Sorry to get you excited, but yep, that's what we used to have at a casino called Funsters. Promoted by our own RealKingCobra, and moi as the tournament director, we ran tournaments on 8 tight 9' Diamonds, not once, but twice a week, with $5-10 entries and $500 added to each one! And do you know what the big shame was??? We couldn't get them filled! 
Even though we got players from WA, OR, CA, AK and CN!
People figured that with all the big guns now out of the smaller events, they could go win those. It was a crying shame. There were loud bands (for awhile) and comedians performing, so we had to scream to be heard, but it was always a great time. We spread the money out pretty well. I think 1st was $250-300 each night, 2nd $200, 3rd $125, 4th $80, 5/6 $50, 7/8 $35, etc.
In another thread, I was looking for a picture of Jeff Jimenez (Mr. J) and came across this article that I wrote (but never remember submitting to AZB, although I must have!) that details the big event we held there with $5000 added.
Jeff beat Stan early, but the winner of the tourney was Rafael. We had some great times in that room and just wanted to comment on the state of the industry again. If you have $1000 handed to pool players every week, shouldn't you be out supporting those tournaments? Wouldn't you want to?
Like all good things, it ended when Funsters went out of business, but at least pool got to enjoy their largesse for awhile.
Even though we got players from WA, OR, CA, AK and CN!People figured that with all the big guns now out of the smaller events, they could go win those. It was a crying shame. There were loud bands (for awhile) and comedians performing, so we had to scream to be heard, but it was always a great time. We spread the money out pretty well. I think 1st was $250-300 each night, 2nd $200, 3rd $125, 4th $80, 5/6 $50, 7/8 $35, etc.
In another thread, I was looking for a picture of Jeff Jimenez (Mr. J) and came across this article that I wrote (but never remember submitting to AZB, although I must have!) that details the big event we held there with $5000 added.
Jeff beat Stan early, but the winner of the tourney was Rafael. We had some great times in that room and just wanted to comment on the state of the industry again. If you have $1000 handed to pool players every week, shouldn't you be out supporting those tournaments? Wouldn't you want to?
Like all good things, it ended when Funsters went out of business, but at least pool got to enjoy their largesse for awhile.
