One Pocket Ghost
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Sorry for starting another thread, but I didn't want this info to get lost in the shuffle.
Was too tired last night to write this because I just had got home from battling Chicago Mike for 6 hours.
Before I contributed to this cluster-fukk, re Chris's Billiards, I wanted to talk to Buddy/owner of Chris's Billiards...
So yesterday I told Buddy (who I've known for about 30 years) about the tournament and not only is he cool with hosting the tournament, he enthusiastically wants to host it.....to quote him, he jokingly said to me "Bring it on - It'd be good to see some new faces around here for a few days - I'm tired of looking at all of you regulars ugly mugs"
Ok then, facts and my comments:
1. Chris's is a historic old school poolroom (the poolroom where about 18 yrs. ago Alex Pagulayan first started playing One Pocket - with me for $10 a game
) well worth seeing if you've never been.
2. As I already said, Buddy is more than happy to have us, and when I asked him if $30 a man green fees seemed reasonable to him for his end, he said "That's fine, hell, they can even give me $20 a man." And he doesn't care what month it is.
3A. Chris's is located just a short drive down the freeway from O'Hare International Airport for those who would be flying in.
3B. There are no motels very close to Chris's...the closest are a decent budget motel, and a more upscale Holiday Inn - both approx. 2-3 miles away.
4. As has been mentioned by a couple of other posters, Chris's does not have a bar or cafe/restaurant so the only small meals that they have are hot dogs, tamales/tacos, and frozen pizzas ... but, Buddy has no problem with people bringing in their own food and liquor - everybody does it ... just 50 feet down the block from Chris's entrance is a liquor store...
... and, as for food, directly across the street from Chris's is a Chinese takeout restaurant, two blocks away is a Polish home cooking restaurant, 5 blocks away is a restaurant that has some of the best slabs of ribs in Chicago, 8 blocks away is a fish market that sells delicious 1/2 lb.- 1 lb. French fried shrimp and/or scallops to go in paper bags, and, lastly, there's an Italian pizzeria nearby with super great pizza that we always order from.
5. Chris's is totally non-smoking.
6. Chris's has plenty of tables - approx. 25 9 ft. tables, a mixture of Gold Crowns and Diamonds, 8 Diamond bar tables, 5 three-cushion tables, and one 6 x 12 snooker table.
A couple of other things: as regards Jerry's neighborhood safety concern ... that's laughable where Chris's is concerned - Chris's is located in a middle-class residential neighborhood - the kind of neighborhood where city workers (like cops and firemen, etc.) live. Directly across the street from Chris's is a big nice neighborhood park, and next door is the local firehouse.
Another thing that Chris's Billiards has in spades (that most other poolrooms don't have) is excellent, plentiful seating around all the tables. There are 3 to 6 comfortable stadium chairs around every table, and, personally, I think this is huge, especially for an event like ours, cuz this lets lots of us guys have good seating to sweat other people's matches - I'm attaching a couple of pictures to show this and to show part of the poolroom - the room that you are seeing in these two pics, is one of three separate rooms that make up Chris's Billiards.
If there's anything I've forgotten to mention, let me know.
Lastly, if Chris's gets chosen, I will help out where needed - anybody can pm or call me for info re. transportation, lodging, etc. etc.....and I've been talking to Matt and we'd work together.
- Ghost
PS, That's onepocket.org members Clyde and Tom in the first pic.
Was too tired last night to write this because I just had got home from battling Chicago Mike for 6 hours.
Before I contributed to this cluster-fukk, re Chris's Billiards, I wanted to talk to Buddy/owner of Chris's Billiards...
So yesterday I told Buddy (who I've known for about 30 years) about the tournament and not only is he cool with hosting the tournament, he enthusiastically wants to host it.....to quote him, he jokingly said to me "Bring it on - It'd be good to see some new faces around here for a few days - I'm tired of looking at all of you regulars ugly mugs"
Ok then, facts and my comments:
1. Chris's is a historic old school poolroom (the poolroom where about 18 yrs. ago Alex Pagulayan first started playing One Pocket - with me for $10 a game
) well worth seeing if you've never been.2. As I already said, Buddy is more than happy to have us, and when I asked him if $30 a man green fees seemed reasonable to him for his end, he said "That's fine, hell, they can even give me $20 a man." And he doesn't care what month it is.
3A. Chris's is located just a short drive down the freeway from O'Hare International Airport for those who would be flying in.
3B. There are no motels very close to Chris's...the closest are a decent budget motel, and a more upscale Holiday Inn - both approx. 2-3 miles away.
4. As has been mentioned by a couple of other posters, Chris's does not have a bar or cafe/restaurant so the only small meals that they have are hot dogs, tamales/tacos, and frozen pizzas ... but, Buddy has no problem with people bringing in their own food and liquor - everybody does it ... just 50 feet down the block from Chris's entrance is a liquor store...
... and, as for food, directly across the street from Chris's is a Chinese takeout restaurant, two blocks away is a Polish home cooking restaurant, 5 blocks away is a restaurant that has some of the best slabs of ribs in Chicago, 8 blocks away is a fish market that sells delicious 1/2 lb.- 1 lb. French fried shrimp and/or scallops to go in paper bags, and, lastly, there's an Italian pizzeria nearby with super great pizza that we always order from.
5. Chris's is totally non-smoking.
6. Chris's has plenty of tables - approx. 25 9 ft. tables, a mixture of Gold Crowns and Diamonds, 8 Diamond bar tables, 5 three-cushion tables, and one 6 x 12 snooker table.
A couple of other things: as regards Jerry's neighborhood safety concern ... that's laughable where Chris's is concerned - Chris's is located in a middle-class residential neighborhood - the kind of neighborhood where city workers (like cops and firemen, etc.) live. Directly across the street from Chris's is a big nice neighborhood park, and next door is the local firehouse.
Another thing that Chris's Billiards has in spades (that most other poolrooms don't have) is excellent, plentiful seating around all the tables. There are 3 to 6 comfortable stadium chairs around every table, and, personally, I think this is huge, especially for an event like ours, cuz this lets lots of us guys have good seating to sweat other people's matches - I'm attaching a couple of pictures to show this and to show part of the poolroom - the room that you are seeing in these two pics, is one of three separate rooms that make up Chris's Billiards.
If there's anything I've forgotten to mention, let me know.
Lastly, if Chris's gets chosen, I will help out where needed - anybody can pm or call me for info re. transportation, lodging, etc. etc.....and I've been talking to Matt and we'd work together.
- Ghost
PS, That's onepocket.org members Clyde and Tom in the first pic.
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