Check the TOURNAMENTS page for a flier about the Bowling For Veterans tournament at Danville Bowl on November 10th. It's a no-tap tournament and while I generally have no use for no-tap bowling, this is a very good cause. If we're not working overtime that day or bowling somewhere else, I think I might enter.
Also, Danville Bowl will be holding a weekly Monte Carlo game on Thursday nights at 7:00. I don't have any details or a money shot chart yet but I will pick up a flier on my way home Wednesday night.
I visited Danville Bowl last night. They had a money shot chart framed but not one I could take with me. They expect to have them for the public by Thursday night. It looked like a pretty standard Monte Carlo game. I was told by the young man at the control desk they had about twenty people show up last week for the first event. I suggested that putting something of substance on their website might entice more people (like us) to give it a try. He agreed and said they hoped to have details about their Monte Carlo nights on their website very soon.
ReplyDeleteThe Monte Carlo game at Danville Bowl was okay. In terms of the money shots, it was like Paddock Bowl -- not a lot of action. In the first game, I had only one $1.00 shot. One of the other guys on my lane didn't get a money shot until the middle of the second game. It's nothing like the games at Clayton Valley, Dublin, or Bel Mateo Bowl where money shots are fairly frequent. I eventually had money shots worth $8.00 in the three games and I cashed in for $5.00.
ReplyDeleteOn the plus side, the cost for the three games is only $12.00. The colored pins are bright pink, tangerine orange, and lime green which makes them easy to spot. I'm sorry I didn't get a photo. Danville Bowl is a nice house and I have always scored well there. We had two bowlers per lane and the three guys I bowled with were all good chaps. The bowling was good and I would have been content if I didn't win a thing.
They have a $25.00 prize for the night's high game which I won with a 254 in the first game. They sell tickets for a single strike pot, not one per game. You get a ticket for $1.00 or seven tickets for $5.00. If they draw your ticket and you strike, you win the money in the pot. If you miss, you get $10.00. I paid $5.00 for seven tickets but none of mine were drawn. In the end, I paid $17.00 and won $30.00 back. I consider it a good night when someone pays me $13.00 to bowl three games.
I got one of Danville Bowl's money shot charts which I scanned and posted on our MONTE CARLO page. I talked to them about their game and they told me it's very much a work in progress that they are fine tuning as they go. They're interested in feedback from the bowlers and I have a whole bunch to give them.