why do you go to your favorite pool hall?
Why do you go to certain pool hall?
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Yeah, I had to go with better equipment, tables etc... Actually, here in Japan just about any place you go has decent tables. The place I usually play at has 9 Gold Crown 4's and 2 Brunswick Metro's. It's a really nice place and has customers in every night of the week. Music isn't played too loud and they have TV's with tournament videos running all the time. The only drawback to that place is the damn electronic dart machines. It's all the rage over here right now to play darts. The dart geeks are always over there screaming when they make a good shot. Drives me nuts.
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i go to my favorite hall cause its free. they paid off the tables years ago and make all their money in beer sales (to-go beer 2 hours after the liquor store closes). all old brunswick 9-footers, but i doubt they've been reclothed in 10 years. a bunch of drunks over the years have put countless tiny holes in the cloth by failed masse attempts. nothing rolls true and most english is negated by the holes, but its good times and people (and cheap beer). no action other than guys who are drunk and think they play, no food, and some of my friends wont go there cause it reminds them of a toilet.
i suppose one other thing i like is all the old men who play golf during the day (they actually take care of the snooker table). those guys are a wealth of info and stories. sometimes i go not to plat, but to watch and learn
i suppose one other thing i like is all the old men who play golf during the day (they actually take care of the snooker table). those guys are a wealth of info and stories. sometimes i go not to plat, but to watch and learn
i like playing at home now on my Olhausen the best..but when my BEST friend comes to town we like going to Chris's Billiards on Milwaukee av.in Chicago..where parts of the movie The Color of Money were filmed.i like watching the action on the main table...it is an old building and old school look that i grew up with in the 50's....our other best hall is Pro-Tyme in Orland Park,illinois...the best parking of any pool hall around..inside is immaculate very rich decor.everything is great about the place.....
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1-Price for table time
2-Table conditions
3-The people/players/staff. (If I'm in the mood for a game I've got one, and if I'm wanting to be left alone to work on some things I don't have to worry about being bothered.)
dave
2-Table conditions
3-The people/players/staff. (If I'm in the mood for a game I've got one, and if I'm wanting to be left alone to work on some things I don't have to worry about being bothered.)
dave
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Well I kinda flip flop between two pool halls.
First one, has the cheaper rates, but the tables are shyt right now, new owner is in the process of replacing all the rails and felt and ball sets. But the price is only 50cents cheaper, but on the weekends its actually 8$ per hour flat rate vs 3.50$ per hr at the other place. Also this place there is generally always action to be had, if you can get past the NITS. And tournaments.
2nd place, has all Diamond pro-am tables!!!!! but hardly any action unless its one of the A rated players or better. And the weekends its filled with people drinking cuz it has a bar, and bad Karoake (sp) Saturdays. And there is hardly ever a tournament because they cant have Calcutta's cuz of the bar.
Send place also has decent food, kinda pricey but its a full grill/bar.
Well I kinda flip flop between two pool halls.
First one, has the cheaper rates, but the tables are shyt right now, new owner is in the process of replacing all the rails and felt and ball sets. But the price is only 50cents cheaper, but on the weekends its actually 8$ per hour flat rate vs 3.50$ per hr at the other place. Also this place there is generally always action to be had, if you can get past the NITS. And tournaments.
2nd place, has all Diamond pro-am tables!!!!! but hardly any action unless its one of the A rated players or better. And the weekends its filled with people drinking cuz it has a bar, and bad Karoake (sp) Saturdays. And there is hardly ever a tournament because they cant have Calcutta's cuz of the bar.
Send place also has decent food, kinda pricey but its a full grill/bar.
I wish the poll allowed you to select more than one choice, because there are a variety of factors that detemine what pool hall I go to. The chief factors would include equipment, prices, and the atmosphere. However, at some point, I'm going to find myself gravitating to where the action is unless the other factors are so much in the negative that it's not worth the trouble and aggravation.
