Been traveling and on business all damn day. Here's the deal boys. I talked a couple things over tonite with a good friend of mine. Here's what we came up with.
I wanna have a players meeting at 4 PM on Saturday to go over all the rules. At this players meeting, the players will decide amongst a clear consensus who the B players are. The B players will start with 13 chips basically giving them a 3 game advantage during the first ante. This is a fair spot, 1 or 2 games will play too close to an A player and not be much of a leveling tool. I'll have final say and please believe I will be as fair as possible. The game will go off on Saturday with a $50 buy in. If folks would like to bet on the rail or even have a calcutta for the ring game we can do this as well. If we agree on a calcutta I will ask all players to post the first bid on themselves for $5 and all players will have the option to buy half of themselves.
On to the rules. The game will be 10 ball.
1)All balls made on a legal break will stay down. If a player scratches on break all balls made will be spotted.
2)Intentional fouls WILL be allowed to start with, they must be announced before the shot takes place otherwise it will result in a loss of turn. I think the stakes are high enough that if the person before you shoots you a dog you can at least roll out and hope the next player does not want the shot. This is a great rule for this game.
3)All scratches will be played with ball in hand inside the kitchen only.
4)If a scratch occurs and any ball is pocketed it is automatically spotted.
5)If the next ball in play is behind the head string after a scratch it shall be spotted. Basically we are spotting all balls that are pocketed during a foul.
6)At no time in the game will any player be given ball in hand anywhere on the table on a fould shot, the cue is to be played where it lies at all times.
7) An incoming shooter always has the option to make the previous shooter attempt another shot if any foul or scratch occured on the previous turn, this includes intentional safeties.
8)The 10 ball will be played wild, no need to call the last ball. I think this is fair because there will be varying levels of skill in the game being played.
9)Jump cues will be allowed
10)Players may change cue sticks as necessary, breaking down a cue is not quitting.
11)5 minute time outs will be taken after every hour of play, I'm a smoker and this hurts me but the game needs to move along I expect it to take 4-5 hours before it goes heads up.
12)Players are highly discouraged to chop it up at the end as it is unfair to the other tournament participants, a ring game tourney must be played as individual as possible. If players split it, who's to say they didn't intentionally pad someones chip count as well. Integrity is paramount in this game.
13)Winner of the previous game will always break the next game.
14)There will be a redraw after every single ante change.
15)A Players will start with 10 chips and B players will start with 13 chips.
16)Any sharking will not be tolerated, please respect your fellow players. I'll probably have to eject myself and I am fully aware of this. I will kick myself out if I am not being courteous to the other players.
17)IPODs and headphones will be allowed.
18)Cue ball fouls only and all moved object balls are to be moved as close to their original position as possible. If this becomes a problem we will simply not move balls back if they are moved.
19)Neutral rackers will be utilized where possible to ensure players recieve fair racks. If no neutral racker is available, THE SHOOTER AFTER THE BREAKER will rack the balls NOT THE PERSON WHO LEFT THE BREAKER THE OUT. This rule is in place because bad racks in a ring game are a common practice and will not be accepted.
20)Unless a shot is clearly tough, a 60 second shot clock should be observed. Upon any players request a person will be put on a clock. Slow play is not appreciated since the ante will be going up based on time and not racks played.
21) I'm pretty serious about this, bring your game faces.
I think that should cover it. I am open to suggestion and rules can be changed at the players meeting but after play starts all rules are final and will be enforced as such. The game will definitely being going off Saturday afternoon with a players meeting at 4PM and play starting at 4:30PM. Please tell people and help each other buy into this event. An unlimited amount of players can play in this format and not adversely affect the length of the game since antes increase every 30 minutes.
See everyone there on Saturday...I expect to kick everyones ass or go out kicking and screaming.
