The Break in Cahokia

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Nice room. Walked in just after opening and Lou is practicing already on Table 17. He asked me if I am packing and I said I am packing a pool cue.

I asked him to play some and he said no. Eventually he got upset and left when I tried to have a conversation.

Anyway this is a nice room. Lots of antiques. Gold Crown Is with red pocket liners. Nice players room vibe.
 

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Played many a qualifer and tournament(s) at that place while I was stationed a Scott AFB, IL in the early 90's. Great place to play and a hop, skip and a jump away from St Louis.
 
Great poolroom...

The Break is a great place owned by an even greater man Terry Huelsman.

So, did you go there to size up your competitor? Did he know you were there or did you just walk in and say..."Hi Lou"?!?!? I bet he was FREAKING OUT...:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
watchez said:
Where is my invite???
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Impromptu visit Steve. Catch you on the rebound.

Was a great visit. Met the owners Mark and Terry and played a little fun one hole on Lou's favorite table. Put this spot on your must-see list.
 
If you are still in town, you might be able to find some one pocket action at Cue and Cushion tonight.

kollegedave
 
JB Cases said:
Nice room. Walked in just after opening and Lou is practicing already on Table 17. He asked me if I am packing and I said I am packing a pool cue.

I asked him to play some and he said no. Eventually he got upset and left when I tried to have a conversation.

Anyway this is a nice room. Lots of antiques. Gold Crown Is with red pocket liners. Nice players room vibe.
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I was thinking that maybe Lou was just out of stroke if he didn't want to play you and it was kind of embarrassing for him to turn you down.

JoeyA
 
Those pocket liners look neat! I've always enjoyed playing on Gold Crowns.

Lou sounds like a classy guy...
 
Yeah, I was so freaked out while John was there watching me practice 14.1 that I ran a truckload of racks (missed hitting the stack on a break shot, dammit.)

Everyone in the Midwest knows you have to drive through St. Louis from Oklahoma City to get to Louisville, so I pretty much figured to see John walk through the door about now. So no surprise there.

And yes, I asked him if he "was packing" given his little thug life tantrum over in the Volturi thread in the Case Gallery forum, lol:

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=346678

So John tried to engage me in a conversation, woofing at me to play, saying he’d, “Let me off cheap.” I told him, “John, you already know the answer to that — I'll play you in NJ” and continued to practice.

A table away, he makes a phone call and it goes like, "You'll never believe where I'm at... Across the river from St. Louis... I'm watching him play straight pool right now..." I try and ignore him and keep practicing. So the call ends and he starts yakking at me again and I tell him, "John, I'm not interested in talking to you." (Who here doesn't know that getting into an exchange with John, in person or online, is to enter into an endless loop of insanity and I didn’t feel like going there.)

Then he says to me, and no, I’m not making this up, “OK then, I’ll just stand here and talk to myself.”

And he starts to talk to himself (but really to me). So I take out a pair of earbuds, listen to some Jane Monheit, and keep trying to practice. I was told by the house woman that he kept on talking to himself (me).

So then he brings out the phone/camera/video and starts pointing it my way and I say to meself, “Self, you're not going to play him, he's just trying to get under your skin, do yourself a favor and go hit them somewhere else in peace.” So that’s what I did. When I went up to pay my time the woman who had been watching all this looked over at John and whispered, “What a weirdo.” And we shared a laugh.

I wasn’t upset about anything. I thought the whole thing with John talking to himself was pretty funny. Weird, but funny.

Lou Figueroa
 
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lfigueroa said:
Yeah, I was so freaked out while John was there watching me practice 14.1 that I ran a truckload of racks (missed hitting the stack on a break shot, dammit.)

Everyone in the Midwest knows you have to drive through St. Louis from Oklahoma City to get to Louisville, so I pretty much figured to see John walk through the door about now. So no surprise there.

And yes, I asked him if he "was packing" given his little thug life tantrum over in the Volturi thread in the Case Gallery forum, lol. So John tried to engage me in a conversation, woofing at me to play, saying he’d, “Let me off cheap.” I told him, “John, you already know the answer to that — I'll play you in NJ” and continued to practice.

He makes a phone call and it goes like, "You'll never believe where I'm at... Across the river from St. Louis... I'm watching him play straight pool right now..." I try and ignore him and keep practicing. So the call ends and he starts yakking at me again and I tell him, "John, I'm not interested in talking to you." (Who here doesn't know that getting into an exchange with John, in person or online, is to enter into an endless loop of insanity and I didn’t feel like going there.)

And then he says to me, and no, I’m not making this up, “OK then, I’ll just stand here and talk to myself.”

And he starts to talk to himself (but really to me). So I take out a pair of earbuds, listen to some Jane Monheit, and keep trying to practice. I was told by the house woman that he kept on talking to himself (me).

