Phoenix trip

[jtompilot]

I had a surprise trip to Phoenix so I called out the usual suspects.

Tres on Friday at Bull Shooter’s. After a bit of a slow start Tres started banking and running balls like a mad man. Fun day

Saturday starting out at the gun range with my son and granddaughter. After that I was off to play Frank da Barber. Frank scalped me with a fine set of scissors. Frank still has the magic.

After dinner with my daughter, across from the hotel is Metro Sports loaded with Blue label Diamonds. Played some guy named John Smith till I almost passed out from exhaustion. John is from the Chicago area and knows Ike and Jamie Farrel.

 

[lll]

I had a surprise trip to Phoenix so I called out the usual suspects.

Tres on Friday at Bull Shooter’s. After a bit of a slow start Tres started banking and running balls like a mad man. Fun day

Saturday starting out at the gun range with my son and granddaughter. After that I was off to play Frank da Barber. Frank scalped me with a fine set of scissors. Frank still has the magic.

After dinner with my daughter, across from the hotel is Metro Sports loaded with Blue label Diamonds. Played some guy named John Smith till I almost passed out from exhaustion. John is from the Chicago area and knows Ike and Jamie Farrel.

great to hear frank is doing well and still hitting them pretty sporty.....

 

[Frank Almanza]

Your visits are always a pleasure. Your are a true gentleman to play with. Next time we need to made some time for a relaxing dinner. Take care.

 

[Nick B]

Right side. Wrong Quadrant. You gotta come up a little North of that.

 

[RabbiHippie]

Main Street Billiards in Mesa is one of my favorite places to play. Haven't been there in about three years, but they have three action tables with 4.25" pockets and a heated billiards table. All Diamond's except for a 5' x 10' Brunswick Gold Crown snooker table that I never saw get much use.

I guess it depends on your flight schedule, but Phoenix-Mesa Gateway (AZA) would put you in the area.

 

[jrhendy]

Main Street Billiards in Mesa is one of my favorite places to play. Haven't been there in about three years, but they have three action tables with 4.25" pockets and a heated billiards table. All Diamond's except for a 5' x 10' Brunswick Gold Crown snooker table that I never saw get much use.

I guess it depends on your flight schedule, but Phoenix-Mesa Gateway (AZA) would put you in the area.

Do they still have a 5 x 10 snooker table there? My son moved to Mesa last week and I will be making a trip somewhere dow the road.

 

[RabbiHippie]

Do they still have a 5 x 10 snooker table there? My son moved to Mesa last week and I will be making a trip somewhere dow the road.

They had a snooker table three years ago when I was last there. In fact, there may have been two snooker tables. They were to the left as you come in the entrance, on the same side as the billiard table. There's an "action pit" with three tight Diamonds in the middle. To the right are the 7' Diamond bar boxes.

Lots of people up for One Pocket action there. Bobby Emmons was the best that I saw in person. They play a very offensive style there. A good mover could probably shake things up a bit. The counterman during the day was a guy named Rivera. One of the friendliest I ever ran across and a good player in his own right.

 

[RabbiHippie]

There's a private snooker club in Chandler called Arizona Snooker Academy that's open 24-hours to members. Looks like the address is 470 E Warner Rd., Suite 1 in Chandler. Never been there myself but I called once and it's a bit pricey. $120/month plus $20/hour if I remember right. But the tables are 6' x 12' heated STAR tables like they use on the pro tour. Jamaica Joe's in OKC used to have one. (That's the table pictured in my profile.) The guy who owns the club is the North American distributor. He quoted me the "sucker" price of $24k for one but it was obvious he'd come down.

I'd try haggling over the hourly rate if you care to check it out. Those tables are a dream to play on.

 

[vapros]

If you follow the 10-ball matches from the Philippines on YouTube, they are nearly always on Star tables. Reyes and Bustamante are very often in action there these days. Some of the youngsters give Bata a game or two on the wire, going to about 21. The tables seem to play very well.

 

[jrhendy]

They had a snooker table three years ago when I was last there. In fact, there may have been two snooker tables. They were to the left as you come in the entrance, on the same side as the billiard table. There's an "action pit" with three tight Diamonds in the middle. To the right are the 7' Diamond bar boxes.

Lots of people up for One Pocket action there. Bobby Emmons was the best that I saw in person. They play a very offensive style there. A good mover could probably shake things up a bit. The counterman during the day was a guy named Rivera. One of the friendliest I ever ran across and a good player in his own right.

I played most of the one pocket players there a few years back. That area is great for one pocket. Bobby and I played a few times. I was thinking I might take my son and play a little golf on the 5 x 10 when I get there. The snooker tables at a club would have the bi-directional snooker cloth on them, and no good for golf. Most of the snooker tables they play golf on have billiard cloth.

 

[jtompilot]

I played most of the one pocket players there a few years back. That area is great for one pocket. Bobby and I played a few times. I was thinking I might take my son and play a little golf on the 5 x 10 when I get there. The snooker tables at a club would have the bi-directional snooker cloth on them, and no good for golf. Most of the snooker tables they play golf on have billiard cloth.

