This isnt a knock on any current room owners, they are the ones working their aZZes off so they can earn a living and give us a spot to play, I respect that, this is a concept where profit isnt an issue. So room owners dont get mad at me, I give you all my respect and thanks.
If I ever opened a pool room it wouldnt be for a profit or a living it would be for pool. And I bet because I would do it right that I would accidentally make $$$, problem is(this isnt a knock) that pool room owners are nervious about losing $$$(i am in my main business too like they are) so since they are scared of losing $$$ the room owners copy what other successful rooms do-its a lock, the loud music etc. They for their own good reasons copy each other so at the end of the day all the rooms are about the same, and I dont blame them, I would too if all I had was 1 pool room.
I have been lucky enough that I could open a room on hobbie $$$, not blood $$$ and this would afford me the chance to open a proper pool room, and if I lost $$ it wouldnt be alot, I would buy the shopping center that the room would be in so the rents from the other businesses would cover the losses at the pool room, I would pay cash for the shopping center like I awalys do. Right now I dont have the time, but In a couple years I might just do that, and who knows the pool room might do good.
I would have about 5 tables with good video HD on them and a website with streaming video and charge small $$$ for people to watch like $5/day so if nothing happens the people who paid to see something wouldnt get hurt and also figure out a system to give them a replacement day since they paid, some players wouldnt like that cause other could see how they play so I would have the rest of tables without video and shut off the video at the video tables at the players request. I think tieing a website to a room is the triple nuts if its done right.
I would add huge $$$ to a couple big tournments every year. The amount added would be based on how the room is doing, even if it is a $$$ pit I would still come with something.
I would cut it into 2 seperate rooms like Great American & The Jointed Cue in Sacramento are, a players room, new chalk every day, some diamond tables and Gold Crowns, a good 12' golf table. Maybe even 3 rooms.
I would the have the biggest room with different music a bit louder only on fri/sat nights. The rest of the time i would have leagues stuff going on in there and big tables as well with full size pockets and a pile of bar boxes too, I know zero about league but thats easy to fix, The smaller room would be the 9' tables(one or 2 real tight for 1P the rest tough), low music, i would guess 12 tables and movie chairs so everyone watching can see and is comfortable.
The golf table would have its own room too, or be in a spot not to interfer with other stuff and to respect the golf players-I would charge them a flat rate for golf each month, real cheap so they could bet higher.
I would call it Fatboys Billiards.
The food, retail shop, etc. i'll save that for later,
My goal is to create a room like Ames in The Hustler, a real pool room. With perfect equipment, so what if it costs an extra 5 or 10 dimes a year to recover the tables more often, Owning the shopping center and collecting that rent every month from the other tenants to fund the pool room would give me the edge to have the best room in America.
I would also display parts of my cue collection by rotating them every month mabey 6 at a time in a very secue way so people can see the great works of the ledgends of today and yesterday in making cues. That would be my pet project. And bullett proof from theft.
feel free to add to my list of ideas and if your a room owneer use my ideas except the name please. "Fatboy Billiards" is my rooms name and I like it.
again any input would be great, i'm 2 years out from this, I have a few things to finish and a couple buildings i'm selling in the next 18-24 months. This will be built on disposable $$$, the Price of the property since I pay cash is the hard part.
Imight be on to something:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=72151
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Sorry for the poor spelling, I was practicing 9 ball and missed that class.
If I ever opened a pool room it wouldnt be for a profit or a living it would be for pool. And I bet because I would do it right that I would accidentally make $$$, problem is(this isnt a knock) that pool room owners are nervious about losing $$$(i am in my main business too like they are) so since they are scared of losing $$$ the room owners copy what other successful rooms do-its a lock, the loud music etc. They for their own good reasons copy each other so at the end of the day all the rooms are about the same, and I dont blame them, I would too if all I had was 1 pool room.
I have been lucky enough that I could open a room on hobbie $$$, not blood $$$ and this would afford me the chance to open a proper pool room, and if I lost $$ it wouldnt be alot, I would buy the shopping center that the room would be in so the rents from the other businesses would cover the losses at the pool room, I would pay cash for the shopping center like I awalys do. Right now I dont have the time, but In a couple years I might just do that, and who knows the pool room might do good.
I would have about 5 tables with good video HD on them and a website with streaming video and charge small $$$ for people to watch like $5/day so if nothing happens the people who paid to see something wouldnt get hurt and also figure out a system to give them a replacement day since they paid, some players wouldnt like that cause other could see how they play so I would have the rest of tables without video and shut off the video at the video tables at the players request. I think tieing a website to a room is the triple nuts if its done right.
I would add huge $$$ to a couple big tournments every year. The amount added would be based on how the room is doing, even if it is a $$$ pit I would still come with something.
I would cut it into 2 seperate rooms like Great American & The Jointed Cue in Sacramento are, a players room, new chalk every day, some diamond tables and Gold Crowns, a good 12' golf table. Maybe even 3 rooms.
I would the have the biggest room with different music a bit louder only on fri/sat nights. The rest of the time i would have leagues stuff going on in there and big tables as well with full size pockets and a pile of bar boxes too, I know zero about league but thats easy to fix, The smaller room would be the 9' tables(one or 2 real tight for 1P the rest tough), low music, i would guess 12 tables and movie chairs so everyone watching can see and is comfortable.
The golf table would have its own room too, or be in a spot not to interfer with other stuff and to respect the golf players-I would charge them a flat rate for golf each month, real cheap so they could bet higher.
I would call it Fatboys Billiards.
The food, retail shop, etc. i'll save that for later,
My goal is to create a room like Ames in The Hustler, a real pool room. With perfect equipment, so what if it costs an extra 5 or 10 dimes a year to recover the tables more often, Owning the shopping center and collecting that rent every month from the other tenants to fund the pool room would give me the edge to have the best room in America.
I would also display parts of my cue collection by rotating them every month mabey 6 at a time in a very secue way so people can see the great works of the ledgends of today and yesterday in making cues. That would be my pet project. And bullett proof from theft.
feel free to add to my list of ideas and if your a room owneer use my ideas except the name please. "Fatboy Billiards" is my rooms name and I like it.
again any input would be great, i'm 2 years out from this, I have a few things to finish and a couple buildings i'm selling in the next 18-24 months. This will be built on disposable $$$, the Price of the property since I pay cash is the hard part.
Imight be on to something:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=72151
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Sorry for the poor spelling, I was practicing 9 ball and missed that class.
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! Any pro player would get complimentary entry of course....