About Billiard Tables

A billiards table or billiard table is a table on which carom billiards games are played such as three cushion billiards, straight rail (carambole) and balkline. Regulation billiards tables are perfect rectangles, with the bed of the table (the playing surface) measuring ten feet by five feet. Although not common in the U.S., smaller size Billiards tables are occasionally seen, typically used for the Korean game of "four ball."

Pocket Billiards tables, sometimes called pool tables, are specific to the various pool games such as eight ball, nine ball, straight pool and one pocket. As the name implies, pocket billiards tables have pockets; normally six of them--one at each corner of the table ("corner pockets") and one at the midpoint of each of the longer sides ("side pockets").