split the winnings or play it out?

oldplayer said:
i was in a 9 ball tournamnet the other night and when it came down to the last 2 standing, the guy asked me if i wanted to just split the winnings or play. granted, it was 2:30 am and i had been playing for 11 1/2 hours, but i told him, "i came here to play, so, let's play". i was wondering, what is the general concensus here on the forum, do you "split or play?
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Play for it all, plus a hundred. Then somebody will win big.

I am considering holding a bigger money event here. Half the reason I wont is the splitting. I think I will allow it, but pay both players 2nd place. Then add the difference to the next one.

The only thing worse are the 20 dollar savers for not making the top 4. I refuse to worry about 20 bucks when I am trying to take it down.
 
Time and money involved are considerations for me, both as a tournament director and player. Is the bar closing and wants you out of there? No big difference in money? Its rarely a must do.
 
Neither: You put all the 1st place and 2nd place money together and play winner takes all. Then of course you smoke him! :cool:
 
jims111343 said:
If the money is more important to you than the game, then split it. If the game is more important than the money, play it out.
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What about time being more important, or that you may have to work in the morning? All are factors to me, as well as the difference in money. I will do whatever my opponent wants to do if it's a small difference in payout and I know him/her. If it's a large difference I still may do a saver since we both have played for so long to get tho this point.

I have a friend who lives in Larned, KS who I was going to visit. He told me of a guaranteed $500 for 1st tournament in a nearby town (bar table). I went down there and there was about 14 players, so 1st was $500; second was $100; 3rd/4th got t-shirts. :eek:.

I fought my way back to the play for 1st from the losers side in a true double elimination tournament. I thought I was the better player and I ended up winning the 1st set. Now it's 1 set for a difference of $400 so I asked him if he wanted to do a $100 saver to make the split $400/$200. He looked at me like I was nuts and finally said, "then 1st wouldn't be $500, no thanks". Fine with me, but I figured we played all day and the loser would only get $100, I though it was only fair. Oh well for him. :)

And then I won this hat at breakfast, too...

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oldplayer said:
i love the math.....next time i will base it on how late it is. :cool:
how come you're spatlese? that was my favorite german wine versus kabinett or auslese.
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Spatlese was the name of my cat, which I named while drinking some German wine. Cat died five years ago, but I keep using it as my username for a lot of things.
 
well $500 to $600

12squared said:
What about time being more important, or that you may have to work in the morning? All are factors to me, as well as the difference in money. I will do whatever my opponent wants to do if it's a small difference in payout and I know him/her. If it's a large difference I still may do a saver since we both have played for so long to get tho this point.

I have a friend who lives in Larned, KS who I was going to visit. He told me of a guaranteed $500 for 1st tournament in a nearby town (bar table). I went down there and there was about 14 players, so 1st was $500; second was $100; 3rd/4th got t-shirts. :eek:.

I fought my way back to the play for 1st from the losers side in a true double elimination tournament. I thought I was the better player and I ended up winning the 1st set. Now it's 1 set for a difference of $400 so I asked him if he wanted to do a $100 saver to make the split $400/$200. He looked at me like I was nuts and finally said, "then 1st wouldn't be $500, no thanks". Fine with me, but I figured we played all day and the loser would only get $100, I though it was only fair. Oh well for him. :)
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I would have said then lets play for it all "-) shoot it's only $100 difference :-)
 
In drag racing its almost unheard of not to split in a high dollar bracket race. Winner may get $20,000.00 and runner up only $5,000.00, so your racing for $15,000.00. On a typical split you add up total and then maybe race for $1,000.00. Smaller dollar races like maybe $2500.00 and less to win you just race for the win, no splits, maybe as much as 5k to win most guys wont split.
 
Ok, it's gone 2 pages now.

So did you win or lose ???

One old guy to another, this subject is easy to bend. Key word is "depends".

No pun intended !

Old, :cool:
 
If oldplayer is who I think he is and the tourney was a Saturday nite weekly at MBC, then I bet he won. He knocked me to one loss side where I promptly loss my next match. Good news is i got to leave at midnight!
 
It's up to you. If it is a big tournament where people have paid to watch the players owe it to the fans to play it. In your situation it is up to you.
 
This about sez it

jims111343 said:
If the money is more important to you than the game, then split it. If the game is more important than the money, play it out.
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If I had been playing for 11 1/2 hrs and I'm the monster in the house,.... I've got nothing more to prove. (on that particular night/outing,.... I'm the best !) ....... until next time . :smile2:
 
Small house tournaments that run past closing time should be split just as courtesy to the workers who have to clean up afterwards.

Bigger tournaments should not be split unless they are way behind schedule.
 
we were playing a little past closing time but we kept shooting while the vacuum cleaners hummed in the background. :thumbup: the srvice was prompt too!;)
 
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