Originally Posted by SpiderWebComm:
So she wouldn't have to work so long and hard for so little.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
Lou Figueroa
I got it immediately. Lol. I guess my mind is in the gutter quite often.
Originally Posted by SpiderWebComm:
So she wouldn't have to work so long and hard for so little.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
Lou Figueroa
I got it immediately. Lol. I guess my mind is in the gutter quite often.
Every city has crime.
In our neighborhood you will see couples with strollers, kids on bikes and tricycles, dog walkers, nursing and pharmacy students jogging, people going to work at the huge medical center a few blocks away, and so on. My neighbors are a CEO, an attorney, doctors (3), an architect, pharmacists (2), and a few retirees. The deputy mayor of St. Louis used to live a couple of doors down.
I'm guessing you don't see much of that living around the city dump ;-)
Lou Figueroa
If the two biggest vile crass slammers (Lou & Dan)of Stan, Connie, CTE, me, and everyone who is a proponent of the system including top pro players and ranked amateurs DID NOT get it, then it was written in such a way that NOBODY outside of the vile group came close to getting it! The rest of the world has no idea.
What that means is it was written exactly the way I meant it to be for only the main player who lives in close to a mansion with art all over the place.
And yes, it was aimed directly at Lou not his wife. Spin it all you want, White. At his and your age both of you need all the help you can get from the outside. Collateral damage? What a stretch and claim.
I wouldn't be surprised in the least if your fantasies and role playing were so far out there it would make most videos look tame. And has no reflection whatsoever on your wife, anybody's wife, live in girlfriend, etc. It's about how the male mind works and any man who says they don't have fantasies but thinks ONLY about what's next to them for the last 30-40 years is a liar.
I'll tell you who doesn't have any cojones...YOU. $10,000 was the bet between you and John which HE put up all out of HIS pocket.
You were playing with a tiny fraction of the pressure John was under because I don't care who it is,
$10 GRAND coming out of your own finances is a hefty sum of money to lose and will cause the nerves to go off so bad it's hard to stroke the cue.
Nope and nope. The money didn't come out of his own pocket. It was a business expense and was written off as such. It was not personal income that had already been taxed. The $10,000 loss did not actually cost him $10,000 and JB claims he got more than that much value in advertising.
The money didn't cause him any nerves as he often said he made the money back in about a week.
You can't write off a gambling loss as a business expense and you can't camouflage it very well without fear of being caught by the IRS. Things like that are compared from one tax return to other years by IRS auditors for anomalies and abnormalities. That's why people get audited.
Good point, but he's the one who said it, not me. Maybe he didn't actually write it off, which would also include travel and meals, etc., but he said he considered it an advertising expense.
IF he did do something on his taxes as an expense, I guarantee it wasn't preplanned. It DID come out of his pocket up front.
Not sure what that means.
At the time of the match with all of the pregame hype here on AZ and other forums,
he was as nervous as hell as anyone would be having never bet that much before.
Then argue it with JB. He said the money wasn't a big deal to him.
He damn near got in a fist fight during his warm up for the match with someone who
had the ability to clean his clock in seconds. They were jawing at each other moments before play started. THAT was an additional cause of nerves.
If the match allowed him to cover his losses based on new business, it was a pleasant surprise, not something preplanned or contemplated.
What I'm taking away from this is that apparently CTE breaks down more easily from nerves than traditional aiming does. Kind of shoots the theory that all you have to do is find the right perception and hit it.
Whatever JB did on his taxes is neither any of your business or mine. Reasons can be given that are valid or invalid. Only he, his tax preparer, and the IRS know. And the best case scenario is the IRS does NOT KNOW.
$10k used the way it was with all of the pre-match hype, woofing, and arguing on a few different pool forums specifically targeting pool players to get everyone jacked up probably was the better way to go for the money rather than other ways of advertising. We see advertisements everywhere and everyday in one form of media or another and tune them out completely. It's like a waste of money.
The match got involvement with pool players all across the country and world! Didn't matter who the person was rooting for. We all need or want a nice case. I even bought one.
Can you show a video that Stan made where CTE is used to play safeties, intentionally drives balls away from pockets, and bank balls around the table to miss pockets?
One pocket is a game where total control of the CB with angles and English to hide somewhere behind clusters or another ball is the key. Not CTE to get there.
Nice try at a slam but it only shows you still don't know what you're talking about with CTE and never have. We just know it's your mission in life to do everything in your power to belittle and destroy CTE, Stan, and players who use it. I wouldn't expect anything less and you always come through.
SpiderMan...I've been watching this 'back and forth' between you and "his majesty" Mr. Lou.BOO-HOO-HOO! Poor little Louie must have run out of things to say on the Main forum about the match with JB and his trumped up cheating claim.
BOO-HOO-HOO! If you ever get to the SBE, come seek me out tough guy. Waah-Waah-Waah
You're always crying like a little baby about something...an old match with JB, CTE, Stan, users of CTE, made up crap about how you got screwed over on one pocket.org, it never stops.
I'll tell you who doesn't have any cojones...YOU. $10,000 was the bet between you and John which HE put up all out of HIS pocket.
