Glad to already see three members here, looks like my new tribe Listing is doing the trick! Welcome everybody!

So where do you like to play? What kind of darts? Do you own your own, or use house darts?

Here in Santa Cruz CA, the best place to play is the Poet and Patriot pub. It's where I first learned to play, and received a good "it's not baseball!" scolding at my early attempts to hurl the darts.

You can almost always find a good thrower (perhaps a stranger) to play with at the Poet. With 3 boards in the main dart room and one in another room, award plaques all over the walls and more than a few trophies around, the Poet is serious about darts.

www.poetpat.com/

Another place that has a great setup is the 1007 Club, with four very nicely laid out dart lanes, but it's hard to find a pickup game there. Never see many serious players there except for league games.

Here in Santa Cruz we have two leagues, "A" for the top-level, most serious players, "B" for those who take darts a little less seriously but there are still a lot of great players in B league. Steel tip darts only, of course. ;)

The local dart association has a great web site for keeping track of league events, scores, etc. Very well done. Unfortunately it's down at this very moment, but here's the URL anyway:
www.sccda.org/

Personally, I find any league competition a little too serious for me, and I've played both in A league and B. Having to show up to matches every week, and *having* to practice, makes it a little to much like work to me. ;)