http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/jul/16/loop-new-cue-sport-pool-ellipse-elliptical?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

If a pool table is the shape of an ellipse, then a ball shot from one focus will always rebound to the other focus no matter in which direction the ball is shot.

Bellos is a legend! I’d love to play this…
http://www.loop-the-game.com

quality – its got the anorak/cool ratio just perfect!

Haven’t seen for years – decades in fact – and I used to love

Round table = huge footprint, bar billiards is played from end of the table so much smaller footprint.
Looks good though.

My local used to have one of these…

looks like an updated version of Bar Billiards

🙂

looks like an updated version of Bar Billiards

it is. just with MOAR MATHS!

There’s a pub in Gorton with an L shaped pool table – not that I went near it on the few occasions I went in there….

There’s a pub in Gorton with an L shaped pool table

There’s one in Blackpool too IIRC.

I loved the circular ones that you could rotate so they could stick them in a corner. As soon as you started to turn it the balls started moving…
Fail.

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