth those snooker tables don't much resemble what you would recognize as a standard snooker table anyway, but I still had fun there - it was an experience!
Best wishes.
Alan.
