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Best pit table in the country

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white1 said:
There are rooms nearby that have a gambling pit….two steps down from main floor level….where special, bigger bet and routine daily gamblers play. One can look at their game from above and enjoy the game, the chatter, the older men yakking and arguing and things like that.
I’m just interested if there may be other rooms with that set up. Thx
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Q-Master in VA Beach has stadium seating. Great room
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Pallet of new cues for sale at 20 cues per box for $100 ($5/cue) --- Comments?

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Paul_#_ said:
You've done this before? I thought this was very odd: 600 cues that would sell for $5 each, 20-cues-per-box, and sold on Facebook?

The warpness makes sense. But would that apply to a pallet-worth of cue sticks? The $5/cue sounds too good to be true.
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it was 3$/cue in my case, bought direct from china, iirc 200 cues.

looks like a warehouse that, and they've for certain been handled outside at some point/period. expect warping
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Was pool better 50 years ago?

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sjm said:
Your memory is failing you. Ed Kelly and Cue Ball Kelly were two different people. Ed Kelly is a BCA Hall of Famer and his nickname was Champagne Eddie. Cue Ball Kelly's real first name was Carl, and he was best known as a referee who dated back to the days of Greenleaf. I last saw him ref a match in the early 1980s. He was, indeed, well known for the prop bet you have mentioned.
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It can probably be looked up but I think Kelly's real last name with something like a Zingle. I got to know him a little bit and learned quite a bit about ball spinning.

He used to do that one thing in front of an audience where he would pocket I think all 15 balls in the corner pocket and like 20 minutes or something. And the audience would keep track of the time.

He was so good at it as the time was running out there would be a few balls left and just as time ran out with maybe three or four seconds left he'd make the last ball. He did it every time.

I used to do one of his tricks where you rack up 15 balls and throwing the cue ball three rails or more make the eight out of the middle of the rack. I got to where I could bet on 10 but usually got it done in five to seven throws.
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Pallet of new cues for sale at 20 cues per box for $100 ($5/cue) --- Comments?

Paul_#_
skogstokig said:
i've done this once. made decent profit, but not worth the time (for me). expect a lot of them to be warped too
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You've done this before? I thought this was very odd: 600 cues that would sell for $5 each, 20-cues-per-box, and sold on Facebook?

The warpness makes sense. But would that apply to a pallet-worth of cue sticks? The $5/cue sounds too good to be true.
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Best pit table in the country

Black-Balled
white1 said:
There are rooms nearby that have a gambling pit….two steps down from main floor level….where special, bigger bet and routine daily gamblers play. One can look at their game from above and enjoy the game, the chatter, the older men yakking and arguing and things like that.
I’m just interested if there may be other rooms with that set up. Thx
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I think these days, what you describe would be found in a ste that was constructed for single use.

Sq footage is $ and few rooms own the properties they use...I'd presume they'd have better u$e for that $pace than a thing of low interest and low utilization.

Free advice, worth every penny.
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Lil Al Romero

Island Drive
vintagecollectibles831 said:
That is so cool.

The longtime manager of SIU Bowling and Billiards made a really stupid decision to replace all of the great vintage Brunswick Gold Crown tables with brand new Olhausen tables, and they were horrible, in my opinion. And, then the pool hall was mostly dead after that. All of the interest in Pool had gone away by the 2000's, and the place mostly just sat empty, with all the kids only wanting to bowl.

They had a nice 10 Foot Gold Crown Snooker table, with Snooker pockets too, but nobody ever played on it.

I really miss that place, during the 90's.
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Which SIU?
Carbondale?
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Masters 2026

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looking like kyren wilson will be the 4th semifinalist. idk why i think he's so damn boring, he has actually sped up his game compared to 2-3 years ago when i followed snooker more. wu yize will be the fun and crazy guy in that semi anyway.

rooting for higgins overall. every year they speculate which one of the '92:ers will retire first and higgins has been the one mentioned most often. he's proving them wrong
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Best pit table in the country

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There are rooms nearby that have a gambling pit….two steps down from main floor level….where special, bigger bet and routine daily gamblers play. One can look at their game from above and enjoy the game, the chatter, the older men yakking and arguing and things like that.
I’m just interested if there may be other rooms with that set up. Thx
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Was pool better 50 years ago?

sjm
Tobermory said:
On Table 7, Ed “Cue Ball” Kelly has offered the proposition that from a full rack he can pocket ten balls into the same corner pocket rolling the cue ball three rails with his hand in X many rolls. On Table 8, any two top female players are playing nine ball. I’m watching Table 7.
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Your memory is failing you. Ed Kelly and Cue Ball Kelly were two different people. Ed Kelly is a BCA Hall of Famer and his nickname was Champagne Eddie. Cue Ball Kelly's real first name was Carl, and he was best known as a referee who dated back to the days of Greenleaf. I last saw him ref a match in the early 1980s. He was, indeed, well known for the prop bet you have mentioned.
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I'm back, and in a new shop space!

RidgeRaider
Hungarian said:
Nice. WEN products are not bad at all. I have their track saw and it works great. Just doesn't have the same power as the Festool but if you go slow it's fine.
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I have a love / hate relationship with WEN. They have amazing customer support, and some great tools, but like I always tell people "It's not IF, it's WEN it breaks". I've broken almost every WEN tool I've owned, and this dust collector is one of them lmfao. They work, but they're never built as sturdy as the regular name brands. This dust collector has a fan made out of what I swear is glass. Two of the bolts came pre-stripped (woo!) and one of the hose clamps was useless.. No big deal, but you get what you pay for.

I usually buy WEN for things I don't use every single day, or if I use it often, it's specific to my needs, like this dust collector. I couldn't really find a comparable collector for my space / weight / hanging needs in this price range, so it's worth replacing parts when I break it.
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Was pool better 50 years ago?

Hail Mary Shot
middleofnowhere said:
I once remember seeing miz playing and he had to reach over the table. He undid his pants and tucked the whole tail of his jacket in so that he could shoot without fouling. Any balls right in front of everybody.

I don't mind doing away with the formal wear as long as the players look good it is okay.
I'll tell you another funny thing I saw regarding players wearing suits. I was at the US Open in Chicago and I was really excited to see Luther Lassiter.

On night one I saw him in the lobby and even went up on the elevator with him he looked beautiful. On night three and four he didn't look so good anymore. It became obvious that this may have been the only suit he had. It still had powder and chalk marks on it. It was kind of sad, I think I was a little disillusioned. His play though lived up to everything I imagined.

later in the week I even had a brief conversation with him and he told me a very funny story.
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I always like them in suits. I know casual wear became more of a thing when the 90s came and of convenience. but love the fact that it is more of a standard uniform for cue sports. nothing against what pool players wear nowadays but just saying it's just nice to look if they dress good and not look less presentable than a server or official at it.
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