What is the most times (in a row) you have seen a player win a weekly tournament?

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This may seem like a silly post, but just curious to hear some stories about the most times you have seen a local player (or non local) win your local weekly tournament?

If it is a handi capped tournament, then they will usually just keep raising your handi cap, until you have to give up so much weight, that it is too hard for you to win anymore.

And if it is an open tournament (without handi caps), then they might ban you from the tournament after you have won it so many weeks in a row.

Just curious how many times you have seen a player win a weekly tournament in a row, before they either lost, or deemed too good, and banned (I understand this is probably very rare).

I have never heard of a player winning a weekly event (that was a very popular weekly tournament with very good turn outs) for more then 2 or 3 times in a row.

Thanks for any good stories that you can think of to post about.
 
I won my local tourney 9 weeks out of 11...

justinb386 said:
This may seem like a silly post, but just curious to hear some stories about the most times you have seen a local player (or non local) win your local weekly tournament?

If it is a handi capped tournament, then they will usually just keep raising your handi cap, until you have to give up so much weight, that it is too hard for you to win anymore.

And if it is an open tournament (without handi caps), then they might ban you from the tournament after you have won it so many weeks in a row.

Just curious how many times you have seen a player win a weekly tournament in a row, before they either lost, or deemed too good, and banned (I understand this is probably very rare).

I have never heard of a player winning a weekly event (that was a very popular weekly tournament with very good turn outs) for more then 2 or 3 times in a row.

Thanks for any good stories that you can think of to post about.
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I won it or chopped 1st/2nd 8 weeks in a row and 9 out 11 times I played in it.

It was after I think the 7th time in a row that the TD said that he reviewed the winners and had to bump me up. I said no problem, I was surprised you didn't bump me up sooner.

Jaden
 
Our weekly Friday night tournament has as many as 16 players and sometimes as few as 8 in the summer months. It is double elimination non handicapped. One of three guys usually win it. I have come in second three times including last Friday night. One of these days though.
 
Yeah we had like 24 or more to start...

philly said:
Our weekly Friday night tournament has as many as 16 players and sometimes as few as 8 in the summer months. It is double elimination non handicapped. One of three guys usually win it. I have come in second three times including last Friday night. One of these days though.
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Towards the beginning we had like 24 or more...

Then oddly enough, we started to have weeks where we were doubling the entry fee and round robining it because too few showed up... :)

Jaden
 
Depends upon what kind of tournaments you are talking about. I've played in tournaments in recreation centers on military base when a couple dozen players showed up on average and I was rated as a "AAA" and had to spot everybody the world. I managed to win over 12 in a row and they ran out of trophies. When they back ordered the trophies they bought them in batches of a dozen. They called me at work and gave me the whole dozen when they came in and I walked around the rec center and gave them to each kid that happened to be in the place. I had no need for trophies...I've thrown away dozens of them.

I like money.
 
Someone maight be able to correct this, but I heard at one point Ginky won 27 Tri-State stops in a row (around NY).

Finnegan knows what the number is for sure.
 
Here in Colorado at Felt, it's usually Mark H., J. Cruz, or ATM Andrew. I fall in the middle of the pack usually. While a few people shake it up once in a while, it returns back to the same people.

Mark H won our Tuesday 9-ball tournament 6 weeks in a row once. :grin::grin:
 
I have killed quite a few weekly tourneys in my day.

Never kept track of how many in a row though.

I used to play 2-5 of em a week and between those doll hairs and grinding it out...and no mortgage :sad:...kept me from having a real job for aboit a decade.
 
what about Chris?

Awizzzy said:
Here in Colorado at Felt, it's usually Mark H., J. Cruz, or ATM Andrew. I fall in the middle of the pack usually. While a few people shake it up once in a while, it returns back to the same people.

Mark H won our Tuesday 9-ball tournament 6 weeks in a row once. :grin::grin:
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You forgetting about Chris when he's there?

Jaden
 
Awizzzy said:
Here in Colorado at Felt, it's usually Mark H., J. Cruz, or ATM Andrew.

Mark H won our Tuesday 9-ball tournament 6 weeks in a row once. :grin::grin:
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That's the order I would rank those guys in as well. I think Vidal is probably the second best player in the area, and I think Jose is better than ATM, but I think Haddad is clearly the best.
 
