Did I cheat?

[PoolBum]

You saw the opportunity to cheat and you took the advantage of it. Well, I wouldn't say you cheated, you just showed poor sportsmanship by hiding the true score.

It's like you see a senior citizen dropping his/hers wallet and you go and pick it up, take the money and throw away the wallet without an effort to return it. Now, did you just rob the person who dropped the wallet ? I would say no, but I still think you did wrong.

I would say you stole their money.

 

[DaveK]

Most players are pretty good sports, but it also
depends on the situation as to how much they
are a good sport.

And on the forums pretty much everyone is great, it's so easy !

The real rules (World Standardized) do not seem to cover this. Hey Boro, do the Rules of Snooker cover match scoring issues ?

Dave

 

[Splinterhands]

I doub't this really happend...I think your just trying to stir up a flame war...If you really did do this......I don't think you would be stupid enough to actually post something like this if it really happened.......

Bottom line....If it did happen and your posting it....or if it didn't happen and your making it up....either way...you are the loser.....

Actually, this really did happen. I posted on the CCB a long time ago. People were so concerned about the moral issue behind it, that I never got a "rules" answer. Sometimes on TV a player will forget to move his bead and the tournament director will remind him. But, what if they both forget? What happens then? And Cranium, I'm not a loser. Rule #1, never put an apostrophe in the word "doubt". It doesn't look right.

 

[Joe Pickens]

I wish I had seen this earlier and warned you guys. He asked this same question on Jan 25th, 05 on CCB, worded a little differently, I believe, and got his panties in a wad when he didn't get the answers he wanted!

Here's the original wording of his CCB post:

This happened to me last night. I was playing a guy, who I really don't care for, in a nine ball tournament. We were playing a race to 3 and were using coins to mark the scores. He wins the first game and marks the score. He wins the second game, but doesn't mark it. I didn't say anything because I figure he knows and so does everyone else. He wins the last game and as I'm getting up to shake hands, he starts pulling balls out of the pockets to play another game. I was shocked, but didn't say anything. Turns out, I won the next 3 games and went on to finish 2nd instead of 4th. Did I cheat or is it his responsibility to keep his own score? If it was somebody I liked I would have let him know.

OH, WAIT! It isn't worded differently, it's copied and pasted from his CCB post! Damn, do AZ posters not at least deserve the effort of typing and rewording?

Here's one of his reactions to the answers:

I'm not going to apologize to him, I'm not buying him a drink and I certainly could care less if I'm ever friends with the guy. It's easy to criticize someone from behind your computer, but if you were in the same situation maybe you'd have done the same thing. It's obvious that most of you know each other personally, otherwise I would expect a few more..honest answers. You won't give your true feelings for fear of rejection by your peers. I, on the other hand, could care less if you think I cheated or not. TAP, TAP, TAP. By the way, when is the CCB tournament this fall?


See, if you don't like the answers, then you state that you "could care less", even though you asked for opinions in the first place. Curious to see if he'll type a new answer here or if he'll just copy and paste his previous answer to the CCB thread he started.

STAY TUNED IN FOR HIS NEXT POST "Did I Get Cheated?" This is sort of a follow up sympathy post on CCB since he got hammered on the "Did I Cheat" thread. Two days lag time between the two threads on CCB... wonder how long it will take here?

Later,
Bob

I knew I had seen this question somewhere. I would never have found it though so thanks for finding it.

 

[JimS]

This happened to me a while back. I was playing a guy, who I really don't care for, in a nine ball tournament. We were playing a race to 3 and were using coins to mark the scores. He wins the first game and marks the score. He wins the second game, but doesn't mark it. I didn't say anything because I figure he knows and so does everyone else. He wins the last game and as I'm getting up to shake hands, he starts pulling balls out of the pockets to play another game. I was shocked, but didn't say anything. Turns out, I won the next 3 games and went on to finish 2nd instead of 4th. Did I cheat or is it his responsibility to keep his own score? If it was somebody I liked I would have let him know.

You know you were wrong or you wouldn't be asking..... asking over and over. (thank you Cane).

Having integrity would mean that your opinion of the other person would have nothing to do with your decision to do the right thing. A man who has integrity does the right thing because it's the right thing to do. The reward is knowing you stood up and did the right thing.

You either have integrity or you don't. You don't. But you can change. It's a moment by moment thing. Once you start really trying to do the right thing it begins to be a habit and the good feeling you get from it grows on you.