Snooker Table

[GallardoOwner]

Hi, Does anybody have a full size snooker table at home ? If so what room size do you have, My room is a touch on the small size at 24 x 13.9 FT and reccomended size is 22 x 16 FT, Im no pro and play for fun only so a bit of cue hinderance I can live with.

Hoping somebody has one in a room smaller than the 16Ft wide and will tell me its all OK - ish, Thanks

[soda]

One of the tables at our club has around 15' width, mostly just the kids use it for practise.

13'9" will be too tight I reckon, ball near the cushion at all and you'll have the cue at 45 degrees to even get near it. Full size American pool table (9 x 4.5) would fit a bit nicer though, better for having mates round too

[mike325112]

How about a 3/4 size snooker table? Ok its smaller but more challenging than playing snooker on an american pool table.

[soda]

NeMiSiS said:

Have half size bats for when you are taking a shot near the wall.

You can't do it properly with a wee one though.

[GallardoOwner]

Dont think pool will keep my interest long enough, OK for the pub but thats about it, I have thought about the 3/4 size table but as im buying second hand they are few and far between compared to the number of full size avaliable at a good price

[kambites]

Well the table is six foot to the inner edge of the cushions, so in a 14 foot room you'd have about four foot either side of the playing area for cuing. You need about 3 inches to draw, so if you were playing off the cushion, you could only use a 3'9 cue. That would be annoying.

I would have thought that even with a 16 foot room, you couldn't quite use a full size cue playing flat off the cushion without playing down onto the ball a bit (which you tend to do naturally when playing off a cushion).


Even a 9 foot table would be a bit tight, although I think it'd be OK.


ETA: Actually it looks like the dimension stated is actually the slate size, not the size of the playing bed, so that gives you an extra inch and a half or so on each edge.

Edited by kambites on Wednesday 23 February 12:11

[s4avant]

These full size snooker tables are effing heavy and you will need to make sure that the floor is strong enough to take the load.

[HOGEPH]

You could play pocket billiards...