tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37729425.post5572591508471922583..comments2024-02-23T11:50:45.274+00:00Comments on The Ham and Egger Files: Bar Billiards at the King Charles I pub in LondonRichard Gottfriedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15251803061638754995noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37729425.post-7236770299520799932016-05-28T15:54:50.733+01:002016-05-28T15:54:50.733+01:00Back in 2013 I was playing Bar Billiards against B...<a href="http://hamandeggerfiles.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/bar-billiards-in-jersey-channel-islands.html" rel="nofollow">Back in 2013 I was playing Bar Billiards against Brad 'The Fist' Shepherd at the Charles II in London when a pub character told us about a table at the Dog & Sausage pub in St Helier, Jersey.<br /><br />On our holiday earlier this week we popped into the pub hoping for a game. Only to find that the table had been removed.</a>Richard Gottfriedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15251803061638754995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37729425.post-34798812998480682812013-03-22T11:12:05.911+00:002013-03-22T11:12:05.911+00:00The latest round of Bar Billiards matches at the K...The latest round of <a href="http://hamandeggerfiles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/bar-billiards-at-king-charles-i-pub-in.html" rel="nofollow">Bar Billiards matches at the King Charles I pub</a> in London’s Kings Cross area saw me and Brad joined by fellow semi-pro Minigolfer Gareth ‘The Owl’ Holmes.<br /><br />Having enjoyed a big win in the <a href="http://www.davy.co.uk/tapster" rel="nofollow">Davy’s Tapster wine bar</a> quiz earlier in the evening – a comprehensive victory with 74 points out of 75 and defeating the next closest team by three points – we’d enjoyed our prize of the bottle of Champers which left Emily in no condition to perform and happy enough to eat a Burrito and spectate. So the Bar Billiards games would be three-player ones.<br /><br />In game one – a triple-threat match – Brad scored 90 points, while Gareth wiped-out (twice), firstly losing his score of 180 on the sudden-death black-peg shot and then wiping out his nought to stay on zero. I won the game with a total of 550 points.<br /><br />In game two – a three-way-dance – Brad bested me and Gareth with a winning score of 600 points, to my 320 and Gareth’s zilch having wiped-out twice again! This time he lost a score of 230 points.<br /><br />In the final game of the evening – a three-player Hurricane match – Brad again picked up the win, this time with a score of 380 points. Gareth finished the game picking up 350 points, including the 200 points he picked up for potting the final ball. I scored a terribly miserable nil having had the worst game of my Bar Billiards ‘career’.<br /><br />Another great evening out.<br /><br /><b>Photos:</b><br /><a href="http://yfrog.com/m9lq2wj" rel="nofollow">Praying for a wipe-out</a><br /><br /><a href="http://yfrog.com/j8r4u6j" rel="nofollow">It worked :-)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://yfrog.com/f57owfj" rel="nofollow">A worrying turn of events in this Bar Billiards match-up!</a>Richard Gottfriedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15251803061638754995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37729425.post-88935446346845592862013-03-15T11:28:07.847+00:002013-03-15T11:28:07.847+00:00Latest Bar Billiards results from the King Charles...Latest Bar Billiards results from the King Charles I pub in London:<br /><br />Game 1 – I beat Brad Shepherd 740 points to 460 having hit the 200-points shot in the sudden-death shoot-out.<br /><br />Game 2 – I defeated Brad and a local player called Henry having scored 200-points to take the win 570, to Brad’s 60 and Henry’s 490.<br /><br />Games 3 – With Henry wiping out a score of 90 and me wiping out a score of 410 in sudden-death Brad picked up the victory with a score of 510.<br /><br />Prior to arriving at the King Charles I we had tried to get a game in three other pubs to no avail.<br /><br />The (<a href="http://hamandeggerfiles.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/more-bar-billiards-in-london.html" rel="nofollow">previously visited</a>) Cheshire Cheese near Temple had a meeting booked in the games room so everything was off limits.<br /><br />The Bishop's Finger in Smithfield hasn't got a table. I spoke with the landlady and while she knew of the game said there hadn't been a table at the pub in her two years in charge.<br /><br />The Clerkenwell House pub has closed down.<br /><br /><a href="http://barbilliards.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=capital" rel="nofollow">The British Bar Billiards Forum has a list of Tables in London as well as details of people's investigations</a>. Well worth a look if you fancy a game in London.Richard Gottfriedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15251803061638754995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37729425.post-29450058490664439242013-02-27T22:47:57.864+00:002013-02-27T22:47:57.864+00:00On a recent visit to the King Charles I pub in Lon...On a recent visit to the King Charles I pub in London Brad Shepherd and I faced-off in three more Bar Billiards games.<br /><br />In game one I won 830 to nil after Brad wiped-out a total of 550 by knocking over the black peg in the sudden-death shoot-out.<br /><br />In game two Brad gained a measure of revenge with a win 230 to zero after I wiped-out a score of 600 on the black peg in the sudden-death shoot-out.<br /><br />In our final game of the evening I picked up another victory with a 960 to 250 scoreline. This game was wrapped-up by Brad scoring two white balls in the 10-point holes, which meant the game didn't need to go to sudden-death.<br /><br />Another great hour or so of a brilliant pub sport. Looking forward to our next games.Richard Gottfriedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15251803061638754995noreply@blogger.com