Worst Poolhall In America!!!

sixpack said:
There was also a time when a friend of mine and I went to a bar table tourney at a bar we'd never been to. We paid our entry fee, warmed up a couple of games and then waited for our matches.

We wait and wait and finally notice that some people are playing their second matches so we go to the tournament director and had the following conversation:

me: Are we almost up yet?
TD: What's your name?....nope, you're not in the tournament?
Me: Huh? We paid our entry, we've been waiting for our matches.
TD: Hey Joe, did these guys enter the tourney?
Joe: Yep.
TD: How come they aren't on the bracket?
Joe: Mike and Steve showed up late so I put them in instead.
Me: HUH?
TD: Sorry, you're not in the tournament.
Joe: They're regulars.
Me: ....rest deleted to keep this thread PG. :)

We were pleasantly not invited back.

First of all, to do that, but second to not even mention it so that we stood around and waited. That place soon thereafter lost it's lease (not my doing, I swear :D) and the new place played strictly BCA rules, which the no-safety allowed players hated and soon quit coming altogether.

Cheers,
RC
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:eek: Now that is what you call getting screwed. Sounds like that place got what they deserved.:)
 
SixPack,
I think I know the place you are talking about. I used to live in Aurora Co.
 
Sorry to hear that happened to you Jaden. There's lot of places to play up there though? Atleast if you head north instead of south.. I'm kinda surprised you'd keep going back to a place that you weren't happy with?

DJ
 
sixpack said:
There was also a time when a friend of mine and I went to a bar table tourney at a bar we'd never been to. We paid our entry fee, warmed up a couple of games and then waited for our matches.

We wait and wait and finally notice that some people are playing their second matches so we go to the tournament director and had the following conversation:

me: Are we almost up yet?
TD: What's your name?....nope, you're not in the tournament?
Me: Huh? We paid our entry, we've been waiting for our matches.
TD: Hey Joe, did these guys enter the tourney?
Joe: Yep.
TD: How come they aren't on the bracket?
Joe: Mike and Steve showed up late so I put them in instead.
Me: HUH?
TD: Sorry, you're not in the tournament.
Joe: They're regulars.
Me: ....rest deleted to keep this thread PG. :)
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I certainly hope they gave you your entry fees back, at least...?

And I, too, would be interested to learn the name of this Aurora joint... :P
 
Worst Bathroom In Any Bar I Ever Hustled In.

Excerpt from upcoming book, The GosPool:

Mobster, Al Milstein's all-night hillbilly bar on Roosevelt and Cicero Ave. in Cicero, IL You needed galoshes and a gas mask just to take a leak. Since I had neither, when I had to go, I would take a deep breath, hold it, run into the toilet on my tippy toes, and get the work done as quickly as possible, hopefully before I had to take another breath. I used to marvel at the hillbilly drunks that were actually able to lollygag and carry on lengthy conversations while in there.

the Beard
 
freddy the beard said:
Excerpt from upcoming book, The GosPool:

Mobster, Al Milstein's all-night hillbilly bar on Roosevelt and Cicero Ave. in Cicero, IL You needed galoshes and a gas mask just to take a leak. Since I had neither, when I had to go, I would take a deep breath, hold it, run into the toilet on my tippy toes, and get the work done as quickly as possible, hopefully before I had to take another breath. I used to marvel at the hillbilly drunks that were actually able to lollygag and carry on lengthy conversations while in there.

the Beard
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Ive been in a few places like that. A place that when you leave you rush to the ER to get a Tetanus shot.
 
they thought you were a pool shark, so they gave you a hard time. Happens all the time at small comps.....:cool:
 
i think the worst pool hall in the WORLD starts with an M as is located in fairfield ohio. they charged my buddy 25 cents for a piece of chalk. they made me put down apiece of cloth to break off of. the drug addict at the counter sleeps under the counter.the owner has said publicly that serious pool players are more trouble than their worth that kids and homies pay the bills. half the clientele are probably not legal us citizens needless to say i don't go there anymore
 
your sure as #@!%$ right about that one. not to mention the fact that they welcome you to leave your pool cue behind the counter whenever you leave so you can return only to find out that it's been stolen. The sign says $3 50 AN hour but it's usually more like $5 50 an hour when you take into account their employees math skills; unless they're just flat out screwing you. But I will say it's the most convenient place to score some...anything you want... good priced too.
 
forgot about the overcharging there sure is no fair in fairfield. don't forget the world champion that used to hang out there giving the kids FREE lessons till the new owners were too cheap to even give him a cup of coffee.
 
ScottW said:
I certainly hope they gave you your entry fees back, at least...?

And I, too, would be interested to learn the name of this Aurora joint... :P
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They finally gave us our entries back, but they didn't plan on it at first.

The name of the place in Aurora was...I can't remember for sure :(

I think it was on Havana and it was downstairs in a basement. Maybe Rack-em? You guys that live there can probably help me out here.

The other one was in Golden and called the American Eagle bar. Now it's been replaced with Woody's pizza. A great place for pizza, pool and brew.


Another one that I just remembered was also in Golden at the Buffalo Rose. We played in a $5 8-ball tourney there. They had no concept of 'byes' or 'brackets' at all. They drew each round. Gets down to three players left. My buddy and two other guys. They drew to see who played who, the other two guys drew each other and played for first & second, my buddy, by virtue of the draw, got third place without playing. Talk about pissed off! I'm laughing my ass off now just thinking about it. He was strutting around saying "I haven't lost a game all night and I got third."


Cheers,
RC
 
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