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A busy snooker room. A player in a red shirt leans low over a shot on a full-size table in the foreground while others play at tables receding into the room behind him.

Young players
welcome.

Nearly every room with cue tables in it is licensed, and a licence is what puts an age limit on the door. No alcohol is served here, so a fourteen-year-old can play, with an adult, on a full-size table.

Junior coaching, by arrangement

Snooker is one of the few games where a thirteen-year-old and a sixty-year-old can play each other and neither is doing the other a favour.

It needs no strength and no speed. A handicap makes any two players competitive honestly. It rewards patience, arithmetic and standing still, which is a strange and useful set of things for a teenager to spend three hours practising. And it happens standing up, in a room, with a person, which is most of the argument on its own.

A full-size table is hard, and that is the point rather than the problem. A young player who learns on twelve feet of cloth will be a good player on anything smaller for the rest of their life.

The American pool table on blue cloth, its rail lettered "Specially Manufactured for Shot N Pot Pool Lounge", with charcoal columns and the snooker tables beyond.

The practical part

Four things worth knowing before you plan an afternoon around it. Anything else, ring us on 0430 602 846 and ask.

With an adult
Under-eighteens are welcome with an adult who stays with them. The adult does not have to play.
The best time
Quieter afternoons. Nobody is waiting for the table, nobody is watching, and the light is good.
Coaching
Junior coaching on a full-size table, and school-holiday sessions, by arrangement. Ring to ask what is running.
The room
No alcohol, ever. Tea, hot chocolate and hot food from the counter, brought to the table.

If you are bringing someone for the first time

Start on pool, not snooker. A shorter table and generous pockets mean balls go in, and balls going in is what makes a first hour fun. Move to the big table once potting a straight ball has stopped being a surprise.

For organised junior competition in this state, the Billiards and Snooker Association of South Australia runs junior pathways, and a season in our league is a good way to get ready for one.