Where to play in LA
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My girlfriend will be with me. She doesn't drink much, so I'll bribe her with a decent meal.
Think I can get a backer for this?
I'm a little bummed because I'm pretty sure all of the decent fairs will be well past done and gone by then. We may try to hit up Acadia. Not sure yet what the schedule will be, since I'll only be in from Thursday evening until Sunday morning to squeeze in whatever family time I can. I'll know more about a month before I head up.
This thread seemed like it was drying up anyways.. think they mind that I hijacked?
My girlfriend will be with me. She doesn't drink much, so I'll bribe her with a decent meal.
Think I can get a backer for this?
I'm a little bummed because I'm pretty sure all of the decent fairs will be well past done and gone by then. We may try to hit up Acadia. Not sure yet what the schedule will be, since I'll only be in from Thursday evening until Sunday morning to squeeze in whatever family time I can. I'll know more about a month before I head up.
This thread seemed like it was drying up anyways.. think they mind that I hijacked?
Well, we can stay close to the topic by my telling you that there is what is supposed to be a pretty good room in LA called Rack M Up Billiards, tho I haven't visited it yet.
LA here is Lewiston/Auburn.
There.
October is a great time to visit Acadia. The bulk of the tourists are gone, and depending on the season, the fall foliage can be in full swing by then. A good pool room on the way, too.
Hi Tate: Thanks for the defense. I don't know Lou. I beat him one time in a tournament. He could be a great guy. With that one exception I have never talked to him in person. Just because a lot of people dislike or hate him on the internet forums doesn't mean much. He seems to get a kick out of it which can be fun I guess.
As far as Santa Monica House of Billiards goes it is a small action one pocket room (which probably will never interest you since I have never seen you play one pocket). However, anyone can get played there and sometimes the stakes get high.
I can honestly say, it is virtually impossible for a player to go in their looking for a game (not high stakes) and not get one in 20 visits. The odds on this happening are probably beyond a million to one (unless they go in very early or very late when no players are around). For a player to visit 20 times and not one regular in there can confirm more than 2 visits is very weird because there are a lot of pool detectives in there. The story never added up which was why a number of regulars got upset about it. It appeared to just be a knock on the room for no reason.
It is very nice on Lou to visit his mom out here 3 or 4 times in the last 5 years, sounds like he is a good son. However his 20 trips to the poolroom during those 3 or 4 visits is very questionable.
However, I really don't care and I don't know how I got sucked in. LOL. Wayne
oh. But you so obviously do care, very much, and cannot let this go despite my *repeated* entreaties to do so.
So. You are right. I am not popular amongst the circle-jerkers over at Jimbo's (you should fit right in) but you can find plenty of evidence here that that is not the general consensus in the pool community. Maybe it's like those that have contacted me and have all said pretty much the same thing: everyone in LA knows Wayne is a lock artist and will never give you a fair game. Don't play him.
It's amazing that you are so narrow-minded that you cannot accept that someone could come into the room at SM and not get played. You could have easily have said, "So sorry. Must have been bad timing or something" and this would have been a non-issue. But you are so small minded that you have a need to insist it could not be so, regardless of that being the reality for some of us:
"When I'm in town I go to Santa Monica Billiards...
Except for the champions, everyone is scared to death to play anyone they don't know or they want so much weight you have no chance. I just spent most of the day at S.M.Billards and no one would play me."
jtompilot
"its hard to get a game in there,"
Fatboy
"I have been three or four times over the last few years. They always want to make a call and send in Richie or Wayne, but *no one* else will play.* I see the same guys every visit and I never get a game."
Way to go, dude. More good publicity for your room.
And, since you insist, you can keep it coming (until the mod turns the fire hoses on). Back on RSB, we would have called this "just getting warmed up." ;-)
Lou Figueroa
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Lol. Now I know you are a comedian. I have played Efren even. Parica even. Santos even. Oscar even. Ernesto even. Richard even. Stevie Moore even, Billy Palmer even. Top Vegas players even. The top Chicago players even. I've played every road player even except for Sylver Ochao who gave me either 9-7 or 10-7. I gave the Ghost 10-6. I have never gotten a game where it was a lock and I have never looked for one. I give up way too much weight to good players just so I can have a game sometimes.
Give me one example, just one, where I played a game where I was a lock. Let your intell come up with one. I would be very curious. If you can't get your intell to give you one then stop trolling and stop lying.
Wayne
OK I think I have a good win-win solution to this whole thing....
A few weeks ago I was a "Marshall" at a swim meet, and wore a really nifty lightweight florescent orange vest with a velcro closure, and perforated vent holes etc...(like the people doing road work I suppose)...quite comfy....
