Abstract: An improved rectangular pocket billiard table having a flat and horizontal playing surface and a cushioned rail extending therearound, and which surface has a pair of long and a pair of short opposite parallel sides and four right angle corners at the intersection of the sides comprises a plurality of spaced pockets along each pair of long sides and having no pockets in any of the corners nor along the short sides. In the preferred embodiment, the number of pockets along each long side is six and which pockets are clustered in groups of three pockets each.