Barbox players....Quarters or Green Fee?

quarters or green fee

  • Quarters

    Votes: 8 8.9%

  • Green Fee

    Votes: 82 91.1%
  • Total voters
    90
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Would you rather play in a tournament that charged a green fee or just put quarters in the table?

Ray
 
green fee all day, unlock the tables and the let the players go on with their matches. ive seen too many bar tables choke a few balls after putting quarters in wich leads to either putting in another dollar or getting the td or whomever to unlock the table to get the remaining balls out.
 
I played a bar table tourney where we payed quarters. Never again.

Something is wrong when you pay $100 entry and almost $80 in quarters and finish a ways out of the money.
 
I personally like quarters, something about popping those coins in when its time to throw down
 
I like green fees. This way you know up front how much the table will cost you. If green fee too high you don't have to get in tourny. Johnnyt
 
Our league tourneys are plug. $1.50 per game and it gets a little expensive. That said, the tourneys are held in the bars that sponsor us so they get a cut and so does the Charter holder so its fair.

Many of the other tourneys are with a green fee which is included in the
price of admission so all is good.
 
Bigtruck said:
Would you rather play in a tournament that charged a green fee or just put quarters in the table?

Ray
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i am fine with either way. i guess players that are good enough to progress far enough in the tournament would rather go with a green fee. i imagine a player thats going to go 2 and out would rather put quarters up.
 
Green fees are probably the best for tournament set ups. Just depends on how many people playing, payout, etc. Ive seen them as low as $1 per player and as high as $7 per player. If the table is more than $0.50/game, then you might run into some serious money, especially if its a handicapped tournament or race to anything.
 
I like green fees all day long. I played in a tourny and won $150.00, now add $60.00 in quarters and a $25 entry fee that is not a good return on a tourny win:confused: JMO
 
Depends on how much the green fee is.

I'm a 2-and -out type of player so quarters would probably be cheaper for me. If the room owner wants his money AND keep the tourney running effeciently, he could open up the BB's and place a cup where the quarter slots are and have the players toss two quarters in for every game played. Of course, this would have to depend on HONEST poolplayers :sorry:. Ooops, nevermind ;)!!!

Maniac
 
Green fees: bad coin drop is something to be avoided

stouter2386 said:
green fee all day, unlock the tables and the let the players go on with their matches. ive seen too many bar tables choke a few balls after putting quarters in wich leads to either putting in another dollar or getting the td or whomever to unlock the table to get the remaining balls out.
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I agree with this. Having the table choke a ball or two on a badly inserted coin drop (or just plain defective / finicky coin drop mechanism), thus holding up the match until a TD (or the esablishment's proprietor) is signaled to come over to remove the table's side panel to free the stuck balls, is a situation well worth avoiding if you can to keep the tourney running smoothly. (Come to think of it, someone skilled in reproducing a bad coin drop situation at will -- forcing TD/proprietor intervention -- could really shark his/her opponent!)

Green fees are usually nominal, and they keep the tourney running smoothly.

-Sean
 
IMHO Quarters are a pain the the rear end, and a Green Fees is one less thing to worry about. I was in a tournament one night, ran out of money so was without the Quarters to continue, so I left early.
 
If it were in a pool hall, green fee. When I go to a bar to mess around with friends I will pump in quarters. Place I hang out at is 50 cents for a game.
 
Bigtruck said:
It depends on what the green fee is Jerry, wouldn't you agree?

Ray
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I think for purposes of this discussion the assumption is that the cost would be roughly the same either way.

Given that, the biggest difference between the income from green fees versus coins is not in the total amount of the take, but in how that cost is divided among the players. It's a little bit harder to determine how much the total income will be in an singles tournaments where players are racing to a specific number of games because the promoter doesn't really know how many racks will be played, though with experience they can probably estimate it fairly accurately.

But in a large team event like in a league Nationals where each match is a set number of games, the promoter knows exactly what the take from the coin box will be since they know exactly how many games will be played during the course of the tournament. So they could take that number and divide by the number of teams and come up with an equivalent green fee.

Green fees would would probably not work as well in this kind of event for the promoter or the tournament since the green fee will seem like a lot of money per team. It would be a good deal for the teams that go deep but a bad deal for the teams that get knocked out early. As with many tournaments there are a lot of players that enter not because they think they can win, but for other reasons such as getting the experience, enjoying the competition, taking a vacation, etc. To many of these players the extra cost of a large green fee may keep them from entering, which would not only hurt the promoter (in several ways), but the tournament as well. In these kinds of events, a coin drop is probably the better alternative.
 
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