"The coding and pool savant created Chalkysticks, an app that uses user data and secret analytics to help map every billiards table in the world. The Lull Since the early 2000s, the number of pool/billiards tables across the city has started to dwindle either because bar owners removed them, or watering holes offering them shut down altogether, like The Bridge on Broadway in the Bronx and the R Bar on Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn."
"One day, Kenefick was watching a friend's regional pool match in Midtown and tried to find a place nearby to shoot a few games when he realized there was no comprehensive search. I thought, I can't be the only person who wants this and it doesn't exist, so someone else must want it,' and I like to make stuff, so that was what I made, Kenefick said of launching ChalkySticks in 2013, which has since mapped nearly 10,000 tables from Manhattan to Madrid and places in between."
Tap A Keg is an Upper West Side bar on Broadway off 104th Street with a competitive pool scene and regular league competitions. Matt John Kenefick created ChalkySticks in 2013, an app that uses user data and analytics to map billiards tables worldwide, now approaching nearly 10,000 entries from Manhattan to Madrid. Pool and billiards table numbers in the city have declined since the early 2000s as bars removed tables or venues closed. Kenefick is a technical creative director with 30 years of software experience who first played pool as a child and seeks to grow and encourage the sport.
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