How do bar pool tables differentiate between numbered balls and the cue ball when you scratch?
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
soon2b asked:
When playing pool at a bar where you pay quarters for each game when you scratch the cue ball is always returned but the numbered balls are put in the case. what is the difference between the balls so the table knowns which to place where?
When playing pool at a bar where you pay quarters for each game when you scratch the cue ball is always returned but the numbered balls are put in the case. what is the difference between the balls so the table knowns which to place where?
Tags: Cue Ball, Game, Pool Tables
January 4th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Coin-op pool tables are designed one of two ways with regard to the cue ball being returned to you: Either the cue ball is slightly larger than the other balls (which allows it to travel down a different chute), or the cue ball has a magnet embedded in it (which trips a sensor to move a gate directing the cue ball down a different chute). It’s much more common to find a coin-op table featuring an oversized cue ball than one with the “magnetic” cue ball.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Cue ball is a different size.