I've played there for two years. Tres Kane left because they never knew how to treat pool players. Terry got fed up too, and played less and less there. I left and so did some of my friends. I've been back there maybe 3 times in 6 months, where before I used to go 4-5 days a week.
The problem was the owner. He was a dick, never renovated anything. The bathrooms were for employees of a fabric shop that used to be in the space, not for a huge poolroom. The two stalls both had nasty toilets, only 1 door worked, one was missing, the 3 pissers usually were out of order except for maybe 1 of them which seemed to work but never really flush. It was always yellow and stinky. My girlfriend told me the women's was a lot worse. The carpet was ripped everywhere, and everyone tripped on it. They used duck tape to repair it. They never cleaned the tables often enough, never cleaned their mugs properly, the food was bad, and the worst thing of all was the service. I got into arguments with like 3 servers and 1 manager. They wouldn't buy chalk, then when they had it they wouldn't let people use it. Some of the girls were druggies who worked there, and the others just behaved like high school kids. The day guy was so slow at the bar it took 10 minutes to get a beer, and there were only 5 customers in the entire place. The owner accused the manager of stealing money and trying to railroad him, and I knew the manager J.R. personally, and he was a stand up guy. His hands were tied whenever he tried to help the pool players out because the owner restricted everything. The place sucked so bad toward the end. They never replaced any cushions during the 9 years it was open, and the tables were second-hand tables from the Golden 8-ball. They had the cheapest company re-felt the tables and none of them played well, except for 27. That place was a blueprint for how not to run a pool hall.
