Ambition to get better slowly decreasing - no tourneys available
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oscargrouch
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It's nit behavior to not agree to make it easier for you to beat him when you'd lost and he hadn't in a double elimination tournament? Like bro are YOU serious.
So you've never heard of an extended race in the finals of a double elimination tournament? I was trying to save both of our time, including the TD. The thought of making it easier for myself never even entered my head because it was already stupidly easy.
I have a 7 Ft table in the basement I play everyday I compete against myself, I play straight pool, there is a U-Tuber SSOP who has a game on straight pool, you rack the balls break them take ball in hand and run out, Rack them again again smash break and it goes on like that. Max Erble has pretty much the same game on his web site. The purpose of this is to get people used to running balls not trying to play for the break ball. I find it very useful, it teaches you patterns but when you miss it stinks. I am a older person fixin to be 80 this year and it keeps me active and mentally sharp. I am still trying for a 100 ball run so far 66 is my best.
bpeacock
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I don't know much about it but that they have had over $250,000 payouts and they are attracting pros and amateurs. The matches are handicapped. I think they have 1 or 2 tournaments a month. The Filler's were there for a women's tournament last weekend. Check out their Facebook page.
If they did you would hear a lot more about Matlock
Great place for sure but its a rarity and not the norm in the US. Not that many rooms have enough big-table players to make it the main size.
The big cue ball is deader than Elvis and has been for at least 25yrs. Dave, Omaha John, Mike Hyland, Gene Cooper and a few others could flat gin it with the big rock.
oscargrouch
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Sure I've heard of it, but not after a different format is set. Look, for you to ask about it is fine. You could ask the guy to change the competition to BJs if you want. But calling him nitpicky for declining and making you play according to how the rules were set is absurd.
I'm in a BCA league, almost all 7' tables and on week nights starting at 7pm. I have a 9' at home. Competition always improves your game. I don't see the reason for your complaint. The alternative is not competing, so I'm happy to participate in what's available.
You're a nit for criticizing how/when/where/why I use the word nit. I've seen plenty of tournaments run too late where the format was set in stone that it's a true double elimination finals, and the players still agreed to do one extended race. Obviously this is not the case for professional tournaments.
Your desire to include BJ's into the conversation is absurd. You joined this forum November of last year, I'm not even going to continue this conversation.
That's a good mindset for sure. I should be thankful for what is available to me, there are probably some states with 0 leagues/0 9ft'ers/0 tournaments.
oscargrouch
Active member
That's wrong.
Doesn't change the point.
No duh.
Good reason.
Also known as Cicero Ave in Chicago.S. Louisiana, and moist/Most/anywherein the south, the action was always Up, like the humidity.
Fats when he moved to Dowell IL, got his life lined up with N/S State Hwy 50.
Hwy 50 (before interstates were built) this 2 lane road ran from WI to S. IL, Bensingers/Chicago, Duquoin IL, Janscos/Horse Racing/Big Money on the horses in the south, it was the 40's - 50's the Wild west.
I HATE toy tables and handicapped tournaments and much prefer 9 ball over 8 ball. Having lived in the northern DC suburbs for the past 30+ years, this has been the regression I've witnessed in my search for a weekly tournament within driving distance on 9 ft. tables.
1994-early 2000's: Thursday night 9 ball tournament at Champions in Rockville. Race to 7 single elimination. Anywhere from 8 to about 30 players would show up. Ended when the ownership changed. Max Eberle, Danny Green, Brian McDonnell (Cuddy), and Scotty Boggs used to show up in stretches for months at a time.
Early to late 2000's: Weeknight 9 ball tournament at Orange Ball in Rockville, started out race to 7 single elimination, moved to race to 5 on the winners side and race to 4 on the losers' side. This was the best weekly DC area local tournament I've ever been involved with, with regular participants including Mike Davis, Brandon Shuff, Keith McCready, Manny Chau, Scott Tollefson, Brian Deska, Ryan McCreesh and the occasional road player like Leonardo Andam. Closed around 2010 when the owner was caught selling booze to minors.
