Even at my halfway banger/player level, I can think of a few D.C. Area events I killed.
Kept me from getting a real job!
Kept me from getting a real job!
Do you know of Pro players that enter small $ weekly tournaments from time to time?
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If the same "Pro" keeps beating on the majority of the full time job having regulars... The entries will fall off quickly. Nobody wants to show up and spend $30 on food and drinks, $25 + green fees and then see the same guy snap off the tournament every week while ordering nothing but a water... It would be no different than a local short stop killing a bar tournament and the Owner losing his Tuesday night 8 ball crowd. If the "Pros" would offer to do a low admission clinic or something at the Location for some of the areas B, C, D players to learn from it may be viewed differently.
That Airway Billiards is a great place. The week I was there, I got to play with George Rood, Tony & Cookie in some One Pocket. I also played in the tournament. George Rood won it... He played like days of old.
The place is great & does have some sporty Players.
People that complain about pros playing should practice harder, or quit pool.
On another note, i did see Vivian V. at a local tournament last Thursday night at Hard Times Bellflower CA.
She got knocked out and left.
My experience is instead of quitting pool they quit playing in that tournament. I used to play in a place which had a nice weekly 9 ball tournament which drew 20 to 30 players regularly with a decent payout. Then the local pros started showing up and taking down the tournament every week and before long it reached the point where they had to establish a minimum number of players before they would have a tournament. Five or six pros would show up and sit around waiting to see if any "outside money" showed up. They didn't want to only play each other. Eventually it became a monthly tournament.
Sorry to hear about Vivian. Is she okay?
I played that one time, and all three of those players were there.
We have our Monday Night Tournament at Fargo Billiards patterned after that one: $10 entry, race to 3/2.
We give out a black shirt to anybody who cashes the first time and a red shirt to anyone who wins for the first time.
One time SVB played and cashed but did not win. So he got a black shirt, which we took the liberty to edit...
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Yup, same experience here as well. My favorite local watering hole ( RIP ) has a real nice weekly that I played in for years. Then the " pros " started coming in and busting it out every week and it suffered greatly. Held on for maybe a year but unfortunately no knew wanted to play anymore. It was only $10 9 ball lose break 3/2. It was a small, redneck hole in the wall but was a pool spot for sure. They had something like 30 teams out of there always going to Vegas and often taking it down.
Jeremy Jones and couple of other pros often play in the $10 dollar local Tuesday 9 ball here, very tough tournament each week, Sky Woodward played in it the weekend of the Texas Open 9 ball...and was put out pretty early...Tuesday nights at JR Pockets in Denton TX there is usually a fantastic lineup...and the pros don't always win...some of em even get drunker than shit and just start throwing away $20 bills to anyone that can still stand up in short races
Don't understand why people wouldn't want to play the better players in town. For a $10 tourney getting a chance to gauge yourself against a top level player is pretty cheap. Most are double elimination. Most pros you probably can't walk up to and ask if they want to play a race to 5 for $5 and they'd actually play. yet you are doing that if you get to play them in a cheap tourney