RIP 'SCB'........................
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Oh wow, that sucks to hear. The lawmakers in new York state did not treat pool halls fair at all when the reopenings started and that effect is showing now. The spot in nanuet recently closed and I've heard that the hall in white plains is close to calling it quits.
At the rate its going that state will be empty in 20yrs. State legis. meetings must look like clown-car conventions.
Goofball libs are off-the-air. They live in some strange parallel universe.I know as soon as we are able we are out of NY. Cuomo was bad enough but Hochul is destroying this state as fast as possible. Now we're trying to ban gas stoves
I live near Syracuse and have played in that room before, the old Salt City had a fire and has been remodeled and is called Brickhouse Billiards, great tables and 8 nine footers great people who work there, there is a room about 20 miles away in a town called Fulton NY that opened about a year ago called Fairway Billiards another nice room with really nice people, they close at 8:00pm, I talked to the owners and they said the town forces them to close at 8pm because the headlights from cars bother the neighbors, even though they are in a commercial zone, I guess running a legit business is not welcome in NY, If you get up here stop by and see these guys.
I have fond memories of the old Salt City Billiards before it burned down. We used to go there for the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour tournaments. Karen Corr was a regular. The owner made homemade Italian delicacies. Jim Rempe and I enjoyed bowl of home made tortellini soup together. It was delicious. Fun times back in the day.
Bad news, great room and nice folks there. We (me included) all need to make a point to go out and support our local pool rooms every chance we get.
I'm with you the more rooms the more people playing
BuffaloSlim
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What a shame cool place .. I played there many years ago before I moved out of that state .. we used to have 4 halls in Jamestown NY back in the day 2 of which were pretty good with one having constant action if you wanted it .. but 1 by 1 dam NY sate found a way to close everyone of them and to this day 20 yrs later not 1 other hall has been allowed to open there .. total BS
BuffaloSlim
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I own Salt City Billiards.
Facts about my competition.
-After 3.5 great years with all the better players and old timers at my place...the competition put up free pool for 3 months just to steal them
- They removed their 8th nine foot table, put in a $10,000 5x10 billiards table to steal 6 of my players. Can't imagine how much he's losing on that table. After im gone there is just 7 nine foot tables in all of Syracuse
- They put a Sunday tournament 2 hours before mine with free spaghetti...withing 3 weeks their tournament died because 2 or 3 of my better players ran their league heros over
-They forbid APA league operator to let me host, after he and a board of 9 players had agreed to....because I'd have broken them within a year.
-They had the Joss Tour not work with me...so instead I hosted "Mike's pros" the night before the Turning Stone Classic and livestreamed for free to the masses.
- The owner there has had 3 partners, can't turn a profit and his deal to sell it just fell through. His overhead is absurd. Tries to make money selling $14 hamburgers and pool is now $6 an hour per person.
This is why pool goes nowhere.
In every area with 2 or more pool halls there are constant pool wars. Always be this way.
I wasn't beaten. Did fine. But when it's easier to just cash out and get your life back...I made the right choice. I tried to sell a fully built room with 16 tables for 45K....and nobody bought it....pool in Syracuse is dead. Let the leagues have it.
Facts about my competition.
-After 3.5 great years with all the better players and old timers at my place...the competition put up free pool for 3 months just to steal them
- They removed their 8th nine foot table, put in a $10,000 5x10 billiards table to steal 6 of my players. Can't imagine how much he's losing on that table. After im gone there is just 7 nine foot tables in all of Syracuse
- They put a Sunday tournament 2 hours before mine with free spaghetti...withing 3 weeks their tournament died because 2 or 3 of my better players ran their league heros over
-They forbid APA league operator to let me host, after he and a board of 9 players had agreed to....because I'd have broken them within a year.
-They had the Joss Tour not work with me...so instead I hosted "Mike's pros" the night before the Turning Stone Classic and livestreamed for free to the masses.
- The owner there has had 3 partners, can't turn a profit and his deal to sell it just fell through. His overhead is absurd. Tries to make money selling $14 hamburgers and pool is now $6 an hour per person.
This is why pool goes nowhere.
In every area with 2 or more pool halls there are constant pool wars. Always be this way.
I wasn't beaten. Did fine. But when it's easier to just cash out and get your life back...I made the right choice. I tried to sell a fully built room with 16 tables for 45K....and nobody bought it....pool in Syracuse is dead. Let the leagues have it.
Go back far enough Syracuse had well over 100 9 foot tables with rooms all over.
People who don't know what they don't know will tell you league pool us "keeping rooms open".Reality is either league ops or their players hold host rooms hostage for peanuts.
There is no loyalty. The guys that left me paying 8 and then 9 bucks to Play All Day will now be paying $6 an hour. Pool players are so short sighted to the most obvious outcomes. Have fun getting one of 7 diamonds 9s in town. I have mine right here at home.
Covid shutdowns, torture...but you adjust and take the help....I'm at $31.24 now.....could not be happier. Done all I could for 6years. The last 2 we just limped so my loyal platers had a place to play that isn't a Dave and Busters. Had alot of good times....with alot of headaches.
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BuffaloSlim
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Doesn't that always seem to be the case .. hindsight is 20/20 right