08/06/2026
Good morning Rackers!
If you haven’t heard already, we’re making some changes in leadership.
There’s good news and bad news.
Starting with bad. Brandy is leaving and I’m sad about that. I wish she was staying and I’ll leave it at that. She said she’ll be back occasionally to help out with events and stuff. I don’t want to hear anything negative on this post about anyone involved so if ya have those kinda negative thoughts you feel like you need to share, use your page.
Good news, we’re bringing back Josh Suits as our pool promoter and overall bar promotions also.
Brief history about how this went down. When Josh heard the rumors we were buying Racks, he reached out to me. At that point it was just a rumor because up until the very last day, we didn’t have a lease agreement.
I’m an idiot. I didn’t know much about central IL pool and how passionate and involved Josh is in pool promotions. So I dissed him. My exact response was. “I don’t know how these crazy rumors get started”.
I didn’t do my research. Buying a pool hall 90 miles from where you live isn’t smart anyway, but the place is so friggin nice. I was trying to keep it on the DL because other people wanted to buy Racks also. I didn’t want to inspire them to take action.
Had I known what I know now, I for sure would have communicated with him back then.
So when we bought Racks, lots of people said get Josh Suits in there to run tournaments. Well, I tried, but he was pi**ed because I dismissed him when he inquired, so he wasn’t very willing to work with me. I deserved that.
Couple weeks ago I reached out and said, “Josh, you’re a league owner now and we host and promote your league. How about you step up and help us promote some stuff at Racks?” Without making this post any longer, it got us where we are now.
Josh and Duke are like peas and carrots so we all got together for dinner last week and decided Duke will bring his years of bar and pool promoting experience to help also. Duke had a pet dinosaur when he was a kid. He’s been around that long.
If you know anything about Peoria or central IL pool, you know this is our best option moving forward and should have happened in the first place.
Now here’s the thing about being popular, ya can’t get along or agree with everyone. There’s some fractured relationships in the Peoria pool scene. We’re not going to discuss who was right or wrong, what’s been said or done in the past.
We want to unite the Peoria pool community and make Racks greater than ever. Every player and every league is welcome and will be accommodated.
When you make changes, of course want to make changes for the better. I think we’re on a good path going forward. We’re gonna come out swinging. I’ll leave it up to Josh to tell you about the new weekly tournaments and others already on the schedule. Ian will continue to help out also. He’s done a good job building up the Friday night tourney. We’ll also get back on track with some planned improvements also.
It’s not easy keeping a pool hall open these days. Bills are outrageous. If you want to keep a great pool hall in Peoria, come out and support us. Peace out Rackers!
