I am hoping to get some advice or suggestions from the pool community out there regarding a potential problem with our pool group.
We live in a community of Villas with a clubhouse that has a 4x8 pool table. When I moved here nobody was using the pool table, so I strted a Monday pool group and a Thursday Beginners group. The Monday group is for experienced players at the amateur level and consists of 6 individuals. We play different games each week in teams or as individuals depending on who comes. Generally there are at least 4 who show up, but more often there are 5 to 6. I try to introduce different games to play for teams or individuals so we have a game to play no matter what the count is. Some of the games we play, if there is an odd number of people, are Knock-out, Kiss pool, Pea pool, Straight pool, Side pocket-Corner Bank and a few others. When there is an even number, we play the standard team games. These Monday sessions have brought a lot of people together who never socialized before, and they enjoy playing and having to share time together.
My Dilema is that we are getting more people coming into the community who play pool and right now the number for the Monday group will go up to 10 the middle of May. Also there are a few more Villas going on the market and we may even go up higher than the ten. With one pool table, how do I keep everyone participating without them waiting most of the time and not being able to play.
I've thought of adding another day, but who goes to what session and how does the seperation keep things cohesive.
I don't know if anyone has any suggestions on how to work out this problem of too many people for one table, and how to keep the entire group co-mingling.
By the way, there is no room to add another table other than a smaller Bumper pool table which I am trying to get the Board to approve, but that is not in this years budget.
I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions anyone has on this subject.
Side-Pocket
