Hello all;
I am interested to hear what place or table you ever played on that was the absolute worst. Where and why?
I never participated in any leagues until later in my life, beginning maybe three or four years ago. It was a traveling APA 8 ball team and there was a team we played out of a bar in a very tough New Haven neighborhood.
There were so many games within the game, like for instance: Will I get to park close enough to this bar to where I feel I have better than a 50/50 chance of not becoming a crime statistic?
Once you made it inside, your reward was that you got to play on one of the strangest setups ever. The pool room section of their bar was a converted sun porch featuring a concrete floor with a pitch so steep that when you played a shot on one side of the table, the rail came up to your belly button but on the other side, the rail only made it to just above your knees. Seriously! It was like trying to shoot pool alternating between being The Jolly Green Giant and a Lilliputian.
Add to this, all the characters coming and going who seemed pissed off that outsiders were there trying to win pool games. For some reason, none of this appeared on the APA brochure. :grin-square:
After our matches were played, and with the benefit of confidence-building alcohol, it was off into the darkness of night hoping, first, to get to your car, second, that your car is still where you left it and, finally, that the tires and wheels would still be on. I've been in some rough areas in my life but this hood rated pretty high up on the list.
I will say, though, that the team members from that bar were always very gracious and pleasant, but man, there were too many games within the game.
Looking forward to hearing about yours.
Best,
Brian kc
I am interested to hear what place or table you ever played on that was the absolute worst. Where and why?
I never participated in any leagues until later in my life, beginning maybe three or four years ago. It was a traveling APA 8 ball team and there was a team we played out of a bar in a very tough New Haven neighborhood.
There were so many games within the game, like for instance: Will I get to park close enough to this bar to where I feel I have better than a 50/50 chance of not becoming a crime statistic?
Once you made it inside, your reward was that you got to play on one of the strangest setups ever. The pool room section of their bar was a converted sun porch featuring a concrete floor with a pitch so steep that when you played a shot on one side of the table, the rail came up to your belly button but on the other side, the rail only made it to just above your knees. Seriously! It was like trying to shoot pool alternating between being The Jolly Green Giant and a Lilliputian.
Add to this, all the characters coming and going who seemed pissed off that outsiders were there trying to win pool games. For some reason, none of this appeared on the APA brochure. :grin-square:
After our matches were played, and with the benefit of confidence-building alcohol, it was off into the darkness of night hoping, first, to get to your car, second, that your car is still where you left it and, finally, that the tires and wheels would still be on. I've been in some rough areas in my life but this hood rated pretty high up on the list.
I will say, though, that the team members from that bar were always very gracious and pleasant, but man, there were too many games within the game.
Looking forward to hearing about yours.
Best,
Brian kc
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