Update on the Des Moines pool scene

OK I took what resembles a nap after stumbling in the house pissy drunk about 6 AM. How did I get that way you ask...fire away as they say.

So I roll into Dogs and theyre having the tourney on the minors side...blah blah blah i whooped and got whooped but didnt win. Someone did though. Tourney story over.

Jason and John M. are playing again and the big guy thinks I taught John how to break, I didnt. I made Jason a business proposition. They end up quitting the set. I know who would have won. Anyways I'm drinkin up a storm prolly for two hours straight at this point. Now I got a very good buzz. After lolly gagging goin on the fun starts.

I proceed to individually approach everyone with a beating heart in big dogs to make a game I succeed. Get Vic a game...won me $50 because he played one game for the $50 after he won a set for $50. Pet got the 7 from Jody...depending on who u talk to they broke even or Pet lets him out cheap either way wasnt his decision to make, im cool with it but need to talk to your backer.

Then the fun stuff mind you I'm down 4 games sidebetting. Phil's drunk ass asks me do I want half of him playin Ronny I tell him of course don't I always get half. Phil wins a $100 and doesnt tell me shit. Then he comes and asks me to get half versus Jason, so its like **** it sure. Well I hear Ronnie sayin he lost a hundy but poppa no see no stake so i need to find the c note. Next thing I know Phil tells me I didnt get half and I about flip out on his old ass. I think I was polite when I told him **** You about 1 inch from his face. Anyways he wins 200 more, I get thrown a 20 during our argument cuz I made him pay for drinks I bought his ass.Phil leaves 200 up and I leave a couple dollars up I guess but he dont realize shit is not cool cuz Im sober. Anyways....

I keep drinkin and boom myself and 3 girls all go to the lumber yard...hell yeah. All the girls from the pool hall were very friendly with the working girls and I seen things my 26 year old eyes usually has to pay $12.95 for on PPV! I spend a lot in there. It's almost closing time. Where you goin for breakfast? Pretend I finished this story eventhough I didnt.

P.S. Why the hell are all u's up so damn early.
 
The thing with you and Phil is pretty sad, i mean he just doesnt want to give you half because he won so easily?

Also after you told us he had to borrow money from you to pay Justin, it pisses me off because he said no backer against ronnie ........ but if hes broke then hes air barrelling me .... so in reality when i played all i was doing was trying to win my $100 back without a chance to win anything else without you backing him. :(

I should have just went home after i got done with John.

Oh well, its cool you went out with them girls, HAHA :thumbup:

Btw: i just woke up after going to bed around 4, my little boy was nice and slept in ;) :D
 
Yeah you didn't have a chance to win a penny, of course he didnt tell u that. I'll see him at 4 over at Stix most likely and he prolly wont have shit to say. Alcohol is funny like that, I looked out for him and helped him out you know. Such is life though my friend. All I can say is I have more Lumber Yard in my future.
 
I finally crashed...apparently a week drinking catches up to you. I had a lot of fun at big dogs last night for real. Had a really good session and played some friendly doubles for a small bet, it was nice. Actually had a lot more fun betting low in that game, it ended up even and stayed really close the whole time, was very fun. We also had some nice scenery on the table directly next to us.
 
woah now!!! get back up there thread!!! slipped to page 3.

anyone going to big dogs tomorrow(monday) night? we got league and figured we'd head up there afterwards to get a bit of gamble on....
 
ok, I've missed a few pages of this thread, so, I decided to catch up, and liked the "famous hot chicks" stories....here's mine.

1995 VA Beach - Let me start with the boring stuff....was taking a buddy back to Norfolk (home for leave - Navy - USS George Washington). He still had a couple of days until he was back on duty, so me, my buddy Steve, and him (Tom) find a room on VA Beach for Fri and Sat. night.

Early Friday morning me and Steve are up early - too excited to sleep with what was sure to be an EPIC weekend. We walk down the beach, watching the some of the surfers, joggers, etc., and we see a sign - Martina McBride TONITE! Well, we walked around the place (it was called the Peppermint Club) and of course, it's not open yet. We ask around about the place, and find out it's and over/under joint, but know nothing else about it.

We walk back down thatta way hoping to find out about tickets, and all. We hear some music inside and just walk in the back door (from the beach). The band was doing sound checks, and a really attractive girl comes up to us and says "sorry, but the bar's not open". We apologize and explain we were just wondering how we went about getting tickets for the show tonight. She smiles, and says, "it's a first come, first served kinda thing". We apologize again, and say we'll DEFINITELY be back tonight then. She asked if we were big Martina fans. I said, "Absolutely, we saw YOU open for Garth in Champaign." She laughed and said, "Illinois, huh?" YEP! She then said, "have a seat for a sec, y'all wanna beer?" "SURE"

She comes back with the beers and says, "I think I can get you past the line at the door tonight". She asked our name's, and wrote down Robb (me) +3, and Steve +3. She had us on the VIP list, and we could walk right on by everyone in line with our "guests".

