Regent Snooker Lounge

Spending an afternoon with your friends, playing a game of pool or snooker is great fun. And if you haven’t done it yet, don’t wait any longer. Get a pool tableand experience it firsthand. You will never get bored and will spend hours with your friends or family playing pool or snooker on this table. It is one of the best ways to relax and spend some quality time. Once you have decided to buy a pool table, there are a lot of factors that need to be considered. You have to think about the size, design, felt color and obviously the cost of the snooker table. To make your job easy, I have the perfect solution for you. At BIGshop.com.au you can find some of the best pool tables, and that too, at an affordable price. I recently bought a 7 ft table for my home for just AU$599.95. And guess what, I also got $350 worth of accessories FREE along with this pool/snooker table! I still can’t believe that I’ve struck such a good bargain. (You can also pick an 8 ft table, if you want a slightly bigger one). This snooker table has a deep green playing surface on a wood grain finish. With its ultra modern chrome corners, the finish is as good as any high-end furniture and it goes well with the décor of our home. Not just homes, the 7 ft pool table can be placed anywhere, even in bars, clubs, or garages. The icing on the cake is the bonus accessories that you’ll get with these tables. You have everything you need in this bonus set, including 1 pool ball set, 1 snooker ball set, 2 pool cues, 2 bridge sticks, and more. Take home a 7 ft pool/snooker table today and your kids will just love it.

Full size Snooker tables have been around since the time of the British Empire. The game itself was thought up in India by the British. It is thought to have been a development of the Russian billiards game which had fifteen balls and 1 red  . Whoever started the game, the game rapidly gained in popularity and took over the other games as the favoured billiards game in Britain and beyond. Billiards was the biggest table game in Britain once but that was superseded by Snooker in the 1950’s.The official size for a full size snooker table is a whopping twelve feet long and 6 feet wide. The layout of the snooker table is similar to a billiards or pool table, with the difference in the cloth covering the table which has a nap on it. Just what is a nap? It is the same idea as on velvet fabric, with the fabric hairs raised up from the base fabric.   . The nap is smooth going towards the black spot end and coarse or rough going toward the D. So the cueball can veer off course when hit slowly against the nap  , so beware. This means the table should be ironed after every session of snooker played.Slate bed Snooker tables are often manufactured in a dark wood, but other timbers such as oak are becoming popular. The big tables have 8 legs, sometimes more, to spread the load. The slate is also from ¾ to 1 ½ inches thick, depending on the manufacturer. Snooker tables are heavy, weighing in at 1000 kilograms or thereabouts.  Amazingly it is ok to put them on normal floors as the weight is distributed between the eight legs and is equivalent to the weight of 2 average men per leg.

The rubber bumpers around the rails of a snooker table are taken for granted today. Originally the cushion rubbers were made with natural rubber and they had to be warmed up before play commenced.  . Of course more advanced synthetic rubber is available now and do not require heating. Full size Snooker tables are stunning pieces of furniture and completely dominate a room with their size. A classic model of snooker table is the snooker diner complete with dining top that can be removed before a game, but you must remember the table is taller than a normal table. You can allow for this by having bigger chairs around the table.

In snooker or pool, the grip is where every stroke starts, get this wrong and you will find that more and more of your shots are being missed.

The first thing that players tend to do (especially those new to the game) is grip the cue too tight. Why is this a problem? This causes a problem as the muscles in the arm will tighten through the shot, this can cause a lot of unwanted sidespin or cause us to miss the right spot on the cue ball entirely.

To be a successful player your grip needs to be relaxed and maintain a constant pressure throughout every shot, whether it be a delicate cut or a powerful draw stroke. Every time, where possible, the grip pressure has to be constant.

If the grip is too loose then the opposite can happen, the cue can be dropped whilst attempting a pot or literally get thrown out of the hand.

As with most things there is never a definitive right or wrong answer and it is about finding a position on the cue that is comfortable for you. Here are some helpful hints:

Find the balance point of your cue by balancing it on your index finger until it stops wobbling

1. Learn about splicing.

The butt timber is spliced (joined) onto the ash shaft, this is done in one of two ways, by machine or by hand. The two methods produce snooker cues of very different appearance.Machine splicing is less expensive than hand splicing but is a very effective way of adding the butt timber to the shaft. The butt timber (usually ebony) is cut to provide four points, which are glued into four slots machined into the shaft timber. The finished cue has a distinctive four point pattern where the butt meets the shaft.Hand splicing is the traditional method developed by Peradon for splicing the butt timber to the shaft. The shaft has two flats planed on opposite sides of the butt end. The hardwood butt timber is glued to these flats. The cue is then rotated through 90 degrees and two further flats are planed and two more pieces of butt timber glued into place. The cue is then shaped to produce the distinctive four rounded point pattern where the butt meets the shaft.

The appearance of both machine and hand spliced cues can be enhanced with additional exotic wood splices or coloured veneers.

(This section has been adapted from the Peradon sales brochure)2. Look for Matching grain.

You can always tell the quality of a snooker cue based on whether the grain of the wood matches across the joint.

Having a cue with matching grain affords the user a more consistent and fluid feel to every stroke. A cue that is constructed in this manner will also have a more even balance and the weight will be distributed more evenly.3. Looks don’t equal feel.

This is such an obvious statement but it is very true. The most expensive cue in a range is generally expensive because of the materials that have been used. Another factor is the actual man hours that it takes to produce each individual cue. By purchasing the top of the range snooker cue you are not getting a higher performance model but just a cue that is more aesthetically pleasing. You can get the same performance out of a cheaper more plain looking cue.

It is important that you only take this as advice, you might personally find the top of the range cue suits you best. You can always come in to Billiards Boutique and handle a few cues before you purchase.