Bar billiards is played on a unique table with no side or corner pockets but with nine holes in the playing surface which are assigned various point values ranging from 10 to 200.
Bar billiards table holes.
A bar billiards table showing the holes but not the mushrooms that are placed in front of the holes.
There are eight.
Bar billiards is played on a special table without side and corner pockets unlike a pool table but instead has 9 holes in the playing surface which are assigned certain point values from 10 to 200.
As you can see the table has the 2 wide holes set nearest in the table and there are 3 holes at the back compared with 5 on an english table.
The game of bar billiards developed originally from the french billiard which due to the expensive tables in the fifteenth century was played only by the french monarchy and the very rich.
A rectangular bumper pool table an original ford mustang converted into a novelty pool table exhibited at the 2011 montreal international auto show.
Bar billiards is played on a table that closely resembles a small billiards table and measures 56 x 33 5.
All players stand in front of the table no side access is permitted.
Unlike a normal billiards table that has six pockets around the edge a bar billiards table does not have any such pockets and instead features holes sunk into the table.