are you a pretentious pool A-hole???

I don't have to be pretentious about it, everybody already knows.
It's common knowledge that I have bigger & better cues, big leather cases, and my
own chalk.
 
Yeah, the blowhole who put 10k of his own money up when you had to give virtual blowjobs to get yours in play.

And now, you're just a nit who won't play me again much less play someone like Stan.

Doesn't matter, I knew going in that you would be this way. You're a coward and always will be. If Mike wasn't propping you up you'd have never played, not even getting weight for $100 a game like I originally offered.

Fact is you suck as a player. I mean to paraphrase McGoorty there are a million players who would swim a river of shit to play you. I am one of them. I suck too but I still think I am good enough to beat you. Anyone just slightly better than me wipes the floor with you which is why you are such a coward.

Edit: With that said. I have decided to let you go Lou. While I would love to play you again just for my own satisfaction to redeem myself as a player given the absolutely awful performance at Sandcastle I have decided that you simply don't deserve another shot at my money. Ever. Not you, not Michael Lalumiere (Liesomemore), and nor do any of your little manipulation group deserve any more chance to get me in a game with your lies and deceit.

When I want to gamble I will make a game with someone I like. Someone who treats others with respect, not a liar, not a jerk, and not a jerkoff. My friend Dean suggested that I could make games as promotion once a year and that is what I will do and you're off the list.

So you go on ahead and keep insulting me. This is the last time I even acknowledge you exist. Your cowardice is well documented and we all know you will never play a player so no one needs to ever expect to see you in action again for $50 much less for $5000.

I really do feel pity for you. So blind to see how much you are despised in your own backyard. It must be awful to walk into places knowing that many of the people who see you come in wish you were not there. I would hate to live like that and to me that is the life you have. Barred from a great pool room and barely welcome in any others. Put whatever spin you want on it but that is a terrible way to live.

So you go boy, brag all you want, call me all the names you want, make all the insinuations you want, lie all you want. I am going to show you just how it works when you are ignored completely. You and liesomemore can commiserate on how you lost the chance to make even more money and you can privately rejoice that the chance to lose to me is gone.


John, you were never, ever, going to play me again for serious money. The only question in anyone’s mind (but your own) was: how is he going to weasel out, how's he going to try and save face? Your choice, while pathetic, is not surprising.

I don’t need your money John. Mike sure as hell doesn’t. What was fun about our first match was afterwards, with my side sitting at the steak dinner you bought us all and doing some back-of-the-napkin calculations that basically amounted to you flying in from China and working the four days of the SBE, only to hand all your profits to us. Way to go, smart guy.

Your charges re: St. Louis are pulled from your ass and the word of a couple of malcontents, one of whom was barred from tournaments and almost assaulted the promoter. How do I know that? Because of something you gave away in one of your tirades that ID’d him. The other, I’m not 100% sure about, but can make a good guess.

Regardless, I’ve played in rooms all over the country and have met friends in most of them. People see how I conduct myself and can make up their own minds, including one guy who went to NJ for our match, who only knew me from the forums, thought he didn't like me, and ended up giving some of the beers he'd brought.

You, OTOH, left NJ with everyone -- from the room owner on down -- disgusted with your behavior.

Have a nice day.

Lou Figueroa
 
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I didn't almost get my teeth knocked in. You call my wife a trained seal and yet you invite a guy who assaulted a senior citizen to antagonize me. But it turns out he is as much of a blowhard as you are and tried to threaten me with a pool ball and I laughed in his face.

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This is why most consider you a nutcase. you have the ability to twist and recreate history to suit your own reality.

If you "laughed in my face", you might have pushed me over the edge. You should try it, next time.


Eric >JBnutCase is obsessed with me
 
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This is why most consider you a nutcase. you have the ability to twist and recreate history to suit your own reality.

If you "laughed in my face", you might have pushed me over the edge. You should try it, next time.


