O K Bar & Billiards

Absolutely love this place. Every time the band is in town we stop by and get some tasty fried food for cheap and $2 fish bowls of pbr. And the shuffleboard is better than perfect. OK gets my vote.

It is definitely a shithole, as described by another reviewer.  I'm not quite as enamored with OK Bar, though.  My husband played billiards there with friends in some kind of competition and I got the evil eye from a lot of the clientele, as it seems that there is a handful of trashy girls there who are regulars.  They were oohing and aahing over a pool cue airbrushed with dolphins (I wish I was kidding - but I am not).  It's definitely a low rent kind of place and I didn't feel comfortable or safe; the parking lot felt decidedly scary by 8 or 9 pm.  On the plus side, they had a lot of tables, a big selection of bar food (kind of a fun novelty) and low drink prices even for Joplin.

Talk about an awesome shithole! Lots of pool tables, lots of old highschool friends.  Dark and smelly, but somehow homelike and inviting.  Beer is Cheap, decent jukebok, what else can you ask for. Any bar that brags about having Pabst Blue Ribbon on Tap is A-OK in my book.