This is why pool in Iowa sucks

Mikey, hows the Pioneer gig so far? Just make sure if you are going to try to pick up a girl, that you do not go to the fair for east side night in August or if you do, do not wear contacts. Best of luck in Des Moines, will probably see you out at Big Dogs or Stix sometime.

Going well, can't quite figure out exactly who you are from your screen name but I have an idea. Wait not another Des Moines guy who isn't mad at me for this post? I tried to tell them that the guys who know me and what I'm about know my post is not malicious, it's all love. Pool's dead but we all will resurrect it. Lol not even gonna ask about East Side night but if it is what I think it is you're just wrong and I don't switch it there guy.
 
Being in Iowa for only 2 weeks does not give anyone the right to judge our state, We have alot of good players who respect the game, maybe you need to go look for them.April 3-5 why dont you head on down to Davenport and watch the ISPA tournament, they are having Elite players and the Pro Am tournament


Hey there gal, I understand where you are coming from...and I think you're right. I agree with everything you said. All you have to realize is that tourney is an exception and not the rule and that may be true anywhere...well almost anywhere. If you ever see me out feel free to come say whats up..ill buy you a drink and we'll laugh about this whole post.
 
Watchez, I have to tell you that I think my man is "working" at the moment. There is no way that he won't play. I'm pretty sure he's just figuring out the "runout."

These guys that come to him all mad and sh#$, with egos ablaze, are gonna go broke. He might match up better than Vette.

Shhhh Craw they might here you and figure out the game. Well most of the people have figured it out...at least the ones who have to look to find games. Pretty sure I know every action spot within 3 or 4 hours now. Now that I know that, you know what comes next :)
 
I started this post and now I think it's a good time to end it. More than I could have hoped for has come of it.

Anyone looking for action please by all means make a post like this. Just don't write a check ur ass cant cash...im done life is good.
 
Now you're talking buddy. Duke-UNC game is tough to get but I got the hookup for you. If you can remember PM me before next season and I'll have a college kid call you and you guys can work out a payment, $200-$300 Max for 3 or 4 tix by the way. I got ya kid.

Put me down for 4. $300 is great.

I'll be the bald dude asking $1000 for 4 together out front.
 
Ohh soo many reasons Jeff, mostly because I'm just kind of frustrated with the scene and how my game is deteriorating, but I think that's partially because I don't have my Diamond in the house quite yet like I did in NC. Gotta spark action to get back in stroke, at least that's the way the country boys do it.

I understand your frustration---hell, I live here---and I understand wanting to get back in stroke. I guess where I'm confused is to why you thought starting this thread would help those.

Perhaps there is something we Iowans might do to help you?

Jeff Livingston
 
I understand your frustration---hell, I live here---and I understand wanting to get back in stroke. I guess where I'm confused is to why you thought starting this thread would help those.

Perhaps there is something we Iowans might do to help you?

Jeff Livingston

Oh shucks you guys have done quite enough already, but I'll allow you Iowans to do just a little bit more for me over the next few years. Confucius say....
 
Oh shucks you guys have done quite enough already, but I'll allow you Iowans to do just a little bit more for me over the next few years. Confucius say....

Talked to Bobby today, said he got a text from you (saying that you're in Des Moines now), and started telling me your speed pool story - $10 a try etc.

He's playing in a local tourney today and tomorrow with a decent field - Bowman's there, and Donnie Branson, and a few others that can PLAY...One table is being streamed - I put a link up in the streaming section. Only saw one of Bobby's matches (8-1), and it lasted like 20 min. He plays speed pool even when he's not playing speed pool. lol :thumbup:
 
I can't leave this one alone :)! I gotta say that the girls in Texas are at LEAST as pretty :thumbup:!!!

Maniac

After being in just about every state in the Union, I gotta say it's almost a tossup between Texas and Georgia!
Half the hot chicks in Cali aren't from there, they're on vacation! lol

Although I have seen some real lookers in Muscatine....

Free entry and four lap dances did you say?


There is always a game to be played somewhere. Sometimes you play sometimes you get played, but it's up to you to find it and make it happen.
Coming out like you're Efren probably isn't the best way to get a harvester to jump into action with you.
Didn't you learn anything from the Color of Money? lol
Take a quick trip to Kansas City if you want action. Or Council Bluffs, there's bound to be some around there. Omaha. Cedar Rapids. Davenport.
There's a whole lotta games out there. Trust me.
I never went short on action when I was running the roads rodeoing, about I also didn't come in with lights blaring, horn blowing, and magnetic signs that said "looking for action, Iowa sucks!"
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, and play the game for the sake of the game. It's called practice. If it was your living, you'd already have done your homework on who and where to play, and who to avoid.
As for the women out there, and the people in general.... loved 'em. Very rare to find a place that is consistently cool around the state.

