he gave me red rep also. 1st time i ever got one. then he posts in my master league thread and made a very civil post giving me advice. figure that one out.
thanks for the advice master nine baller.
You gotta admit it was pretty good advice right? If there's one thing I know alot about it's pool. I'm done banging here with you. I can't take on 5 of you at once anyway.
ccshrimper and I had several nice PM's back and forth, he's off the hook too. The man is a shrimp boat fisherman, no lie, pretty cool. I appreciate hard work, I had alot of different jobs that required manual labor when I was younger, it makes all other jobs seem easy.
To the individual above I will be there to play sets and will contact you just prior to coming out to Vegas.
Sadly at least for now the local board has decided not to allow me to play in Vegas. Solely using the logic that I "must have done something to make the opposing player hit me". No evidence was provided by anyone other than the opposing team, who had obvious reason to exaggerate and lie. I was not notified of what I was accused of and I was never therefore allowed to mount a rebuttal, even though I had impartial witnesses available, including the room owner.
Mr Brad Rees the APA league operator for Onondaga and Oswego counties in central NY has a business affiliation with one individual on that team who helps him manage the Oswego county portion. He is friends with all of the other 3 who threatened me bodily harm and death by various methods. He never once contacted me to give my side of the story. He immediately went and spoke to members of the opposing team that evening to dicuss what happened and get their side of the story.
He tells me tonight, the first time he ever contacted me to say that I can't play in the event in Vegas, that the indivdual who hit me has a lifetime ban and for the other 2 "no decision has been made". No follow up meeting scheduled. So apparently you can threaten people as you choose, including murder and get away with it as long as you are tight with the league operator.
Consider that at most I told this idiot to "bet from here" following his drunken, disrespectful sharking and these guys were 1 foot from my face saying they would hit me. And I said " just do it then". It goes on for two 15 minute periods, after the 2nd game and then after I am struck.
So all I can say is that it was a joke. I was denied what I helped win for my team. I beat this guy 7 games, leaving him only 2 kick shots in that period, one he hit and sold out, the other he missed. They say I sharked him. How do you do that when they don't even see the table? In total I won 16 sets straight running away with it, averaging 7-3. They couldn't handle me, and still can't.
I will appeal this decision and let the APA office do what they may. Obviously I fully expect them to hold up the LO decision. He is very active, makes them alot of money. I am an advanced amateur player and not in their marketing strategy so they have no reason to side with me.
I will however be traveling to Vegas in any event to support my team who may well have just 2 members now. One player we have is out of state for work the past 10 weeks and will likely not make it. so now with 2 players on our team they have to each win both their sets vs. each team of 3 or they are out losing 1 set winning one and forfeiting the 3rd. They both intend to go because they feel they earned the right to play and they have. I am most sad for them as the league operator's decision has crippled their abitlity to win there.
If they do not travel to Vegas and play the $2090 in travel monies will be lost. Of course I would assume Mr. Rees will be taking that for himself. My team captain was told he must either be there in person to collect or submit appropriate airline or hotel receipts for an advance payment. Seems they play this game pretty well over there.
That's all I know for now. I'll post any news from the APA. They do have their policies and procedures to follow.
All I can say is that when I am there, you all got action!
