Any good places I should check out? Visiting sister in Fayetteville for the holidays, always like to at least take a peek at the local rooms when I travel, play some cheap one pocket, buy a t shirt if they have one...
Places to play in Syracuse, NY
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Michelles has been gone a few years now. Korky's is for sale at half what he usta ask. Salt City was rumored to be going out last year but he is still there. Cap's would be playing on bare slate if the regulars didn't pay for new cloth this year, but it is getting old fast. It should regress to where it was soon.
Best bet is go to Utica area and find Hippo's House of Billiards.
Best bet is go to Utica area and find Hippo's House of Billiards.
Too bad, Cap's wasn't like that when we used to go up there from Binghamton.
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Salt City is your best bet. Don't waste your time at, Korky's or Hippos. Tables are horrible IMHO... Caps has good tables; the staff is all freindly, unless you tell them to "shut up" [inside joke]..... Dick still owns Cap's and the players pitched in a few months ago to re-felt the tables...
Salt City just re-did 3 tables with 860 and they are working on the others over the next few weeks.
Rails are good, pockets are buckets, but... The tables for the most part play well.. The balls are old and diffrent sizes except Table 18.
So if you go, ask for table 18.
Salt City is your best bet. Don't waste your time at, Korky's or Hippos. Tables are horrible IMHO... Caps has good tables; the staff is all freindly, unless you tell them to "shut up" [inside joke]..... Dick still owns Cap's and the players pitched in a few months ago to re-felt the tables...
Salt City just re-did 3 tables with 860 and they are working on the others over the next few weeks.
Rails are good, pockets are buckets, but... The tables for the most part play well.. The balls are old and diffrent sizes except Table 18.
So if you go, ask for table 18.
Thanks everybody, I'll check it out!
i do not play one pocket. if you want a freindly 9 or 10-ball game shoot me a PM. i am only 5 miles from salt city billiards !
i do not play much anymore. i work nights mostly so afternoon is good for me.
Mike,
Sorry to disagree. And I do so vehemently!!!!! Hippo's has Gabriels tables. For the uninitiated, they are a European version of Diamond's Pro model table. Vic Conte and family do a great job of keeping things right. First time I ever heard of someone dissing Hippo's.
Lyn
I'd have to second that, though I haven't been to Hippo's in a long time. Victor Conte has always been a class guy, as far as I can remember.
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