Pool Table Near Poles or Beams

If your home billiard room is in a basement, there is a good possibility that you are dealing with support poles or beams near your pool table. These are usually load bearing beams and thus, there is not much you can do about them.

Pool Table Near Poles or Beams

Unfortunately, these poles will occasionally obstruct normal play. There are, however, a few design ideas you can incorporate in to your home billiard room that should mitigate the inconveniences that are caused by the poles or beams near your pool table.

The first design element to consider when working with a pool table near poles or beams deals with placement of the table. If there is a beam, you must make sure that the hear of the table is positioned away from the pole or beam obstruction. This is the end of the table that you would break from. If the home billiard room is really tight, you can position the table so that the pole is located near the middle of one of the side rail.

Other than strategic placement, there is not much more that you can do to a room for a billiard table near beams or poles. Most billiard room owners implement a "house" rule concerning the pole which outlines what can and can not be done with regards to shots involving the pole. Usually a ball may be moved if the obstructed shot is the only reasonable shot.

With this said, you could get away without any rules, since the beam or pole near the billiard table would conceivably affect each player or team equally.

Ideally there would be no need to put your pool table near a pole or a beam, but sometimes your space and/or financial constraints force you to do so. With strategic placement and rule adjustments, you should still be able to enjoy your table.

Pool Table Near Poles or Beams

The pool table near poles or beams article was posted on 7/30/2007 6:02:07 PM and updated on 7/30/2007 6:02:07 PM. The pool table near poles or beams article was edited by Billiards Forum Editor.

Pool Table Near Poles or Beams

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