The rates are about $6 for one hour of play for one player and $3.75 an hour for each additional player. On Wednesdays, there’s all-day play for $10. The hall has no league play yet, but is holding 8-ball and 9-ball competitions in which the top two finishers walk away with cash prizes. To ease the risk, there’s a cash prize for the first one out, too.

So far the tournaments have attracted up to 16 players.

“It’s a way to relax your mind and get an inexpensive form of entertainment,” said Jack McDermott, a South Glens Falls resident who has been playing pool for 50 years. “You shoot for an hour and let your mind chill out.”

McDermott was at the pool hall Friday to mellow out.

Roger Rivenburgh in the past few years has been taking his game more seriously. He’s at the pool hall almost every day it’s open — Wednesday through Sunday.

“Practice makes perfect,” Rivenburgh says while making a cut shot. “Some guys come here who play with the pros, and they give tips and I watch them play. It takes time and concentration.”

Perfect shot