Where are you from? I'm afraid I need to withold the greenies due to receiving terroristic threats from River City. I'm not messing with that guy for anyone!
Where are you from? I'm afraid I need to withold the greenies due to receiving terroristic threats from River City. I'm not messing with that guy for anyone!
"will _________ be around if the Democrats take the senate?"
Rumor has it pool is rapidly being overtaken by soft tip darts.
Enjoy it while you can.
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Maybe you guys can explain why you are not giving this honest answers?
Also horseshoes is making a run
Actually a pretty cool game. Kind of a cross of tennis/ping-pong. Don't need the mobility to play like tennis. They have an org. and leagues and a tour. Sad but they are FAR more organized than pool. Of course that's not saying much.PickleBall is in Vogue, I don't get the gam, but Old People love it.
Maybe you guys can explain why you are not giving this honest answers?
It's an old man's game and I say that with respect. When you look at the audience, participants and who's playing....it's all the older guys.
You'll see hot shot younger players but they are so good they show up once a week where the older guys are there everyday practicing. So when the general public goes in all they see are the seniors playing.
Reminds me when I was a kid going into a bowling alley and seeing the senior league. I still think of bowling as an old person's game.
Because, honestly, pool is not dying.
Using your observational logic (being in a poolhall with one or two people in the place around 5pm during a worldwide pandemic where most people are not going anywhere), we could also say the restaurant business is dying because no one is going into the local restaurants right now either.
As far as non-pandemic life, many poolhalls die and get reborn under new management. It's been like this for years. No different than a nightclub or bar that eventually goes out of business due to lack of customers, poor management, lousy atmosphere, etc... Then someone else reopens the place, cleans it up, changes the name, offers food and live music, and just like that the place is alive and thriving again.
Some areas are hotbeds for pool, where the poolhalls are ways packed because owners or management incorporate activities to keep people coming in, like in-house leagues or BCA or APA leagues, or food and beverages, etc... Mr. Cues in Atlanta GA is a good example, a place that's always been packed everytime went there. Poolhall owners know, just as any club owner knows, there are good days, great days, and dead days. If you have great business every day, then you are the exception that other places would like to emulate.
The why was I told by multiple people on this forum and in google searches and by people at a local pool hall that it is dying?
Because it hasn't been a wildly popular sport for several decades now. Many people say it's because pool has a dark and dirty public image due to gambling. But that's bs. Every sport has gambling. As proof that gambling isn't an issue, that the unwholesome image of pool isn't an issue, just look back on the explosion of pool players and poolhalls that sprouted following the movie "The Hustler", and again with "The Color of Money'.
Pool just isn't growing much. But just because it's not growing doesn't mean it's dying. Sure, it may die in your town or somebody else's town for a while, but it'll be vibrant somewhere else. Then a few years later the pool scene there will fade in that place and your town might become a hotspot for pool again.
The thing is, it really doesn't matter what most people on a pool forum tell you. It's all opinion, and there are plenty of doomsdayers on every forum. It doesn't matter what the owner or worker in your local poolhall tells you. What matters is that there are millions of pool players in the US alone, so if a dozen people here tell you, "yes, I believe pool is dying", well that doesn't mean much compared to the millions of casual and serious players out there who love the game and will always be playing it somewhere.
Industry people have a good insight on how strong or weak the pool scene is. But like with most businesses, or industries, there are always ups and downs. For every poolhall owner that tells you, "a poolhall is a losing business, pool is dead", there is another poolroom owner out there who has figured out how to get people in and how to keep them coming back.
Pool is dead. Send me your Szamboti's, Balabushka's, and Peterson cues
I live in an "active"retirement community
So yeah me and everyone around me are geezers. Within ten miles from me are three pool halls, they seem to be doing well. But I don't really know because within two blocks from my house are seven pool tables, that I know of. And I'm looking to
add a second to my basement. So from my point of view it's not dying, but it is aging successfully.