are you kidding me? apa what a joke

[smoooothstroke]

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Instead of trying to make pool your part-time job, why not just go to league night after work, relax, have a beer, see your friends, and help coach your teammates so they can learn from you and have fun in the process.

THIS is the point of APA!!!

APA is mainly for begining to moderate skilled players.Now and again you will see a player stay with the APA when the play no longer presesnts a challenge to them and when they are not able to play often because of the numbers.These players in my experience do it because they enjoy coaching and seing thier friends/teamates improve.They might also stay in the APA because it is thier only chance to be in a social pool atmosphere.

 

[CreeDo]

what pooltchr said.

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If you want money, why in god's name would you go into any league? You vs. the league is like... you're playing a guy who says "ok, we can play a set, but it's a very long set spread out over several months, and you have to pay me just to get into the pre-set woofing, and you have to cover all the time win or lose. Even if you play really well you still don't have any chance of taking my money unless that guy over there on table 2 and that other guy on table 7 also play really well. And if all of you play really well, then I'll put your name in a hat with hundreds of other names and we'll do a lottery to see whether or not I'm willing to pay you. And then if I am willing, we gotta play a short race for all the dough. And you gotta beat 10 other guys who also put their names in the hat. Then, just maybe, you can go home with some of my money."

The APA basically exists so that amateurs can play together in a competitive way, which makes them feel like they're sorta serious about pool even though they're also just hanging out and having fun. Some of them actually get serious (and usually move on to other leagues, or just drop leagues and enter tournaments).

 

[getthemoney]

for those of you who share a laugh with me about my post i say thanks and to everyone else i know im not going to strike it rich in apa but still wtf the league is suppose to make %80 of what they take in? now i know why i quit before for god sake i make moe playing 5 cents a point race to 60 in straight pool with this old guy at the poolroom then i do playing apa but wait lets see if i win my singles bracket in 2 weekends and make it to vegas

 

[bumpypickle]

The answer is easy.

alright me and a friend of mine joined apa for the first time playing for a friend that owns a bar niether of us had played before for a whole session because we are not league players we are money/tourney players so anyways we joined to help a friend out and to maybe make it to vegas so we played apa summer league and won it with 7 teams at 8 weeks long what did we win a whopping $48 lol i called my captian and said are u serious and this was not per team player it was for the whole team do the math 7 teams at $30 a team per week times 8 weeks it comes to $1680 so ur tellin me i dont even get to break even? i spend atleast $15 a week on league dues drinks and gas and the league operator gets to make $1200+ WOW u have to be kidding me how do people play leagues for life? any funny storys or comments on this please post

The league is not for you to make money. It is a way to make a ton of friends, meet women, and have fun. If you are concerned with where every dollar goes and who gets what then you shouldn't play. Nothing more irritating than a teammate that complains about a few bucks.

 

[JB Cases]

A friend (that has had plenty of experience with almost all leagues) told me "you play APA for the money.{Vegas nationals $25000} and Valley for the prestige, since it is much harder to win and less or no sandbaging.

That's right. Winning the APA nationals is a crapshoot because your team has to sandbag well enough to get there, then sandbag their way through the tournament and hope they don't get raised while at the event and disqualified. Then in the finals you have to hope the other team wasn't better than you at sandbagging.

Winning the Valley or BCA means you did something straight up and beat a LOT of good players to get there.

But I don't think that most APA players are playing for the money. APA leagues seems to pay back the least to their players and while they do pay more at the nationals they also have more money coming in to distribute.

If Valley or BCA had as many members paying in then the prize money at the end of the rainbow would be more.

I think that most of the APA players are just fun players who enjoy their league nights without much ambition to go all the way. I would be seriously surprised to ever find a national APA championship team that didn't get there through successful sandbagging.

But, it's absolutely the best way to grow a large league. What other league can say that you don't even have to know how to play in order to win?

People off the street can have fun playing APA and that's the appeal.

Love em' or hate em' the APA method is a brilliant one.

Personally I have nothing against the APA because I think that a certain percentage of the players do get hooked on the game and become obsessed with buying the best gear which suits me just fine. And also some of them do get hooked on becoming good players which is also good for the game and other leagues which welcome the better players when they have outgrown the APA.

 

[JB Cases]

LOL this previous post will give us all a much clearer incite into the OP

"none of us pool players that stay in action on the road every week know what we will be doin next year 2 weeks after the event but now that i found out u can hold a room with no charge ill have 3 or 4 rooms heald next your"


How do you play in pool leagues, but stay in action on the road every week? Do you drive back one night a week for an APA league from your high dollar matches?

It's a short road.

 

[JB Cases]

Want to make money in the APA? Play the league, sandbag like crazy and get your handicap down to a 4 or 5 then go out to Vegas on your own dime and ROB the mini-tournaments all week.

This is what several people who can spot me, I am an APA 7 and 9, do.

That's how you make your nut in the APA.

Otherwise just have fun and don't sweat the money.