Where are the top 5 pool rooms in the that you have personally played in.

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Please list your personal top 5 pool rooms that you have personally played in. Why do you feel your personal top five room are the best.

If you can only think of 1 also add to the thread.

If you are out of the U.S.A. list your favorites also as some might be away from the U.S.A., and what to play pool on vacation, or a business trip.
 
5 best:

Hardtimes both of them.

Jointed cue in Sacramento-my all time favorite.

in Davenport Ia was a big room I liked in 86

Greenway Billiards in Baton Rough La-was an awesome room.

Cue-topia in Vegas in the earily days before it was ran into the ground. Wasnt the greatest room but I had alot of friends there, it was a 1P school(to bad I cant emember what I learned)



Honerable mention:

college billards in San Deigo was great when Swanee was alive.

Bobs billiards on Beach Bl where Keith played was awalys easy $$ for me, I just played good in there.

YMCA in down town San Deigo in 85 was about a million years old then and had charcter-no action but a walk in the past, it looked like the 40's to me. It was much older than me I was born in 66.

Another huge room in down town San Deigo on the second floor in 85 was on its way down but was cool maybe 50 tables.

Boyce billiards in Stockton after hours was great we would go to dinned at 2am and come back @3 and open the doors every night for a private game for a while there was good action.

Golden 8 Ball in phoenix was too loud but I awalys made $$$ there, in both locations, the big one I did better in, but a bad crowd of kids, day time only joint.

Hollywood blliards in the basement and today's are both great but totall different from each other. The crusty old down stairs joint had that cool seedy pool room feel to it, but good owner and counter men. i miss it too.

Danny K's was there only once before it was 100% open and it looked great.

Chinos in Oakland was a rough spot to put it lightly, they rolled up my friend there, i got out ok.

I went to a room in SF on the 2nd floor on Market St once for a few minutes, it was closing. I cant remember the name, Grady or Jay would know it. Not Cochrans.



Room I wanted to go to and missed it by a couple months was Redds in Houstan Tx.
 
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Tulsa Billiard Palace / Magoo's

Raytown Recreation - KC area

Chattanooga Billiard Club

Romine's High Pockets - Milwaukee

The Pool Room - Duluth - Atlanta area

Cue-Nique - Madison, WI
 
cool rooms

Bill Schicks place in Shreveport
The Green room in Madison,Wi
The Palace in Anchorage,AK. [the best!]:cool: :cool:
Gold Crown Billiards in Erie,Pa
Rialto's in Portland,Or
 
can't put names on some of them

First and foremost, Shoppers Pool Hall in Baton Rouge. I stayed there through two or three managers and owners and they always treated me right. This was a pool hall which is something most of the places on my list have in common. Shoppers also had two snooker tables with snooker pockets, not pool tables with snooker cushions on them. There is a big difference in play. Too, the only mentoring I ever had in pool came from one of the owners of shoppers, Jessie Mills.

Staying in the Baton Rouge area, right across the river in Port Allen was an old place on the riverbank. Five by tens, two and a half inch slate, cloth deeper than the greens on some putt putt golf courses, quiet, dark, a pool hall.

I passed through a place in Atlanta a couple of times. Can't remember the name. Old, funky, had the spring bottom theater seats for the sweaters.I felt at home when I walked through the door. I grabbed a house cue off the wall and shut down the place when everyone gathered around my table. They couldn't believe I was nobody. I told them everyone from Louisiana shot that way. Good times!

Diamond Billiards in Dallas. The finest new pool hall I have ever seen. My only fear is that it will grow too crowded because it is small. Only the shape of the place and the high quality of the tables and equipment keeps it from being a true old style pool hall.

Billiards Den in Dallas(Richardson?) A fantastic place. Good tables, good food, video and board games away from the tables, a full pro shop, clean, bright, well ran, this may well be the future of pool. This place should probably be at the top of my list but I'm an old dog and I like the old dog places. Anyone in the area or passing through should take a look. Anyone thinking of opening a room should fly in to see it if they have to, it's that well put together.

An honorable mention to Nick's Steak House on the strip in Port Allen. The tables in the restaurant had beem replaced with pool tables. Dark, dank, a fine place to get killed in with nobody noticing but my first pool "home".

Hu
 
More cool rooms

Ride the Nine in Bloomfield,Il.
Dots Billiards in Rocky mount,NC.:cool:
Mothers in Charlotte NC.
Shooters in Burnsville MN.
The Pool Room in Atlanta,Ga

Being a truck driver for 10 years had its perks.I'd find out where I was headed and get on line and find a room. Got to play in alot of rooms. Fun,fun. Don :cool: :cool:
 
The Billiard Palace: Tulsa OK
JOB Billiards: Nashville, TN
Bankshot Billiards: Louisville, KY
The Rack: Memphis, TN
Side Pocket Billiards: Paducah, KY (it is where I grew up playing...had to list it)
 
Jointed Cue

Fatboy said:
5 best:

Hardtimes both of them.

