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What are the sizes of pool tables?
Home » Game Rooms » Pool Tables » What are the sizes of pool tables?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").
The regulation size of a Pocket Billiards table's playing surface is 4.5 feet by 9 feet. Non-regulation size tables come standard at four by eight feet, three and one-half by seven feet, and three feet by six feet.
While most tables are perfect rectangles, there are other tables which are round, hexagonal and even zig-zag shaped. The latter ones, however, are all far less popular than the rectangular tables ubiquitous in many places.
Common pool table sizes for the USA are:
3.5' × 7' (1.06 m × 2.13 m) — Bar
4' × 8' (1.22 m × 2.44 m) — Home
4.25' × 8.5' (1.30 m × 2.60 m) — Commercial
4.5' × 9' (1.37 m × 2.74 m) — Tournament
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