OK, I didn't get to hook up with Martina, but after hitting on chicks all afternoon and dropping the "we're friends with Martina", and asking girls to go with us....we did make out pretty well :) ... oh, and I still tell everyone she's bought me a beer before!! :thumbup:

BTW, this was just before she put out her big hit Independence Day, and MAN was she HOT back then!!! WOW.
 
ykndoit said:
woah now!!! get back up there thread!!! slipped to page 3.

anyone going to big dogs tomorrow(monday) night? we got league and figured we'd head up there afterwards to get a bit of gamble on....
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I guess I will probably tag along.

Don't we have to play two matches tonight?
 
mikeyfrost said:
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Phil's drunk ass asks me do I want half of him playin Ronny I tell him of course don't I always get half. Phil wins a $100 and doesnt tell me shit. Then he comes and asks me to get half versus Jason, so its like **** it sure. Well I hear Ronnie sayin he lost a hundy but poppa no see no stake so i need to find the c note. Next thing I know Phil tells me I didnt get half and I about flip out on his old ass. I think I was polite when I told him **** You about 1 inch from his face. Anyways he wins 200 more, I get thrown a 20 during our argument cuz I made him pay for drinks I bought his ass.Phil leaves 200 up and I leave a couple dollars up I guess but he dont realize shit is not cool cuz Im sober.
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That sucks. First you get air-barrelled now you get this. Hopefully he will pay your your end next time he sees you, but that's probably a bit optimistic.
 
jingle said:
That sucks. First you get air-barrelled now you get this. Hopefully he will pay your your end next time he sees you, but that's probably a bit optimistic.
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a few years ago, I saw a pool player's name in the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt in the paper ---the State had $60 of his and couldn't find him. I asked him, "If I can get you an honest $60, would you give me half?" He, beng broke as usual, said, "Sure."

So, I drive him down to the Hoover (?) bldg., he gets the money and then stiffs me! No thanks, no money, nothing.

Jeff Livingston
 
chefjeff said:
a few years ago, I saw a pool player's name in the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt in the paper ---the State had $60 of his and couldn't find him. I asked him, "If I can get you an honest $60, would you give me half?" He, beng broke as usual, said, "Sure."

So, I drive him down to the Hoover (?) bldg., he gets the money and then stiffs me! No thanks, no money, nothing.

Jeff Livingston
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...even after you drove him? That's brutal!
 
jingle said:
That sucks. First you get air-barrelled now you get this. Hopefully he will pay your your end next time he sees you, but that's probably a bit optimistic.
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It's OK man. I saw him last night we didn't speak a single word to each other which either means he knows he was in the wrong or he thinks I was. Either way it's all good. I've been having a lot of fun lately and he's no one for me to let ruin that. We gotta get you back in there.

I'm planning on starting up a Saturday Ring Game there. I want it to be the biggest pay out of the week. Looking to do 2 tables with 6 people a piece and play standard ring game rules. I'm putting out some feelers for it now to see if I can get enough people to play. 12 people at $50/man gets $600 in the pot. I want to play it on the big tables too so you have to earn it to run out. I'll even run it and pay my own way in. All I want from Big Dogs is to donate the tables or work some type of deal out. It's normally pretty dead there Saturdays. A chance to win $400 or $200 is great odds on the money though. Maybe give 3rd place a free entry fee. I think it could be really good.
 
mikeyfrost said:
It's OK man. I saw him last night we didn't speak a single word to each other which either means he knows he was in the wrong or he thinks I was. Either way it's all good. I've been having a lot of fun lately and he's no one for me to let ruin that. We gotta get you back in there.

I'm planning on starting up a Saturday Ring Game there. I want it to be the biggest pay out of the week. Looking to do 2 tables with 6 people a piece and play standard ring game rules. I'm putting out some feelers for it now to see if I can get enough people to play. 12 people at $50/man gets $600 in the pot. I want to play it on the big tables too so you have to earn it to run out. I'll even run it and pay my own way in. All I want from Big Dogs is to donate the tables or work some type of deal out. It's normally pretty dead there Saturdays. A chance to win $400 or $200 is great odds on the money though. Maybe give 3rd place a free entry fee. I think it could be really good.
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Commission....this man deserves a commission!

Jeff Livingston
 
mikeyfrost said:
It's OK man. I saw him last night we didn't speak a single word to each other which either means he knows he was in the wrong or he thinks I was. Either way it's all good. I've been having a lot of fun lately and he's no one for me to let ruin that. We gotta get you back in there.