Jointed cue in Sacramento-my all time favorite.

in Davenport Ia was a big room I liked in 86

Greenway Billiards in Baton Rough La-was an awesome room.

Cue-topia in Vegas in the earily days before it was ran into the ground. Wasnt the greatest room but I had alot of friends there, it was a 1P school(to bad I cant emember what I learned)



Honerable mention:

college billards in San Deigo was great when Swanee was alive.

Bobs billiards on Beach Bl where Keith played was awalys easy $$ for me, I just played good in there.

YMCA in down town San Deigo in 85 was about a million years old then and had charcter-no action but a walk in the past, it looked like the 40's to me. It was much older than me I was born in 66.

Another huge room in down town San Deigo on the second floor in 85 was on its way down but was cool maybe 50 tables.

Boyce billiards in Stockton after hours was great we would go to dinned at 2am and come back @3 and open the doors every night for a private game for a while there was good action.

Golden 8 Ball in phoenix was too loud but I awalys made $$$ there, in both locations, the big one I did better in, but a bad crowd of kids, day time only joint.

Hollywood blliards in the basement and today's are both great but totall different from each other. The crusty old down stairs joint had that cool seedy pool room feel to it, but good owner and counter men. i miss it too.

Danny K's was there only once before it was 100% open and it looked great.

Chinos in Oakland was a rough spot to put it lightly, they rolled up my friend there, i got out ok.

I went to a room in SF on the 2nd floor on Market St once for a few minutes, it was closing. I cant remember the name, Grady or Jay would know it. Not Cochrans.



Room I wanted to go to and missed it by a couple months was Redds in Houstan Tx.
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Was the Jointed Cue in Fruitland? Old place with 3 tables in the back room with stadium seats on 1 side and a small grill at the door? Brackets on the walls of tourneys played there in the 60-70's? Don The place in SF might have been the Palace.
 
pulzcul said:
Was the Jointed Cue in Fruitland? Old place with 3 tables in the back room with stadium seats on 1 side and a small grill at the door? Brackets on the walls of tourneys played there in the 60-70's? Don The place in SF might have been the Palace.
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yes Fruitridge and 24th is the Joint, and yes it was Palace Billiards-I just couldnt remember.
 
Good pool rooms

My favorite room is Q-masters in Chesapeake, VA.
Barry Berman has a nice room and it's set up for tournaments, leagues, and the casual player.

The rooms in my area are pitiful. It really shows when the owners aren't pool players because the rooms are set up more for making money than playing pool.
 
Love2Play9Ball said:
Please list your personal top 5 pool rooms that you have personally played in. Why do you feel your personal top five room are the best.

If you can only think of 1 also add to the thread.

If you are out of the U.S.A. list your favorites also as some might be away from the U.S.A., and what to play pool on vacation, or a business trip.
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HardTimes - Bellflower, Ca
Hollywood Billiards (old and new) - Los Angeles, Ca
Las Vegas Cue Club - Las Vegas, Nv
Hollywood Billiards (now closed, was also Cochran's and Cue Club before) - San Francisco, Ca
California Billiard Club - Mountain View, Ca

I'm kinda partial to the west :D
 
Miller Time Billiards

Fatboy said:
in Davenport Ia was a big room I liked in 86.
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The place is still there but in a different location within the same building.
 
Love2Play9Ball said:
Please list your personal top 5 pool rooms that you have personally played in. Why do you feel your personal top five room are the best.

If you can only think of 1 also add to the thread.

If you are out of the U.S.A. list your favorites also as some might be away from the U.S.A., and what to play pool on vacation, or a business trip.
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- Amsterdam, New York

- Hollywood Billiards, Hollywood Blvd.

- Hard Times, Bellflower


These are the standouts.
 
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I classify a pool rooms worth by possible fun to be had. That can mean good gambling, good people, and most importantly good partying. That being said, here are my top five in no particular order:

1) Sporty's in Greenville, SC formerly Gametime
2) The Pool Room in Duluth, GA
3) Murphy's Brass Rail Athens, GA
4) Mr. Cues II Atlanta, GA
5) Sticks Pool Room Clarkesville, GA
 
1: "Rack em Up" at R.C.A. Plaza, Bangkok Thailand.

2: "Magoo's" in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

3: "J.O.B. Billiards" in Nashville, Tennesee.

4: "Megabreak" in Pattaya, Thailand.

5: "Amsterdam Billiards" in N.Y.C.

I can think of some great rooms in Manila, Tokyo, Singapore, & Hong Kong, but I can't remember the names.
 
Some other nice ones I've been to include:

Breakers Mobile, AL
Gulfport Billiards Gulfport, MS
Chattanooga Billiard Club Chattanooga, TN
The Pool Room Marietta, GA
One in Raliegh and High Point w/Shannon Daulton
Starzone Atlanta, GA
oh, and 311 Gameroom Winder, GA
 
Comet Billiards in Parsippany New Jersey. Ask the pros who play there. They all same the same thing.
 
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