Pool Tables?

[PeteC]

I just read an advert for a place called Mojos on Suk 33 in BKK. Says they have a "6' round pool table..." What is all that about, a new style of game where every shot is a side pocket shot and bank shots are impossible? It didn't say how many pockets this contraption has. Pete

[Jaime]

The one or two I saw in Spain were exactly as you describe Pete, a round pool table with 6 pockets equally spaced around the edges. They get changed back to a normal rectangular table after the novelty has worn off.

[PeteC]

When I refer to "bank shot" I mean a cushion bank shot. How can a human mind even attempt to calculate geometry when the entire cushion is a curved arc?! Forget 6 beers, after 1 beer your mind would seize up, or perhaps grasp the concept? Pete

[Jockey]

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[Jockey]

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[PeteC]

You've got way too much time on your hands! Give me time, I'll figure it out...LOL. Pete

[Guess]

Second time tonight I have been asked this one.

What I know of, and sounds exactly as Jaime describes is a hexagonal table with six pockets at each apex. All the six cushions are straight. The Hexagon fits inside a circle. You play pool just like on a regular table except that you can spin it (very slowly) to enable you to shoot from the same position on every shot.

The purpose of the design was to allow pool to be played in an area that did not have sufficient space to hold a regular table. It can even be (and usually was) placed into a corner.

I first saw these tables in England about ten years ago but they never caught on.

The older and still popular (in some areas anyway) of bar billiards was designed for the same reason. The table could be placed in an alcove with a space down one side to allow players to replace the mushrooms (as in the the Danish game) back to their upright position and to retiev balls when necessary.

Maybe I should start a business supplying these (bar billiards) tables in Thailand. This game really did catch on and works well in bars with little space. I believe Johnnie Walker's have one but don't use it. I am not sure though.

PS. Having read Jaime's post again I have just realised where all the tables in England ended up when the novelty wore off and they needed to find a used table market.

[Jaime]

PS. Having read Jaime's post again I have just realised where all the tables in England ended up when the novelty wore off and they needed to find a used table market.

I think it might have been the other way round Guess as I am thinking of more like twenty years ago, when I first started going on holiday without mum and dad, rather than ten!

[Wanderlust]

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Funny, when you click on reply with quote it all makes sense!

[Norseman]

Makes me dizzy too!!
Good one Jockey.

[Jockey]

You've got way too much time on your hands! Give me time, I'll figure it out...LOL. Pete

Wanderlust broke the code!

[NicFrenchy]

In most pubs in England they play on a 6ft table.... and they do not have numbered balls, just 7 red and 7 yellow balls + the black ball.

[pj2904]

In the UK. I have played on some hexagonal tables. It was a good bit of fun, but you cant play any serious pool on them. They were in a nightclub so I guess you may not of noticed what kind of table you were playing on.