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Duh - Risk compromising our friendship by telling him how to run his pool tournament! I don’t want someone telling me how to run my tournament!

FYI, the player in question did not play this week after playing the previous 4 weeks and winning 3/4. Whether or not the TD had a word with him/her or if it was just a coincidence, is unknown.

Honestly, the main reason is that I have a good long-term relationship with the room owner/TD that I don’t want to risk compromising. I’m not sure what’s so hard to understand about that.

Yes, a considerable underdog but certainly still conceivably capable of beating just about anyone in the world in one race, especially on a bar table.

Every 2 years when Ernesto Dominguez comes to recover and work on our tables, I manage to talk him in to playing in our weekly 9-ball handicapped tournament. He’s reluctant, but I convince him its good for our players to see a player like him perform and to potentially play a match against him...

The $ pot will start out very small, but if it’s a tight pocket table, it will gradually build. We don’t sell unlimited tickets / chances (which personally I don’t think is fair) but if you choose to do so that can certainly grow the $ pot exponentially faster.

Owning a pool room is a labor of love for an addicted pool player desiring that lifestyle, but not in it to get rich. A franchise is out, as you want the control to make all the decisions and you’d better get it right. Location is critical, knowing your market. The majority of your sales will...

Do it on your tightest pocket 9-foot table, ours is 4-1/8” corners. Rack your own with a wood rack, not a template. $5 optional buy in for tournament entries only. TD has discretion to not allow certain very strong players from entering. 2 pills are drawn from bottle among all those entered...

As I’ve said earlier, I totaly agree. The onus is completely on the TD to correct the handicap, which up to this point he has chosen to side for this celebrity player over all of his regulars, which is too bad. To clarify, it is not my Poolroom or my tournament, I was just looking for feedback.

I see it as the equivalent of your top skilled 9-foot table pool room players stooping to play in a tournament at your local bar vs that room’s recreational regulars bangers. At some point you’d think you’d have enough self respect and pride in yourself and your clear superiority over those...

I can only assume he’s still playing in the tournament because the TD has yet to kick him out or has yet to give him a spot that would make it marginally closer to a 50/50 chance to win every match, which obviously has not been the case up to this point. With a 45-5 match W/L record for the 7...

Don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing mainly the weaker players that he’s likely shutting out when he’s racing to 6, 7, 8, or 9 whereas they have to win 2. If I was the TD, my initial alteration to the spot in those extremely uneven races is that the weaker player only needs to win 1 game...

Wimpy was 5-1/2 years younger than Willie and kept up his game well in to his 50’s considerably better than Willie did. In their primes, I doubt Willie would want any part of Wimpy in 9-ball, but likely just the opposite for 14.1.

By the table weight in the specs, it is 3/4” slate. Likely not a bad starter table for kids / family to play on if in good condition. However a table of this age is most likely not in very good condition regarding the cushions, pockets, corner, caps, etc. This is the kind of table someone...

I just looked and it’s not like he’s played every week, but in the last 4 months he’s played in 7 tournaments with 5 wins, 1 2nd and 1 4th place finish. For an average of 35+ players in a handicapped tournament, that does not sound right. His handicap has gotten tougher over that period since...

A race to 2 against one of them is not much of a memory, unless you win!

Yeah, and what strange to me is that the room owner/TD is a lifelong player who has owned/run a pool room, run tournaments and played in tournaments himself for nearly 40 years, is a very good experienced $ and tournament player himself, and is very close to the same age as this player in...

I agree that the room owner / TD could have handled this better, and hopefully will realize he needs to do something very soon to protect the legitimacy of his tournament and all his regular tournament players. Although he’s a friend as a fellow area room owner, I don’t feel comfortable...

I believe Ray is closing in on 90.

I’m thinking the simplest solution without just banning him would be to make the handicaps so hard on him to the extent that he decides it’s not worth it. For most matches, the opponent wins with 1 game. The nature of 9 ball will take of that.