Gambling dispute thread #1,209

Guapo

Guapo

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So I went to go play a small a small weekly 8b tourney.

I barely cash in third place and stick around to watch the last match.

Towards the end of the match, I'm sitting in my stool with my case hanging on my shoulder ready to leave once it's over.

As soon as the match is over, the winner of the tourney (the guy that sent me to the loser side) comes up to me and says, "Let's play a game for the money you won."

Without saying a word, I stand up, open my case, put my stick together and we get a game going.

I end up winning and he acts like he's completely oblivious to the fact that we're playing for anything. He starts rambling about how I didn't say yes or shake on it.

Admittedly, I should have verbalized it to confirm but wouldn't me literally getting up to play be confirmation enough? My cue was broken down in my case which was hanging over my shoulder!

Am I in the wrong? Is he being petty?

*Edit* As clarified in my post (#25) he did pay up.
 
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Yeah that's some b!tch made bullsh!t he's pulling. Take the money he owes you and tell everyone around that he's bad action


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Sounds to me like he is being a sore loser and just looking for excuses not to pay. I would tell him to put his money where is mouth is and pay up.
 
Maybe he thinks because he said "Let's play a game for the money you won"
absolved him from paying you any of his money?





...or, he's just a plain 'ole d*ckhead.
 
seven_7days said:
Maybe he thinks because he said "Let's play a game for the money you won"
absolved him from paying you any of his money?





...or, he's just a plain 'ole d*ckhead.
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Lol what an angle that would be!

But then again, lesson to the would be winner of monetary gains. The light is there for two reasons and one of them is to post the money and the second reason is to remind guys like that what "lights out" really means.
 
Do people not post the money up front anymore? I've always made sure money goes to a third party or if there isn't one, in a neutral place where both know where it is. I'm not talking in a secure vault in the bank, just in a pocket, under a beer coaster, in an empty glass.

It seems to me he made the offer thinking he has won once against you, so the second time should be the same. He lost and pulled a really pathetic move. There is nothing you can do to get the money unless violence is involved, and I wouldn't advise that :) just let everyone know he doesn't pay up. I'd offer to play him again with the bet jacked right up. Its win win for you. Make sure you shake on it though. If you win you shook on it so he has no excuse. If you lose tell him to do one, and he should have handed the money over previously.
 
What a **** move. I'm sure he would have had no problem taking the money if he had won.
Then you could say you never agreed to play for money.
 
Spread it around that he is bad action and repeat that little story over and over.

Always put the money on the light or have somebody hold it who is watching the match.
 
That's why I quit playing for money 20 years ago. Too many nits, player wannabes and other BS going on. It just ain't worth it.
 
He definitely owes you the money.

It reminds me of when I was playing a guy for $10 / game and it was going back and forth and after about an hour of playing we were dead even. I broke and made five or six ball in eight ball and had a pretty easy run out. I said "I wish I broke like that every time" and he says "I will bet you $5 you don't run out". I take the bet and run out and the guy just gives me the $5. I say we are also betting $10 / game and he says no you changed it to just $5 and won't pay the other $10. I try to explain that if I didn't run out even if I won the game he would of won $5 on the run out but we still had a bet on the game.

I just took my cue apart and quit him. Does this kind of crap work on anyone? I guess it did because it saved him $10.
 
TX Poolnut said:
Spread it around that he is bad action and repeat that little story over and over
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A guy did a very similar thing to me when I first got back in to pool 15-years ago.
Real tough guy, he ran and hid behind the bar manager who said "gambling is not allowed in here"...yeah right.
If he was on AZ I would red rep him><:angry:
 
TheMarsMan said:
I just took my cue apart and quit him. Does this kind of crap work on anyone? I guess it did because it saved him $10.
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Same thing happened to my friend and I... :angry:

We were playing doubles, $25 a rack, against a couple of hood rat bangers that thought they had the nuts. I was crushing the rack on a super fast and loose Valley. One of them tells me, "I bet $10 you can't keep it (the cueball) on the table this break." So I proceeded to swing it like MD and the cueball went into orbit coming close to hitting that fellow. I payed him his $10, then he put whitey in the kitchen and ran a few balls. When my partner came to the table, he ran out and they said they weren't paying because the game was only for $10...
 
ChopStick said:
That's why I quit playing for money 20 years ago. Too many nits, player wannabes and other BS going on. It just ain't worth it.
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Ditto. In the 70's there was always ring games in the place I played in, if you did not pay up after each game you were tossed out and not let back in till you paid up to the winner. Playing for money now is one big bark session for over an hour about ten bucks.. What a waste of time...
 
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I guess it's happened to a lot of us....something similar happened to me before too.....not much you can do if you don't wanna get violent, but I don't recommend that......another lesson about posting, I guess.....As someone earlier mentioned, do you think he would've taken your money if you lost?
 
Guapo said:
So I went to go play a small a small weekly 8b tourney.

I barely cash in third place and stick around to watch the last match.

Towards the end of the match, I'm sitting in my stool with my case hanging on my shoulder ready to leave once it's over.

As soon as the match is over, the winner of the tourney (the guy that sent me to the loser side) comes up to me and says, "Let's play a game for the money you won."

Without saying a word, I stand up, open my case, put my stick together and we get a game going.

I end up winning and he acts like he's completely oblivious to the fact that we're playing for anything. He starts rambling about how I didn't say yes or shake on it.

Admittedly, I should have verbalized it to confirm but wouldn't me literally getting up to play be confirmation enough? My cue was broken down in my case which was hanging over my shoulder!

Am I in the wrong? Is he being petty?
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You're not wrong, you're just dealing with bad people. Put the word out on him he's no one to deal with and learn a lesson. When I was gambling I required the post up or pay after every single game no exceptions from anyone or I just didn't play. It never steered me wrong and there weren't any disagreements.
 
What a bunch of pussies in pool today. Everyone is scared of getting sued. I know it's only $10 but it would be the point to me. If more of these low-life nits got the hell beat out of them most of the rest would see the light. And don't tell me violence never solved anything. I broke a cue over an ex heavyweight boxers head for not paying up the $10 he lost to me on a BB. It wasn't the first time I got my money owed or a pound of there flesh with violence. Johnnyt
 
Johnnyt said:
What a bunch of pussies in pool today. Everyone is scared of getting sued. I know it's only $10 but it would be the point to me. If more of these low-life nits got the hell beat out of them most of the rest would see the light. And don't tell me violence never solved anything. I broke a cue over an ex heavyweight boxers head for not paying up the $10 he lost to me on a BB. It wasn't the first time I got my money owed or a pound of there flesh with violence. Johnnyt
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The guy I was referring to in my story less than a month later ran over his ex-wife and her boyfriend with is truck, then got out and shot them with his shot gun and then shot and killed himself. I think the boyfriend ended up living but is now a paraplegic, there are somethings that are more important than a few dollars.
 
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