It’s remarkable how much influence a clock can bring to bear on the outcome of a pool tournament. As the clock hits midnight, players’ glances at it (analog or digital display) are not just about what time it is, but what time, by projection, a tournament might be over. When that projection starts to produce estimates that indicate it might not be over until sometime around dawn, a handful of players will have decisions to make about things that have nothing to do with pool. Thinking of the tournament as a single-day event, some players might not have planned for a second day and as a result have not considered where they’re going to stay. Those who live a long distance away begin calculating the traveling hours to home, if and after the last 9-ball drops at (hypothetically) 4 o’clock in the morning. Sometimes, the prospect of actually winning has a strong influence on decisions made during this clock-watching phase of any event, but not always.
On Sunday morning, around 2 a.m this past weekend (July 30), there were four players left at a stop on the PremierBilliards.com’s Q City 9-Ball Tour in Cary, NC. Both of the matches that had recently brought the field down to that four went double hill. The manager of Breaktime Billiards (who was also watching the clock) made a decision that the three, possibly four remaining matches would have to be played later in the day. At that point in time, one of the four remaining players decided that he wasn’t going to return. Christian Greene, who’d lost the hot seat match to Christy Norris, chose to accept a 3rd place finish in the event and the field went down to three, all of whom went to their respective neutral corners, presumably to sleep, before the final three or four matches got underway to produce a winner.
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On Sunday morning, around 2 a.m this past weekend (July 30), there were four players left at a stop on the PremierBilliards.com’s Q City 9-Ball Tour in Cary, NC. Both of the matches that had recently brought the field down to that four went double hill. The manager of Breaktime Billiards (who was also watching the clock) made a decision that the three, possibly four remaining matches would have to be played later in the day. At that point in time, one of the four remaining players decided that he wasn’t going to return. Christian Greene, who’d lost the hot seat match to Christy Norris, chose to accept a 3rd place finish in the event and the field went down to three, all of whom went to their respective neutral corners, presumably to sleep, before the final three or four matches got underway to produce a winner.
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