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bigshooter

bigshooter

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I am thinking of running a side pot at my next tournament on a 10' snooker table. You have to break and run a 10 ball rack... each try costs $1.00
I will start the pot with a $100.00 and add the dollars to it as it builds.

Thoughts?
 
bigshooter said:
I am thinking of running a side pot at my next tournament on a 10' snooker table. You have to break and run a 10 ball rack... each try costs $1.00
I will start the pot with a $100.00 and add the dollars to it as it builds.

Thoughts?
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I'm thinkin Nebraska is a long way to drive. 2bucks, pot will build faster, attract more players to the tournys.
 
bdcues said:
I'm thinkin Nebraska is a long way to drive. 2bucks, pot will build faster, attract more players to the tournys.
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True on both counts, the drive and the two bucks.

How hard do you think the run would be?
 
Sounds like a great way to build a savings acct. The ones I have contributed to you buy tickets, one or two tickets are drawn for the chance to break. Dry break gets you $10 and X amount for each ball pocketed after that. A run out required for payout on a snooker table should keep the money in the bank a long time. I would have to pass on snooker table if I had to clear the table for the payout.
 
mrmagoo42 said:
Sounds like a great way to build a savings acct. The ones I have contributed to you buy tickets, one or two tickets are drawn for the chance to break. Dry break gets you $10 and X amount for each ball pocketed after that. A run out required for payout on a snooker table should keep the money in the bank a long time. I would have to pass on snooker table if I had to clear the table for the payout.
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I don't want it to be impossible but difficult. If no one wins the pot we will put it in escrow and add it to the next tournament.

We could make it like playing the ghost where the break doesn't count as a shot and you get one ball in hand.
 
What I'm looking for are side pots, side events to make the tournaments fun.

Any suggestions are welcomed.
 
ctyhntr said:
Is there a limit on skill level or how many times you can attempt the same night?
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There is no limit on anything. The players will be 'A' players to semi-pro unless a pro sneaks in the side door. (which is fine by me) but I anticipate a strong field of the best amateur players.
 
bigshooter said:
I am thinking of running a side pot at my next tournament on a 10' snooker table. You have to break and run a 10 ball rack... each try costs $1.00
I will start the pot with a $100.00 and add the dollars to it as it builds.

Thoughts?
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COOL

Good idea. :)

John
 
Great Idea!!!! Will be a pretty tough one. Should be a pretty good challenge. Are you doing this w standard sized balls, or the ones the same size as snooker balls?? I can see that this pot may be fairly large before someone takes it home.
 
Adding to bdcues's idea, how about $1 for D, $2 for C, $3 for B, and $4 for A.

With unlimited runs, A and above, it's not going to last long. So build up the pot quickly to attract players.

bigshooter said:
There is no limit on anything. The players will be 'A' players to semi-pro unless a pro sneaks in the side door. (which is fine by me) but I anticipate a strong field of the best amateur players.
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Here's an idea. When I used to run a tournament, I drew 2-3 names from the prior week's entrants to get a free crack at the pot in the current week. Add on a dollar to the entry fee to fund it. Once the pot gets pretty big, regular turn out increases nicely.

Good luck.
 
Good idea for a little extra money maker. We have steak nights with lots of raffles to help the teams that win a trip to Vegas.

We usually play a little 3 Ball and the pot can get fairly big quickly so it might help to get a 3 Ball game going to.

Always good for continuous action when the players aren't trying to run a 10 Ball rack.
 
bigshooter said:
I am thinking of running a side pot at my next tournament on a 10' snooker table. You have to break and run a 10 ball rack... each try costs $1.00
I will start the pot with a $100.00 and add the dollars to it as it builds.

Thoughts?
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Not hard at all, all the rooms here have it.
Would it be done before a tournament?You should require shooters to play, if a spectstor buys and wins, they have to pick a shooter from the field. Also make it so the better players can only shoot on their ticket AND MARK THEM. If you dont someone will just hand him their winner.
We have had pots to 12 k here it gets alot of people and players out. One house takes out part of the tickets to add money to the tournament.We sell 800-1000 a week when its over 5k.
Good luck.
 
one more thought

I heard of one room that made players either quit after making a ball or run all the wayvout to win money. Imagine the pressure. 4 balls in already for like 5k and you have a difficult shot. What do you do, take the 5k or press on for the full 12.5?

Last year I read here that there was a room using that format that went to 60k.
 
All our local break and runs are based on making a ball on the break and shooting until you make them all or quite, if you miss prior to making them all you get nothing. Puts a lot of pressure on the last balls.

Never tried it on a snooker table, would be interesting to see what happens.
Snooker balls of course.
 
I like the idea.

One question, though: how long are you going to let semi-pros crack a 10-ball rack on your snooker table? What did the poor rails ever do to you??
 
If the pockets are super tight on the snooker table, I can see this going on for many many tournaments before anyone runs a rack of 10 ball on it, unless it counts on the break or a combo. I think if its tight, a 6 ball rack would be much tougher than running a rack of 10 ball on a 9 footer.
 
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