No, Matt. Now have a simple two-piece -- a five-point Gina as me traveling weapon of choice.
Lou Figueroa
Met Lou Figueroa at Buffalo Billiards today
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No, Matt. Now have a simple two-piece -- a five-point Gina as me traveling weapon of choice.
Lou Figueroa
No, tuda, Jamie was matched up on that table, but he was kind enough to show it to me and tell me about it. 4 1/8" pockets that looked clean as a whistle. You know you've been playing pool too long when how a pocket is cut can be admired as a thing of beauty.
Lou Figueroa
I would like that
Lou,
It would be great to have more time together. I'd like to play more and of course find some seafood. You can see where this thread went!
The game was a wee bit rusty, too much time on the poker tables and too much time wasted on things like mowing grass and building fence. I had meant to sneak over to Buff's and tune up a little before you got to town but it didn't work out. I'll do my best to make things a little more interesting next time.
Hu
Lou,
It would be great to have more time together. I'd like to play more and of course find some seafood. You can see where this thread went!
The game was a wee bit rusty, too much time on the poker tables and too much time wasted on things like mowing grass and building fence. I had meant to sneak over to Buff's and tune up a little before you got to town but it didn't work out. I'll do my best to make things a little more interesting next time. Hu
Casey is one tough New Orleans nut to crack. Had him stuck six games the first day and he battled back to even over four hours.
Lou Figueroa
lou you are
da man.....:thumbup:
keep on truckin and have fun in nola
in the 1970s i was at tulane watching earl heisler playing the road guys (bugs ,blackie etc) in 1p and got to see st louie louie play 9 ball at the sports palace
oh those were the good old days for an impressionable youth
p.s.
any one with storeies of those days
PLEASE PM ME
:smile:
It's funny, but it's a different kind of hot down there. Like, I cannot eat southwestern food, hardly a bite. But I can stuffed meself with cajun/creole cooking. Can't get enough, really.
Lou Figueroa
lou you are
da man.....:thumbup:
keep on truckin and have fun in nola
in the 1970s i was at tulane watching earl heisler playing the road guys (bugs ,blackie etc) in 1p and got to see st louie louie play 9 ball at the sports palace
oh those were the good old days for an impressionable youth
p.s.
any one with storeies of those days
PLEASE PM ME
:smile:
oh yeah, bbb, about the Sports Palace. I asked several guys about it and nobody had anything to say about it other than it was now a predominantly black pool room and nobody had much to say about it. Sorry, I tried.
Lou Figueroa
they thought a lot of you too!
Lou,
They thought a lot of you too, or about you! :thumbup: A half-dozen people asked who you were and where you were from in the little time I was there. I didn't bother shooting them a line, there aren't any pilgrims gambling in Buffalo's anyway. Of course when it came to playing speed I rated you the same as I rate 90% of players, "pretty good". In my book "pretty good" can cover anything from a decent banger to just under Shane's speed.
Hu
Lou,
They thought a lot of you too, or about you! :thumbup: A half-dozen people asked who you were and where you were from in the little time I was there. I didn't bother shooting them a line, there aren't any pilgrims gambling in Buffalo's anyway. Of course when it came to playing speed I rated you the same as I rate 90% of players, "pretty good". In my book "pretty good" can cover anything from a decent banger to just under Shane's speed.
Hu
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Mulatte's
JAM,
When you come to New Orleans, it's just a short run up the road to Breaux Bridge, home of Ali Landry and more importantly the original Mulatte's where you can still eat good solid real cajun food while listening to a live cajun band. In the evenings expect to see everyone from babies to great-grandmeres out on the dance floor! Something unique to Mulattes too, thousands of business cards pinned to the ceiling. I don't think anyone knows quite how that got started.
I ate at Mulatte's pretty regularly when I headed to cajun country to party most weekends when I was in high school although I usually favored Las's right down the road. The last time I passed by Las's was just an empty lot with an old sign out front. The people I went to high school with tried to tell me there were places to party much closer around Baton Rouge, not really after you had partied around Breax Bridge, Saint Martinville, New Iberia, and Lafayette! Spent many a night partying in Slicks, Signorello's or something like that was the real name nobody ever used. It is mentioned in several of James Lee Burke's books as is Tee Neg's, the pool hall right on the banks of Bayou Teche where I shot many a game of pool back then. The folks back then knew how to pass a good time and I went to many family functions of my running partner's who was from Saint Martinville and also to many family get together's we just happened to be passing by. "Y'all hungry, come on over here!" There weren't any strangers in small town cajun country!
Gotta agree RIP Earl Scruggs. He made some great music for a lot of years.
Hu
JAM,
When you come to New Orleans, it's just a short run up the road to Breaux Bridge, home of Ali Landry and more importantly the original Mulatte's where you can still eat good solid real cajun food while listening to a live cajun band. In the evenings expect to see everyone from babies to great-grandmeres out on the dance floor! Something unique to Mulattes too, thousands of business cards pinned to the ceiling. I don't think anyone knows quite how that got started.
I ate at Mulatte's pretty regularly when I headed to cajun country to party most weekends when I was in high school although I usually favored Las's right down the road. The last time I passed by Las's was just an empty lot with an old sign out front. The people I went to high school with tried to tell me there were places to party much closer around Baton Rouge, not really after you had partied around Breax Bridge, Saint Martinville, New Iberia, and Lafayette! Spent many a night partying in Slicks, Signorello's or something like that was the real name nobody ever used. It is mentioned in several of James Lee Burke's books as is Tee Neg's, the pool hall right on the banks of Bayou Teche where I shot many a game of pool back then. The folks back then knew how to pass a good time and I went to many family functions of my running partner's who was from Saint Martinville and also to many family get together's we just happened to be passing by. "Y'all hungry, come on over here!" There weren't any strangers in small town cajun country!
Gotta agree RIP Earl Scruggs. He made some great music for a lot of years.
Hu
I plan on getting me and mine to N'awlins for sure, Hu. We will break bread together and pick/suck a few crawfish at that time! :grin:
I am devastated about Earl Scruggs this morning. I knew he was ill, as he canceled a few appearances. This man is the Efren Reyes of the banjo world. Nobody, and I mean nobody, can come close to his contributions to bluegrass. The Scruggs three-finger picking method of playing banjo is universal.
Lou,
They thought a lot of you too, or about you! :thumbup: A half-dozen people asked who you were and where you were from in the little time I was there. I didn't bother shooting them a line, there aren't any pilgrims gambling in Buffalo's anyway. Of course when it came to playing speed I rated you the same as I rate 90% of players, "pretty good". In my book "pretty good" can cover anything from a decent banger to just under Shane's speed.
Hu
ah, no worries, Hu. I don't try to hide my speed, sneak up on guys, or even insist on the best of it any time I, "belly up to the table like a man."
One of the guys at one of the pool rooms down there wanted to play and I told him that I'd been told I played even with one of the guys in town. He said, yes, he'd heard that from a third party too and that he'd need a particular amount of weight to play me. And I said, "If he gives you that spot, I'll give it to you too." And he said, "Oh, he don't give me that spot! He'd never actually give it to me -- that'd make it a fair game."
So I gave him the spot anyway and, indeed, it turned out to be a fair game.
Lou Figueroa
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