Worst Pool Room/Pool Bar you have ever been in? WHY??

CocoboloCowboy

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My vote go to the Octane Lounge/Bar in Surprise Arizona, as I think they have NEVER Cleaned the Balls on their Bar Boxes Since Opening, and the cloth is like Pilled Flannel.

Went there to play a little tournament, and said PASS aft looking at the cloth and ball condition.
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Billiards Cafe

in Lodi, NJ on Rt 46 West. They haven't done anything included clean in that place in ten years. I think they are awaiting the widening of Rt 46 to put them out of business.
 
Southside Deli Allentown Pa. Table is a full inch taller than everything else. Loudest hispanic music ever played. Pool table right in front of the bathroom and everyone walks by while you are shooting and sometimes stop to lean on the table while they are on their cell phones. Last time I was there I found SW .40 cal casings in the parking lot. Great spot for league play.
 
I played in a tournament once at a now closed bar that had a roof leak above one of the bar boxes. They used the half wet table for the tournament. TERRIBLE. I won a 95 dollar 8-on-the-break pot though. :)
 
Farwest Billiards, Spokane, WA

They have decent tables (GCII's i believe) but the balls are filthy, the felt is Simonis, but it has to be at least 2 years old. I haven't seen a serious poolplayer in there in a long time. The staff, and the clientell has no respect or knowlege for the game and it shows IMO (from my personal observations only!!)

If you want to play in spokane, I reccoment McQ's Billiards, and the 7th Rail.


However the food is good, and the drinks are strong.
 
A friend of mine talked me into subbing on his bar league team a couple of times over one season.

The first bar we went to wasn't all that bad as far as the table conditions but the whole bar had a rough wooden floor.

After hitting a shot at the table I stood up and put my cue at arm's rest with the butt of the cue on the floor. All of a sudden, pooooof, no cue!
It just disappeared out of my hand.

Totally shocked, I started looking around and finally spotted a knothole in the floor just big enough for a cue to fit through.

After a tough time convincing the bartender that my cue was in his basement, he finally let me go down and retrieve it.

The bar must have been very old because the basement was filled with antique beer signs all covered with a thick blanket of dust and dirt. I don't think the guy had a clue what a fortune he had in his basement.

Another time, we ended up in a bar with absolutely the flithiest balls and table I have ever seen. To make it worse, there were two steel poles about two feet away from opposite corners of the table. Talk about obstacle pool! LOL

Stones
 
Giz And Hum's in San Angelo, TX. The place is dirty and attracts nothing but trailer trash. The service is absolutely horrible as if they want to go into forclosure. I saw the bartender spill a 1/4 full mug of beer on one of the tables and didn't bother cleaning it up! Amazing. Just every aspect of the place is crap. the other alternative we have is fast eddie's which I think is too fancy to be a pool hall. We need something in the middle!

John
 
The Fat Cat in New York City. The cloths are so worn and messed up with spilled drinks, it would be better to just play on the slate.
 
GIZ n HUM'S - lol

runout1961 said:
Giz And Hum's in San Angelo, TX. The place is dirty and attracts nothing but trailer trash. The service is absolutely horrible as if they want to go into forclosure. I saw the bartender spill a 1/4 full mug of beer on one of the tables and didn't bother cleaning it up! Amazing. Just every aspect of the place is crap. the other alternative we have is fast eddie's which I think is too fancy to be a pool hall. We need something in the middle!

John


ROTFLMFAO!!!

I second this nomination and want to add that it is by far the nastiest place imaginable - John's description doesn't do the place justice - this place is AWFUL!

FWIW, I wasn't brave enough to order anything to drink (for obvious reasons) - I did try out one of the tables, which came complete with torn cloth, dead rails, and cigarette ashes everywhere, and the pockets were obviously used as ashtrays - hell - the whole table was used as an ashtray ... nobody really seemed to care... eventually I ended up at Fast Eddie's.
 
John Waynes in Indianapolis on a big tournament weekend. After 4 hours all of the breathable air is replaced by cigarette smoke. I have been going to pool rooms and bars for 20 years so smoke doesnt really bother me too bad but this place, when its busy, is STOOOOPID.

I forget the name of the bar in Indy but about 7 or 8 years ago I was on a league team with some older rather savory characters and we had to play an away match at a place I had never heard of. I knew it was gonna be interesting because as we were in the parking lot getting into our cars 3 out of the 4 of them pulled a pistol from either inside their vehicle or from a holster on their body checked to make sure it was loaded and re holstered before they got in the car. :D

The place was a hell hole but we made it out without any shots being fired :D
 
I played in a tiny hole in the wall (literally) in Winder, Georgia that had 5 or 6 bar tables, I do not think it actually had a name. There were no windows, it was kind of like a large shed and it was very smokey. They had (have?) a weekly tournament and there were about 30 or more players crowed in there. There was alsoa young couple who was there with their newborn baby. I kept thinking of Reese Witherspoon, "You have a baby, in a bar"

I also have to say, the Marietta Billiard Club, (yes Johnny and Kim's new room) their women's bathroom rivals some of the worst I can remember on NY's lower east side. It is always filthy, with graffiti, faucets that spray water like a fire hose and your lucky to find paper towels or toilet paper. It was not great before they bought the room but it has steadily gotten worse. I think you can tell a lot by a pool rooms bathrooms. Which is why I no longer order food when I go there.
 
Connie's Hideaway

Connie's Hideaway in Shreveport, La. 3 tables, all of them have 3" or more of roll off. Balls are filthy, but hey the cloth is clean.

Everytime it rains, water drips close to the head rail so when someone breaks we have to hold a towel above them to catch the water.

Last week I had to slow roll a long rail shot with the ob frozen on the rail, just past the side pocket, ob started rolling off and ended up halfway betweeen the first and second diamond.
 
The Cue Club in Las Vegas... the place had a good layout & could be a great place to find action, of any kind.

The place was filthy & the bathrooms were absolutely "hazardous to your health".
 
Another dirty hell hole is Palace Billiards, Missoula, MT. Walked in, walked out, no thanks. Could be a Great Room with some TLC.
 
Oddball said:
The Fat Cat in New York City. The cloths are so worn and messed up with spilled drinks, it would be better to just play on the slate.


Fat Cat used to be Tekk Billiards back in the 80s. It was one of the premier rooms in NYC.
 
TX Poolnut said:
I played in a tournament once at a now closed bar that had a roof leak above one of the bar boxes. They used the half wet table for the tournament. TERRIBLE. I won a 95 dollar 8-on-the-break pot though. :)


I was playing at the Bellagio a couple years ago when someone dumped there coke across the table....the dealer just kept dealing the cards...The player that dumped the coke had to "go get" a towel to try and dry it up.

Needles to say the cards stuck to the table and got all wet...Menwhile there was at least 5 other completly empty tables we could have moved to....

After about 4 or 5 hands I realized they had not intentions of chaning the table (or the cards) so I got up and left...(too many other poker rooms in that town to put up with that)

...Oh wait..this was about the worst pool room....never mind...;)
 
BRKNRUN said:
I was playing at the Bellagio a couple years ago when someone dumped there coke across the table....the dealer just kept dealing the cards...The player that dumped the coke had to "go get" a towel to try and dry it up.

Needles to say the cards stuck to the table and got all wet...Menwhile there was at least 5 other completly empty tables we could have moved to....

After about 4 or 5 hands I realized they had not intentions of chaning the table (or the cards) so I got up and left...(too many other poker rooms in that town to put up with that)

...Oh wait..this was about the worst pool room....never mind...;)


Yeah, Bellagio is a dump. It smells there.
 
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