Cost of playing per week

mszelis

mszelis

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Just wondering how much money all you guys spend per week playing. Like 20 bucks?
 
if i played as much as i wanted to i would always be broke lol but i usually just go to a local pub on thursday and play for free. the local pool halls are geared towards kids aswell with more video games and computers than tables, 2 hours there cost me 15 bucks so i would rather go to the pub once a week and shoot for 6 hours for free.
 
back in the day I played so much, I had to start working at the room to break even!:D

now, I paid about $3000 for my at home room, and the table. I figured I used to spend maybe $30 a week on table time, so thats about $1500 a year, so after 2 years I break even.

yes, you all can use my post as leverage to sell putting a table at home to your significant other!:D then you have to invite me over to play some!

Gerry
 
i usually play at a place where i just tip thed bartendera few dollars. all they have are eight footers, but i guess thats ok with me; sort of.

whenever i travel for business i can spend up to 100 bucks a week. hell, im not paying for it so i live it up.
 
Mmmm

Well at league on Thursdays I spend 10 bucks, the rest of the week I don't spend a dime cause my Wed league the bar we play for pays the tab. Then the rest of the week I am shooting at my house so that is free too!!! :cool:
 
I stopped playing last year because of health reasons but the last few years that I played in poolrooms I spent over $100 a week. Most weeks some kind/unknowing person I was playing refunded all my money and enough for a few drinks.:D Johnnyt
 
kilojo420 said:
i usually play at a place where i just tip thed bartendera few dollars.
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I have a place like that, too. Five bucks gets 4-5 hours of pool for me and my boy, plus a couple glasses of Sprite. If we're hungry, we buy food. We're there at least five days a week.
 
I'm in China so its a little different but a bucks a buck anywhere though if you look at the exchange rate, a US dollar gets you eight chinese dollars.
I just came back from a two hour session in a pool hall. Cost eight chinese dollars. Day before played in a bar and spent ten chinese bucks on tabletime and something more on a drink and munchies. Other night, played couple hours for five bucks. Lot of places charge fifty cents a game which the loser pays. So its not much. :cool:
Per week. About seventy on table time, twenty five on taxi and thirty on drinks. One hundred and twenty five. Thats ten percent of my income.
 
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duke@neo.rr.com said:
if and when I actually get out to play, I spend MAYBE $10. if I go to my mother's boyfriends' room, I don't pay cause I play the "houseman", his nephew Scott. if I go to the gold crown, I play maybe an hour cause there is never anyone there to play, so it's like $3.60. if I go to the room in north east owned by Chris and Dan who both visit here, it's $5 all day :eek: . I don't play much anymore due to the excitement being gone because of people not playing in this city, but if it ever comes back :rolleyes: , ohh...$20 is not enough...more like $35-40. what can I say, I would rather play when others are there to play. if I wanted to play with myself, haha, I'd stay home!! :eek:
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WOW i needed a slide rule to get through this one. ;)

JV
 
i usually play for money and end up paying out of my winnings too, but hey thats still money i would have in my pocket normally so im still paying it lol. My room has a "play from 5 til closing for $5 tuesday night", so now thats in effect i probably spend about 50 to 80 a week in pool time.
 
Per Week?

League fees = $18

Tournament Fees = $10

Practice time = $25

Transportation = $10

Alcohol = A hell of a lot more than anything above!:eek:
 
its about 10 sing bucks an hour here..(abt 4 us i think) so i go about 15 hours a week. not considering when i lose if money is on the line... which is normally the case...:(
 
40 maybe because I have a 50% discount on table time or I play for free with the house-pro.
 
I play for money and keep stats on how much I make, lose, spend, etc. I have winning weeks and losing weeks, but even after expenses I end up ahead most months. The pool hall I play at is very expensive, and they get about $180 per week of my winnings on average. This is for my table time and my drinks (iced tea) playing 4-5 times per week. It is customary for the winner to pay the time here, and I have had long sessions (14-16 hours) where I had to pay over $150 just for the table time. One night I had a very long session, and my wife was there with a friend running up a bar tab while they watched. Between the bar tab, the table time, and tipping the staff to stay late, I only got to keep $35 of the $420 I beat my opponent out of. The house always wins.
 
My expense numbers would be similar to DaPoets':

Da Poet said:
League fees = $18
Tournament Fees = $10
Practice time = $25
Transportation = $10
Alcohol = A hell of a lot more than anything above!:eek:
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This entire thread should be mandatory reading to anyone considering opening a "Pool Hall". Maybe we drink/eat/drink/drink/carouse more in my local hangouts. :p
 
Gerry said:
now, I paid about $3000 for my at home room, and the table. I figured I used to spend maybe $30 a week on table time, so thats about $1500 a year, so after 2 years I break even.
Gerry
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That's exactly why I am buying a pool table.

Right now I play anywhere from 10-15 hours per week which cost me $12-18 weekly. Not including drinks and food.
 
Mondays - $0
Tuesdays - $4.00/hr. usually 2-3 hours so $12 practise
Wednesdays - $8 league dues + $5 for tables
Thursdays - $8 league dues table time incl.
Fridays $5 Tournament entry ( 1-2 times a month)
Saturdays $7 Tournament entry ( 1-2 times a month)
Sunday $5-10 Tournament entry every week.
I guess that brings me back to Mondays.
 
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