Eric >JBnutCase is obsessed with me

You said, "I double dog dare you to say another word", I laughed at you and asked if this was third grade. You turned around to take your glasses off and turned back and by that time others had arrived to insure there was not going to be a fight.

Next time I will laugh in your face and every time I see you in person. You're so tough why pick up the pool ball?

You don't scare me Eric. Maybe you think you do but you don't. And you're another one of those people who isn't well liked around your area.

I am not obsessed with you in the least. You're an annoyance to me a few times a year and nothing else. So far you have threatened to beat me up several times and not once followed through. Maybe if I were a senior citizen you would have already.

The fact is that it went down exactly as I said. I asked you to play, you said you were there to see me get goat screwed and I asked you to play again. You walked over and picked up a pool ball and dared me (double dog dared) me to keep talking. I kept talking and you did nothing. In fact I laughed at you and you did nothing.

That's exactly what happened.

Edit: And I am done with you as well. I have said all I want to say to you online. You're not welcome at my booth any time in at any event. But feel free to accost me if you feel like being third grade and we will see what happens then.
 
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Is the JB vs LF match on you tube?? I thought it was but couldn't find it.

I wanted to go back and watch it again. I remember it not being as close as JB has mentioned that it was in this thread.

Sure the score may have been close, but the level of play wasn't.
 
Yep, thats why people think you are out of your mind. You work the truth and reality like it is a piece of Silly Putty, til the image suits you. I know you think of yourself as a pseudo-savvy, court room lawyer BUT in reality, you are nothing more than a cheap, used car salesman, with the way you twist things.

See my replies, below:

You said, "I double dog dare you to say another word", I laughed at you and asked if this was third grade. You turned around to take your glasses off and turned back and by that time others had arrived to insure there was not going to be a fight.
I said that sarcastically, after you kept running your mouth and I step in your space and said "Go ahead, say one more thing. Say one more word. I double dog dare you..." the LAST thing you thought about was laughing. You could only meekly say "Did you just say that?"

Next time I will laugh in your face and every time I see you in person. You're so tough why pick up the pool ball?
Please do laugh in my face, next time. I double dog dare you.

You don't scare me Eric. Maybe you think you do but you don't. And you're another one of those people who isn't well liked around your area.
I am well liked in my area but most certainly not disliked. This is just another example of your shyster, used car saleman talk. You are talking out of your azz again.

I am not obsessed with you in the least. You're an annoyance to me a few times a year and nothing else. So far you have threatened to beat me up several times and not once followed through. Maybe if I were a senior citizen you would have already.
You ARE obsessed with me. I give you space on AZB and I still see regular posts from you bringing my name up. So sad.

The fact is that it went down exactly as I said. I asked you to play, you said you were there to see me get goat screwed and I asked you to play again. You walked over and picked up a pool ball and dared me (double dog dared) me to keep talking. I kept talking and you did nothing. In fact I laughed at you and you did nothing.

That's exactly what happened.
That is exactly NOT how it happened. You twisted everything, only hanging onto a shread of fact.Your account differs from all the other eyewitness accounts, including the ones posted here, on AZB. What can you expect from a shyster, used car salesman??

Edit: And I am done with you as well. I have said all I want to say to you online. You're not welcome at my booth any time in at any event. But feel free to accost me if you feel like being third grade and we will see what happens then.
TRANSLATION: I'm done talking chit and half truths FROM A SAFE DISTANCE. Now, stay away from me or I will call the teacher, the cops and Jesse Jackson

Lastly, John-boy, You are not the stand-up-to-bullies crusader victim you think you are. In fact, you are really the antagonist. You provkoe, provoke until you get the fight, then you claim you are the one standing up to the ones that persecute you.

Sounds like you are not crazy, right??


Eric
 
Yep, thats why people think you are out of your mind. You work the truth and reality like it is a piece of Silly Putty, til the image suits you. I know you think of yourself as a pseudo-savvy, court room lawyer.

I've always thought there was a Lionel Hutz quality about him...

As for the rest of it, there are some cracking feuds on this site.
 
