{"id":3800,"date":"2012-01-04T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2012-01-05T03:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T09:50:58","slug":"tip-4-to-be-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/2012\/01\/04\/tip-4-to-be-announced","title":{"rendered":"Tip #4: How much room do I need for a pool table?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tip #4\/31 for January. What size pool table should I buy for my home?<\/h3>\n<p>This one is a great tip suggested by June Maiers. Props to June! She&#8217;s a great player of all games and runs an excellent junior league program. She wrote to me, &#8220;How big does your room need to be if you are trying to fit a 7-foot, 8-foot or 9-foot table? I saw a few Craig&#8217;s List adds where the person said they bought the table, have it and now need to get rid of it because it didn&#8217;t fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ex_BuaxZ3v0?t=18s\" target=\"_blank\">Kramer plays pool in a tight home room.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, I say having a pool table in your home is great but if you have to resort to a short cue too often, it can take some of the joy out of playing the game. Many homes have rooms large enough for a table but have one trouble area. You know, maybe there&#8217;s one wall that&#8217;s a little too close and if the cue ball is frozen on that rail you&#8217;ve got to shoot with a cue that&#8217;s a foot shorter than the standard 57&#8243; one piece pool cue. Some rooms are a little better and only have a post that hampers that one shot out of 500. Lucky you! Jacking up or using a short cue rarely is a fine trade off. If your table is really too big for the spot, playing can be maddening. Try to get a table as large as you can handle that won&#8217;t make you crazy. Remember, it&#8217;s nice to have a little breathing room around for spectator chairs and for the non playing shooter to hang out without having to lean on the table.<\/p>\n<p>I have a great relationship with <a title=\"Peters Billiards - One of my excellent sponsors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petersbilliards.com\/faqs\/room_faq.asp\" target=\"_blank\">one of my sponsors Peters Billiards in Minneapolis<\/a>. They&#8217;re a great retailer that sells Brunswick and Olhausen pool tables. I&#8217;m attaching <a title=\"Download the PDF version of this chart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petersbilliards.com\/faqs\/pics\/FAQs_WhatSizeRoom.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a pdf file that has their recommendations on what size room will accommodate what size pool tables<\/a>. And if you&#8217;re ever in the area of 35W and Crosstown, please stop into the store. Tell &#8217;em the Billiard Coach sent ya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Peters-Room-Size.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3803 aligncenter\" title=\"Peters Room Size\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Peters-Room-Size.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Peters-Room-Size.png 554w, https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Peters-Room-Size-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip #4\/31 for January. What size pool table should I buy for my home? This one is a great tip suggested by June Maiers. Props to June! She&#8217;s a great player of all games and runs an excellent junior league program. She wrote to me, &#8220;How big does your room need to be if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[86,107,24],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-pool-rooms","tag-31-tips-in-31-days","tag-peters-billiards","tag-pool-tables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}