At one point I won 11 bar/local tournaments in a row - in a two-week period. At a bunch of different places. That was a pretty good couple of weeks. It was back in Denver in the 90s.

I know of a couple other players that had runs like that.
 
jakes mecca cafe

Myself. At Jakes Mecca Cafe in Harrison, Ohio. Its just like the place in Charlie Daniels"Uneasy Rider" song. 7 weeks/14 straight tournaments (2 tournaments a week) on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Just about the only time there were more than 4 people in the place.

Signs were posted about "dont allow safety play" and all the "honest effort crap." My first time there, a guy was playing "leave" on me and i laughed and said "nice safety." The place erupted and i thought i was going to be thrown out of the back door. "HE, AND WE, DONT PLAY P#$$Y SAFETIES HERE! DONT WHINE ABOUT WHERE YOU'RE LEFT AT; HE'S JUST PLAYING LEAVE." I wasnt quite sure of the difference but i smiled and nodded like Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas did when he compromised with Billy Batts. Ill never forget it...

Long story short, 7 weeks, 14 tournaments. Double Elimination and didnt even lose one game. Ended up dwindling the crowd down so I threw the last tournament to my buddy. Crowd went from over 25 down to 5 or 6 the last 3 tournaments. They stopped having the tournament about a month later... Lol it never did recover. Last time i was there, i told the owner on my way out that "the crowd wasnt worth the trip there anymore..., probably not worth your trip in anymore either." id like to think i hurt his bank account pretty hard with all the lost sales lol. Smartass Rednecks....







justinb386 said:
This may seem like a silly post, but just curious to hear some stories about the most times you have seen a local player (or non local) win your local weekly tournament?

If it is a handi capped tournament, then they will usually just keep raising your handi cap, until you have to give up so much weight, that it is too hard for you to win anymore.

And if it is an open tournament (without handi caps), then they might ban you from the tournament after you have won it so many weeks in a row.

Just curious how many times you have seen a player win a weekly tournament in a row, before they either lost, or deemed too good, and banned (I understand this is probably very rare).

I have never heard of a player winning a weekly event (that was a very popular weekly tournament with very good turn outs) for more then 2 or 3 times in a row.

Thanks for any good stories that you can think of to post about.
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Jaden said:
I won it or chopped 1st/2nd 8 weeks in a row and 9 out 11 times I played in it.

It was after I think the 7th time in a row that the TD said that he reviewed the winners and had to bump me up. I said no problem, I was surprised you didn't bump me up sooner.

Jaden
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That is really strong. I am surprised that your ranking did not get raised after like the 3rd week in a row of either winning or splitting.
 
me too...

justinb386 said:
That is really strong. I am surprised that your ranking did not get raised after like the 3rd week in a row of either winning or splitting.
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There was a play off that inside pool came out and filmed that only the top two finishers of each weekly were supposed to qualify for...Well like three of us took first or second practically every week so they had to go down the list of winners each week to find the people not already qualified to have enough players for the top finishers tourney...

I used to tell TD's to just make me whatever their highest ranking is, but finally I got tired of it and just said, I play good...make me whatever you think is appropriate...

It's kind of funny that they mentioned felts.. cause my bro, who I taught how to play, has started playing there and won or split two of the last three weeks and they didn't mention him. In fact I believe he double dipped Mark Haddad in one of those tourneys...

Jaden
 
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HawaiianEye said:
Depends upon what kind of tournaments you are talking about. I've played in tournaments in recreation centers on military base when a couple dozen players showed up on average and I was rated as a "AAA" and had to spot everybody the world. I managed to win over 12 in a row and they ran out of trophies. When they back ordered the trophies they bought them in batches of a dozen. They called me at work and gave me the whole dozen when they came in and I walked around the rec center and gave them to each kid that happened to be in the place. I had no need for trophies...I've thrown away dozens of them.

I like money.
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In my mind , a trophy is only special if it came from a really big event (big enough, that they have the winners name engraved in it). Now that might be a trophy that would have great value to you.
 
sixpack said:
At one point I won 11 bar/local tournaments in a row - in a two-week period. At a bunch of different places. That was a pretty good couple of weeks. It was back in Denver in the 90s.

