Resist!!! You could be hit by a bus today....go play...now.
Come here and I'll play you some. You don't even need a bacteria-ridden mask.
Jeff Livingston
Derby City week '21......??
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Resist!!! You could be hit by a bus today....go play...now.
Come here and I'll play you some. You don't even need a bacteria-ridden mask.
Jeff Livingston
Having pretty deep knowledge about them, my guess would be that the future there is not good for the tournament.
It won't. If nothing else it may lower Greg's costs being out from under that corp.
He is smart enought to have a table at home and to maintain a low-risk approach to the unknown.
I hope Greg gets in a think-outside-the-box mood and buys hizzelf an empty grocery store.
Definitely beer.
What is it with you right wing conspiracy kooks? NPR isn't enough???
Pretty sure that was just a lame attempt at sarcasm.
Are you serious?
Regarless of where DCC ends up they'll need a spot that offers the floor-space and hotel rooms. That pretty much means a hotel/casino property of some sort. There's no shortage of these places in the Midwest.
Yeah. Are you???
I've often thought that a really big place with pool tables, darts, indoor cornhole and tournaments all the time might do well. Just haven't seen that space yet, and since pool halls are closing at a record pace might not be the best. Pool leagues are loyal, dart leagues are loyal.
That reminds me I have to go and cancel my room. Thanks
We're talking about DerbyCity which is basically the Olympics of pool.Who cares about darts or even worse cornhole?? DCC requires space for a BUNCH of tables and hotel rooms. Hotel/casinos are some of the best suited places for the event. You need the space, parking, security, the whole enchilada to do an event that big.
Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
The problem with casinos is they are OCD to the max -- they have very little tolerance for any activity which is not on their list or is not conducted in the time, place, mannner which their rules dictate. This attitude is diametrically opposed to the very wild, free wheeling, environment which made DCC EW so special. And, even if a casino corporation wanted to get on board, the Gaming Commission would never tolerate it. Legal Casino Gambling began in Biloxi in the summer of 1992. Before that, we had the other kind -- the kind that could, and did, get wild and out of control which I lived in and around for about 35 years. For the next 28 years, I lived and worked around legalized casino gambling. I know whereof I speak -- the casino world is a completely different world than the one in which pool gambling developed and flourished. But don't take my word for it, ask anyone else who lives or works in the casino system. Also, please do not get me wrong, I am not being critical of individual casino managers and workers -- they are, as a rule, good folks, many of whom I feel would not mind letting things get loose enough for DCC a la EW to flourish for a week or ten days. However, the hands of these individuals are tied -- constrained by systems (corporate and legal) which will not tolerate any deviation from the norm. Then there is the bigger problem -- money. Casinos make money on gambling, Could we really expect them to to give full run of their facilities (their gaming floor excluded) over to the pool horde and not get their cut from the pool action?
R.I.P. the DCC
I doubt that.
We will see, but I don’t see the new being any better, and possibly worse.
I don't know if it coincided exactly, but I'm going to Aruba with the girl next week
Fyi, I'm not right wing, and I started a thread in the Main Forum about this very subject. The mod apparently didn't like i and move it to NPR.
I'm also not a kook. I'm slow, but not a kook.
Jeff Livingston