Did the TD do anything other than the one warning?

GideonF said:

To explain his original post:

Chris Renfro is the owner of Outsville. They make chalk. Taom and other similar chalks have taken over the market because they are clean.

Chris believes these chalks all contain nano particles and are made in China. He also believes these are bad for you. He has been saying this for some time on Facebook.

He has now come out with his own “clean” chalk, without nano particles, which he is calling Atomic chalk.

To be clear I’ve never seen his new chalk and don’t know how it works. Nor do I know whether his claims have any truth to them. I’m just explaining his post.

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overall it sounds like he's fairly impartial in the matter

If you send me your birthdate, social security number and checking account number I can clear up any questions you might have.

DieselPete said:

It's $20 on a Wednesday night. It isn't the most serious tournament on the planet. And the $20 gets about 90 minutes of warm-up time before the tournament even starts, if players show up and take advantage of it.

And the guy giving up the six-out is a professional-level player against a 450.

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$20 is a good deal for that if it includes 90 minutes of table time.

Latest graph. Hovering around 570. I did win a handicapped weekly tournament last week in Atlanta, but it wasn't fargorated. That was at Mr Cues 2. It was the first time I ever won anything in that room in 15 years of trying, haha. I haven't even won a gambling game there, best I did prior was breaking even.

I also played a 660U (handicapped within the races) in Atl last week at Mr Cues 2, that was fargorated. I had a bye the first round, and was waiting on a match. The one player was so slow, it put me on complete tilt watching him. I wanted to strangle him. This guy was like Bassavich slow! I went to the TD and told him to watch him, that he was going to hold up the whole event. He went and gave him a warning after watching him a bit. He ended up losing, and I played his opponent. I was shaking while playing as I was still on tilt from watching their prior match! (I did win that match). That slowpoke ended up progressing far thru the loser's side, and ended up holding up the tournament 4 hours! I'm not exaggerating, I took screenshots of the digitalpool bracket with the timestamps of each match. Regardless of that tilt mode, I ended up playing well this event and it pushed me up 2 points. I was so happy when I got home and went to bed, and checked the bracket and saw how far behind that player was. (happy that I lost and didn't have to fade watching him).

Scott44 said:

What do you use to sharpen your tooling? Will a knife whetstone work?

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If you use HSS tools, you can sharpen those on a grinder with the correct wheel. Having said that sharpening HSS correctly is a skill in itself..
Personally I use solid carbide 99% of the time.
Just make sure you have the right type of turning tool and inserts. SCLCR holders works great for most general turning, just make sure you get polished positive rake inserts with the smallest radius possible, those have the 02 designation at the end of the model number. As for carbide tools in general I personally think that's the only way to go for all types of tools we use, like drills, center drills, reamers, slitting saws and boring bars.
I even sell carbide slitting saws made to my specs..