But if I were you, I'd not take up Dominoes out there, there's some old guys that could give you the last 7!:eek:

Don't worry too much, the AZ Telegraph has probabbly already done the legwork for you and got guys clocking you as we speak. If you sweat them, they will come....lol
 
Talked to Bobby today, said he got a text from you (saying that you're in Des Moines now), and started telling me your speed pool story - $10 a try etc.

He's playing in a local tourney today and tomorrow with a decent field - Bowman's there, and Donnie Branson, and a few others that can PLAY...One table is being streamed - I put a link up in the streaming section. Only saw one of Bobby's matches (8-1), and it lasted like 20 min. He plays speed pool even when he's not playing speed pool. lol :thumbup:


Haha that Bobby kid doesn't miss a beat does he. That tourney I set up was sick btw, I was giving 3 rebuys and had about 40 or so people paying 10 bucks a try to basically try to beat Bobby's time which on a barbox was sick. We chopped it and took it to the poker tables and at least tripled up in a couple hours. I turned water into wine that night. He's supposed to be coming up to see me and go around a little with me so I'll keep you posted on that, hell you may wanna roll too, I have room at the house for sure. Any barbox tourney he plays in he's gonna be one of the favorites in the field.

Trusty one day people are actually going to figure out how connected I really am...hopefully it's after I give a walking stick...
 
After being in just about every state in the Union, I gotta say it's almost a tossup between Texas and Georgia!
Half the hot chicks in Cali aren't from there, they're on vacation! lol

Although I have seen some real lookers in Muscatine....

Free entry and four lap dances did you say?


There is always a game to be played somewhere. Sometimes you play sometimes you get played, but it's up to you to find it and make it happen.
Coming out like you're Efren probably isn't the best way to get a harvester to jump into action with you.
Didn't you learn anything from the Color of Money? lol
Take a quick trip to Kansas City if you want action. Or Council Bluffs, there's bound to be some around there. Omaha. Cedar Rapids. Davenport.
There's a whole lotta games out there. Trust me.
I never went short on action when I was running the roads rodeoing, about I also didn't come in with lights blaring, horn blowing, and magnetic signs that said "looking for action, Iowa sucks!"
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, and play the game for the sake of the game. It's called practice. If it was your living, you'd already have done your homework on who and where to play, and who to avoid.
As for the women out there, and the people in general.... loved 'em. Very rare to find a place that is consistently cool around the state.

But if I were you, I'd not take up Dominoes out there, there's some old guys that could give you the last 7!:eek:

Don't worry too much, the AZ Telegraph has probabbly already done the legwork for you and got guys clocking you as we speak. If you sweat them, they will come....lol

Oh yeah it's all good...I got exactly what I wanted, mostly informational. The cash comes later. I know more now than I did a week ago. I know the players, I know their best and worse games. I know who will tilt. My favorite part of all this though has by far been the PMs I have received. All I can say is that there are some bitter players who got choked out in bad games and they want revenge even if they have to live vicariously through someone else. Now that everyone is looking left, I can go right and they wont see a thing.
 
Oh shucks you guys have done quite enough already, but I'll allow you Iowans to do just a little bit more for me over the next few years. Confucius say....

OK, now I think I understand....You just posted,what some take as an insult, so you can goat these folks into betting more. And you're good enough to take it.

Is that about right?

Jeff Livingston
 
A month later...how do I feel now???

Well I don't feel quite the same these days. Pool sucked now I think...I think I almost just hate it now. Off the top of my head I'm going to try and remember some of things that have gotten me to this point.

1) Pool room does not reciprocate my business. I got to a tournament at 5:50PM that starts at 6:00 but because they had begun the calcutta(hadn't done the draw yet) I wasn't allowed to play. This wouldn't bother me however I usually spend at least 50 bucks per trip to the pool room and go 5-6 times a week. Not too mention the fact that I also stir up a good bit of the action that goes on. Good business sense to me would be that I do get a pass on some things. Any yeah...I really do think I deserve to have preferred treatment over the guys who show up 1 time a week and spend way less than me in the joint(don't care how that sounds). Also getting nickel and dimed for pool time annoys the hell out of me...2 hrs and 1 minute is 2 hours, not 2.5 hours. They are getting better about that now because they don't wanna hear my mouth.

2) Apparently even if you post up people will cleverly air barrell you anyways. Last week we win $500, were paying by the set and wouldn't you know the guys backer got drunk, and flaked out on the game sayin he quit at $300 which was bs...the guy has since agreed to pay the other $200 but somehow I cant get him to meet up in person, go figure.

