Billiards Table Dimensions

Ever heard about the dimensions of a billiards table? Well, I am sure many of us have not, except for Geet Sethi and the likes, the prolific billiards champion from India. I have always had this question in my mind that how big would this billiard table be. So to quench my intellectual thirst about the measurements of a billiards table, I searched it on the net and found it to be quite interesting. Then I thought why not share this with you as some of you who play pool would surely not mind this bite of information about billiards table dimensions. But before I give you that; a bit about billiards.

Dimensions of a Billiard Table

Billiards
Billiard sports, officially called cue sports is a set of several games, normally played with a cue stick, used to strike billiard balls. These balls are placed on a cloth covered table, bounded by rubber cushions and there are pockets on the table, which is where the billiard balls are aimed at. Initially, this was an umbrella term, until major subdivisions and region wise alterations and references did not change. These major subdivisions are what decide the billiards table measurements. These are the snooker, pocket billiards and carrom billiards. Billiards table size is different in all these 3 sub divisions.

Snooker Tables
Now snooker is a different ball game all together. The dimensions for billiards table for snooker when rounded up are 12 ft by 6 feet. Technically its 11 feet 8.5 inches by 5 feet 10 inches. However, you get smaller versions, which are 9 feet by 5 feet. The pockets of a billiards table employed for snooker measure 70 mm, that is 5.5 inches. There are 6 such pockets. If you measure from the floor, the top cushion of a snooker table is between 2 feet 9.5 inches and 2 feet 10.5 inches.

Pocket Billiards
Pocket Billiard tables are also called popularly known as Pool tables. These come in 3 standard sizes, 7 feet, 8 feet and 9 feet. To talk about the surface area, the length of the 7 foot table is 76 inches long, while the width is around 38 inches. Similarly for the 8 foot table, the length goes up to 92 inches and the width is 46 inches. Finally, the 9 foot table's length is around 100 inches and the width is around 50 inches. The latter 2 - the 8 foot and the 9 foot table are the recognized dimensions for competitions. The slate bed of a pocket billiards table cannot be any less than 1 inch thick for a tournament. Other than that, it can be less than an inch.

Carrom Billiards Tables
These are needless to say, that they are in a rectangular shape. The playing area measures around 2.84 meters by 1.42 meters. In addition to that, there is a five meter allowance. Measured from the playing surface, the height of the table till the ground is approximately 80 meters. The slate bed of a Carrom Billiard table has to be at least 45 mm thick. To put it simply, Carrom Billiards table has a length ranging up to around 9.32 inches and the width is around 4.66 feet. From the ground till the playing surface, the height of the table is somewhere between 28 inches to 31 inches. It could vary slightly, but this is the usual carrom billiards table size.

That was quite a measurements galore, but I hope it was intriguing and useful for all those who play pool, if not the proper tournament. Billiards table dimensions, thus cover table dimensions of a wide variety of those cue sports included under that umbrella term technically. Finally, this is where I get out of giving any more dimensions to this article and sign off!