Derby City Classic 2009
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1on1pooltournys said:
If someone would have taken the time to make a graph, you could see the drop in pool action was right exactly at the time of casinos in St Louis. Casinos make people act in a whole other fashion. Walk into a pool room, and a player might take hours/days to match up. Walk into a casino, I could show the same player how they are a 60-40 dog if not worse in a lot of games & they could careless and continue to lose their money and continue to go back.
Back in the day, pre-casino - you could go to any pool room in St Louis and find action going on nightly. Most nights, on multiple tables. Road players would come to town, always get action - either courtesy or big. Now you could go a week and not see any action at some of the former hot spots. Many rooms have closed. New rooms are more restaurant/bars than pool rooms.
I can think of one well known road player that used to make numerous trips to St Louis each year to play pool. He would find a game nightly, either solid 100-200 set action up to much bigger games. Now I can think of only one time in my head that this same player came to town in the past decade & actually played pool. He still came numerous times but I'll give everyone one guess what this same player did on those trips instead.
Justin B. turns 21 in August. I can bet that at the stroke of midnight, he will be walking into a casino and St Louis might just be out one more great pool player.
do you think that the people who will lose more money in a casino than on a pool table are thinking, well if i lose at the card table or other traped up casion game it will look better than if i was beaten by an individual.
Casino set up at Caesars'
If I remember correctly, the Caesar's Indiana casino is actually on a riverboat docked next to the hotel buildings. I recall three floors of gaming and slots with not much free space.
So, the DCC, if moved there, would have to be on land (pool on boats doesn't work for me), presumably in the hotel building complex.
The riverboat/casino doesn't really leave the dock often, however.
RL
If I remember correctly, the Caesar's Indiana casino is actually on a riverboat docked next to the hotel buildings. I recall three floors of gaming and slots with not much free space.
So, the DCC, if moved there, would have to be on land (pool on boats doesn't work for me), presumably in the hotel building complex.
The riverboat/casino doesn't really leave the dock often, however.
RL
iba7467 said:
Three traveling pool players came to New Orleans last week and were attempting to put their cash in action on the hard slate. They played a couple of games and didn't make a very big score but won a little. They then decided to go make a big score at Harrah's Casino in New Orleans. All they dropped was $2500 at the casino and then had the nerve to come bite the pool room owner for road money to get home. At least they were honest.:nono:
JoeyA