I thought about this a while before posting because it really hit a nerve.
Last Saturday, here in the Windy City, I convinced a good well known pool playing friend of mine to tag along to the BMW Championship (golf) and then head over to a local nine ball tourney to spectate for a bit.
15 minutes after arriving to the nine ball tourney, an argument erupts, in which one of the players tells the other, literally to suck his you know what.
I spoke with the tournament director about this, and she had her own way of handling it, which is all fine and good, but the action did not result in a disqualification. She went on to talk about what a pain Earl Strickland can be etc, fine, point made.
Talk about going from one extreme to the other.
It didn't end there. We went to another place where a very well known bank player was playing, gambling, at at the end of his run, his opponent started wolfing up a lot af crap, yelling about quitting winner, which wasn't the case, just a lot of stupid childish nonsense!
Maybe I'm a newbie to the game, whatever, and I'm severely ticked about this, but this kind of stupid garbage is the reason that pool will always be thought of as a game for losers.
Sorry, just my experience that day and it was a joke.
The point is that it seems that this type of crap is okay to a lot of "serious" players.
Well, I went from a 7 million dollar purse event to maybe a $1400 within an hour and then a little later watched a stupid $100 game.
I am on everyone's side here at AZ, but as a pool player, this was embarrassing.
Last Saturday, here in the Windy City, I convinced a good well known pool playing friend of mine to tag along to the BMW Championship (golf) and then head over to a local nine ball tourney to spectate for a bit.
15 minutes after arriving to the nine ball tourney, an argument erupts, in which one of the players tells the other, literally to suck his you know what.
I spoke with the tournament director about this, and she had her own way of handling it, which is all fine and good, but the action did not result in a disqualification. She went on to talk about what a pain Earl Strickland can be etc, fine, point made.
Talk about going from one extreme to the other.
It didn't end there. We went to another place where a very well known bank player was playing, gambling, at at the end of his run, his opponent started wolfing up a lot af crap, yelling about quitting winner, which wasn't the case, just a lot of stupid childish nonsense!
Maybe I'm a newbie to the game, whatever, and I'm severely ticked about this, but this kind of stupid garbage is the reason that pool will always be thought of as a game for losers.
Sorry, just my experience that day and it was a joke.
The point is that it seems that this type of crap is okay to a lot of "serious" players.
Well, I went from a 7 million dollar purse event to maybe a $1400 within an hour and then a little later watched a stupid $100 game.
I am on everyone's side here at AZ, but as a pool player, this was embarrassing.
