SJM Trip Report: 2026 WNT UK Open a Big Hit
- By maha
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i have to say stu is one of the best ambassadors of pool. and should get recognition for what he does and some kind of award.
In other words 'you don't know what you don't know".
Donald Rumsfeld said:“There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns”
They should beat every nickel out of this guy, and then kick his ass again, just for good measure.Now that we're done with making fun of Johnny Archer, I figured it was time for a thread on a new payment controversy.
Aden Joseph, one of the top African pool players, organized a tournament in South Africa called Ghost Nation. It promised a R500k (~$30k USD) prize pool, so about the scale of a Matchroom Ranking event. After the tournament concluded, a bunch of players complained about not getting paid. Today, the organizer explained that a sponsor pulled out of of the event at the last minute and he decided to try to make up the funding gap via gambling
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yeah, similar story here in Atlanta about1995, local room is running a small dollar cash 8 ball team league. gets to the end and the payoff is about a third of what it should be. Me....being a financial auditor, told him hey, x teams for x weeks at x dollars a week equals a pot of xxx dollars, not xx dollars. We won the league so we get XX dollars, pay up, I don't care what lies you can get the other chumps to believe.That excuse is not nearly creative enough....
A new in-house league started near me, so I joined to help support it. About the final week, the room owner had bad news: someone had gotten into his safe and taken all the league funds, so no prizes. Seems they only took the league funds. Also no police report. So sorry.