Hotels with pool tables

[Mensabum]

The amazing thing is that everyone likes it!

Damn straight!!!

 

[Mensabum]

Yep. Our top players are better known there than here.

I like Canadian power trios better. Does that count??

 

[Mensabum]

I stayed in a hotel in Albany (or maybe it was Buffalo...can't remember) that had an attached bar with one crappy bar box. But there were only two cues, and neither one had a tip.

I played a race to 7 one night with a cue just like that!! Boy, was that ever fun!! Anything but center ball glanced off.

 

[Lowell]

Yes, I went to GR Solaris in Cancun, Mexico and they had two bar sized tables.

This was before I got into pool (late 2023), but I still had a good time.

 

[staticfire98]

This is a room in the penthouse suite in the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco. Sadly, the table is not up to the quality of the setting.

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Did you play on this table? If so, did you rent the room specifically for the pool table?

 

[Bob Jewett]

Did you play on this table? If so, did you rent the room specifically for the pool table?

I was the pool demo guy at a corporate event. I shared the room with a tarot card reader. About half of the rubber on one end rail was detached.

 

[fastone371]

I played a race to 7 one night with a cue just like that!! Boy, was that ever fun!! Anything but center ball glanced off.

So you are saying if I want a high deflection cue that I should peel the tip off??

 

[staticfire98]

I was the pool demo guy at a corporate event. I shared the room with a tarot card reader. About half of the rubber on one end rail was detached.

I have more questions.

Finding a tarot card reader seems straight forward. How does a corporate event planner find a pool demo guy? I am curious about the experience. Were you there to encourage games or what sort of role did they have in mind? How did the tarot card reader get sequestered to the pool table?

 

[3kushn]

Seriously???? The LAST thing on my mind booking a hotel is 'does it have a pool table". A decent place to shit-shower-n-shave yes but a pool table? I can honestly say i've never seen such a place. Did stay in one that had a attached bar with a couple shitty Valley's but that's it.

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[Mensabum]

So you are saying if I want a high deflection cue that I should peel the tip off??

That would do the trick, yes.
If it's ivory, your totally screwed.

 

[The Old Jaybird]

I traveled extensively for 30 years, the only place I recall having a table was on North Meridian in Indy. It was free and my guys would play after work for a couple hours, then grab dinner. I had a female on my exam team for a while whose dad had owned a bar with a table when she was growing up, and she was a very decent player.

 

[jax_joe]

They had one in the game room at Ladera on St Lucia...

 

[skip100]

Most Aloft hotels I have been to have pool tables. For instance this one in Vaughan CA:

Hilton’s Aloft competitor Tru had a pool table in Portland:

 

[jay helfert]

I've visited over 30 countrys and in many places I saw a snooker table. When I first went to England it was almost all snooker and english 8-Ball. Hard to find a pool table (circa 1980's).

I played snooker in Nepal! Kathmandu.

 

[Bob Jewett]

I have more questions.

Finding a tarot card reader seems straight forward. How does a corporate event planner find a pool demo guy? I am curious about the experience. Were you there to encourage games or what sort of role did they have in mind? How did the tarot card reader get sequestered to the pool table?

There are companies that arrange corporate "nights out". I think they contacted a supply store and got directed to me. I mostly did challenge games. I had some trick shots ready. There was plenty of room for a table for the tarot card lady.

 

[jay helfert]

There are companies that arrange corporate "nights out". I think they contacted a supply store and got directed to me. I mostly did challenge games. I had some trick shots ready. There was plenty of room for a table for the tarot card lady.

I was asked to accompany Ronnie O'Sullivan on his trip around the USA. It conflicted with a tournament I was asked to direct. I turned Ronnie down. Stupid me!