I'm planning on starting up a Saturday Ring Game there. I want it to be the biggest pay out of the week. Looking to do 2 tables with 6 people a piece and play standard ring game rules. I'm putting out some feelers for it now to see if I can get enough people to play. 12 people at $50/man gets $600 in the pot. I want to play it on the big tables too so you have to earn it to run out. I'll even run it and pay my own way in. All I want from Big Dogs is to donate the tables or work some type of deal out. It's normally pretty dead there Saturdays. A chance to win $400 or $200 is great odds on the money though. Maybe give 3rd place a free entry fee. I think it could be really good.
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This mf is the Don King of the poolroom. You go, Mikey.
 
crawfish said:
This mf is the Don King of the poolroom. You go, Mikey.
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Thanks Jeff and Keith. I do care about pool. I think some are starting to realize how much I care. There's no reason at all we can't do more for the pool room and the players. This is the kind of thing where the premier players are going to show up. It's also the kind of thing where if you get a group of players like this together after they take their shot at 8:1 on the money they probably will be matching up as well.

I think I know enough of the good players here that they will help me out and make this thing successful. The money is good enough that I think some may even chop it up to get the entry paid. Will be a good chance for some of the young guns to jump in the grease as well.

Every ring game tourney I've ever seen it's about seizing the moment to win. You darn well better get out because in the opening rounds you might have to sit a rack or two before you shoot again. So many people think they run balls well, do you run them good enough to win though?

I'll do it the legit way too. Half hour before it starts, I will hold a players meeting. If the players don't like one of my tough rules then guess what, we'll change it. I also don't know if people realize how fun a ring game can be because its not directly heads up competition, it's more like a chance to kind of show what you got and win some cash. 2nd place pays more than any of the weekly tourneys, so what does that tell you? It'll be the place to be for sure.
 
deadstroke7 said:
TAP, TAP, TAP -- What he said.

Sounds like a good idea -- Any names attending? Which game?

:joyful:
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I talked to some people here's what I have so far, of course nothing definite... The game will be 10 Ball.

1) Frost (The crowd pleasing favorite) - I'll be kayaking and fencing on every pocketed ball.

2) Mike Athens

3) Jody

4)Somphet

5) Gary DeCarlo

6) Hopefully Jason Chance

7) Victor Grandstaff

8) Theo Lee

9) Phil T.

10) Jon Brown if he's interested

11/12) I hope both Richardsons will come out, Justin for sure plays a good ring game cuz he's so aggressive and Jason pockets balls well.

This is mostly just preliminary and a couple people I haven't talked to yet. I think Brad, Spimp, Bruce, and Matt would also be good additions to the field. Tony Ellers has a chance. Daniel and Jimmy can hold it down for the minors.

Basically it's going to work and I promise you this no one will be locked out. If we need 3 tables, WE JUST GO GET 3 Tables. I have an awesome ante style of play. In other words the ante starts at 1 chip per game. Each player is given 10 chips to start out. Every 30 mins the anter will go up. If players do not have the ante amount they are all in that game and if they lose they are gone.

Anyone starting to get excited yet???
 
mikeyfrost said:
Anyone starting to get excited yet???
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Can YOU SSSMMMM--EEEEEELLLL What the FROST is cookin'!

I can! :joyful:

Now if I could tell one end of the cue from the other.... I might be twirling my cue like VINCENT as I dance between balls made. Although, that would require making more than two in a row.
 
I thought about doing this awhile back. Problem is Sat. are really bad days for me to hit the pool hall as i do things with my family.

All you need is a basic set of poker chips. I thought it would be alot of fun.

Jason can typically play on Sat afternoons so he might be in.


I was also thinking about starting a league up on the 9fts. It would be a singles type league so no worries about building a team. Id love to start a 1pkt league, no idea how to set it up though .... Unless noone would complain about playing scratch. DSM def needs players to play better on the big tables.
 
Richardson said:
I was also thinking about starting a league up on the 9fts. It would be a singles type league so no worries about building a team. Id love to start a 1pkt league, no idea how to set it up though .... Unless noone would complain about playing scratch. DSM def needs players to play better on the big tables.
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That would be cool. I remember they tried a 1-pkt tournament and didn't get big reaction. But the time could be better.

I agree, timing is crucial. I can't get to the Dog for Tournaments very easily anymore.

I am sure that someone with some free time and a computer could find a handicap system for one-pocket. (HINT HINT) I thought 1-pkt .org had something like that. Maybe it wasn't handicapped for singles. Might be pretty easy to adjust it to fit.

Agree with playing better on the big tables. Get out of the midwest and the 7' disappears.

FWIW, :joyful:
 
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