Would have like to have seen this be one of those multi option polls. I try to find a balance between the people and the equipment. I won't play on really really bad equipment, but just bad equipment is ok!;-) But, for some reason, places with bad equipment tend to have high prices too. At least, I've never seen a place with bad equipment that had low prices!
Give me "Old School" any day! Good equipment that is well maintained. Quiet! So quiet, all you hear are the balls clicking and dropping. If the place had NO MUSIC AT ALL, that would be great! (And I'm a musician, but it's hard enough to concentrate with Smooth Jazz playing, let alone Metallica or some other such noise, especially when they're blasting it at 110db!) Good food and good, friendly service. I could care less about booze. I've never seen problems in pool halls that don't serve booze, but I've seen plenty in places that do. And last but not least...........FAIR prices! I'm not a wall street yuppie pulling down 200K a year, drivin' my Beamer around Soho. So, I feel that $10-$15 per hour for table time is just INSANE!
My $00.02!
My $00.02!
I have been going to the Flamingo since I was in High school. It is just around the block from where I work. I live on the other end of town, so when I leave my house I drive by, 8 other places to play, a few are sports bars and one is a 23 table pool hall, and a Bowling alley. I hung at the pool hall for a few years when it first opened, after the Color of Money made pool popular again. The sports bar around the corner from my house has free pool on Saturday & Sunday, I stop in a few times a year and shoot a few and catch up with old friends that hang there. The bowling alley used to have a nice pool room back in the late 80's, but after the Color of Money thing got old, they converted the room to more like a Chucky Cheese type place to host Kiddie B-day parties, so they just have a few bar boxes in the lounge, and one Glow in the dark Blacklight table, that is my wifes favorite pool table, go figure.
The Flamingo has a Gold Crown in the front room and a 2 bar boxes in the back, great crowd, good friends, best players in town.
, and if something happens or somone comes in that we don't know and starts some crap we all have each others back.
The Flamingo has a Gold Crown in the front room and a 2 bar boxes in the back, great crowd, good friends, best players in town.
, and if something happens or somone comes in that we don't know and starts some crap we all have each others back.
I didn't vote in the poll because my reason isn't listed, I play at my local room because of the people, good people from top to bottom. Equipment is OK but not great.
A place could have the greatest equipment, decor, menu and atmosphere but I won't go unless the people are friendly. I'm to old to spend time around idiots.
BK
A place could have the greatest equipment, decor, menu and atmosphere but I won't go unless the people are friendly. I'm to old to spend time around idiots.
BK
Although I get free pool time at a couple pool halls, I really don't go practice at either of them, and that was even before I got my own Diamond table. We go where they have a tournament and go an hour early and that is my practice time.
We will drop by various places for the people we know are going to be there or the action going on but usually don't play, but rather talk and watch.
We will drop by various places for the people we know are going to be there or the action going on but usually don't play, but rather talk and watch.
Actually, the first four choices apply but tables are a prime consideration. Of course, if I don't like the way I get treated at a particular poolroom, I'll cross it off my list of places to go for practice.
I'll still attend their tournaments, but that's it.
I'll still attend their tournaments, but that's it.
For me it's the players that attract me to a pool establishment. I want to go play pool with people who are good pool players. I'm not a money player except on extremely rare occasions, and even then it's only for cheap stakes, so it's not about "action", it's about being able to play my best pool and have good competition. If the players just suck, I don't end up playing my best (I get lazy and sloppy, despite my best efforts not to) and I don't learn anything. What's even worse is when I end up practicing on my own for hours and then leaving because there's nobody there who wants to play.
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cuejoey said:Pro-Tyme in Orland Park,illinois...the best parking of any pool hall around..inside is immaculate very rich decor.everything is great about the place.....
Pro-Tyme is the nicest pool room I have ever been in. That place gives an all new meaning to "upscale room". The only thing missing there was a Billiard Table, every thing else was perfect.