Here's what I ran across with allot of room owners holding weekend events.
From the Front Page article...
''It was just one of those things. By the time that the $1,000-added, 3rd Annual TOP (The Open Player) Tour Championship (Dec. 27-28) had whittled down to four of its original 34 entrants and spilled over into Sunday morning, its host venue, Breaktime Billiards in Clemmons, NC was already into its general-public ‘gear.’ As so often happens in such situations, room patrons not competing in the event had a way of interfering with the four competitors that were left. The general public tends to have little understanding of how their actions at an adjacent table can and do interfere with competitors who are competing for a sizeable amount of cash prizes. In turn, they tend to exhibit no sympathy or even awareness of those players, who would understandably prefer as few distractions as possible.'''