Diamond Billiards - Richmond (Midlothian), VA

[mapman72]

After attending the Tiger Tour this weekend, I just wanted to give a shout out for this pool hall. Brandon and I were talking on the ride home and we were trying to decide why we had such a great time at the tournament and Brandon summed it up by saying, "they did everything right". A weekly friday night tournament ($200 added) with a HUGE big rack ($1,000 added, I broke dry for $190 a ball, ARGGG), Tiger Tour event all weekend ($2,000 added), a $200 buy in ring game on Saturday night that included John Schmidt, and a "we close at 2am unless you're in action" policy. They also agreed to change their normal policy and have the pool hall non-smoking for the Tiger Tour event. The manager, Chris Adams, did a great job and everyone had a great time. I didn't get the chance to meet the owner but he is certainly committed to investing in the business. If you get the chance to stop in, you'll have a good time. Thanks to everyone on the staff and the local players who helped make this such a nice event.

 

[9balllvr]

After attending the Tiger Tour this weekend, I just wanted to give a shout out for this pool hall. Brandon and I were talking on the ride home and we were trying to decide why we had such a great time at the tournament and Brandon summed it up by saying, "they did everything right". A weekly friday night tournament ($200 added) with a HUGE big rack ($1,000 added, I broke dry for $190 a ball, ARGGG), Tiger Tour event all weekend ($2,000 added), a $200 buy in ring game on Saturday night that included John Schmidt, and a "we close at 2am unless you're in action" policy. They also agreed to change their normal policy and have the pool hall non-smoking for the Tiger Tour event. The manager, Chris Adams, did a great job and everyone had a great time. I didn't get the chance to meet the owner but he is certainly committed to investing in the business. If you get the chance to stop in, you'll have a good time. Thanks to everyone on the staff and the local players who helped make this such a nice event.

i second that as i thought the worker bees at the place were great, not to mention the locals were friendly - no complaining of being up early on the weekend and super nice in general. this was a great stop and i for one hope to see another event there in the future.

 

[Scott Lee]

Diamonds is a great room. Randyg and I will be teaching a 3-day pool school there in just over two weeks! I'll also be teaching some private lessons there, around the same time! It looks like a great room to teach, as well as play in!

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

 

[mapman72]

Yeah, they have some tables that play similar to Gold Crowns but the rails are a little springy. I think they're negotiating a deal to buy some Diamond tables after the US Open.

 

[nineballcc]

Back at Diamond...

We did go ahead and book another date at Diamond, They will be hosting the Post US Open event! Unfortunately 9balllvr - this will be an Open Division only, they are putting up $2500 added for the Open Division, plus we'll be doing a calcutta (10% goes to a charity of the room's choice). They will be doing specials for the Friday night mini-tournament, and another ring game Saturday night will be in order!!!
We're really excited as we really loved that room as well, and I can't tell you how much I loved being back in Richmond. Always a great place to hold a tournament - so many true pool lovers in that town.

What a lot of players didn't realize is that Virginia Governor Gilmore was in attendance on Sunday at the event...it was kept pretty quiet, but that was pretty cool.