$8,000 was fronted by your backer and a meager $2,000 was put up by your wife. Big man Louie
contributed zippety-do-da! I know what you'll say, her money is my money but that's not the case.
It was HER money.
You were playing with a tiny fraction of the pressure John was under because I don't care who it is,
$10 GRAND coming out of your own finances is a hefty sum of money to lose and will cause the nerves to go off so bad it's hard to stroke the cue.
Lou Figueroa, the greatest gambler with his own money that never was.
As far as fantasies go, you live entirely in a fantasy world. And if I need to spell something out to you that should have been apparent from one man to another, you aren't anywhere close to as smart as you think you are. But we all knew that years ago.
PJ is now on Ignore, and you're going there right now along with him. Adios Louie. Whine, cry, make up stories all you want.
And there we go...open the page back up and Lou Figueroa along with all of his self aggrandizing whine bag garbage is GONE. What a wonderful function on here.
You're wise to end up muting ALL of them from that "Dan White Posse".
The entire crowd is filled with bullies. They've needed someone along the way to call their hands and bust their noses wide open with a Joe Frazier left hook to teach them some humility. They've just never been in the right pool room for that to happen when they started with their mouths.
Remember what happened to that nutcase Fast Larry, when that other guy finally had enough and dropped Fast Larry like a used condom at that pool trade show.
Sadly, I am small, weak, slow, and can't fistfight worth a flip or I'd knock some of them out myself...it's best for a cowardly scared runt like me to lay low, suffer with their indignities, and stay alive.
Regards,
P.L.
The big picture is that JB did not fold due to the money as you originally said.
JB gave the first 3 games away on a silver platter after just leaving the potential fight scene with Eric and totally shaken and distracted. How do you know what was going through his mind regarding the money before and during the match? I like Eric and I like John. But I can tell you right now if you don't know it already is that Eric is one bad ass dude who is strong, in shape, and skilled with physical defense and offense.
So now CTE is no good for playing 1p? Never heard that one. Tell JB because I know when he made a shot against Lou he'd say "Yeah, CTE baby"!
Made a ball in the pocket.
I'm not slamming CTE I'm putting 2 and 2 together and thinking up possible explanations.
You're always slamming CTE! Don't try playing "innocent Dan White" by sugar coating it and then changing gears
You have two guys with relatively similar ability playing under similar stress, one using CTE and one not using CTE.
CTE had nothing to do with it any more than Lou's non explainable aiming method of "SEE THE SHOT". WTF does that even mean for connecting two balls? What connects them and how?
The guy using CTE falls apart under stress and loses.
Like I said, he SPOTTED Lou 3 games right off the bat. Came back to within one game apart and only a few left to 9.
Lou has definitely more playing experience and knowledge regarding one pocket. He plays every year in DCC with pros present and you definitely learn from watching and being observant when one of them is moving balls around and their shot choices are something you would never have considered.
Maybe CTE isn't as easy as just find the objective points and shoot, and now we're learning that CTE is no good for 1p. What was he using when hiding the cue ball and pushing balls around if not CTE?
Innocent Dan who says he isn't slamming CTE turns right around and does what he does best...SLAMS CTE!
SpiderMan...I've been watching this 'back and forth' between you and "his majesty" Mr. Lou.
Lou is for sure an egotistical pain in the ass. This probably comes from those years as a military officer wherein they grow into big bullies because of their protected rank. (I've always hated officers)
On the other hand concerning Lou, in spite of my contempt for him as a person, I must admit that he does shoot pool very well. I don't rate him as an A player...but he's close. And he CAN shoot and he will gamble.
His usual bet is $20 at a time. Is it gambling if you pretty much know you have a lock?
Remember what happened to that nutcase Fast Larry, when that other guy finally had enough and dropped Fast Larry like a used condom at that pool trade show.
Regards,
P.L.
I know your position on making lewd jokes involving a guy's wife, but where do you come down on threats of violence in this forum?
Oh God, now you're really throwing crap out to make it look like something that isn't just to make a case for reporting and hopefully a ban.
That's IT for you also! IGNORE HERE WE COME!
SpiderMan…Of course I can remember, who can forget. The "other guy" who decked Fast Larry ass over tea kettle and over a long table was the same badass who JB was arguing with before his match with Lou.
Might you or anyone have been somewhat intimidated and nervous?
SpiderMan…
I weigh in at 118 pounds soaking wet. A girl can throw me over a car with ease.
Yes, I am scared and intimidated by that "Dan White Posse"......even though in all probablitity they're all what the kids call "keyboard warriors" and in real life they're humble as sheep.
Bullies like them are like that....and it takes another person who isn't afraid of giving them their just due to "slap some humility into them".
It's too bad in the real world that it sometimes takes extreme measures to teach hardheads a lesson. The Black Lives Matter people have a good slogan about that along the lines of "By Whatever Means Necessary". There's a lot of profundity in that statement.
The way those guys have beat up on Stan Shuffett and his family for years shows them to be dysfunctional nutcases, in my opinion
Life goes on, however.
Regards,
P.L.