Bar games: tables, boards and the games that get played twice

There is a gap between the games a home bar buys and the games a home bar plays. The pong table comes out twice and then lives behind the freezer. The dartboard is hung by eye, plays wrong, and quietly stops being used. The poker set is bought for nine people and the room seats six. In every case the equipment was fine and the setup was not.

This section deals with the setup: the dimensions that are fixed and the ones that are not, the floor, the light, the clearance around a throwing lane, and the honest criteria for whether a game will survive being played next to full glasses. The measurements here come from the standards the games are actually scored to, so a board hung this way plays like the one in the pub.