Platin Billiards From 1956 to Today

Platin Dogan, who is the founder of this success story, started life as a carpenter apprentice. In his headworker period, he became interested in billiards and he made his first step to billiards. He had matches with the masters, had great experience finally had great success. As his knowledge and experience increases, he sees that he cannot have performance he wanted even with the European table brands. This causes him to give a decision about making his own billiards table.

Platin Dogan believes that a billiards table master can only master himself on a precisely made billiards table. He changes his life completely after making his first billiards table. He got new table orders after his first table and billiards table manufacturing became his business.

In İstanbul at that period, as well as the Turkish manufacturers, French and English billiards table manufacturers were also being used. Platin Dogan made the most precisely made billiards table of his time in 1956 and he began with the brand “Platin Billiards”. He succeeded to become the favorite billiards table brand in Turkey and covered all the demands in Turkey market, providing thousands of young people loving billiards to play their best games.

 

“Billiards is a mind game, a geometric game” he says, and defines billiards as “The sport of a magical stick and colorful ball on its tip”. He finalizes his speech with these words: “It is not only a game, but also a sport. One of the most noble, most elegant sports. Think of a sports branch in which the rules of mathematics and mechanics can be used in superior levels and harmony of mind and body can be transferred into more than one ball. This sport is certainly billiards.