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Billiards 31 aka Samwon Billiards

4.6 (54 reviews)
InexpensivePool Halls
Open 2:00 pm - 1:00 am (Next day)

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Amy T.

Private lot with a dozen spaces. Gets crowded quickly in the evening. Free snacks and $1-2 soda/water/gatorade. At only $10/hr, they also prorate. I noticed the nice timer next to your table that indicates how much time you have been tracked to have used so far. Really cool! Cue sticks are pretty worn but the balls and table are still in decent shape. Everyone that comes here seems laidback and just wanna have a good time.

Corner table on a Saturday night!
Ken O.

Played pool there last week and it was good. Tables fair to middling, staff awesome and ambiance you'd expect at a pool hall. I'm going back tonight and will update if anything changes in this review. Cheer!

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Sam R.

I go here Everytime with my buddies and everyone's hella friendly and have good vibes. The price is fair and the owners always nice. 10/10

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1 year ago

Was OK. Not very big tables........................tables were mostly small. I was visiting and they wanted me to become a member to play.

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Great amount of tables, good music and plenty of snacks! The guy at the front is AWESOME!!! extremely nice human.

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2 years ago

Some snacks and sodas for sale. Two huge lots for parking. Chill crowd and friendly service.

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1 year ago

It has a lot of potential. Needs more music. Aside from that, good big tables, nice ambiance, and friendly staff. Parking is always good.

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Average place with pretty nice tables. Interesting aura.staff was pretty standard. If you're looking to just play pool, here you go.

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2 years ago

Awesome billiards hall. Teens are welcome. Staff is welcoming. Place is safe. Plenty of tables. Call ahead to save a table.

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2 years ago

friendly and open atmosphere! kind and accommodating service. gem in the middle of oakland

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Super chill billiards hall with great management, love coming here to get some games inz

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Met up with some friends here and had such a fun time... pool, bring your own drinks, and free candy! What more can you ask for?

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5 years ago

Love, love love. Clean tables, Super nice staff and free candy ! I ate about 20 jolly ranchers .

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This place is the best when you just wanna kick back and play some pool. The free snacks make it hella nice.

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This is a nice size Billards room the service is pretty laid-back. Real easy to talk to pretty cool…read more& fast

-We wanted to have a work happy hour here for a party of about 15 people and I saw on their website…read morethat you need to make a reservation for larger parties. I made a reservation on yelp for 5 people (the maximum yelp will allow) since they weren't open for me to call and give our accurate number. -I called the day before our event and spoke with someone over the phone. I gave my name and the updated amount of people and he said we were all set. I received two confirmation emails for my reservation. -I received a phone call the day of my reservation asking for me to confirm (again) and a text. The text said to either confirm by calling or texting that number. I confirmed through text pretty immediately. -4 of us arrived at 3:30pm, the place was locked and closed. I called the number that called me earlier and no one picked up. When someone did answer, he said they would send someone over to help us. Someone from the cannabis spot came over and told me that I didn't confirm and that they were closed. After me being adamant that I did confirm, he reluctantly opened the doors. It was dead silent in there, the guy seemed irritated with us and then told us they would only have beers and shots. We left and had our happy hour at Honor Bar and they accomodated us and treated us like we weren't a nuisance. -All in all, it was a bad experience and the staff (at least the one person who talked to us) seemed annoyed by our presence and appeared to want me to be apologetic for their mistake. We were just a group of teachers ready to spend some money and decompress. Terrible customer service.

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