Just got kicked out from tourney

pw98 said:
This is true on a 9 foot table but on a Valley bar box with new cloth it has been done....Someone posted a video on Reddit Billiards of a fargo 560 running a 4 pack w/ pattern racking, magic rack and 1 on spot.
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I don't even consider bar box...lol

Jaden
 
I’ve been banned from a lot of tournaments. It’s no big deal, I play in the ones I can if I want to and if I don’t want to play I just enjoy beating the balls to death on my home table. The older I get the more content I am just to stay home anyway.
 
My son played in a handicapped tournament and he had to spot the guy 2 games on the wire. The guy breaks and runs 4 racks in a row. My son is about a 600 fargorate player. He laughed about it and said I’m spotting this guy 2 games and he plays better than I do.
 
middleofnowhere said:
How was the draw being fixed? This tournament you refer to, what were you racing to?
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He was one of those confrontational guys no one messed with. He had a bracket on a clipboard, nobody was allowed to look at the clipboard. If you tried he started sht with you and he’d try to humiliate you in front of everyone. Real lowlife. He felt he was an OG and demanded respect. He just told players who they were playing and table number. Double elimination barbox 8B bca rules race to 1. No idea how but that tourney always attracted a big crowd, lots of railbirds and strong players.
 
9BallKY said:
My son played in a handicapped tournament and he had to spot the guy 2 games on the wire. The guy breaks and runs 4 racks in a row. My son is about a 600 fargorate player. He laughed about it and said I’m spotting this guy 2 games and he plays better than I do.
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If you're a stranger you usually get the worst of it as far as handicap. I've played in some of those tournaments they basically would handicapped me to the point is like no way I could win but it's fun to play anyway. Sometimes you outrun the nuts.
 
9BallKY said:
My son played in a handicapped tournament and he had to spot the guy 2 games on the wire. The guy breaks and runs 4 racks in a row. My son is about a 600 fargorate player. He laughed about it and said I’m spotting this guy 2 games and he plays better than I do.
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Yeah. One tournament I was rated a AAA+ and I played a B player who was in town to film a movie. The spot I had to give him was I had to win 6 before he wins 3 and I get the first break and he gets all the other breaks except if it goes to hill-hill I get the break. 9 ball, bar box.

First game I break and run.

He breaks and makes the 2-9 combo for the win.
He gets a 9b break.
He breaks and makes 4 balls and then runs out to a 7-9 combo?. Can't remember for sure.

I lost and all I did was break and run.

He was a decent guy and I think the handicap was fair. We laughed about it all night.
 
middleofnowhere said:
If you're a stranger you usually get the worst of it as far as handicap. I've played in some of those tournaments they basically would handicapped me to the point is like no way I could win but it's fun to play anyway. Sometimes you outrun the nuts.
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I'm always amused when I go to sign up for a B player tournament and they don't know me and wonder if I might be to good for them. I dream of the day they should turn me away.
 
easy-e said:
I polled my local pool community on Facebook about tipping the TD. The overwhelming response was "yes". The most outspoken member of the group against it was..............................................

Jason "Buffalo" Hunt!

He claims that it's the same as tipping your boss when you get your paycheck. How he'd know what it's like getting a paycheck I have no idea...
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sixpack said:
Yeah. One tournament I was rated a AAA+ and I played a B player who was in town to film a movie. The spot I had to give him was I had to win 6 before he wins 3 and I get the first break and he gets all the other breaks except if it goes to hill-hill I get the break. 9 ball, bar box.

First game I break and run.

He breaks and makes the 2-9 combo for the win.
He gets a 9b break.
He breaks and makes 4 balls and then runs out to a 7-9 combo?. Can't remember for sure.

I lost and all I did was break and run.

He was a decent guy and I think the handicap was fair. We laughed about it all night.
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I went to a bar tournament only a couple miles from one I played regularly. Figured I would know some people there and they would know me but that wasn't how it went, all strangers. Single elimination race to three, moved fast! They may have stacked the deck on me, I blew through their two favorites my first two matches 3-0 and the crowd was definitely ugly! Figured I had better drop a game next match and I did deliberately lose the first one. A break and run and a golden break and I was out! I didn't go back.

Hu
 
9BallKY said:
My son played in a handicapped tournament and he had to spot the guy 2 games on the wire. The guy breaks and runs 4 racks in a row. My son is about a 600 fargorate player. He laughed about it and said I’m spotting this guy 2 games and he plays better than I do.
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What did the break and runs look like. That kind of thing has happened to me before, but the runs were ugly and you could tell the guy was getting lucky. I still won the match, he blew his load on the runs and I wore him out from there. :)
 
easy-e said:
What did the break and runs look like. That kind of thing has happened to me before, but the runs were ugly and you could tell the guy was getting lucky. I still won the match, he blew his load on the runs and I wore him out from there. :)
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Let’s just say the guy was smooth as silk. He went on to do well in the tournament. If I remember correctly he got 3rd out of 150-160 players
 
Mustardeer said:
He was one of those confrontational guys no one messed with. He had a bracket on a clipboard, nobody was allowed to look at the clipboard. If you tried he started sht with you and he’d try to humiliate you in front of everyone. Real lowlife. He felt he was an OG and demanded respect. He just told players who they were playing and table number. Double elimination barbox 8B bca rules race to 1. No idea how but that tourney always attracted a big crowd, lots of railbirds and strong players.
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Sounds like a real piece of work.
At the tournament I mentioned earlier, the guy has everyone draw a poker chip out of a bag and writes the numbers down in order. Then the brackets are filled out in that exact order according to the numbers on the bracket. Easy and transparent.
Likely the guy you're talking about is paid very little, and feel entitled to create an advantage for himself. If the job paid anything decent, it would probably be harder for someone to be a jerk about it. idk
 
Sheldon said:
Sounds like a real piece of work.
At the tournament I mentioned earlier, the guy has everyone draw a poker chip out of a bag and writes the numbers down in order. Then the brackets are filled out in that exact order according to the numbers on the bracket. Easy and transparent.
Likely the guy you're talking about is paid very little, and feel entitled to create an advantage for himself. If the job paid anything decent, it would probably be harder for someone to be a jerk about it. idk
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Unfortunately many tournaments were run like this back in the day.

I remember a tournament in CO where my buddy and I played. There were no brackets/byes and it was single elimination. My buddy was one of 3 undefeated players so they "drew" to see who got to play. My buddy was out and thought he'd play the winner. Nope. He got third. Never lost and got third.

Of course we tried everything to get the 1 and 2 players to gamble and they wouldn't.
 
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