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How to Own a Poolhall?

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middleofnowhere said:
Most of the time in a pool room you don't need all your tables. Daytime to usually not that good most the time certain nights of the week but can you have weekends. So the formula is that when you do have those peak hours you really like to be able to maximize your income and for that you need a certain number of tables.

My little room was was a gold mine, I was pulling 40, to $60,000 a year out of that little room for my self at a time when guys were supporting families on $7.50 an hour. I bought the room but would have liked to have had maybe 5 more tables if I was opening it.

My electric was not what you have to pay today, ins, was cheaper, help was cheaper. I bought cloth by the roll and covered my own tables. I have a feeling many rooms back 40 or 50 years ago may have made in their in those years dollars more money then a room may make today. Who can fade $6000.00 a month rent $900.00 a month electric, I couldn't even guess what the liability insurance would be and so on.

I should add, I'm a really an old man take what I say with a grain of salt maybe my ideas are outdated and nothing I say is relevant anymore.
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you, jay, and jerry machin are the only pool room owners that had business sense and made it owning a pool room.

and made it work not because it was just in the right spot for a time or lucky.
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Shark Move Part 58 - Verbal Concession

muskyed
Sounds like he conceded to me, and if someone else heard him say that, I would say that it was right to pick them up and rerack. If no one else heard it, I would for sure double check with him first to make sure that's what he meant. Should you have to do that, no, but some people are that way.
I had a situation happen to me last year where it looked as though my opponent fouled. he went over to the table where they were sitting at and I was already getting up as I was positive he fouled. I then, before picking the ball up, looked at him and said, ball in hand right? He just looked at me like I wasn't there and never said yes or no. I picked up the cue ball and all hell breaks loose with him saying what are you doing, there was no foul. Some pool players are just jerks, no two ways about it.
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International Open 2025

Cord
middleofnowhere said:
Do the commentators care anything about this match. Jennett Lee is the worst. I wish she would just shut up and watch the match.
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I didn't want to agree with this, but ... dang, yeah. To his credit, Wilson has tried several times to intervene, but I think he might have given up :ROFLMAO:

Edit: I mean, now she's into the weeds on the difference between various production cue balls. Come on, man.
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Capito Sports Bar - Angeles City

HawaiianEye
jay helfert said:
jay helfert said:
If you want to get a look at some of the young talent on the Philippine pool scene, check out the Capito Sports Bar on Youtube. They have regular pool fights (money games) there featuring many of the best hustlers in the Philippines. You will see a bunch of guys who could terrorize poolrooms and tournaments in the USA. Most play in that 750-800 range. I am constantly amazed by the level of play I've seen there.

It's a really cool atmosphere with thousands of pesos being bet on each game. I enjoy watching all the action going on between games, almost as much as the game itself. I tried to bet on a match last night but no one would take my bet. I'm a foreigner and they won't take a chance with me. :rolleyes:
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If you want to get a look at some of the young talent on the Philippine pool scene, check out the Capito Sports Bar on Youtube. They have regular pool fights (money games) there featuring many of the best hustlers in the Philippines. You will see a bunch of guys who could terrorize poolrooms and tournaments in the USA. Most play in that 750-800 range. I am constantly amazed by the level of play I've seen there.

It's a really cool atmosphere with thousands of pesos being bet on each game. I enjoy watching all the action going on between games, almost as much as the game itself. I tried to bet on a match last night but no one would take my bet. I'm a foreigner and they won't take a chance with me. :rolleyes:
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Here is a video of what that area looked like when I lived there and an old picture of Efren in one of the bars. Pool cue maker Mario Paras is to the left of Efren.

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Shark Move Part 58 - Verbal Concession

ShootingArts
HawaiianEye said:
I was playing in ND state 8-ball bar table tournament and they had that patch BS where you put it by the pocket when you are shooting the 8 ball.

We were playing hill-hill in a match and I break and run the table down to the 8 ball and it is a tapper. The patch is on the other end of the table, I point my cue at the pocket and call the pocket and the guy nods his acknowledgement, so I shoot it in and he IMMEDIATELY says, "you didn't put the patch by the pocket" and runs over and finds a referree and I lost that match and went into the loser's bracket.

I would never have done such a chickenshit move to anyone.

That is why I always preferred gambling to playing tournaments with nits.
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Never used markers myself but I have been nearby when they were using markers many times. I have seen basically this move over and over. A slight point with your stick is plenty good the whole match then when Ray Charles could have seen which pocket you were shooting at, "you didn't call your pocket"!! Often a game or even match stolen that way. With the team crap sometimes it is the captain or somebody else calling it. If my own team tried to pull something so lowlife I would hope I palmed a coin out of my pocket and pointed it out on the pocket iron. "There it is."

Guess this is why I have never played on a team. This seems like where these offenses are most common. Most even half sporting people give one warning anyway. I do think things are different playing on a team but you make that plain before the first ball is hit in the match.

Just had a thought, bring your marker from home. Be sure to load it in cat or dog poo so people can smell if you called the pocket or not!

While I have little sympathy for those that won't come to pre-event meetings, I have little respect for those that try to legislate wins.

Hu
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