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A long row of pool tables under a grid of round lamps in a dark hall, players waiting along both sides and a cue lining up a shot in the foreground.

Adelaide’s place to play pool and billiards.

Heyball, American pool and a private Mahjong room, on Wright Street in the city.

Heyball $20/hrPool $20/hr

Which game?

Heyball or pool — Q Club has both.

17-19 Wright St, Adelaide SA 5000

17-19 Wright St, Adelaide SA 5000

Heyball, American pool, and a private Mahjong room.

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What you can play at Q Club

A green-cloth table with a racked triangle of balls, lit by a single lamp in an otherwise dark room.
HeyballChinese eight-ball on nine feet of napped cloth, with pockets cut like a snooker table’s. The thing this room was built for.The long room
Bright blue pool tables under pendant lamps, two cues laid across the cloth beside a racked set of balls.
American poolOn blue cloth. Quicker, more forgiving, and a frame in ten minutes.Easier to pick up cold
A hand placing a Mahjong tile on a green table printed with a peacock design, tiles scattered mid-game.
MahjongA private room with an automatic table, away from the floor, for as long as you want it.Book the room

What a table
costs.

By the hour, for the table — not per person. Split between four, an evening of pool is less than a round of drinks nobody is having.

Heyball
$20/hr
Pool
$20/hr

The price covers

  • The table, for the whole hour
  • House cues and rests
  • Chalk
  • Balls, and someone to rack them if you want

What costs extra, and when the clock starts

Two players at a green billiards table under a row of cone lamps, the rest of the room dark behind them.

And then it is just the room.

Twelve lamps, one room, and the same light over every table.

Walk the room

What it’s like
in here.

Lamps over cloth, and not much else. Walk it, table by table.

All the photographs

A dark lamp shade seen from below, its white light falling on the green cloth at the bottom of the frame.
Every table gets its own light, and the rest of the room is allowed to go dark.
A bridge hand on green cloth, the cue resting across the knuckles, red and yellow balls beyond the white.
A bridge hand on the cloth. Everything about the game starts here.
A racked triangle of balls and two cues laid on bright blue cloth, seen from directly above.
American pool, racked on blue, for the nights you want a frame in ten minutes.
The corner pocket of a billiards table in close-up: green baize, a dark timber rail and the net beneath.
Pockets cut like a snooker table’s, which is why a Heyball table forgives nothing.
A hand turning a Mahjong tile face-up on green cloth, walls of tiles stacked along the edge of the table.
Mahjong in a room of its own, off the floor, with an automatic table.
Four people around a blue pool table under cone lamps in a dark lounge, one of them down on a shot.
A Friday at eleven, when most of the city has already called it.
A player down on the cue with his eyes on the shot, coloured balls blurred in the foreground of a green table.

Six editions,
five years.

Run every year since 2022. The sixth edition is the current one. Chinese 8-Ball, played as a qualification stage into double elimination.

A $3,000 prize pool, paid down from the champion to the last sixteen.

Free to enter, taken at reception. Ask for Kit, the club manager.

Current dates, on the club’s own page →

The room,
end to end.

Heyball tables down the long room, American pool on blue cloth beside them, and the private Mahjong room off the floor. Every table sits under its own raft of light, so the room is dark and the cloth is not.

See what’s free, table by table

The layout this site is built for. Table numbers to be confirmed with the club.

Why people come back

Six championships in five years.

The Chinese Eight-Ball Championshiprun every year since 2022

A room can buy a good review. It cannot fake five years of the same players clearing their August for it.

4.4out of 5, across 81 Google reviews

What the rating is, and what it isn’t

Noon or 2pm, until midnight. 2am Friday and Saturday.

Still open when
nothing else is.

Midnight, five nights a week. Two in the morning on Friday and Saturday, when most of the city has already called it.

What the late hours are for

The week at a glance. Last tables go on an hour before close.

A bar counter at night, bottles lit from below in amber light, one person leaning at the far end.

Cheaper from two
till six.

Happy Hour runs Monday to Friday, 2pm to 6pm — the quiet end of the afternoon, when there is always a table free.

Solo practice
50% off
Group table package
$50
VIP members, additional
10% off

Drinks and snacks come from the counter at the back, brought to the table or taken at the bench.

Ask at the counter about drinks.

What is at the counter

Never played

Take a pool table first.

Balls go in, which is what makes a first hour fun. Heyball is the one to graduate to.

What happens when you walk in

The clock

It starts when you break.

Not when you walk in. It is written down on the rates page, so nobody has to ask at the counter.

How the clock works

Coming as a group

Four to a pool table, two to Heyball.

Work out what it comes to before anybody has to be the one who pays.

How many tables you need

How the games
actually work.

Written for people who have not played, and would rather not find that out in front of a room.

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The seven values in Heyball. If that is all you came for, you now have it.

Finding it.

17-19 Wright St, Adelaide SA 5000

Look for black painted brick and a lit Q Club sign, with neon above a glass door strung with fairy lights. It is a shopfront, not a car park, and it is easy to walk past if you are watching the road instead of the wall.

A few minutes’ walk west of King William Street, and about the same from the Central Market.

Open in Google MapsDirections, parking and what to look forWhen we are open
Q Club at dusk: a black painted brick frontage with a lit Q Club sign and two neon signs above a glass door strung with fairy lights, a roller shutter alongside, and a brick-paved footpath running past shopfronts into the street.
17–19 Wright Street at dusk: the door, the sign, and the shutter beside it.