I was wondering if any of you league bowlers jackpot with your team during league play?

My teamates and I play a game we call "QUARTERS" This is how the rules go:

For every pin you bowl under you average per game you owe .25 to the pot. So If you average is 200 and you bowl 196 then you owe $1.00. At the end of the night all the money is added up no matter how far under your average you are, YOU MUST PAY. The winner of the pot is the bowler who had the highest series of the night.

Me and 2 of my teamates do this every week and its a lot of fun, because we challenge ourselves not only to reach our average but to shoot much higher just in case someone slips up, you can take there money which could range from $1.25 to like $20.00 depending on how good or bad guys bowl.

This makes league more fun for us. And of course bragging rights only last until the next week!
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  Current Arsenal                  
* Ebonite Angular One - Heavy
* Track Power Machine - Medium/Heavy
* Brunswick Total Inferno - Heavy
* Track Freak - Medium
* Ebonite The One - Retired
* Ebonite Big One - Retired

Curent Average
* Monday   - 175
* Thursday - 162

My team does a season-long jackpot. You open(split or not) you pay a nickel. You double, everybody else pays a dime. You throw a three-bagger, everybody else pays a quarter. You continue the strike string and everybody else pays a quarter per strike. You get hung and you pay a dollar. You can save yourself from hanging if it's a split and you convert. My team has bowlers who are easily capable of stringing strikes, even our low average(170) bowler who is one of the no-thumbers who is prone to missing a spare on the right side. We almost always wind up putting in $4-$8 per man per night. Usually we pay our team entry for the state tourney out of this fund($60-$70 per man) and sometimes the city tourney also. At the end of the season the remainder is divided equally among the regulars, and we usually get back $100 to $$150 each. The occassional sub doesn't contribute to this prize fund so they get nothing back, but in the event of a roster change mid-season, the pay-out is pro-rated on amount of games bowled/contribution. Works pretty well for us, and we are always a little surprised at how much we get back from our personal prize fund, as well as league money won. We won the league last year, won the first half this year, and are currently in 2nd for the second half. All of our guys are pretty competitive, not afraid to have a few beers(except me, I gave it up), and joke around and trash-talk amongst ourselves. We usually match our low-handicap(50-55) against teams with anywhere from 125-pins to 250+ pins. This forces us to really buckle down and make the spares to try to catch up before we get to ninth frame. All in all, it is a bonus to our regular league prize money. Our dues are $15 per man, of which $8.20 is lineage and .55 cents goes to secretary/treasurer... so it is not a BIG money league, in my opinion.
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r.k.wolfe

We play cards like Spider does, but you get two for a split as well as for a double.  You can only keep five cards at a time.  If you have five and double, you pull two and put back two.  In the tenth, you may pull all of your cards at once (could be six cards and people have pulled out 5-of-a-kind and straight flushes by striking out in the tenth).  We use two decks because we usually have 8-10 people in the card game.

We also have a hanging pot.  If everyone strikes but you, you owe a dollar.  If everyone strikes, the captain (me) owes a dollar.  Picking up a split counts as a strike.  You can only get hung once per game.  I save the money, about $40 so far, and at the end of the year we're gonna use it to buy a couple of pitchers and get drunk.

Some of my teammates play for $0.50/game.  I don't because I spend enough on the hanging pot that if I start paying more every week to bowl, my wife is gonna shoot me.

SH