Saturday, June 16, 2012

POT 'O' GOLD AT EARL ANTHONY'S DUBLIN BOWL

I stopped by Earl Anthony's Dublin Bowl this afternoon to pick up a ball for my Dad. I thought about sticking around for their Monte Carlo-style game, Pot 'O' Gold but decided against it. It was about 3:00 when I finished in the pro shop and Pot 'O' Gold didn't start until 6:30. I didn't want to sit around the bowling center for three hours. Roaming around Dublin was out of the question because the weather was brutally hot. I didn't feel like going home and coming back later, again because of the hot weather. Eventually, I figured I'd head home to watch the last couple innings of the A's game and stay out of the heat.

While I didn't stay to bowl, I did pick up a flier for Pot 'O' Gold. It looks like it would be fun for us to try someday. It's $18.00 to play with an optional jackpot for $3.00 and an optional $3.00 side pot for high scratch game. You can't buy as many tickets as you want for the jackpot as you can for the Monte Carlo games at Paddock Bowl and Clayton Valley Bowl. You can buy only a $3.00 set of three tickets (one for each game). The side pot for high scratch game is the same. You can enter for $3.00 ($1.00 per game).

The Monte Carlo-style game is a bit different than the others we have played. There's a chart for the various money shots as we have seen elsewhere but there are some twists to it. First, the different colored pins have different values. A red headpin is worth $0.50, a yellow headpin is worth $0.75, a green headpin is worth $1.00, and a blue headpin entitles one to a spin of the wheel to determine the shot's value. Many of the other money shots don't require a colored headpin. They also pay for converting splits and washouts (such as the 1-2-10 and 1-2-4-10).

The jackpot drawing takes place once in each of the games. The bowling is stopped and the bowler whose ticket is drawn moves to a separate lane for the jackpot shots. If the first shot is a strike, the bowler wins $10.00 or 10% of the jackpot, whichever is greater and continues. (If the shot isn't a strike, the bowler can still earn some by money by making another shot of the spotter's choice.) If the second shot is a strike, the bowler wins 40% of the jackpot and earns a third shot. If the third shot is a strike, the bowler wins the entire jackpot.

The sidepot is pretty straight forward. The highest scratch score for each game wins the pot. I don't see that they have separate pots for men and women. I assume only elite bowlers enter this one. Unless I felt like donating $3.00 to a guy who regularly shoots over 250, I think I'd stay away from this one.

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