Curious what the lowest price someone has gone for (not someone sneaking in preferably) and gone on to reap a nice payday.
$20 player winning 1k etc.
$20 player winning 1k etc.
Best Calcutta deal you've heard of
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Best deal is the Jeanette Lee deal.
She doesn't buy her half until she is in the final 4. Worshipped by many and I think she is an incredible nit.
Ken
How and who allows that to happen?
Shane Mcminn only sold for $100 in the Big Tyme Classic One Pocket Event few days ago.
He ended up getting 2nd place = $2,200 payout.
Ray was the one calling the Calcutta and he was the one who started the bid on Shane at 100 and nobody else bid.
But Ray decided to let Shane buy all himself and not keep half :banghead::banghead:
He ended up getting 2nd place = $2,200 payout.
Ray was the one calling the Calcutta and he was the one who started the bid on Shane at 100 and nobody else bid.
But Ray decided to let Shane buy all himself and not keep half :banghead::banghead:
Jeff_Gallaher
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I bought XXX XXXXX (Custom Cue Maker) for $30 2 weeks ago in a tourney. He got 3rd and the Calcutta paid $1380. He got half of himself but it was the best deal I have ever gotten. I didn't even know him at the time but I wasn't letting him buy himself for $20 after driving 5-6 hours to an event.
I bought a 19 year old kid in a big tournament (for Canada)...
...I’d been watching him for months working on his attitude...he was a hot-head.
I thought he was ready...paid $60....he won...I got $1,700....
...gave the kid half.
Most of the top Canucks were in it....plus Hatch and Nevel
...I’d been watching him for months working on his attitude...he was a hot-head.
I thought he was ready...paid $60....he won...I got $1,700....
...gave the kid half.
Most of the top Canucks were in it....plus Hatch and Nevel
Only Calcutta I ever got in...no one knew how I played,
And there weren’t any bids on me so I was going to get
Myself for $5.... someone said no one goes for $5 and
He took me for $10... I took half..won the tournament, and
My half was over $200......... was the best I ever played.
Would have been nicer if I could have got myself........
Found out years later the owner put me in his ‘book’
As a AA after that tourney. (I am not)
Td
And there weren’t any bids on me so I was going to get
Myself for $5.... someone said no one goes for $5 and
He took me for $10... I took half..won the tournament, and
My half was over $200......... was the best I ever played.
Would have been nicer if I could have got myself........
Found out years later the owner put me in his ‘book’
As a AA after that tourney. (I am not)
Td
Great stories, keep um coming.
When Cheng Yu-Hsuan 1st started playing some events here in the states , they snuck him in under the radar at The Side Pocket Open in Shreveport under the name Kevin from Houston.
Nobody knew who he was or at least the big bidders didn't
He sold for only a couple of $100 when other top players sold for 1000's.
He snapped off the event and 15k in Calcutta money :shocked2:
Two weeks later they tried to do the same thing at the biggest Calcuuta in all of pool at The White Diamond event.
When he went up for bid, the auctioneer Chris Miller, said this is Kevin from Houston and i call Bull Sh*t lol
He said, if this guy is from Houston i am from China :rotflmao1:
Cheng ended up selling for $6,000 :smile:
Cheng went on to win The White Diamond event and 40K in calcutta money :clapping:
Kevin from Houston days of sneaking in under the Radar are long gone now
Nobody knew who he was or at least the big bidders didn't
He sold for only a couple of $100 when other top players sold for 1000's.
He snapped off the event and 15k in Calcutta money :shocked2:
Two weeks later they tried to do the same thing at the biggest Calcuuta in all of pool at The White Diamond event.
When he went up for bid, the auctioneer Chris Miller, said this is Kevin from Houston and i call Bull Sh*t lol
He said, if this guy is from Houston i am from China :rotflmao1:
Cheng ended up selling for $6,000 :smile:
Cheng went on to win The White Diamond event and 40K in calcutta money :clapping:
Kevin from Houston days of sneaking in under the Radar are long gone now
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I bought Bill Dunsmore in the NYS 14.1 tournament in the 80s for $20. Nobody knew who he was. I used to watch him play Mike Zuglan 100 point games in Albany every week. Many times I saw him run 100 and out. He had no trouble winning the tournament. I forgot what it paid, but naturally Bill bought 1/2 of himself.
Another time he came to Binghamton and played in the NYS 8 ball tournament. We both finished 5th & 6th and a guy from Buffalo challenged him to some 9 ball at $50 a rack. The guy from Buffalo had a backer and he told me "Your buddy doesn't know who he's playing. That's Johnny Archer's cousin." I told him "He'd better shoot like Archer, because that's the Chicken Man he's playing." Bill beat him every rack until he had lost about $500.
Another time he came to Binghamton and played in the NYS 8 ball tournament. We both finished 5th & 6th and a guy from Buffalo challenged him to some 9 ball at $50 a rack. The guy from Buffalo had a backer and he told me "Your buddy doesn't know who he's playing. That's Johnny Archer's cousin." I told him "He'd better shoot like Archer, because that's the Chicken Man he's playing." Bill beat him every rack until he had lost about $500.
not from me she don't.
Agreed. I'd be more likely to hand her $3 and tell to never speak to me again.
Circa 1991. I was dating a girl at U of Illinois and I heard about this tourney on saturday just down the road in Charleston,IL at Styx. Don Yost's place. Dave Miller was the tournament director. I think it was about a 40 or 50 dollar entry. Dave asks what my hcp is in his tourneys. I say this is my first time here and that I'm an APA 6 which I was at the time. He says fine. Not one person in the room knew me and I didn't know anyone but a kid from my home room that came up from SIU to play in the tourney. He knew I played decent but nothing special and he was broke so no one bids on me and i get myself for $10. Come sunday morning they have another calcutta for the final 32 players and I'm in the final 8 undefeated and still no one bids one me. Long story short, after a few guys piddle down their leg against me, I'm in the finals against one of the good guys from ST,Louis. Everything goes my way ( and I mean EVERYTHING) and I win. $1788 first calcutta, $790 second and $800 tourney. I thought pool would be easy money at that point. Not so much. :smile: