Pool room with a table time limit

Rospaw1966

Rospaw1966

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Have you ever seen or heard of a pool room that rents by the hour putting a limit of 2 hrs of play due to "others wanting to play"? Room has 9 tables and this rule is for the only 2 GC6 9' . Happened to me and 5 others a few weeks ago while playing pill pool. All of us were drinking beer/drinks/soda and all but 2 were eating dinner. 6 tabs opened and all chipping in for table time. What is your thoughts on this? Thank and ALL comments are welcome for or against.
 
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Rospaw1966 said:
Have you ever seen or heard of a pool room that rents by the hour putting a limit of 2 hrs of play due to "others wanting to play"? Room has 9 tables and this rule is for the only 2 GC6 9' . Happened to me and 5 others a few weeks ago while playing pill pool. All of us were drinking beer/drinks/soda and all 2 were eating dinner. 6 tabs opened and all chipping in for table time. What is your thoughts on this? Thank and ALL comments are welcome for or against.
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Its not unheard of but in your case the poolhall dogged it BIG TIME imo. With a sizeable tab(and corresponding tip) on the line this sounds downright stupid. Might have a friendly discussion with owner as to continuing/stopping the policy.
 
Absolutely out of line unless they take reservations. If they are that busy, they should take reservations.

Sounds like someone wanted to let their buddies play.
 
DeeDeeCues said:
Absolutely out of line unless they take reservations. If they are that busy, they should take reservations.

Sounds like someone wanted to let their buddies play.
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I take 'policy' to mean it isn't a apply-at-will thing.

Not that I know though...
 
garczar said:
Its not unheard of but in your case the poolhall dogged it BIG TIME imo. With a sizeable tab(and corresponding tip) on the line this sounds downright stupid. Might have a friendly discussion with owner as to continuing/stopping the policy.
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"Might have a friendly discussion with owner as to continuing/stopping the policy." In a few days of comments i will fill this part in. I did have a conversation with the owner that eve. FRIENDLY lol
"Its not unheard of" in my 40yrs of pool rooms it is unheard but i would really like to know of ANY poolroom that has this policy and the reasoning behind it.
"With a sizeable tab(and corresponding tip) on the line this sounds downright stupid" Spot on in my humble opinion!!! What if i told you ALL 6 players are regulators ...... 2-6 days a week every week!
 
Rospaw1966 said:
Have you ever seen or heard of a pool room that rents by the hour putting a limit of 2 hrs of play due to "others wanting to play"? Room has 9 tables and this rule is for the only 2 GC6 9' . Happened to me and 5 others a few weeks ago while playing pill pool. All of us were drinking beer/drinks/soda and all 2 were eating dinner. 6 tabs opened and all chipping in for table time. What is your thoughts on this? Thank and ALL comments are welcome for or against.
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What room is this ? I’m all about packed pool rooms
 
DeeDeeCues said:
Absolutely out of line unless they take reservations. If they are that busy, they should take reservations.

Sounds like someone wanted to let their buddies play.
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No reservations .... put your name on the list at the bar for the next available. 2 hr limit is the rule for Friday and sat as of a few weeks ago. The bartender/manger came up with the rule and the owner ok it.
 
Rospaw1966 said:
No reservations .... put your name on the list at the bar for the next available. 2 hr limit is the rule for Friday and sat as of a few weeks ago. The bartender/manger came up with the rule and the owner ok it.
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In the long run its gonna cost them money.
 
We had that at a hall here in the mid 90s when pool was getting huge. 26 tables, and there was a waiting list every Thurs-Sat night. 2 hour limit.

But the way the bartenders were told to manage it, was to tell everyone about the 2 hour limit, and if it was a single person or couple only playing pool and not drinking or spending anything, then enforce the policy. There was never usually much of an issue as they were told before they started. And when it was a group of people spending a small country's GDP on food and drink, well you just let them stay on for whatever how long they wanted to.

It's actually not a bad idea - you're not going to keep the lights on with just the table time. If you have a group of drinkers waiting to get on a table with a single guy practicing and drinking tap water, from a business standpoint, the choice is not hard.

And as a player, I understand it. Our local hall here gives us a $5 all you can play deal for all league players, but if the place gets full and another customer comes in looking for a table, we either switch to full hourly rate or give up the table. Good business I think.
 
Hoogaar said:
We had that at a hall here in the mid 90s when pool was getting huge. 26 tables, and there was a waiting list every Thurs-Sat night. 2 hour limit.

But the way the bartenders were told to manage it, was to tell everyone about the 2 hour limit, and if it was a single person or couple only playing pool and not drinking or spending anything, then enforce the policy. There was never usually much of an issue as they were told before they started. And when it was a group of people spending a small country's GDP on food and drink, well you just let them stay on for whatever how long they wanted to.

It's actually not a bad idea - you're not going to keep the lights on with just the table time. If you have a group of drinkers waiting to get on a table with a single guy practicing and drinking tap water, from a business standpoint, the choice is not hard.

And as a player, I understand it. Our local hall here gives us a $5 all you can play deal for all league players, but if the place gets full and another customer comes in looking for a table, we either switch to full hourly rate or give up the table. Good business I think.
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The OP plays there every day and the time in question they were running a good size tab. Stupid in my book to run them off.
 
garczar said:
In the long run its gonna cost them money.
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What about the folks who come in to play but can't get on a table...and leave, never to return?

Johnny Jr. could be the next generation of pool, were it only for a 2hr limit. Instead, of playing pool that night, he smoked some crack and went broke and then started turning tricks...

Why do you hate johnny Jr.?
 
Black-Balled said:
What about the folks who come in to play but can't get on a table...and leave, never to return?

Johnny Jr. could be the next generation of pool, were it only for a 2hr limit. Instead, of playing pool that night, he smoked some crack and went broke and then started turning tricks...

Why do you hate johnny Jr.?
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World needs man ho’s too.
 
Rospaw1966 said:
Have you ever seen or heard of a pool room that rents by the hour putting a limit of 2 hrs of play due to "others wanting to play"? Room has 9 tables and this rule is for the only 2 GC6 9' . Happened to me and 5 others a few weeks ago while playing pill pool. All of us were drinking beer/drinks/soda and all but 2 were eating dinner. 6 tabs opened and all chipping in for table time. What is your thoughts on this? Thank and ALL comments are welcome for or against.
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Yes but it's very rare that I have seen that. I don't think it's really a bad thing considering the layout.

One funny thing about a busy room that happened to me, my son is managing the pool hall I go to now, the tables were full and me and a friend were playing on the first table. A guy that we seen there before came in, my son was next to him looking around the room for a free table, and just pointed at me and said "here you go Dad, you are going to play with him now also" LOL
 
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