Where exactly do I place the reds and colors, total noob question

[Cue crafty]

I couldn't agree more Jonny, which is why I love snooker in the first place, after playing on a big table with small pockets I fell in love, pool tables just seem built for a kid, even the larger 4.5' x 9'.

Sadly snooker isn't to popular where I live(no snooker tables in the town, have to go about 50 miles for a beat up 5'x10' snooker table and a few hundred miles to play on the 6'x12'.
I can only fit a 7' footer in my house

Wow that's really tough. There is a great thread in here about building your own snooker room. If nothing else it's great to drool over.

[Snooker Theory]

I couldn't agree more Jonny, which is why I love snooker in the first place, after playing on a big table with small pockets I fell in love, pool tables just seem built for a kid, even the larger 4.5' x 9'.

Sadly snooker isn't to popular where I live(no snooker tables in the town, have to go about 50 miles for a beat up 5'x10' snooker table and a few hundred miles to play on the 6'x12'.
I can only fit a 7' footer in my house

[Csmith]

I think I'd try both 6 and 10 reds on a 7 foot table. 15 reds I find is even too much for 10 footer.

[jonny66]

Thank you so very much Dean!!

I went with 2-1/8" as I thought they would rebound a little better off the pool rails than the 2-1/16" size.

Pool balls are 2-1/4" but snooker balls that were 2-1/4" were really expensive compared to the 2-1/8"

I really have no idea why we use the standard system of weight and measurements over here and not the metric system.


Only three countries this backwards, Burma, Liberia, and the US. :biggrin-new: ig:


Would your rack 15 reds or 10 reds on such a small table?

Even 10 reds will be too cluttered on a table that size unfortunately, especially at the size they are. I have a crappy 5 foot table I picked up for free, I just try to pretend it's the blackspot area of a bigger table and ignore the middle pockets. Playing a real game of snooker on anything less than a full size just feels like it's a kiddies version.

[DeanH]

I have heard people doing only 10 due to lack of space, also (not sure) but 2 1/8" could be too big for your table.
I did see somewhere a scale of size of balls best for size of table...

[Snooker Theory]

Thank you so very much Dean!!

I went with 2-1/8" as I thought they would rebound a little better off the pool rails than the 2-1/16" size.

Pool balls are 2-1/4" but snooker balls that were 2-1/4" were really expensive compared to the 2-1/8"

I really have no idea why we use the standard system of weight and measurements over here and not the metric system.


Only three countries this backwards, Burma, Liberia, and the US. :biggrin-new: ig:


Would your rack 15 reds or 10 reds on such a small table?

[DeanH]

here are the spots by ratio of the table dimensions:
http://www.snookerbilliardspool.co.uk/tablemarking.asp

what size balls did you get?

[Snooker Theory]

I have a 3.5' x 7' pool table. I bought some snooker balls and pocket reducers so I could play some snooker at my house, I wanted to mark the correct positions for the colors and reds, as I have just been estimating. I tried to find a thread regarding marking such a small table but didn't see anything, and my math is well not that great to try and covert the markings down from the 6'12' table.

I live in the US, and don't know to much about snooker, sorry I was unable to find the info myself, I think I have the right idea on where, but don't want to mess up and thought I would ask the community here.