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Wearing ordinary clothes to play pool.
In order to win a game of American pool, you need
to be faster than your opponent in pocketing all 7 of your pool balls
and pocketing the black ball last. According to a customer at the pool
hall who is familiar with American pool, Vivian's pool playing skills
is considered to be quite good. Her highest shooting streak was 3 balls
in a row.
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Joe Ngai Jan had said before that opening a pool
hall was his second dream after courting Vivian Chow. At the beginning
of January, his dream came true, as he opened an American pool hall together
with his two friends at the King's Hotel in Wan Chai. In order to attract
customers, Joe 'leaked information' to the media, saying that his girlfriend
would often appear at the pool hall.
This magazine did an undercover investigation and
discovered that Joe and Vivian were really at the pool hall playing pool.
Joe understands how to sweet-talk to the customers and would take the
initiative to talk to the customers, mesmorizing some of the female customers.
As for Vivian, she didn't mind throwing out her jade girl image, wearing
jeans and a sweater, and even wearing a ponytail while she played pool
with some of the male customers. The pool hall has been open for one month
already, and each day it's filled with customers. It looks like the plan
of Joe taking care of the internal part of the business while Vivian takes
care of the promotional part is working really good!
Last Sunday (1/22) afternoon, Joe's Billiards and Bar was completely
full. Joe, being one of the bosses, was holding a glass of beer and walking
around the pool hall. He walked towards one of the pool tables and told
one of the female customers, "You really have potential to be the
newest generation of female pool players. We need to continue training
you. Come and play in the pool tournament in February!" Joe's sweet-talking
made this customer laugh loudly. A little later, Joe saw 3 female customers,
who had just finished playing pool, sitting at the bar talking. He again
took the initiative to go to the bar to talk to them. With this attentive
boss, it's not surprising that these group of females would be long time
regular customers.
On the other side was Vivian. She was just concentrating her attention
on holding her cue stick and playing pool against a male customer. On
this day, she wore her hair up in a ponytale, which is rare, and wore
a sweater with jeans. She dressed up just like any other customer, and
looked very different compared to when she usually dresses beautifully
to attend events. At this time, Joe yelled to his girlfriend, "Vivian,
come here and say hi!" She immediately went over to socialize a little
and then continued playing pool. She finished playing after two games,
winning one and losing one. After she rested for a little, she went to
another table and played pool with a different male customer. She was
very busy.
Business has been very good for the pool hall ever since it opened. Many
customers went to the pool hall because of Joe and Vivian. There's even
one customer who wrote a blog (diary on the web) on how he got to know
the two of them at the pool hall and posted pictures he took with them.
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Vivian's scarf is almost touching the ground,
but she's concentrating on shooting the ball and didn't pay attention
to it. On that day, Vivian's fan and regular customer Jimmy also came
to the pool hall and played pool with Vivian. |
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Joe's girlfriend focuses on the outside, while
Joe focuses on the inside. He's mainly responsible for spending time
to talk with the customers, especially the female customers. It looks
like he and the women are having a good conversation at the bar table. |
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On the day of the grand opening for the pool
hall at the beginning of January, Joe was able to find Vivian, who
dressed beautifully, to cut the ribbon and demonstrate playing pool.
Vivian is like a walking billboard for the pool hall. |
Fans promoting on the web
After the regular customer Jimmy became familiar with Joe and Vivian,
he posted his own feelings on the web and also posted his picture
with Vivian to let everyone see them. |
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Jimmy, one of the customers at the pool
hall, first met Joe at the pool hall on January 10th, and ever since
then, has become a regular customer. Jimmy even praised Joe and Vivian
for having a tacit understanding when they play pool together. Jimmy
also said he never thought he would get to know his middle school
dream girl, and even posted his picture with Vivian to let everyone
see them. His blog also had a letter he wrote to Vivian. His letter
mainly said, "I never thought I could be at such close distance
to you (Vivian). I'm really grateful for Joe. If it wasn't for Joe,
there wouldn't be this pool hall, and I wouldn't have been able to
know you and Joe." Jimmy also said he would often bring his friends
to the pool hall for a gathering. By having a human advertisement,
it looks like Joe doesn't need to spend money on doing promotions. |
Wearing LV clothing
Vivian looked glamorous when she attended the LV ribbon cutting event
last Wednesday. She wore the newest LV spring fashion and jewelry
worth HK$2 million. |
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Last Wednesday (1/25), Vivian looked beautiful
wearing LV clothing to a ribbon cutting ceremony for this brand. When
she was asked about playing pool with customers at the pool hall,
she said, "Actually I'm also one of the customers. Plus, I need
to practice for the pool competition that's coming up in February,
so that's why I often go there nowadays to practice pool." The
reporter asked, "Are there more customers going there?"
Vivian said, "Yes, and a lot of them asked me to teach them how
to play, but I don't feel I'm ready to teach people yet." |
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