Cuaba said:Fatboy,
You should come next year. It really is a blast.
Fatboy said:i will, you can count on that, i'll play anybody just for the experience, i just got beat worse than ever, i was in a coma puppy doggin the ball which is fine i just need to keeep at it-playing champions, i'm done with playing games where i'm better. I want to play the best players constantly at some point I'll break through, i had a few chances tonight and dogged it-it was my worst beating in 22 years,
like I said here on AZ long ago there are great places in the world outside of America. Shit here is too tough, i'm honestly sick of the lawyers, etc. Stress kills. I'm not into the girls there so that wouldnt be a distraction for me, but a nice easy life, pool, no lawyers, and comfortable clots and not being juged where ever you go would be great, i would leave there for Brasil 2 time a year for the girls-thats the kind of girls i'm into.
Serious question, can you play barefoot there in the pool rooms? I play bare foot everywhere I play which is cool I appericate the rooms I go to letting me do that. I hate shoes when I'm playing-awalys have.
BlowFish said:Serious answer... I don't think you want to do that. I've not seen a pool hall on carpet anywhere in Philippines except for private rooms.
BlowFish said:The locals won't mind as long as they are not smelly.Most people do ware flip-flops as Jeffwinters mentioned. So, there you go Fatboy, you can be barefooted if you like. What counts most is that you have the $$$ to pay up.
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RunoutalloverU said:so all this time heaven is actually the phillipines
jay helfert said:I hope I don't offend anyone with my tales of Angeles City, but I try to tell it just like I see it. No holds barred. I am staying just around the corner from where Ted Lerner lives, my co-commentator on the recent WPC TV shows. He has a nice 3BR house where he lives with his lovely wife Aurora (filipino) and 13 year old daughter Shanti. He first visited 17 years ago and has lived here for 14 years now. He has encouraged me to think of a move here, but my family and business in the states make that impossible now. Maybe some day. I like it here, not quite so crowded and much cleaner air. And far less expensive than Manila.
plague said:i arrived on wednesday to leave friday the next week, after my loss to Gomez in the last 64; a 3 inning-match; the 2nd i had to jump, the 3rd i resafed...he long-banked it,that was that.
i had the best bootcamp in One Side though. i have been matching up 10,20 and 30k sets for about 70 hours total. the money that i did win, was lost to Penha, Russian (pinoy) and a guy named Carlo, all around 26 years of age. And they certainly played jam up as posted before. I spar regularly with Niels Feijen, but in 6,7 hour sessions i have never gotten so few chances as with the pinoys. and it's not that they play a tight defensive game...they play ultra aggressive, max. spin. max. shotmaking
as Barton stated, the way they solve problems,clip balls, play shape using other balls...it was new to me. And always playing 10-ball...they broke the balls good! A lot comes from rotation:even though it is not played so much anymore, playing them rotation you recognise these type of shots that they use in 9- and 10-ball. as well as good kicking skills...and they just keep on coming!!
i beat one Dodong in rotation and then i felt i could take on russian in rotation: he ran the first two, i missed a 4-ball in the 3rd, he ran out, broke and ran out...he ran over me
the last night that i played, i was in a good game. what does that count for...1-1 in sets, double the bet race to 13, he ran the first 6!!i did get to 11-11, but in those last 20 minutes there was a lot of movement around my table just when i was shooting key-shots in a racklayer,backers,referee,railbirds in my line of shot or right behind me. i was unable to cope with that and when missing they started to laugh!! tough action, but i have learned a lot! i felt like leaving Vegas: happy to not have gone broke (after all the action a $200 loser)