Late 2000's - early 2010's. Big Daddy's in Glen Burnie was the next hope, with IIRC 9 ball races to 5 / winners and 4 / losers. Brett Stottlemyer was everyone's Great White Whale, but without a liquor license the Molinaros were finally forced to sell. It's now Brews 'n' Cues, and apparently quite successful, but as it's got nothing but toy tables their tournaments are a non-starter for me. (I understand the reasons for the bar boxes, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.)
Finally from the early 2000's to now, there's Triple Nines on U. S. 1 in Elkridge, closer to Baltimore than to DC, with Saturday night tournaments and 8 ball races to 3 / winners and 9 ball races to 3 / losers. The equipment's inconsistent, but the organizers and the players are all so much fun to be around that I can put aside my hatred of 8 ball and just enjoy being there. Jimmy Varias (Jimboy) is the only 700 Fargo player, but there are enough others who probably are in the 600's to make it worthwhile from a competition POV. My wife goes out there with me about once a year and takes pictures of all the players in action, which I later print and give to them as proof to their wives that they weren't slipping around on them.
But to put this all in perspective, and I'm sure this isn't news to many of you here, back when I started playing pool the Washington area had close to 50 pool rooms, nearly all 9 ft. only, and in at least half a dozen of them (Jack 'n' Jill, Guys & Dolls, Bladensburg Golden Cue, Jimmy's Golden Q, Roman Billiards and Randolph Hills), you could always find action and plenty of top level players.
Not hard to tell I'm pushing 80, is it?
But it sure as hell beats the alternative.
1994-early 2000's: Thursday night 9 ball tournament at Champions in Rockville. Race to 7 single elimination. Anywhere from 8 to about 30 players would show up. Ended when the ownership changed. Max Eberle, Danny Green, Brian McDonnell (Cuddy), and Scotty Boggs used to show up in stretches for months at a time.
Early to late 2000's: Weeknight 9 ball tournament at Orange Ball in Rockville, started out race to 7 single elimination, moved to race to 5 on the winners side and race to 4 on the losers' side. This was the best weekly DC area local tournament I've ever been involved with, with regular participants including Mike Davis, Brandon Shuff, Keith McCready, Manny Chau, Scott Tollefson, Brian Deska, Ryan McCreesh and the occasional road player like Leonardo Andam. Closed around 2010 when the owner was caught selling booze to minors.
Late 2000's - early 2010's. Big Daddy's in Glen Burnie was the next hope, with IIRC 9 ball races to 5 / winners and 4 / losers. Brett Stottlemyer was everyone's Great White Whale, but without a liquor license the Molinaros were finally forced to sell. It's now Brews 'n' Cues, and apparently quite successful, but as it's got nothing but toy tables their tournaments are a non-starter for me. (I understand the reasons for the bar boxes, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.)
Finally from the early 2000's to now, there's Triple Nines on U. S. 1 in Elkridge, closer to Baltimore than to DC, with Saturday night tournaments and 8 ball races to 3 / winners and 9 ball races to 3 / losers. The equipment's inconsistent, but the organizers and the players are all so much fun to be around that I can put aside my hatred of 8 ball and just enjoy being there. Jimmy Varias (Jimboy) is the only 700 Fargo player, but there are enough others who probably are in the 600's to make it worthwhile from a competition POV. My wife goes out there with me about once a year and takes pictures of all the players in action, which I later print and give to them as proof to their wives that they weren't slipping around on them.
But to put this all in perspective, and I'm sure this isn't news to many of you here, back when I started playing pool the Washington area had close to 50 pool rooms, nearly all 9 ft. only, and in at least half a dozen of them (Jack 'n' Jill, Guys & Dolls, Bladensburg Golden Cue, Jimmy's Golden Q, Roman Billiards and Randolph Hills), you could always find action and plenty of top level players.
Not hard to tell I'm pushing 80, is it?
But it sure as hell beats the alternative.
