Minnesota Fats Billiard tables and Elephantballs Pool tables
Having a Quality Billiard Table in your own home or office game room, is a feeling like no other! Pool is a sport enjoyed by millions, and the tables for this game are a work of beauty and art.
At
klsgametables you'll find a very nice selection of pool tables, from the standard models to the Professional series.
The word Billiard came from either the French word billiard, or one of the wooden sticks used to strike the balls, or bile, one of the billiard balls. The game of Billiards evolved from a lawn game very much like the game of croquet, which was probably in France.
The game moved indoors to a wooden table with a green cloth that was suppose to look like grass. It also had a simple border placed around it's borders, and in the first games that were played - instead of being struck, the balls were pushed by wooden sticks called
"Maces." The cue wasn't developed until the late 1600's, and they were mainly developed because when the ball was laying near the rail, the mace was a very hard thing to use because of it's big head.
Whenever this happened, the billiard players would turn the mace around, and hit the balls with the tail end of the mace. The tail end was called the
"queue" hence this is where we get the cue.
Billiard tables originally had flat vertical walls for rails, and their only purpose was to keep the balls from falling off the table. The rails looked much like river banks, and they even used to be called banks... when players found out that the balls would bounce off the rails, they began to deliberately aim for rails, thus the
"bank shot" was invented.
You have to admit that when it comes to the Pool Table, we have come a long way as far as quality, since the late 1600's. And the Billiard Tables that we have for you at klsgametables are of no exception to that rule of
Quality & Craftsmanship that we all have come to expect.
Yes, Billiards has been around a very long time which is why the age old question exists.
(Which came first, billiards or the egg?)
And since nobody seems to know for sure - I say:
- Rack'em & Crack'em and let's play pool! -
Please email us if you have any questions, Thank You.