What is the normal percentage?
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Zero, absolutely nothing. He makes his money on the tables, selling food, drinks, ext......
Most tournaments are either coin op tables, or open tables which he/she should charge a green fee. For example. If it is a 1 day tournament, and the tables are open to the players all day/night $10-15 green fee isn't too bad. It's too bad for the people who don't warm up, or play some games during down time, or people who go 2 and out, it happens.
If it's a 2-3 day tourney and the races are longer 7-13, $25-$35 green fee isn't bad.
Although, if it's a tournament the size of the US open or ext.......there is refs, tournament officials, and they don't work for free, so then there is a certain % that comes off the top........but this isn't apart of the question so let's leave this situation alone.
Room owners add money to get tournaments in there rooms, Viking tour, joss tour, Midwest tour, ext......
Hotel/motels usually give a few free rooms to the tournament staff for the advertisement on the flyer's.
I set up at a tournament once for cue repair and all of a sudden the room owner came out and said what the hell, what do I get, wheres my cut, to me, my brother, and the tournament promoter. Need less to say I was on him like a virgin at a rodeo. You are lucky the promoter brought the tournament to your place, look at all the food and drinks your selling, 197 entries on 12 tables, races to 7 $1 a game, he owned all the tables, No posted match times so you had to be in the room at all times, couldn't go the 4 miles away to the next place to eat. Individuals dropping $4 a beer, and drinking them like they where going out of style(you know the guys). I told him the promoter gets the money, it's a little way to help make his weekend worth it, and keep customers happy if they need cue work. I went on to say if it was a problem, We could surly put the same tournament on in the place 10 miles away more tables, more space, closer to the hotels and nothing going on there that weekend. Lets just say, he now adds money to the tournament and my brother and I don't pay for food or drinks while we are there. BLAH BLAH....
All the money should go to the prize fund.
Unless it is a tour event, promoters and refs need to eat.
the one i USED to play in takes in 640, plus cal. so figure another 120 min, so total 760, is is usually 260-290 second is 120-150 and that with the calcutta added so he makes out pretty good, these figures are based on a full turnout which usually it is so he makes about 350 each tourny, so around 1400 a month not to bad for a weekly, and the tourny does not disrupt tables being rented cause there are plenty of tables plus the room has been pretty slow for a long time now
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The regular tournaments I play in down here (South Florida), the house keeps $3.00 of the $13.00 entry.
That's not the way it works where I live. The table we play on are not coin operated and they do keep a cut.
whatever the stated green fees are...
If there are stated green fees, then that is what the pool owner keeps.
Tourneys are usually done on days and at times when the pool hall wouldn't normally be busy.
Especially added money tourneys, unless the pool hall owner just wants to be nice to his regular tourney players.... that's because it gets bodies in the pool hall where the owner will make money off of food and drinks.
The majority of money that a pool hall owner makes from having tourneys is by having hungry hungry hippos, I.e. pool players in their establishment that they wouldn't have otherwise had.
Jaden
If there are stated green fees, then that is what the pool owner keeps.
Tourneys are usually done on days and at times when the pool hall wouldn't normally be busy.
Especially added money tourneys, unless the pool hall owner just wants to be nice to his regular tourney players.... that's because it gets bodies in the pool hall where the owner will make money off of food and drinks.
The majority of money that a pool hall owner makes from having tourneys is by having hungry hungry hippos, I.e. pool players in their establishment that they wouldn't have otherwise had.
Jaden