Ok, so I am sitting up here at my local pool hall. I have been coming here everyday since I have lived here. It is the only place to shoot on a big table for 4hrs. The owners treat this place like a bar and have run off most if not all of the local regulars who are any good at pool. Most have been driven to the point of just quitting instead of having to come here. I love this game and it is my life but I do not know how or what to say or even if it is my place to say anything. It truly makes me want to sell everything and not look at another pool room again in my life. We have tables that have not been recovered in 3+yrs and tables that if they are taken down never get put back up because the owner is just to damn lazy and will complain about having to work more than 20hrs a week here. During the weekdays we are lucky to have more then 5 people in playing pool and on the weekends it is treated like a bar and caters to the family dart players, meaning the music is cranked to a point I would be better of going to an actual bar for I would be a better atmosphere. I am pissed and completely at a loss on what to do. I have pondered the idea of just opening my own room but that takes money which I don't have. I have thought about moving but the economy here is amazing.
Please ease my mind or tell me just to suck it up I don't care. I just need to here what you would do. Because in my mind a pool hall should be somewhere everyone should feel welcome, but to drive those away that support you the most is unfathomable. But on the other hand without a pool hall here I truly have nothing and no reason to be here. They don't sell liquor, only a small kitchen with a small menu and basic bar fod. We have six GC3's and one that has been in storage for over a year, in place if that table is a table and 4 chairs. We have 2 GC3 converted billiard tables and 8 valley bar boxes all coin op with 3 damn dart boards a game of no skill yet they get preference over others.
An employee that worked here for 25yrs and for at least three owners was fired by there 23yr old son over a pitcher of beer. I mean really wtf!
On top of everything else the league system in north dakota is a joke and not sactioned by anything.
Sorry for the long post but if you got this far thank you! I am just lost here...
Done with my rant....!
Please ease my mind or tell me just to suck it up I don't care. I just need to here what you would do. Because in my mind a pool hall should be somewhere everyone should feel welcome, but to drive those away that support you the most is unfathomable. But on the other hand without a pool hall here I truly have nothing and no reason to be here. They don't sell liquor, only a small kitchen with a small menu and basic bar fod. We have six GC3's and one that has been in storage for over a year, in place if that table is a table and 4 chairs. We have 2 GC3 converted billiard tables and 8 valley bar boxes all coin op with 3 damn dart boards a game of no skill yet they get preference over others.
An employee that worked here for 25yrs and for at least three owners was fired by there 23yr old son over a pitcher of beer. I mean really wtf!
On top of everything else the league system in north dakota is a joke and not sactioned by anything.
Sorry for the long post but if you got this far thank you! I am just lost here...
Done with my rant....!
). Then after a year, he put 1 9' table back in. Now, another year later, and there are two. I guess I should be happy, but the smoke is fierce, and the music VERY loud. I have to drive 1/2 hr to go to a real pool room, but in that one the owner doesn't care much, and the equipment shows it (he's the only game in town, and knows it). So, you see, it's not great in MI either. The bright spot is that you have, in ND, the FINEST poolroom in the United States (Fargo Billiards)! Too bad its 200 miles from you! 
