I have been using the "ESP Routine" as an opener and am learning to do the "Rings Routine" as a stack... and as long as I'm using canned material I'm fine...

What I haven't done is learned to engage in small talk... Do you guys ask interview questions to get a conversation going?

I have no problems using canned material, but without some filler it feels odd to go from opener to DHV/hook to # close in such a short amount of time?

How long would you say your typical interaction is in a Day Game setting and a Night Game setting?

Lovecraft...

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I've still yet to use a proper PUA opener the main reason being I much prefare opening with natural game showing qualities of an alpha male (Confidence, laid back etc..)

My sucessful daytime opener has been "Excuse me, do you know of any classy bars round here?" then I would thread the convo and start talking about where I'm originally from which I make it out to be london.

I think you should look up this programme "keys to the vip" its a programme on wanabe pua's in a nightclub, its quite entertaining to watch but there are some real good pointers you could take on board from it.

Peaceee

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Yeah man, using routines back to back with no fluff talk inbetween is reaallly weird and the girls will think its weird too. I'm glad you realize that. So, inbetween your routines, you just need to talk about yourself and get to know who stuff about the girl.

Its perfectly fine to use interview questions AS LONG AS YOU'RE NOT ASKING MULTIPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS BACK TO BACK. So, for pretty every question you ask, just make sure you talk a little before you ask another question.

Example:
YOU: Where are you from? (basic interview question)
HER: XYZ
YOU: oohh, I've heard mixed things about XYZ. Hopefully your one of the cool people from XYZ. I wanted to travel there, but I ended up going to ABC, it was really fun because blah blah blah blah.............

THEN you can ask another question.

Pretty much what SteveUrkel said. Also, keep in mind that you can have a quite boring conversation as long as you keep it interesting physically.

Interview questions are boring, try to get into meatier stuff like interesting life stories.