So then he brings out the phone/camera/video and starts pointing it my way and I say to meself, “Self, you're not going to play him, he's just trying to get under your skin, do yourself a favor and go hit them somewhere else in peace.” So that’s what I did. When I went up to pay my time the woman who had been watching all this looked over at John and whispered, “What a weirdo.” And we shared a laugh.

I wasn’t upset about anything. I thought the whole thing with John talking to himself was pretty funny. Weird, but funny.

Lou Figueroa
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What's the woman's name Lou? Do you know?

It is Pam. Was very nice to speak with her. She had no idea you are such a big gambler. No idea you are going to play for so much. I told her I would try to make sure our match is on the big screen right by the bar.

Then she called Mark and Terry and we had a good couple hours playing and swapping stories.

I am surprised that you never told us about this room and how nice it is. None of your famous pictures. No eloquent words for this nice spot and the nice owners??

I think I might go hang out there for a while after DCC.
 
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JB Cases said:
What's the woman's name Lou? Do you know?

It is Pam. Was very nice to speak with her. She had no idea you are such a big gambler. No idea you are going to play for so much. I told her I would try to make sure our match is on the big screen right by the bar.

Then she called Mark and Terry and we had a good couple hours playing and swapping stories.

I am surprised that you never told us about this room and how nice it is. None of your famous pictures. No eloquent words for this nice spot and the nice owners??

I think I might go hang out there for a while after DCC.
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I know Pam very well. But, generally speaking I don't put my business in the street at home and keep what I'm up to to myself, unlike you. At one pool hall I played at for many years people talked about how I kept things pretty close to the vest and thought I could be DEA, or Mexican Mafia.

As to The Break, I have written about it and how congenial the owners are, how convenient it is to St. Louis, and that they have good food and cheap drinks.

And oh yeah -- none of that changes that this afternoon you stood in the middle of the pool hall and "talked to yourself" lmao and confirmed how whacked you really are.

Lou Figueroa
USA with a touch
of Salvadoran ;-)
 
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This needs to be made into a reality TV series "Lou and His Stalker, the Man Who's a Self Talker". If you'd set this match up such that there was a way you both could lose, I think you'd be surprised how many people would pay to watch it.
 
lfigueroa said:
I know Pam very well. But, generally speaking I don't put my business in the street at home and keep what I'm up to to myself. Unlike you :-)

As to The Break, I have written about it and how congenial the owners are, how convenient it is to St. Louis, and that they have good food and cheap drinks.

And oh yeah -- none of that changes that this afternoon you stood in the middle of the pool hall and talked to yourself, lmao.

Lou Figueroa
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Well, you started the conversation Lou. For all you know with your super loud headphones blaring Somewhere Over The Rainbow I was on the phone or dictating a story. A story about a guy afraid to play on his pet table.....
 
lfigueroa said:
I know Pam very well. But, generally speaking I don't put my business in the street at home and keep what I'm up to to myself, unlike you. At one pool hall I played at for many years people talked about how I kept things pretty close to the vest and thought I could be DEA, or Mexican Mafia.

As to The Break, I have written about it and how congenial the owners are, how convenient it is to St. Louis, and that they have good food and cheap drinks.

And oh yeah -- none of that changes that this afternoon you stood in the middle of the pool hall and "talked to yourself" lmao and confirmed how whacked you really are.

Lou Figueroa
USA with a touch
of Salvadoran ;-)
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So. With just three people in the pool room, you putting on the largest pool forum what you claim she said about a new customer is not putting her business on the street?

The Mexican mafia would have buried you in the desert by now for extreme nittiness.
 
JB Cases said:
Well, you started the conversation Lou. For all you know with your super loud headphones blaring Somewhere Over The Rainbow I was on the phone or dictating a story. A story about a guy afraid to play on his pet table.....
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Nope. I was told you talked it up, and said: A) I was playing the music too loud and endangering my hearing, and B) you said, “What, no Snoop Dog?” I’m not sure what your ravings were after that.

The reason you could hear the music, which I actually had set at a modest volume, was that it was new set of wireless earbuds that I got as Christmas present and hadn’t used before and wasn’t sure how to adjust.

In any case, only a bozo like you would say that someone who is going to play you in NJ in a couple of months for $10K is “scared.”

Lou Figueroa
 
nobcitypool said:
This needs to be made into a reality TV series "Lou and His Stalker, the Man Who's a Self Talker". If you'd set this match up such that there was a way you both could lose, I think you'd be surprised how many people would pay to watch it.
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I just stopped in to see if he wanted to play some. Predictably, he is scared.

Otherwise had a great day at a nice room. I will go back when I can spend a few days playing the owner.
 
JB Cases said:
So. With just three people in the pool room, you putting on the largest pool forum what you claim she said about a new customer is not putting her business on the street?

The Mexican mafia would have buried you in the desert by now for extreme nittiness.
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You are just stupido enough to not realize how many people in pool rooms don't read AZ.

Lou Figueroa
 
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