Funny that this match took place because Lou was being a bully according to John. While that may be true, it's very obvious who's being the bully now.
Who?
Thaiger?
Because it's not me.
Let's all put this in the right perspective.
I told Lou that I would play him 9:8 for $100 a game and take a $500 beating JUST TO SEE WHERE I STOOD.
I didn't harass him with it, I simply stated it a few times where appropriate and left it at that.
He came over the top barking to play for $20,000.
I said no but I'd be willing to play for $10,000.
Lou called me a coward.
I said whatever, $10,000 is good action and I am not in your league then as a gambler if 10k isn't enough.
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Lou then proceeds for three years to continue to use that as some sort of example of my "cowardice", even calling me a two-bit chump on AZB.
I reminded him that the offer to play for 10k was never taken off the table.
To my surprise he agreed to play and so we finally made a game.
The rest you all know.
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But I didn't start this, Lou did first with his bullying bullshit on Rec Sport Billiard and later with the same nonsense on here and on One Pocket.org.
You can go all the way back and find out that it wasn't me attacking him, it was him attacking me, and often in far worse ways than he has done it here. He only modulates his responses here because to be the same as he used to be would get him banned. AND he said he has mellowed since then.
Well be that as it may I am not bullying him now and have never done so.
I stepped up and played and lost and simply want to play again.
If this were two pros and the winner was ducking the loser about 99% of you would be all over the winner chastising him for quitting winner. Look it's ok with me if Lou doesn't want to play again. But it's certainly ok for me to ask, and to ask as much and as often as I feel like it. Just like he "asked" me by calling me a coward and a chump and the continuation of name calling that he continues to engage in. Just like the many times he linked to the original call-out thread on One POcket.org thinking he was outing me somehow.
And look at who started the thread, wasn't me, wasn't any of my friends.
I bet all my own money with the exception of $600. I let two folks in who wanted in one for $500 and one for $100. And the one for $500 will be getting a case because there is no way I would let him pay for the performance I put in. And the one for $100 will be getting her money back for the same reason. While I had the heart she has I didn't have her discipline in preparation. If I had then I believe it would gone the other way. So no way will I charge her for my failure.
Now, I paid $10,000 to say and do whatever I want. You and everyone else can criticize which is expected. People like me provide the show and everyone else talks about it.
I will ask Lou to play when I feel like it and if it bothers him he should never have played me in the first place.