3) Just last night I heard the newest and best excuse ever on how to quit a game. A guy loses the first set to the guy i was backing and then says hey I gotta go to the atm to get more cash to play another set. That's cool. He stalls for a while, then says..."I forgot my PIN"...now that's clever. We agreed to play at least two sets so he didnt hold up his end of the deal, but then again at this point I didn't really expect him to. He gets an A+ for creativity.

4) How is it that one of the top 5 players in this state postponed action? I don't mean cuz the game wasn't right or he didn't have money, or it was too late...I just mean plain old said another time. Now this wouldn't bother me normally but I hung around for 3 hours after I was done the tourney for this action to pop off then the guy just says no. I didnt go to him with the game, he came to me, verified he had action, then just dismissed it. So next time he wants to play I'm gonna do it to him after he takes a 2 hour drive from Davenport to get up here. Why? Just cause....

5)I just realized how long this list can get so I'll just end it.

I'm not really trying to diss Des Moines, I just gotta say I have only had 1 good gambling/pool playing experience here in 2 months. I'm backing my buddy this Wednesday and after that, screw the gambling. I'll just have fun banging balls and playing tourneys.
 
It's too bad you're having such a poor time in my home state. I feel for you, but not in the sense you might be thinking.

Sorry for going all midwestern on you, but you "reap what you sow". The ridiculously poor attitude you display here on AZB can only pale in comparison with your attitude in real life. Seriously, you've gone (WAY) out of your way to admonish everyone in Iowa here on AZB...and you are surprised no one will give you "good action"?!?! Take the hint!

So yeah, I feel for you...I feel SORRY for you. From your posts I would peg you as a self-centered, ego-centric. Take your ball and go home.
 
It's too bad you're having such a poor time in my home state. I feel for you, but not in the sense you might be thinking.

Sorry for going all midwestern on you, but you "reap what you sow". The ridiculously poor attitude you display here on AZB can only pale in comparison with your attitude in real life. Seriously, you've gone (WAY) out of your way to admonish everyone in Iowa here on AZB...and you are surprised no one will give you "good action"?!?! Take the hint!

So yeah, I feel for you...I feel SORRY for you. From your posts I would peg you as a self-centered, ego-centric. Take your ball and go home.


Oh ok, you get mad when I tell the truth I like that. Pretty much anyone who has actually met me will tell you how wrong you are, I have a big heart buddy and am a genuinely nice guy. Myself and a couple of the good players around here were sitting around laughing about my luck here and one of them even said AZ is gonna love you if you post about this. I told him it probably sounds like I am making half of this stuff up, but it really does happen. Sorry you feel that way whatever your name is but you are the ignorant one on this post because you have absolutely no basis for your speculative statement. What I say...well the facts are the facts there guy.
 
I'm far from mad. Actually, I'm puzzled. I can't wrap my head around how your "big heart" in the pool room translates into your acerbic, rambling, "feel sorry for me" posts here on AZB.

Another case of a spoiled baby saying "Why does everyone hate me? It's not my fault...they just don't understand me". That reads better if you say it in a nasily, whiny voice.

All I (we) need to know about you is in your posts...I don't have to go out and interview those that know you to see what kind of guy you are. You've made that obvious. Sorry we Iowans don't live up your standards and pollute the perfect little world you want to live in.

Like I said, take your ball and go home. We're doing fine right here without you.
 
Does anybody else feel it? I feel the love. (Insert "After the Love is Gone") The Earth, Wind, and Fire version. Not some bitc#@$$ remake.
 
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Does anybody else feel it? I feel the love. (Insert "After the Love is Gone")


LOL Craw I feel the love. He thinks I'm a whiny lil guy I suppose. LOL hope he puts that theory to the test if our paths ever cross. Anyways you still gonna book that ticket and come on out to play with these IOWANS. They're more like I-Oweya-WANS lol. I won't digress much further but Mr. Mosconi kinda annoys me. Maybe he's trying to bait me into some action? Could that be it buddy?
 
LOL Craw I feel the love. He thinks I'm a whiny lil guy I suppose. LOL hope he puts that theory to the test if our paths ever cross. Anyways you still gonna book that ticket and come on out to play with these IOWANS. They're more like I-Oweya-WANS lol. I won't digress much further but Mr. Mosconi kinda annoys me. Maybe he's trying to bait me into some action? Could that be it buddy?

I have just gotten my "Harry Sacks" case cleaned and my Coors Light cue re-fitted with a new pin and a tight grained shaft from early nineties. Did I mention that the case is flourescent yellow? Nice touch. Hell, I'm still on my "almost" time off. I'll stay in touch. Later....
 
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