DrOnePocket
Banned
Mitchell Thomas of Mitchell Thomas custom cues owes me the most. i have seen him 10 times in person and he has no intention of paying. POS
ROBINHOOD on here owes me $350 from playoff baseball from last year.
Polonius:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 75–77
Keven Trudeau must owe shooters some money.:frown:
Uhm I make people post for 20 a game if I don't know them. Post post post and don't get stiffed. Not a hard concept.
The way I heard it from Grady was, "I'm not getting married anymore. I've got an better plan. Every 5 years or so I'm going to find a woman I can't stand and buy her a house."When Grady had his pool room in the early 70's here in the Springs, he said this one day while playing dominos with the boys, ''it's cheaper to buy a house and give it to your girlfriend every four or five yrs than to get divorced'', I heard that expression yrs later but coming from Matthews, it had a nice ring to it. As a young man at the time it sounded funny and somewhat logical, I now realize, how intelligent of a statement that was.
Many people owe me money. But the most? Over the course of a year one time, I stupidly gave someone around 8K. But I blame MYSELF for lending them money and sending them to tournaments.
And I know I'll never see the money again. And now of course, when I need money and am struggling, it's even MORE obvious how stupid it really was!
Expensive learning experience.
Hangemhigh 2500$++++ Pelikan Case and Szamboti ShirtsHangemhigh and a cue case thief.
Note: not all cash, but cash-bot property.
Harder said than done. If you have been around action very much you know full well that it is not always the right thing to do to make the opponent post if you really want to play them. Sometimes you have to play it on the wire and go with it. I have played for money thousands of times and only been stiffed a handful of them. Very rarely do I make people post because that sets a tone that I don't feel like engaging in.
In the long run my way has paid off. If I am playing for a larger amount say $1000 a set or so then I post the money first to encourage the other side to do the same. That usually works without any problem. If playing for up to $100 a game or so I don't make them post. What I do though is often I will lose the first game on purpose and then pay that game off to establish paying by the game instead of marking on the wire.
It's always a judgment call. Saying that posting avoids getting stiffed is 100% correct. Sometimes it means not getting played either and that could be worse for the wallet if you got the nuts.
Okay I agree with you, I wouldn't say I make everyone post but I usually make them pay every game if they're unknown the first time I play someone new. And if I lose the first game or set I'll peel off what's owed to set the tone of the session.