Texas, but where?
- Thread starter Bert van Manen
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dhansen
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This is at US Bida in Houston. Ricky Carranco was the tournament director
Can confirm
Us bida in Houston
Tran plays tournaments here regularly
Us bida in Houston
Tran plays tournaments here regularly
The run starts about 34 minutes in with the score at 9-3, Aviega ahead. This link has the time set....
Tran has the touch of a surgeon, that much is obvious. There were two points in that run that impressed me most: on two occasions he HAD to be extremely close to the kiss in order to make the line, you'll easily spot those if you watch it back. I think 97 % of us amateurs would have avoided the kiss by an inch instead of 2 mm, and missed the point.
Watched that last night...I think he's played the game before
Hi Bert. Have you seen Sidhom’s first four innings against Tom Lowe in the World Championship? Amazing play!
Yes, I watched that one with pleasure. If Sameh is hot, he sizzles.
Where was this viewable, please?
@Bert van Manen US Bida is the carom cafe of Texas.
By far the best equipment and the most well taken care of in Texas.
The service is great too!
By far the best equipment and the most well taken care of in Texas.
The service is great too!
Just out of curiosity, what is the hourly rate at such a nice place? Adding it to my bucket list to visit someday.
From a Maps review. This would make it a non-starter for me, if still true:
It is a very nice place, three-cushion billiards are hard to find in the area. The only stuff to keep in mind is the EXCESSIVE smoke in a place without any ventilation, a smoke extractor, as it makes a heavy smoke environment, if this condition were improved, the place would be great.
It’s Vietnamese owned and operated lol
So its gonna be smoky
Havent been to a carom room that wasnt
Table time around 10 a hr, could be more havent been in years to that place
But that’s generally what any carom room in Houston charges
Star billiards in Houston is newer and nicer but still may be smoke filled
So its gonna be smoky
Havent been to a carom room that wasnt
Table time around 10 a hr, could be more havent been in years to that place
But that’s generally what any carom room in Houston charges
Star billiards in Houston is newer and nicer but still may be smoke filled
That’s too bad. 15+ years of smoke free rooms for me. Every few years I’ll go in one and it’s very difficult to get used to it again.
Smoke doesn't bug me generally but a smoking pool room, damn.
Not sure I can go back to that world either.
Not sure I can go back to that world either.
i remember when one of largest and oldest pool rooms changed over
the claimed it would bring in more people
since then, there really hasnt been a much different crowd or all that many new people magically show up because they went non smoking
i grew up in a smoking world, many of the bars here
most actually still have smoking inside
the claimed it would bring in more people
since then, there really hasnt been a much different crowd or all that many new people magically show up because they went non smoking
i grew up in a smoking world, many of the bars here
most actually still have smoking inside
Before there was a complete smoking ban, many rooms in the Netherlands had "smoking areas". I've said from day one, that a smoking area in a pool room is about as effective as a peeing area in a swimming pool.
Back in the late 80s when I took up 3c I played almost nightly in a complete dump of a room whose only virtues were 2 Brunswick billiard tables and a 6x12 snooker table, the first I'd ever seen, with a perpetual golf game on that I enjoyed watching while waiting to play. I was a smoker back then and so, it seemed, was everyone else in the place but I didn't give it a second thought.
Then I decided to quit smoking, and back then the Schick method was pretty popular and widespread so I decided to do it. Part of the deal was that you had to go to the facility for 5 consecutive evenings, so for those 5 days I went there instead of the billiard room. The method worked for me, and for the last almost 50 years I've not been tempted to light up even a little. At least not tobacco, if you know what I mean.
But the real eye-opener was going back to the billiard room. The second hand smoke didn't bother or tempt me. But at the end of the evening when I got in my car something stunk. I quickly realized that it was my clothes, which had absorbed the smell. Fortunately a month or two later I met my future wife and married her 5 weeks later.
Having an actual life, I stopped playing billiards until years later when we were scouting places to retire to and we wandered into the Senior Center in Greeley CO and found a lovely heated Gabriel billiard table. We were already leaning towards Greeley, but that cinched it for me. And best of all, the Senior Center was No Smoking. And there were some great guys to play with who were just as bad as me, except for @12squared who was the clear 'best in room'. Good times.
Then I decided to quit smoking, and back then the Schick method was pretty popular and widespread so I decided to do it. Part of the deal was that you had to go to the facility for 5 consecutive evenings, so for those 5 days I went there instead of the billiard room. The method worked for me, and for the last almost 50 years I've not been tempted to light up even a little. At least not tobacco, if you know what I mean.
But the real eye-opener was going back to the billiard room. The second hand smoke didn't bother or tempt me. But at the end of the evening when I got in my car something stunk. I quickly realized that it was my clothes, which had absorbed the smell. Fortunately a month or two later I met my future wife and married her 5 weeks later.
Having an actual life, I stopped playing billiards until years later when we were scouting places to retire to and we wandered into the Senior Center in Greeley CO and found a lovely heated Gabriel billiard table. We were already leaning towards Greeley, but that cinched it for me. And best of all, the Senior Center was No Smoking. And there were some great guys to play with who were just as bad as me, except for @12squared who was the clear 'best in room'. Good times.
We always tried to pee in the deep end -- more dilution.
Houston has a ban on indoor smoking, according to The Web That Knows All. Honored in the breach, evidently.