black balled in alliance Ohio

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onepocketrocket

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Can anyone help my friend owns a pool room in alliance Ohio and he tried to get in the league but was voted out because all the people there care about is alcohol which he does not or will not ever have! He runs a nice clean place alcohol and drug free but the players from around there are too obsessed with the bottle. Its not that there is no action there then can get all they want!!! what can he do to get the place up and running he has been there almost 2 years has 5 nice GC tables he tries money added tournaments but nothing seems to work. So any help would help!!
 
onepocketrocket said:
he does not want it to be that kind of pool hall gambling and beer don't mix :(
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Most of the gambling in pool I have seen only improves with beer. More beer = more action. Even the VNEA and BCA sell alchohol in Vegas, and it helps in spades to get the people into the right frame of mind for good action. If you are a dry pool hall you will have the stigma of looking like a "family" or "kids" pool hall and not a real pool hall where action takes place. That is what I have seen in my last 12 years in this game, pool halls all over the world I have been to either sell alchohol, or they lack the players. Drugs are another matter, dont cater to them, if people want to go "out back" for a hoot or out to their car for a little something so be it but be strict that none of that shit comes into the club. Alchohol you cannot avoid and make the place a success, plus the revenue for a pool hall is normally massively dependent on liquor sales and if you make all that cash from the booze you can turn some of it back around into added money into the tournaments to get the players in.
 
Beer

Sell beer. Why do people insist that alcohol is evil? That region even has dry counties, madness I say. I would imagine a pool hall owner who felt that alcohol was "wrong" would have trouble building relationships with pool players--maybe that's the problem.
 
I guess an important question is how big is the community this hall is in? How many other competitors are there? Is the liquor/beer license the only thing that they are doing different? How do you get voted out from having a league? Just do it. If you build it they will come. Are you saying that he has no regulars that could form a team? Also, IMO, it depends on how you set it all up. Yeah, a Friday/Sat night event might not have a big turn out as those are your typical drinking nights, What about an afternoon Sunday event or a mid-week event? I am having a hard time believing that they only thing keeping folks out of your friend's establishment is the lack of a liquor/beer license. I know plenty of league players who do not drink period and I know plenty of pool players who don't drink while shooting. I can not imagine that Ohio is full of people who have drinking teams with a pool problem. He is doing something else wrong. JMO.
 
I don't drink alcohol. Never! Not even a beer. Always soda pop or water.

But I have a fully stocked bar at my house and plenty of beer. As a matter of fact, I had a good booze up pool playing party at my house last night (and the night before that too).

Just because I don't drink alcohol doesn't mean I should impose my personal habits on other people. And my friends don't try to get me to drink alcohol either. Actually my friends like it that I don't drink because I can drive them home and be the "designated driver".

If I were to not allow anyone to drink alcohol at my house, I'd get in a lot more practice because I'd be playing by myself *quite* a bit.
 
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