So...I suggest that Lou gets one of those...and at the top has some letters sewn on to the back of the vest that say "Hi my name is Lou"...then he gets some velcro on letters and numbers, so that he can put on the something like "I want to play 1p for $40 a game"...or whatever...and then if he starts losing, he can just take a zero off or whatever....
What do you guys think...if Lou had that vest on when he came to your room, he'd surely get a game right...problem solved with a win-win for everyone....
Of course, if he didn't want to play at all...he could just stick on the back..."I am a former PR person"...and then no one would want to play him at all....
Finally...if/when he goes busto...he takes all the letters off, except the "Hi my name is Lou", and brings a hard hat to wear, with him in the car...then he can go out in front of the room and do chip-n-dale dancing for all the ladies walking by to collect up enough change for another game...you know, wear the vest with nothing underneath, and then strip it off, and wave it around his head, and then rub it on his butt etc...even I'd pay a dollar or so to see that, once anyway....
What do you guys think....:wink:
:grin:
Best post in the whole thread.
Here are a couple of videos of Lou in action for anyone who doesn't know him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKqOPjUVMQ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORCkqZwvCn0
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OMG, that's some funny $hit. Thanks for the laugh:rotflmao1::rotflmao1:
You know the last 20 times Svb and I have been in a room together he has never asked me to play...
I think he's ducking me...
I think he's ducking me...
There are those in LA who have said you won't give up a fair game. It is what it is. I know that you believe your version of things is the only right one that could ever ever possibly be, but everyone's perception of reality is different. I'm guessing that comes as a shock to you.
Lou Figueroa
Lou stop lying and being a troll.
Who says Wayne won't give up a fair game? I dare you to name them. That's the most ridiculous crap I've ever heard. Everyone in LA knows Wayne usually gives up way too much weight. Now, you're just lying again. Just like you did with your sad pathetic claim you couldn't get a game in S.M.
You used to be just a needy drama queen, but now you're so desperate for attention you've lowered yourself into lying and hurling made-up accusations. Grow up and be a man and realize you've been outed making crap up. The game is over. All your hysterical accusations will not distract from the fact that you ducked Wayne and tried to claim everyone was scared to play you.
The thing about these matches with pros is you played top dollar and you always played with your own money while a lot of them were getting staked. You won a good amount of times too but when you lost you paid up right there.
Sometimes these road players had to owe it to you and if they paid took not months but years. You also helped a lot of pros and roadies by giving them cash or storing their stuff for them in storage houses when they went bust. Anybody want to buy some cheap IOU;'s, 40 cents to a dollar?
You and I have gambled 4 times to my recollection and you always gave me a fair spot. 10/6, but Ive known you to give ridiculous weight just to get action. I heard you played someone 12/4 the other day. Someone who plays me even. I asked you why. And you said "that's the only way I could get a game".
If someone wanted to play 9 ball or straight pool you jump up and play even if it wasn't your game. I know I staked a straight pool player and you decimated him.
You never whined when you lost. You never blamed anyone else for your losing, You never gloated when you won. You never bloated the details of your victories. You never told untruths to paint yourself as some kind of pool maven. Most of all you always had a sense of humor.
There are a lot of sad, bad, creepy things about pool but youre not one of them. Pros know this, Road players know this, Players know this. Anyone who doesn't and has negative things to say about you I like to meet them face to face..
Im sure there are still people out there who say Hitler was correct but that's a small minority and we don't say that's their reality or fact. We say they are.... nuts.
We played a few times. If I recall correctly I beat him a couple of times in tournaments, then we matched up and I beat him for a few hundred. Then he destroyed me for several hundred. Then Richard and I played Ricky and Santos an even partners game and we won maybe $600 from their backer.
He is super tough when he is in stroke and he makes some amazing shots. A very creative player. I always enjoy playing him. He has the best of me at hardtimes and I am up at Santa Monica. Wayne
One of the finest partners match I ever saw.
Another memorable match for me was with Cole Dixon in what may have been his last serious match before he cashed in. I had played him three times previously for $100 a game and I had a small win once and got destroyed twice. He came in to Santa Monica a couple of years back and asked to play again for the same bet. I quickly got ahead 4 games and although I knew it hurt him to ask he requested some weight and to double the bet. I won one more game and I could tell he was really hurting. I then proceeded to lose everything back to him but I did everything I could to not make it obvious I wasn't trying to win. Before he left the hall he came back over to me and thanked me and told me he knew what I did and he really appreciated it.
I really enjoyed playing Cole and even the last time we played I learned things from watching him closely.
Wayne
I really enjoyed playing Cole and even the last time we played I learned things from watching him closely.
Wayne