Would consider this cheating by the tournament director?

Info and the end!

Hi Everyone, I appreciate everyone who offered an opinion on this subject and I would like to provide some additional information on this topic. I didn’t provide this information in the beginning in an attempt to garner unbiased opinions to see if I was wrong.

1) I was a VNEA certified referee. I let my certification lapse because I don’t enjoy refereeing as much as playing. Neil I have refereed your VNEA Michigan state championships before as well as the Wisconsin state championship and The Las Vegas Championship. So I do know the rules it is covered under unsportsmanlike conduct which can result in a penalty up to and including loss of the game. This was verified by other referee’s in attendance, but the tournament director has final say! The other referee’s and I in attendance made many calls for him throughout the day but he made the ruling in this instance without consulting anyone. We were there unofficially as he didn’t want to pay a referee for the event so we did it as a courtesy to him and our local players.

2) When P was starting out, I was getting out of running tournaments and he asked me to teach him how to do it, which I happily did and continued to help him as recently as this tournament when he needed it. At this event he asked for my help figuring out his Calcutta payments and I sat with him and set it up as well as reffing shots throughout the day. And This is why I was shaking BmoreMoney because I watched someone I considered a friend blatantly cheat, because he made a ruling in his favor and continued on. The rules I cited earlier (re: not drinking, not playing in his own major event, and being honest with rulings) were what I taught him when he started out, and what I follow to this day.

3) I have also personally seen P do things like this before in a gambling match so this isn’t his first infraction but that was between him and the other player, I just witnessed it. Along with a bunch of other questionable things he has done that only he and I know about. He feels that if he says he is sorry that makes everything ok, but saying sorry after you have the money in your hand is not ok.

4) I called him on it because no one else would due to fear of repercussions in league next year, this doesn’t affect me as I don’t play his league. I felt compelled to confront him on this due to the fact the I tried to teach him about running tournaments, and because of such held him to the high standard, that I hold myself to. I put my face to it publicly and didn’t just stand in the shadows throwing stones.

5) I was going to post his response and apology and rectification of the situation, which all involved deemed adequate but he removed the thread from Facebook. B also posted his side which I would have shared also but alas it was removed as well as my response to him about his doing the correct thing and to move forward.

So in the end it is my belief that anything less than 100% he did not cheat is unacceptable, let alone a 50/50 split. The people that run our events must be held to a high standard. Thanks again to all who participated. Let’s consider this issue closed.

And big thanks to GideonF for his formatting help with my original post, I am a pool player after all and when I transferred it from my word document to AZ something went awry.