I know of a couple other players that had runs like that.
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That is cool. Must have been nice to have a tournament to go to on just about every night of the week, and great that you must have been one of the best in the area.
 
I've seen it get toothe absurd when one person keeps winning...

I've seen raising people's ratings in a handicapped tourney get to the absurd before...

I knew of one pool hall where they raised the ratings up to 16A for one player so that he was going to 16 games to a strong B's or low A player's 4 or 5 games...

Jaden
 
PocketPooler said:
Myself. At Jakes Mecca Cafe in Harrison, Ohio. Its just like the place in Charlie Daniels"Uneasy Rider" song. 7 weeks/14 straight tournaments (2 tournaments a week) on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Just about the only time there were more than 4 people in the place.

Signs were posted about "dont allow safety play" and all the "honest effort crap." My first time there, a guy was playing "leave" on me and i laughed and said "nice safety." The place erupted and i thought i was going to be thrown out of the back door. "HE, AND WE, DONT PLAY P#$$Y SAFETIES HERE! DONT WHINE ABOUT WHERE YOU'RE LEFT AT; HE'S JUST PLAYING LEAVE." I wasnt quite sure of the difference but i smiled and nodded like Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas did when he compromised with Billy Batts. Ill never forget it...

Long story short, 7 weeks, 14 tournaments. Double Elimination and didnt even lose one game. Ended up dwindling the crowd down so I threw the last tournament to my buddy. Crowd went from over 25 down to 5 or 6 the last 3 tournaments. They stopped having the tournament about a month later... Lol it never did recover. Last time i was there, i told the owner on my way out that "the crowd wasnt worth the trip there anymore..., probably not worth your trip in anymore either." id like to think i hurt his bank account pretty hard with all the lost sales lol. Smartass Rednecks....
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I played in a tournament just like that one back in the 90s , at a small redneck bar in a town called Cobden Illinois I think. They gave me hell when I played a safety, and it upset me so much, I never went back. They were too hard on me about it. They were big time racists. They used the N word to call the defensive pool. They were some scary rednecks.
 
justinb386 said:
That is cool. Must have been nice to have a tournament to go to on just about every night of the week, and great that you must have been one of the best in the area.
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That was Denver in the late 90s. A great place to be for pool. You could play a different bar tournament every night and not go back to the same place for a month. Most of them were $100 added etc...I wasn't one of the best around but I was definitely the best that could still play in the A and down tourneys. All my friends had already been bumped. I got bumped the next week.

The second weekend I won the Friday night Tournament at Dubb's Pubb in Littleton at 4 am, then went to the BI in Lakewood at 10 and bought a horse in the calcutta of a 'Big Dog' tourney (AA and down) for $10. I bugged out to play a Saturday night 8-ball tourney.

So I'm playing in the finals of the 8-ball tourney and my horse from the Big Dog tourney shows up - he won it and handed me my share...Like $240!...then I won the tourney I was playing in. It was the first time he'd played in a while and the first time I'd ever seen him but he picked the game up pretty quick. I always appreciated his character in bringing me the money and I gave him a pretty good jelly out of my half. He and I became pretty good friends.

Meanwhile, my good buddy Steve B. is going on a tear at all different tournaments because we didn't want to split. So the weeks I would go to a certain tournament he'd go to a different one. Well, he won a bunch as well.

We were roommates at the time and I remember what started the tear was that we were both completely busted and had no way to pay rent. Or eat for that matter. So we pooled our money, dug in couch cushions and car floorboards and scraped together enough to put us in a couple of different $5 bar tournaments. We both cashed ( I think we both won but I can't remember if he won or got 2nd ) and then it was on. I just called him and we were laughing about this. He reminded me that we would stop to eat on the way home after the tournament because if we didn't win, we couldn't afford it. Lol. Usually it was taco bell and we were getting 12 tacos for $4 or something like that.

In a typical dumb young guy way Sunday after winning all those tourneys we bought pizza, booze and a nintendo. Never had trouble with rent after that. Mostly because we got jobs. :)

Steve went on a tear another time where he won 13 tournaments in a row.
 
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