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Message: [QUOTE="Hunt for 7, post: 4845834, member: 12414"] Darts were big in Chicago. When I lived there the best league in the country was the Windy City. In the late mid 90’s for about five years I played in the highest division. It was called the Masters division. It was insanely competitive. I traveled and played in cash tournaments. Every year we had two huge tournaments held in a large event hall at the Holiday Inn by O’Hare airport. One was the Windy City Cup which were mostly players from the Chicagoland area. But good players from the Midwest made the trip. There were different events singles, doubles and four man team. If you made the stage you could make about $1K or $2k. But there was at least 800-1000 entrants at $20 per event. And they paid out the top ten or twenty participants so the further in the tournament you made it the more you could make. Then the big one was the Windy City Open and the guys from England would come to those. One year I was playing well but the hardest part is maintaining the right level buzz. Not drunk but loose enough not have the yips. I played a guy named Eric Bristow. I was using his signature darts. He noticed early. I was lucky enough that day to beat him probably played my best darts over the weekend and walked away with a few thousand in winnings. Made the stage in three events including the four man 701 where our team lost to at the time what was billed as the Canadien national team. Electronic Darts plastic darts became way more popular in the late odds. By 2010 most of the traditional dart leagues were transitioning to the new Bullshooter electronic dart games. Better for the bars since you had to pay to play like a pinball machine. [/QUOTE]

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