(June 21, 2014 at 9:19 am)Cato Wrote: I think it makes sense. They are getting paid to attract business. If the same person constantly wins there is a good chance that people may quit coming. Just a guess, I'm not there to assess the crowds.
This is probably the concern, though I'm not sure it would actually go that way. I used to play free poker at bars for cash prizes - the same handful of people (including myself) won better than 90% of the games but the same donkeys would come back night after night even though they never won. There were incentives for participation though - even if you were terrible, if you played enough, you earned a spot in a tournament where top prize was a seat in a WSOP event.
These sort of operations aren't exactly huge money makers for the bar - in my experience, a lot of the players spent very little on food or drinks. It's not surprising at all that the OPs trivia game would seek to spread the wins around to keep player interest. It's hard to get games in to a bar and keep them there (the bar pays a contracted amount for the entertainment company to run the game and hopefully bring in new business).
In any case, it's perfectly legal for them to exclude anyone they want for any reason, except those protected by law.
