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Why in the cometition of Billiards..they used a green(cover) table?why green.why not other color?

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as far a i know, there is alo red cover why they prefer to use green?

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  1. Traditionally it has always been green.....do not really have a better answer other then each house is different and thus different colors....another guess would be that if you are talking about TV.....maybe the green just shows up better on the screens......why do you wear your hair the way you do?....that's the answer....because you want it and like it that way....that is probably the correct answer to your question.


  2. Loosely speaking, pool began as a miniature, indoor version of the British game of Croquet.  The green cloth was meant to simulate grass as found in a Croquet playing area.

  3. I couldn't find anything online about the origins of the green cloth (except perhaps that the earliest version of pool was played on grass), but green is classic.  Red looks cheap (when I think of red cloth I think of tables at a bowling alley), even though companies like Simonis do offer cloths in red and many, many other colors.  I don't like it when they mess with classic stuff, like those balls with the swirly colors?  Yuck, hate 'em.  

    --Lea

  4. Lea is right on here.  Although there is still some debate as to the exact origins of the game we play today, most sources indicate that the earliest ancestors of billiards were games like croquet and bocce.  Over time, these games were moved inside and to replicate the color of the grass, green cloth was used.   Eventually, the games moved from the floor to a table.  I couldn't agree more with Lea's answer.  I'm a traditionalist also and the most I'm willing to deviate from the classic green color, is maybe blue.  I really don't like red, brown, orange or yellow cloth.  Certain colors actually put a lot of strain on your eyes over long matches.  M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.

  5. From what I have heard it is easier to see for color blind people.

  6. How about some nice yellow or pink Astro Turff wouldnt that be nice ITS GREEN OK !!

                                                         TKS Moon

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