Opinions needed...Thanks

[poolplayer2093]

Thanks sde!!!



Yea, the reason I like the pool room is because it has an old time feel to it without all those other gidgets gadgets and what not. Though it does suck not to have some good food there Thanks for your advice nonetheless.



Yup, that's the table and that's good ol' Don, hardly seem him there anymore.

How are you doing BT? How is the stream going? If you come by KC anytime soon, you have to help me with my game, I'll pay you with beer or something lol.

How sick is this? i got sick of paying pool hall prices for food i normally bring my own food if in know i'm going to be at a room for more than 3-4 hours

 

[Rethunk]

Yes, that is their address, a pretty hole in the wall kind of place. I guess you wouldn't consider it a real "snooker" table, since it is a 5x10 pool table "Big Bertha", but I have seen people play snooker on it. They have a set of snooker balls for the table. You might not want to include it on your listing. If people were looking for real snooker tables, they would be dissapointed because the table has pool pockets not snooker pockets. Thanks for confirming the Pro Bowl Lanes listing. I will be heading up there with my dad very soon to check it out. Thanks again to you too Darryl.

Yeah, I'll keep them off the list for now but I may add them later if I find there are more than a few pool halls with snooker balls used on regular pool tables.

The closest snooker table to me is an hour's drive away. I bought a set of Aramith 2-1/8" snooker balls so that I could play on 4-1/2 x 9 tables. It's still worth playing, if not quite the real thing.

 

[Rethunk]

Chino,

The current list of rooms with snooker tables is here:
http://www.findsnooker.com/

Here's a direct link to the list for Missouri:
http://www.findsnooker.com/Missouri.html

Finally, here's the thread to post follow-ups:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=146859

 

[dardusm]

Here is a picture of the table in question! LOL

"Big Bertha"! I broke and ran on my second try!!

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Yes - that's Don who at one time was a nationally ranked 3-C player. He can still play when he wants. Big Bertha has some interesting history. It came from a famous old poolroom in Kansas City called Kling and Allen's.

That actual table was used for one of Willie Mosconi's title defenses back at Kling and Allens (so I was told). It is a great old table that has seem some great players over the years.

Darryl

 

[inside_english]

Hi all,

So right now, I am in a pretty crappy mood, here is the cause of it:

Today, my dad told me he wanted to play snooker, so I told him, great, there is Big Bertha down at Ray Rec. So I personally go down to Ray Rec around 6pm and told the owner, I want to reserve Big Bertha, and I will be in here around 8:30 to 9PM with my dad because he wanted to play snooker. So the owner marks it down and told me sure thing.

After I got finished with dinner with my pops, he took his one piece snooker cue with him to Ray Rec. As I go down there, it was 8:45PM, and two regulars were down there playing. So I told the owner, wassup with that? He said, oh they are gambling. I asked, how long are they going to be, and he just sort of ignored me and told me, I don't know. I took a set of pool balls, and started playing on the GC and I was pretty pissed off the whole time.

I personally think that if I reserved the table, I have the right to the table. Maybe some of you guys see this differently, maybe I am overreacting, but I don't think that he acted ethically business wise. What do you all think? Yes, I understand they are gambling, but he should have told them before they got on Big Bertha that someone is coming in at 8:30 to 9:00 and I would need this table by than. I might be just throwing a fit like a child, but F**K that sh!t.

I think I am not going to go back down there after this incident and just start going to Shooters in Olathe. It is a much further drive, but I'd rather spend the gas money than get treated like I don't pay like everyone else.

Chino

I think if the owner has no intentions of honoring reservations he has no business encouraging people to make them. It amounts to false advertising and I would be upset as well.