I'm in my home town area and I decided to go play in one of the local tournaments. On friday night they are having a 9 ball tourny $25 entry. Race to 5. Starts at 7:00 PM.
I play all night until 2:20 AM and the bartender says we have to go. I need to beat my opponent 2 races because I have one loss already coming from the losers bracket.
I'm down 4-2 when we are told to stop. I agree right away to go because I don't want to get the place in trouble with the law.
Tomorrow they are having an 8 ball partners tournament that starts at 10:00. I'm not playing in that because I knew if I got to the end of the 9 ball I'd have to function on not enouigh sleep the next day. Being diabetic i try to avoid abusing my body with no sleep if at all possible.
I tell the bartender that is telling us to go that i'll just come back after the Packer/49er game tomorrow. My opponent is right there as I said this. And I know he will be there because he is in the 8 ball tourny.
The guy that is running the 9 ball tourny is gone so I guess it is up to us to decide when we finish it. The 8 ball will probably last until 9:00 to 10:00PM for sure. Earlier there wouldn't be any open tables.
I go home and didn't sleep very good. Been pretty sick with this terrible sinus cold thing that many people are getting. Lungs a bad and the sinuses just burn. Actually surprised I shot as good as I did.
Got to sleep around 5:00AM. Woke up about 1:00 PM and called my friend Tim and told him to ask them if I should come down earlier. It's about a 30 minute drive from my sons house. Tim told me the tables are all full, that it wouldn't make much sense to come down. I told him to tell the guy I would come down like I said after the packer game. And my opponent knew this anyway.
Game gets done about 10:00PM so I head out. Get there at 10:30PM.
I walk in and I set up a lesson right away with a young man that I talked to the day before. Then I went into the next room to let my opponent know I was there.
He hands me an envelope and tells me I got second. I looked at him and said real funny. I thought it was a joke. But he was dead serious.
I went to the guy that ran the tournament and he told me that my opponent was whining so bad that I wasn't there yet. So finally he said he gave him the money for 1st and second because he didn't want to hang on to it anymore.
It turns out this guy is just a customer that was helping and he doesn't even know or care what is done.
I talk to a few of our friends about it and they just shake their heads like they can't believe it. These same friends have had to put up with this crap for a long time. They're not surprised at all. How sad!
I'm in the bar part and in comes running my opponent and gets right in my face screaming and pointing his finger at me saying that it wasn't fair that I went home and slept while he had to get up and play in the 8 ball tourny at 10:00AM. So his reasoning that he gets the first place money is it isn't fair that I slept all day.
After this the owner came over to me. They call him Fuzzy. He wanted to know what all the screaming was about so i told him. I told him that the guy that was running the 9 ball gave my opponent the money for 1st and second place and my opponent just decided he should get first place because i got sleep and he didn't.
He just looked at me and said he was sorry. Somehow I don't think he understood how rediculous this whole thing was.
This is the sad part. First place was only $210. Second was $130. We're only talking about $80.
I have to beat him 2 sets. Races to 5 and I'm down the first set 4-2. I do get to break the first game. It's alternating breaks.
He just has to win one game out of 3 and it's over. I was really looking forward to the challenge. To me it wasn't about the money. I wanted to try and win. I drove 30 miles for this.
This guy is one of the better players in the area. A top master player. It also turns out he is a Master jerk and has done this for some time around the area. This whole thing was very classless.
I've known this player since he was a kid and even tried to help him when he was real young. I can't believe how he thinks and acts. Is it because he drinks too much? I don't know?
But I know one thing for sure. He doesn't seem to give anyone respect and certainly doesn't respect the game.
I travel all over the country and play in tournaments everywhere. The players are just great everywhere I go.
Then to come home and play in just one small tourny and have this happen.
This is one thing that really hurts our game. jerks like this.
It turns good people and players away from what could and should be so much fun.
I'm done venting. Sorry about the negative post.....
I play all night until 2:20 AM and the bartender says we have to go. I need to beat my opponent 2 races because I have one loss already coming from the losers bracket.
I'm down 4-2 when we are told to stop. I agree right away to go because I don't want to get the place in trouble with the law.
Tomorrow they are having an 8 ball partners tournament that starts at 10:00. I'm not playing in that because I knew if I got to the end of the 9 ball I'd have to function on not enouigh sleep the next day. Being diabetic i try to avoid abusing my body with no sleep if at all possible.
I tell the bartender that is telling us to go that i'll just come back after the Packer/49er game tomorrow. My opponent is right there as I said this. And I know he will be there because he is in the 8 ball tourny.
The guy that is running the 9 ball tourny is gone so I guess it is up to us to decide when we finish it. The 8 ball will probably last until 9:00 to 10:00PM for sure. Earlier there wouldn't be any open tables.
I go home and didn't sleep very good. Been pretty sick with this terrible sinus cold thing that many people are getting. Lungs a bad and the sinuses just burn. Actually surprised I shot as good as I did.
Got to sleep around 5:00AM. Woke up about 1:00 PM and called my friend Tim and told him to ask them if I should come down earlier. It's about a 30 minute drive from my sons house. Tim told me the tables are all full, that it wouldn't make much sense to come down. I told him to tell the guy I would come down like I said after the packer game. And my opponent knew this anyway.
Game gets done about 10:00PM so I head out. Get there at 10:30PM.
I walk in and I set up a lesson right away with a young man that I talked to the day before. Then I went into the next room to let my opponent know I was there.
He hands me an envelope and tells me I got second. I looked at him and said real funny. I thought it was a joke. But he was dead serious.
I went to the guy that ran the tournament and he told me that my opponent was whining so bad that I wasn't there yet. So finally he said he gave him the money for 1st and second because he didn't want to hang on to it anymore.
It turns out this guy is just a customer that was helping and he doesn't even know or care what is done.
I talk to a few of our friends about it and they just shake their heads like they can't believe it. These same friends have had to put up with this crap for a long time. They're not surprised at all. How sad!
I'm in the bar part and in comes running my opponent and gets right in my face screaming and pointing his finger at me saying that it wasn't fair that I went home and slept while he had to get up and play in the 8 ball tourny at 10:00AM. So his reasoning that he gets the first place money is it isn't fair that I slept all day.
After this the owner came over to me. They call him Fuzzy. He wanted to know what all the screaming was about so i told him. I told him that the guy that was running the 9 ball gave my opponent the money for 1st and second place and my opponent just decided he should get first place because i got sleep and he didn't.
He just looked at me and said he was sorry. Somehow I don't think he understood how rediculous this whole thing was.
This is the sad part. First place was only $210. Second was $130. We're only talking about $80.
I have to beat him 2 sets. Races to 5 and I'm down the first set 4-2. I do get to break the first game. It's alternating breaks.
He just has to win one game out of 3 and it's over. I was really looking forward to the challenge. To me it wasn't about the money. I wanted to try and win. I drove 30 miles for this.
This guy is one of the better players in the area. A top master player. It also turns out he is a Master jerk and has done this for some time around the area. This whole thing was very classless.
I've known this player since he was a kid and even tried to help him when he was real young. I can't believe how he thinks and acts. Is it because he drinks too much? I don't know?
But I know one thing for sure. He doesn't seem to give anyone respect and certainly doesn't respect the game.
I travel all over the country and play in tournaments everywhere. The players are just great everywhere I go.
Then to come home and play in just one small tourny and have this happen.
This is one thing that really hurts our game. jerks like this.
It turns good people and players away from what could and should be so much fun.
I'm done venting. Sorry about the negative post.....