Bet it. $100 that after today I don't respond to anything Lou says. Since you are so sure let's make the bet duration one month.

Not only will I not respond to his comments but after today I won't discuss him with anyone else at all.

Not putting him on the ignore list either.

So bet $100 against me. Put your money where your mouth is.

Today is the sixth. 30 days of Lou and his crew abusing me and if I respond once you get the cash. December 7th you pay off.

You tell them John. Don't take their crap. Then you are only out $9900, chicken shit really.

I will agree that the one guy is a total nit, $hitstirrer, but you just gotta let it go.
 
Bet it. $100 that after today I don't respond to anything Lou says. Since you are so sure let's make the bet duration one month.

Not only will I not respond to his comments but after today I won't discuss him with anyone else at all.

Not putting him on the ignore list either.

So bet $100 against me. Put your money where your mouth is.

Today is the sixth. 30 days of Lou and his crew abusing me and if I respond once you get the cash. December 7th you pay off.


Two telling things about this: first off, John is only willing to go one month v a year or in perpetuity. Second, he only wants to bet $100. JB knows he probably can't do it and will be gnawing his fingers to the bone to keep them off his keyboard somewhere near then or he'd be woofing for a lot more, lol.

Lou Figueroa
 
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Two telling things about this: first off, John is only willing to go one month v a year or in perpetuity. Second, he only wants to bet $100. JB knows he probably can't do it and will be gnawing his fingers to the bone to keep them off his keyboard somewhere near then or he'd be woofing for a lot more, lol.

Lou Figueroa

Some loud-mouthed name-changer once said, iirc, that in a pool hall, where they spent many years being groomed by pros, that if somebody really believed in something, they would bet at least $500.. all the way up to everything they had.. if they honestly believed in something.

I'm done with this, Lou.

Or at least for a week.

Maybe a day.

I'll be right back.

Wanna play a 100-ahead set?
 
The Barton-Figueroa argument should have been dead the moment the money changed hands.

Both parties showed: check
Both parties behaved with civility (when the camera was on): check
A fairly decisive victory was one by one party: check
Fun was had by many (I dare not say all) spectators, which were online in record numbers: check

Mr. Figueroa was NOT beaten into a pulp by the superior merits of Mr. Bartons aiming system, as the latter had claimed would happen, so that part of the argument is pretty much settled. But why argue about supposed cheating (coaching) in a game that you won decisively? That seems both pointless, and dare I say a little petty as well. I don't see what if anything would be proved by another matchup. Mr. Bartons pre game claims was that he would trunce Mr. Figueroa in a convincing manner (which didn't happen), and that Mr. Figueroa would not stand up to the pressure (which he did admirably). So the conclusions would be:

Knowledge of CTE without solid fundamentals will not make you invincible.

Having solid fundamentals will help you stand up to pressure. That is my own interpretation of the events, although it could also be that Mr. Figueroa has a stronger psyche than Mr. Barton gives him credit for. In fact I think that both of these explanations are true.

Mr. Figueroa did show, thus putting Mr. Bartons constant claims that he wouldn't to shame. It is petty to constantly bring up the fact that he was backed for at least part of the amount. Being backed can be even harder than playing for your own money.

On the internet nobody (or at least very few people) cares wether you are liked or not in the real world. People will form their own opinions based on the persons posts. Insinuations and rumors from people who have allready been proven wrong on related subjects carry little weight. (Goes for all participants).

The respect earned by both participants in going through with the match and behaving in a civilized manner is slowly being eroded by petty and childish behaviour that should be beneath both of them.

Agree on all points.
 
Some loud-mouthed name-changer once said, iirc, that in a pool hall, where they spent many years being groomed by pros, that if somebody really believed in something, they would bet at least $500.. all the way up to everything they had.. if they honestly believed in something.

I'm done with this, Lou.

Or at least for a week.

Maybe a day.

I'll be right back.

Wanna play a 100-ahead set?

ok I will bet you $500 or $10,000. Whatever you are comfortable with.
 
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