Seems super smart for a person to continue to make me more money by continuing to talk about that one time....... because every time I get to write a response like this where I can talk about the time that JB Cases sposonsed a "grudge" match I get a little extra google juice thanks to their spiders gobbling up these words.In a far less dramatic example of the above...
Back when I was cutting my teeth playing snooker. I would get tortured by a regular out of my lunch money. For a few years this went on and when I finally started getting up to a decent speed, he simply wasn't coming in anymore for whatever reason.
Fast forward ~15yrs and pool is the main game. I'm at probably my best gear, and guess who walks in looking to play... Oh ya, I'm going to hammer him for all those sessions of misery he provided me. Well we start up swatting some balls around, and we make a cheap $20 game to warm up. I win, he looks at me and says I'll never get another penny from him. Gives me the 20 with a big grin on his face.
Fast foward another 15yrs and we still kid about how he's left me twisting in the wind for my lunch money...lol.
Smartest pool move he has ever pulled imo.![]()
I personally don't care one way or the other because I know that I didn't play anywhere close to my actual game and still only lost 9-6.
Your guy didn't leave you twisting in the wind though. He taught you an important lesson. That lesson is that money lost to a person is gone and might never return. If I had been worried about a rematch then I would negotiated that from the beginning. Your guy clearly saw that you had advanced beyond his ability and didn't leave you hanging, he simply didn't want to give the money back.
This is not the same thing here where Lou is claiming to leave me "twisting in the wind". Lou thinks he is the better player by far and wants you to think that he is refusing to play out of principle because I am not nice to him. Win or lose I would still not be nice to him because he is a jerkoff. I used to be nice to him as I was honoring the agreement we made. But I am such a sucker that every time we made such an agreement he would break it and the cycle would start over. So, now I learned and win or lose I would still challenge anything he said and be as incivil about it as he wanted to be based on the tone he sets.