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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2004
Patrons of The Pool Room, on 9th and Iowa streets, shoot billiards. In addition to billiards, The Pool Room also hosts Texas Hold 'Em Poker on Wednesdays and Sundays at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
John Tran/KANSAN
Pool sharks get fill at Pool Room
BV JENNIFER SHER
sher@kansan.com
KANSAAN SWATERSPORT
Fighting for the one pool table in the bar gets old. But The Pool Room, located behind the Community Mercantile at Ninth and Iowa streets, relieves these woes.
The Pool Room offers more than 28 tables, including nine-foot-long tables, bar boxes and one snooker table, with smaller-than-normal balls. The two-room bar provides two full-service bars and plenty of space.
Server Josie Nixon, Hillsboro senior, said The Pool Room was an ideal spot for those looking for a good time.
"We offer a friendly wait staff.
plenty of pool tables and inexpressive drinks," Nixon said.
The array of drink specials include 2-for-1 wells on Mondays, $2 Bully pints on Fridays and $5 pitchers every day of Miller High Life and Pabst Red Ribbon.
"We get a good diverse crowd in here, especially with the drink specials and cheap pool. It is so ideal for the college student on a budget." Nixon said.
The Pool Room offers free pool after midnight Sunday through Thursday. All other times it costs 25 cents for nine ball and 50 cents for eight ball.
The Pool Room's basementlike atmosphere includes a fireplace, jukebox and an abundance of video games. The bar
also has three jumbo televisions.
Kansas graduate Chris Dover said he really enjoyed what The Pool Room had to offer.
"It is a great place for my buddies and I to play pool without feeling rushed to finish for the next players," Dover said. "Also, the food is pretty good and so are the drinks."
The Hole in the Wall Grill, in The Pool Room, offers regular bar food, including burgers, hot dogs and fried goods. The kitchen is open until 1 a.m. daily.
The Pool Room offers two leagues. The amateur pool league is for beginners, and the straight pool league is for the more advanced. The Billiard Congress of America league is forming now at The Pool Room. Members of
THE POOL ROOM
WHAT: More than 28 pool tables, daily drink specials, full-service kitchen
WHERE: 925 Iowa St.
HOURS: Monday through Thursday 2 p.m. to 2 a.m., Friday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.
A: There's definitely a lot more of them. The girls here are pretty good-looking though.
the leagues play half-pool price.
Tournaments are played weekly.
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With plenty of tables, great food and unbeatable drink prices, The Pool Room is the perfect hot spot of the week.
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Q: What do you plan to do after college?
A: Right now I'm trying to get into the business school, so hopefully I'd like to do business management or something like that.
Q: In your free time, what do you like to do in Lawrence?
A: I like to hang out with the guys on the team and playing Playstation.
Ω: What are your goals in life?
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A: Individually, I just want to help my teammates get better and make sure I'm a scorer for our team.
A: Running-wise, in high school our track team won 11-consecutive state titles so I was pretty proud of that fact.
Q: What are you most proud of?
Q: Being a fresman from Nebraska, what's your opinion about K-State and Missouri?
A: Being from Nebraska we hated K-State anyway, so that worked out pretty nice, but I never had much against Missouri and now I do.
Q: Do you ever get sick of running?
Q: What do you think about when you're running?
A: You can get tired of it, but it's one of those things you just kind of develop a passion for over the years, so not really.
Q: Would running in the Olympics be a reasonable goal for you?
A: When you're racing, you just think about going faster or trying to push yourself.
A: Maybe, that's a long way off but it's pretty cool because Charlie Gruber is around here and he was just in the
Olympics, so it's definitely something to keep in mind. But making it to the Olympics is pretty amazing.
Q: How do you like living away from your family?
A: It's nice not having my mom nagging at me for everything, so that's pretty cool.
Q: Is the team a pretty tight group when you're not running?
Q: Do you get a hard time for being a freshman?
A: Yeah we are, even the older guys — they're pretty cool to the freshman and we hang out a lot, so it's a pretty good time.
A: It's not too bad. Actually, there's not initiation crap, so that makes it a lot nicer.
Q: What's the best sport at the University?
A: I'm a big Husker fan for football, so I'm gonna have to go with the men's basketball team, but track's coming up — track's making a run for it.
Q: What kind of music do you like?
A: I like classic rock like Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, Eagles. They are probably my three favorite bands.
Q: How will the team finish this year?
A: I think we got a really good shot. Colorado is really good at cross country so hopefully we can finish second in the Big 12 and we'd like to be a top-20 team at nationals.
Q: Will you be the best runner on the team in a year or two?
A: I don't know, we have a lot of good runners and Benson is only a sophomore, but you'd like to see yourself be the top guy; that's what you shoot for, it's a goal.
Kucera is an Omaha, Neb., junior in journalism.
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