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Maybe you're just too scary for SM, scarier than John Henderson, Orcollo or Ike Runnels. Are you sure you are there when the action starts - after 4 p.m. when people get off work and not asking the retirees who are there before 4?
Bottom line: always lots of guys in the room with expensive sticks but no play-ee in 20 visitsNot a problem for moi in many, many other rooms all across the country...
And as I said in a previous post, Richie came in after I had been there all day and was leaving. He asked me to play and I joked with him and said, "Hey, aren't you Wayne Pullen?" And he laughed and said, "Hell, no! He's OLD.'" And we had a good laugh and I told him I wish he'd come in a few hours earlier.
Lou Figueroa
Lou, my name is Juan Rios I was there the times you came in and you never ask me to play........
Well, I'd been there all day and had to leave to have dinner with my Mom.
Lou Figueroa
Bottom line: always lots of guys in the room with expensive sticks but no play-ee in 20 visits
And as I said in a previous post, Richie came in after I had been there all day and was leaving. He asked me to play and I joked with him and said, "Hey, aren't you Wayne Pullen?" And he laughed and said, "Hell, no! He's OLD.'" And we had a good laugh and I told him I wish he'd come in a few hours earlier.
Lou Figueroa
Lou:
I was in the room when you came in and played by yourself on a back table. Maybe you forgot what I looked like. I certainly would have played you if you had asked. After Rich, myself and Phil there is a big drop off in skill level. You would probably have to give up a little to a lot to everyone else that plays there. I give Phil a ball and after that the next best player I give 9-6. Some decent players I give 12-6 and the break. If you had played myself or Richard some of the other players would have gotten an idea of how you played and games would have been made. I have gone into Santa Monica maybe a thousand times and have gotten a game 900+ times. Very rare to not get a game once the players know you. Wayne
I've been there during the day and am a fellow retiree.
Lou Figueroa
hasn't been
a problem
anywhere else
I know who you are, Wayne, having played you in LV several years back. I honestly don't recall seeing you there. Why didn't you come up and ask me to play?
Oh wait a minute -- was it like four/five years ago and you were playing someone on the front table?
Lou Figueroa
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Bottom line: always lots of guys in the room with expensive sticks but no play-ee in 20 visits
And as I said in a previous post, Richie came in after I had been there all day and was leaving. He asked me to play and I joked with him and said, "Hey, aren't you Wayne Pullen?" And he laughed and said, "Hell, no! He's OLD.'" And we had a good laugh and I told him I wish he'd come in a few hours earlier.
Lou Figueroa
Lou:
I was in the room when you came in and played by yourself on a back table. Maybe you forgot what I looked like. I certainly would have played you if you had asked. After Rich, myself and Phil there is a big drop off in skill level. You would probably have to give up a little to a lot to everyone else that plays there. I give Phil a ball and after that the next best player I give 9-6. Some decent players I give 12-6 and the break. If you had played myself or Richard some of the other players would have gotten an idea of how you played and games would have been made. I have gone into Santa Monica maybe a thousand times and have gotten a game 900+ times. Very rare to not get a game once the players know you. Wayne
Juan, I don't know you. But let me ask you: if you knew who I was *and would have played* why didn't you ask me to play?
I only did the ask everybody in the room thing the last time I was there (out desperation). Normally, my experience has been that if someone (a room regular) is willing to play, they will ask the new guy in the room, no? Otherwise, I just ask guys who don't look like "civilians." No disrespect, but maybe you looked like a civilian
Lou Figueroa
Juan, I don't know you. But let me ask you: if you knew who I was *and would have played* why didn't you ask me to play?
I only did the ask everybody in the room thing the last time I was there (out desperation). Normally, my experience has been that if someone (a room regular) is willing to play, they will ask the new guy in the room, no? Otherwise, I just ask guys who don't look like "civilians." No disrespect, but maybe you looked like a civilian
Lou Figueroa
Like Wayne said, you came in and play by yourself maybe next time.........
I'm not a gambler and not a very good player beyond bar tables, so I'm not speaking about personal examples. However, I've very rarely seen serious players playing anything but 1 pocket. From a spectator's perspective, I wish other games were played there more often
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On the plus side, Lou, you can brag to your grandchildren that a whole poolroom in California that will play top champions is afraid to play you. Even 1P Rich makes sure you are leaving when he shows up.
On top of that, you can puff up your reputation by laughing about how some of the league players there have the nerve to buy fancy sticks (and support the pool industry) when they don't have your ability to scare an entire pool room.
Hell, come to think of it, I might even nominate you for the BCA Hall of Fame if you could only curb your penchant for making guys like John Schmidt want to take you out in the parking lot
Juan, I don't know you. But let me ask you: if you knew who I was *and would have played* why didn't you ask me to play?