There’s three snooker tables and two billiard tables at Sun City. You’ll have to get Frank to escort you in.

 

[RabbiHippie]

The snooker table at Jamaica Joe's had Strachan cloth which I imagine had a nap on it as @jrhendy mentioned, but there were definitely some high-dollar Golf games played on it. I didn't particularly notice any difference, except that it played fast with the heated surface, but then I wasn't really paying attention going up-table. I think I just set out a few reds and blacks around the foot of the table and maybe ran the colors off their spots. I enjoyed playing on that table but I have met up with some Golfers who didn't care for it. It was set aside in an alcove dedicated to Herman the German.

 

[RabbiHippie]

There’s three snooker tables and two billiard tables at Sun City. You’ll have to get Frank to escort you in.

That reminds me that there's a big money Golf game at Highpockets in Memphis that's in a separate room where you have to be invited in. Something to keep in mind if you happen to be coming to the MOT at Southaven Recreation.

 

[Frank Almanza]

Do they still have a 5 x 10 snooker table there? My son moved to Mesa last week and I will be making a trip somewhere dow the road.

They now have a 5x10 snooker table at Bullshooters and I heard it was the one that was at Main Street. I saw a couple of two handed games at Bullshooters for 1k.

 

[crabbcatjohn]

That reminds me that there's a big money Golf game at Highpockets in Memphis that's in a separate room where you have to be invited in. Something to keep in mind if you happen to be coming to the MOT at Southaven Recreation.

After yrs of playing in a Golf game 3-4 days a week I could hold my own and even made a huge score the week before I moved here.
Went to Colorado 5 or 6 yrs ago and played in the regular golf game with the fellas. After a 15 yr layoff I found out I had forgotten the nuances of the game and sold out both games. One guy will probably never talk to me again...lol Good thing it was cheap stakes. I'm a retired Golfer now...

 

[jrhendy]

After yrs of playing in a Golf game 3-4 days a week I could hold my own and even made a huge score the week before I moved here.
Went to Colorado 5 or 6 yrs ago and played in the regular golf game with the fellas. After a 15 yr layoff I found out I had forgotten the nuances of the game and sold out both games. One guy will probably never talk to me again...lol Good thing it was cheap stakes. I'm a retired Golfer now...

Colorado played a lot off golf when I went through there in the 80’s. Family Fun Center in Denver and The Bowling Alley in Colorado Springs we’re a couple.

 

[RabbiHippie]

Went to Colorado 5 or 6 yrs ago and played in the regular golf game with the fellas. After a 15 yr layoff I found out I had forgotten the nuances of the game and sold out both games. One guy will probably never talk to me again...lol Good thing it was cheap stakes. I'm a retired Golfer now...

I like snooker but never really cared for Golf. I might like it better now that I've (1) learned to appreciate Golf's moving aspects from playing One Pocket and (2) have become one of the old guys myself.

At Jamaica Joe's in OKC, I watched the old guys and their Golf game on the 6x12 table for a while and almost accepted their invitation to join just for the hell of it. That changed when I naively asked "What are you playing for? Dime a hickey?" (Those were the stakes in all the games I'd ever been in.) The best shooter there kinda sheepishly said "We used to play for that" and then told me their "dimes" were now $10. I bowed out after that.

 

[crabbcatjohn]

Colorado played a lot off golf when I went through there in the 80’s. Family Fun Center in Denver and The Bowling Alley in Colorado Springs we’re a couple.

Lol...That was a long time ago they had that game at the bowling alley. I was in my 20's . I barely played pool then and had never played on a 9ft before I went there a few times. But that game endured and I ended up learning and playing with those guys 15 yrs later when the alley closed and it moved. One is still alive and Hustling 9 ball well into his 90's.

 

[RabbiHippie]

Not having much experience with Golf, I'd love to pick you guys' brain--but know better than to ask you to give up your hard-won secrets.

I will ask this, though ...

How common is a run-out of all six holes? I saw a very good player do it once thirty years ago and was impressed. That man has since died but I ran into a room owner who knew him a couple years ago. When I mentioned the run-out he'd made, the owner shrugged it off and said "Ahh, we all can do that." Wish I had the presence of mind to challenge him on that for a proposition bet at the time. I think my money would've been pretty secure giving odds against him doing it as many times as he cared to try. And he was cocky enough to probably bite although nowhere near the shooter the other guy was.

 

[jtompilot]

Not having much experience with Golf, I'd love to pick you guys' brain--but know better than to ask you to give up your hard-won secrets.

I will ask this, though ...

How common is a run-out of all six holes? I saw a very good player do it once thirty years ago and was impressed. That man has since died but I ran into a room owner who knew him a couple years ago. When I mentioned the run-out he'd made, the owner shrugged it off and said "Ahh, we all can do that." Wish I had the presence of mind to challenge him on that for a proposition bet at the time. I think my money would've been pretty secure giving odds against him doing it as many times as he cared to try. And he was cocky enough to probably bite although nowhere near the shooter the other guy was.

My first trip to OKC 37 years ago I played a guy who ran all six holes. Cheapest golf game ever, no hickies.