Hi,
A little late but Rocky does not have an internet hookup. Okay, I think that every poolroom should have internet hookup.
Kay Higgins is a sweetheart and realy underpaid for all the work she does. How she is able to keep smiling amazes me.
I spoke with Mike Sigel, or was part of the group around him anyway, and boy did I get an earfull. Many things are in the works for the IPT. One of which is selling it for 70 Mil and that is where KT was today with his lawyers. And many tournaments in 2007. So many I wonder if the players will able to stand up under the stress and pressure.
Mike was supposed to be the challenge guy but things were going a bit slow and he managed to talk Rodney into taking over for him. He really had to work hard to convince Rodney to do the job.
Rodney did manage to barely win his challenge match - 10-4. Well it was close for a while anyway.
Rob Saez started his second match against William Bilbrey by winning the lag and then running 5 racks. He made a ball in the 6th rack but was hooked. He won 10-2 and will play tomorrow.
Richie Richeson is playing exceptionally well. In his first match against Rickey Orem he had a 6 pack. Against Dave Grossman he was a few games ahead and Dave fought back to 9-8 and then in the 18th game Dave ran his balls and had a cut on the 8 ball in the side pocket. 8 ball about a diamond out and the cue ball a half diamond from the rail between the 1st and 2nd diamond. He put a lot of outside on the CB, made the 8 ball, the CB went to the end rail at the 1st diamond, the english grabbed and the CB went diagonally across the length of the table into the pocket. A tough loss for Dave.
Frankie Hernandez had a tough loss against Richard Broumpton. He jawed two 8-balls on the tough Diamond table. The last one was in the hill-hill match. Earlier Frankie had a tough match against Justin Hall. Frank won the first two games and then Justin broke and ran 7 racks. But Frankie came back to win 10-9.
There was some media coverage here too. Channel 8 interviewed Mike and someone else interviewed Rodney.
Here are a couple pictures. The lovely Kay. Lucky Louie and a couple of Rocky's bartenders, Mike being interviewed, the room showing the 8 tables that were used. The second row from the top are two Diamonds. And a Sardo rack which Rodney has mastered on how to use.
Jake
A little late but Rocky does not have an internet hookup. Okay, I think that every poolroom should have internet hookup.
Kay Higgins is a sweetheart and realy underpaid for all the work she does. How she is able to keep smiling amazes me.
I spoke with Mike Sigel, or was part of the group around him anyway, and boy did I get an earfull. Many things are in the works for the IPT. One of which is selling it for 70 Mil and that is where KT was today with his lawyers. And many tournaments in 2007. So many I wonder if the players will able to stand up under the stress and pressure.
Mike was supposed to be the challenge guy but things were going a bit slow and he managed to talk Rodney into taking over for him. He really had to work hard to convince Rodney to do the job.
Rodney did manage to barely win his challenge match - 10-4. Well it was close for a while anyway.
Rob Saez started his second match against William Bilbrey by winning the lag and then running 5 racks. He made a ball in the 6th rack but was hooked. He won 10-2 and will play tomorrow.
Richie Richeson is playing exceptionally well. In his first match against Rickey Orem he had a 6 pack. Against Dave Grossman he was a few games ahead and Dave fought back to 9-8 and then in the 18th game Dave ran his balls and had a cut on the 8 ball in the side pocket. 8 ball about a diamond out and the cue ball a half diamond from the rail between the 1st and 2nd diamond. He put a lot of outside on the CB, made the 8 ball, the CB went to the end rail at the 1st diamond, the english grabbed and the CB went diagonally across the length of the table into the pocket. A tough loss for Dave.
Frankie Hernandez had a tough loss against Richard Broumpton. He jawed two 8-balls on the tough Diamond table. The last one was in the hill-hill match. Earlier Frankie had a tough match against Justin Hall. Frank won the first two games and then Justin broke and ran 7 racks. But Frankie came back to win 10-9.
There was some media coverage here too. Channel 8 interviewed Mike and someone else interviewed Rodney.
Here are a couple pictures. The lovely Kay. Lucky Louie and a couple of Rocky's bartenders, Mike being interviewed, the room showing the 8 tables that were used. The second row from the top are two Diamonds. And a Sardo rack which Rodney has mastered on how to use.
Jake
