An acquaintance of mine is terrible at club-game. But that got me thinking, what is the *correct* way to approach club game?

An acquaintance of mine (not a friend, as he is too miserable, you will see why as I explain) is terrible at club-game.

His approach is to go to the bar of a club, approach any woman and ask to buy her a drink. This approach is so bad that girls have literally told him ''You're approach to pulling is terrible'' - I suppose it doesn't help that he doesn't dress well, but that's besides the point. Atleast he doesn't have approach anxiety, though.

I've NEVER seen advice here or on RP or wherever that advocates going up to a girl at the bar and asking to buy her a drink. Nothing wrong with buying a girl a drink, but it usually comes after a bit of convo - the acquaintance I have literally expects a girl to be sexually interested in him when he buys them drinks, he even told me ''I bought them a drink, why won't they want me?''

He is a textbook extreme nice-guy, because I think most AFC's are not this bad at all. I have tried explaining how terrible his approach is but he won't shift his viewpoint, despite a 100% failure rate with hundreds of attempts.

That got me thinking, what's the best way to approach at a club?

There's the dancefloor but it's usually quite packed and the only thing you can really do here is dance near to a girl and see if she's attracted to you. Not much else to do here, if she is attracted then I presume you would escalate and then isolate her.

But for many people dancefloor scoring is hit or miss. There's other areas of the club (like the smoking area) where conversation's form and of course, the bar. But other than that, club-game doesn't seem that hard.

If it makes any difference, I am based in the UK at university clubs.

Now that I think of it, the only girl that was really into me at a club was a girl I had actually met earlier on in the day. I actually barely knew her and only studied with her a bit, didn't game her one bit but once she saw me in the club she was all over me. This got me thinking, since I am at university, would it be better to go about expanding my social-circle, making new acquintances/friends and then spotting them at clubs will make it easier to build comfort? Because the more I think of it, most of my friends who pull girls at clubs already know the girl before in some form.