Tables, cues,
and what’s on them
Eight full-size snooker tables, four American pool tables, and house cues at every one. It is the part of the club people praise most.
“Great sized tables, good condition, good quality cues too.”
Snooker
- Tables
- 8, in the long room
- Size
- Full size, 12 ft by 6 ft
- Cloth
- Worsted cloth, brushed daily
- Lighting
- A suspended raft over every table
- Cues
- House cues, with a rest and a spider at every table
- Rate
- $18 an hour per table
American pool
- Tables
- 4, in the room beside the snooker tables
- Size
- 8 ft American
- Cloth
- Blue, on tables made for the club
- Cues
- Pool cues with the wider tip, rest and spider at every table
- Rate
- $18 an hour per table
Cues, rest, spider, chalk and balls are included in the hour. A snooker glove is $10 extra. See the rates page for when the clock starts and stops.
The cue you’ll be handed
A house cue is a cue somebody else chose. The parts worth knowing are the tip, which is the only thing that touches the ball; the ferrule behind it, which stops the shaft splitting; and the weight, which is the difference between a cue that feels like an extension of your arm and one that feels like a broom.
Snooker tips run around 9 to 10 mm. American pool balls are larger and heavier and want something nearer 13 mm, so the pool tables have their own cues. If the first cue you pick up feels wrong, ask at the counter for another.
