kneejerk52
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Registered: 12/08/07
Posts: 16
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hello all
just got my first good sleep after getting back and still fresh in my mind is the pay table thing.
I don't mind paying, IF i am not trying to get loose for a match.
I came down tried to hit a few balls on an open table away from any match going on and was told the owner of the tables will not allow it.
So if you think the pay tables is the way to go, if you have enough members and players and don't care if people stop coming, if you really need the money that bad, if you think diamond tables are the olny tables, just keep it up.
you would have to had about 25 more tables to have enough so i could have got on one. and with the way people shoot it could have costed me 10.00 dollars before i got a shot.
i for the life of me can't begin to understand what anybody was thinking when they did that.
if you are going to make people pay to practice for a match then you need to have tables seperate some for the money people and some for those getting ready for a match.
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cynthiachappell
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Registered: 01/21/07
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Our teams were more than happy to pay $1 a game for optional practice on the great Diamond tables. TAP League opened all the tables and gave a grand party on the 1st night. All of our players practiced to their hearts content. The tables were open for all of the tournaments, even the mini's.
I don't know of any other league that hosts a national party and gives out free booze, free food and opens the tables. Most, if not ALL of the other leagues that host their events at the Riviera in Vegas have pay tables even during most of the tournaments, especially mini-tournaments.
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Sam
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Registered: 11/28/04
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I wasn't around the practice tables much but as Cindy pointed out, they are optional. Players do not have to use them if they don't want to. I believe the money collected from them helps off set some of the costs for the rest of the tables. You also have to remember that all of the tables for the event are open and brought in at TAP's expense and not taken out of the tournament entries.
And as Cindy also said, look at the welcome party. I never saw any national pool league put a spread out like that. And that was directly out of Loyd's pocket and not out of the national team entries. While the other league puts out a chips and beer mixer, TAP members were feasting on carved roast beef, stir frys, shrimp, etc. To have the "other" league boast that they are the biggest (and we all know they have the money) and then to compare what each league puts up for their members at the welcome parties would be a joke. I put a better spread out for my friends at my monthly poker game then they do!
Also, 100% of the $125 for singles entries was paid out in every bracket in both 8 and 9 ball.....100%!!
The hotel was great. Come on! How could you go wrong with that free breakfast buffet and then a two hour happy hour that included free drinks (beer and liquor) and snack foods.
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