I only did the ask everybody in the room thing the last time I was there (out desperation). Normally, my experience has been that if someone (a room regular) is willing to play, they will ask the new guy in the room, no? Otherwise, I just ask guys who don't look like "civilians." No disrespect, but maybe you looked like a civilian
Lou Figueroa
My good friend Juan Rios has been around the pool world for decades. If you know him you would know pool player shines out like you'd know Wyatt Earp was a gunslinger. His hands are chalk stained and tough from working on a lathe with wood to shape shafts and stained from the leather he uses to make tips.
Hes one of the toughest looking guys I know and takes crap from no one. But in side he is a gentle man. No pretensions about him and would never be mistaken for a wanna be poolplayer. You'd know he came to play.
Wayne I think you will never be lacking for a game. Youre such a professional and great sportsman. Always fair. But whats most important is you don't think the game is about YOU. But something greater than that. A sport. You are not a professional whiner and limelight stealer. You never try to impress others. In other words you let your game speak for you.
Youre one of the highest money players but will adjust to a guys bankroll size if he cannot afford to play for those stakes. You never look down on others. That gets you games. Its when you think your poop don't stink and others do is when you get segregated. Thanks for being a friend and example.
Well there has been several full rack bank games recently. I played a set. Shades plays a lot of back pocket 8 ball. Jenny Lee is always looking for a good 9 ball game. And some tall guy seems to dominate a front table obsessively running racks of 9 ball. Uncle Dave Thomas is always cornering some guy into 14.1 on the back tables.
But youre right the favorite right now is One Hole. You just got to spend some time.
If youre interested the league guys play a little 9 ball tournament on Monday nites. Talk to Carl the league boss.
On the plus side, Lou, you can brag to your grandchildren that a whole poolroom in California that will play top champions is afraid to play you. Even 1P Rich makes sure you are leaving when he shows up.
On top of that, you can puff up your reputation by laughing about how some of the league players there have the nerve to buy fancy sticks (and support the pool industry) when they don't have your ability to scare an entire pool room.
Hell, come to think of it, I might even nominate you for the BCA Hall of Fame if you could only curb your penchant for making guys like John Schmidt want to take you out in the parking lot
lol. Never said anyone was scared. Richie came in around 5 after I'd been there all day. JS has issues that will eventually catch up with him. And you obviously want to make this into something it's not.
Like I said: I have been a working guy/recreational player my whole life. Over the last few years I’ve had the chance to play at rooms in the areas of New Jersey, Boston, Lexington, Miami, Atlanta, Gulfport, New Orleans, Louisville, Dayton, Chicago, Kalamazoo, Kansas City, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Oh, and Tampa, Indianapolis, Memphis, Dallas, Sacramento, and San Francisco.
Without making an appointment or filling out an application form at the front desk I’ve almost always been able to get a $10, $20, or $40 game of 1pocket at all those locales just by asking another player in the room if they would like to play some.
EXCEPT FOR ONE PLACE IN 20 VISITS. (ahem) Like Jim said: it’s a nice room with nice people.
Lou Figueroa
maybe I'll get a game
with Juan next time
One final suggestion and my bottom line. If you feel that everyone is scared to death of you and don't have the nuts to play you because of some kind of notoriety. And that we only play pool to show off our cues and are afraid of a $20 game then please don't come back. I think we can make it without you 2 wonderful pool enthusiasts or aficionados as I once heard. I mean you don't think you would certainly be welcome after your snide remarks?
It is a mystery that any pro, champion, road player, wannabees, pool bloggers, etcl can find someone to match up with here and you cant. Please save yourself the trouble and go to Hollywood. They like glitz, glamour, and the fake. That's why we moved out of there. Kiddie game is up the street.
If your sole intent was to get attention. Well you succeeded and I am guilty of being part of it. Like Cartman in South Park he always does get his due. And let it be known I don't speak for the room. I speak for me.
F you and the horse you rode in on.
And to the original poster. I apologize if this thread of yours has been hijacked.
But come in. Lets meet. Ill intro you to some great guys.
Laging ikaw ay maligayang pagdating
You are always welcome
Keone Young
It is a mystery that any pro, champion, road player, wannabees, pool bloggers, etcl can find someone to match up with here and you cant. Please save yourself the trouble and go to Hollywood. They like glitz, glamour, and the fake. That's why we moved out of there. Kiddie game is up the street.
If your sole intent was to get attention. Well you succeeded and I am guilty of being part of it. Like Cartman in South Park he always does get his due. And let it be known I don't speak for the room. I speak for me.
F you and the horse you rode in on.
And to the original poster. I apologize if this thread of yours has been hijacked.
But come in. Lets meet. Ill intro you to some great guys.
Laging ikaw ay maligayang pagdating
You are always welcome
Keone Young
lol. Never said anyone was scared. I have seen some nice cue sticks there.
You obviously want to make this into something it's not.
It’s a nice room with nice people.
And oh yes. And they make a great BLT there
Lou Figueroa
dew nae see foot
Except we have established by two corroborating witnesses (me and Wayne) that on at least one of those visits you had an opportunity to get a game on the front tables where the action was but instead deliberately chose to not play.