You didn't even cross over into VA...in the DC metro area, you could find a weeknight tournament pretty much every night of the week.I HATE toy tables and handicapped tournaments and much prefer 9 ball over 8 ball. Having lived in the northern DC suburbs for the past 30+ years, this has been the regression I've witnessed in my search for a weekly tournament within driving distance on 9 ft. tables.
1994-early 2000's: Thursday night 9 ball tournament at Champions in Rockville. Race to 7 single elimination. Anywhere from 8 to about 30 players would show up. Ended when the ownership changed. Max Eberle, Danny Green, Brian McDonnell (Cuddy), and Scotty Boggs used to show up in stretches for months at a time.
Early to late 2000's: Weeknight 9 ball tournament at Orange Ball in Rockville, started out race to 7 single elimination, moved to race to 5 on the winners side and race to 4 on the losers' side. This was the best weekly DC area local tournament I've ever been involved with, with regular participants including Mike Davis, Brandon Shuff, Keith McCready, Manny Chau, Scott Tollefson, Brian Deska, Ryan McCreesh and the occasional road player like Leonardo Andam. Closed around 2010 when the owner was caught selling booze to minors.
Late 2000's - early 2010's. Big Daddy's in Glen Burnie was the next hope, with IIRC 9 ball races to 5 / winners and 4 / losers. Brett Stottlemyer was everyone's Great White Whale, but without a liquor license the Molinaros were finally forced to sell. It's now Brews 'n' Cues, and apparently quite successful, but as it's got nothing but toy tables their tournaments are a non-starter for me. (I understand the reasons for the bar boxes, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.)
Finally from the early 2000's to now, there's Triple Nines on U. S. 1 in Elkridge, closer to Baltimore than to DC, with Saturday night tournaments and 8 ball races to 3 / winners and 9 ball races to 3 / losers. The equipment's inconsistent, but the organizers and the players are all so much fun to be around that I can put aside my hatred of 8 ball and just enjoy being there. Jimmy Varias (Jimboy) is the only 700 Fargo player, but there are enough others who probably are in the 600's to make it worthwhile from a competition POV. My wife goes out there with me about once a year and takes pictures of all the players in action, which I later print and give to them as proof to their wives that they weren't slipping around on them.
But to put this all in perspective, and I'm sure this isn't news to many of you here, back when I started playing pool the Washington area had close to 50 pool rooms, nearly all 9 ft. only, and in at least half a dozen of them (Jack 'n' Jill, Guys & Dolls, Bladensburg Golden Cue, Jimmy's Golden Q, Roman Billiards and Randolph Hills), you could always find action and plenty of top level players.
Not hard to tell I'm pushing 80, is it?
Kept me from getting a real job for years.
Except when you live in Montgomery County, the drive to NVA in the rush hour can only be described with a string of expletives. I used to play in Danny Green's Shark Club tournaments in Springfield, but those were on a Sunday. Same with the Planet Pool regional tournaments that were always on weekends, and neither of these tournaments have been around for over a decade.
Back when I lived in D.C. I'd often drive out to Jack 'n' Jill's, Tops, or Westmont, but that was in an era of all gambling and few tournaments. Right now Triple Nines is the only room left with 9 ft. tables and weekly tournaments that's easy to access from where I am.
Well maybe we can win the World Bar Box Championship, if there is not one invent it, seems to me there are a lot of world titles floating around.
Sure... planet pool would be 20+yrs old though now, gotta be.
Danny's events were in merrifield...and I am pretty sure he took me to your house long ago, oddly enough.
I also worked at Westmont for many years and like Lee's USA and the glen bhrnie jack/jills, rooms of a different era that are definitely missed.
Even if there WAS a state that had ZERO leagues(nirvanna !!)/9fts(sacrilege)/tournaments i'm sure if you moved there you'd start another thread whining about it.
I 'edited-in' the smiley face just to lighten the butthurt feeling i'm sure the guy has by now. If all these good players exist in his area he's gonna have to get things going and stop whining.
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