How many of you folks think that Players "splitting" the Pot is bad for the Sport?

MalibuMike

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How many of you folks think that Players "splitting" the Pot is bad for the Sport?

If I go to or pay to watch a Pro competition, any Pro competition! And it gets down to say the last 3 or four players and they decide to "Split the Pot" four ways, or 2 ways even, and not play it out, I feel ripped off! Come one we watch sporting event to see who is the number one player! Who is the Champion! I have seen to many tournaments in So. Cal anyways where the Pro's are splitting the Pot and not playing out the match to the end! Come on, if they did this in any other sport they would all be Boo'ed out of the ring, Golf Course, what have you. If these Pro's want to make more money they better help the sport out and not Puss-out and split it and say all 4 of us won it. Hey I'm not talking some Tuesday night tournament a your local bar or pool hall, I get that, its late nobody cares who wins. But in Professional Tournament play like what's been happening at Hard Times and other Tournaments in So. Cal. Some of us actually love the sport so much we would like to see who wins!!!!!!!!!
 
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I feel the same way.

BUT, I put the root cause at the tournament director, not the players. Most of the time the pot is split, its because it just turned 1:30 AM and there are still 3 guys left in the event. Forget that, no one wants to play OR watch that. The directors need to do whatever it takes to structure their events so its over at a reasonable hour.
 
iusedtoberich said:
I feel the same way.

BUT, I put the root cause at the tournament director, not the players. Most of the time the pot is split, its because it just turned 1:30 AM and there are still 3 guys left in the event. Forget that, no one wants to play OR watch that. The directors need to do whatever it takes to structure their events so its over at a reasonable hour.
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I agree. I'm all for playing it out, but after a certain time it's hard to fault somebody for not wanting to stay up until 2am for $40 when they have to work a 9-5. Now, if players choose to just chop the pot and split, they should both get 2nd place. It's lame having to explain to a business that the people that showed up for their cash didn't even both to play a few games of pool to decide the winner. As I've said before.. there needs to be structure(within reason) and there need to be ramifications for poor sportsmanship.

Edit: Sorry for not taking in all of the original post. Yes, they should all get whatever place they stopped at. If the monkey won't dance, it doesn't get a banana.
 
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It just goes to show that it's more about the cash then who is the best.

I've been asked to split the pot due to the late night and felt as if I was put in a no win situation. The owner wanted to go home, the other player wanted to go, I wanted to win 1st, the time did not matter to me.

I give in just not to look like a jerk, but I never have liked doing it. I wanted 1st. I wanted to win. The money didn't matter nor the time. I came to play pool, to win, but others just came to play at pool.
 
For me, small weekly tourneys are fine to split. Any pro tourney should go to the end.

KMRUNOUT
 
I can see why people would want a game to go to the end until a final winner is left standing. I haven't played in anything major so I wouldn't know but the few times I've played a tricup/ltc my team and I are there til the early morning hearing nothing but pool for easily 12hrs and can see why a professional or at a long tournament players would want to just go home eat some food or whatever it is to relax. Maybe smaller entries or more tables with some being out of the spotlight could help speed up the game
 
duckie said:
It just goes to show that it's more about the cash then who is the best.

I've been asked to split the pot due to the late night and felt as if I was put in a no win situation. The owner wanted to go home, the other player wanted to go, I wanted to win 1st, the time did not matter to me.

I give in just not to look like a jerk, but I never have liked doing it. I wanted 1st. I wanted to win. The money didn't matter nor the time. I came to play pool, to win, but others just came to play at pool.
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Your tournaments would probably run faster if you didn't have to put the stupid ghostball patch down before every shot you take.....
 
Splitting the pot in the end for pro tournaments should not be called "sports". I'd say until the chop it's a sport, and then the chop turns it into chicken sh*t. I understand why they do deals in poker with six or seven figure prize money, but they always leave something to play for and play fiercely until there is a winner. Is the money in pool so tight that you have to split a few bucks and disappoint the crowd?
 
I think it stinks

Pool players wonder why pool spectators have become almost non existent, only completion I know where the final don't play for first place.
 
Chop, chop...

Agreed...

Hard Times' Mezz West tournament chopped three ways, because it was like 3AM when they were down to the final three.
They were races to 9, some matches took a long time on those tight tables... and the field was pretty deep, I think 114 players? They've gotta get all those matches firing to get to a final at a decent time.
 
I've chopped the pot on small local tournaments myself but no one wants to watch me bang balls into rails anyways. Pros should play it out even if a saver was made. I don't mind the saver, I just want to watch the match.

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Shouldn't happen. The people that run tournaments know how long it takes to finish a tournament with X number of players. I would be in favor of starting the 2nd day earlier in order to finish at a reasonable time and not allow splitting.
 
I feel that any tournament that has added money should be played out.

...if I was a sponsor, even for small money, and they chopped, they lose me...
....I'd feel ripped off.

The small weekly tournaments where the prize money is the player's entry fees....
....they have a right to chop....even though I don't like it.
 
It's bad for the sport. Should not occur outside of weekly events. The solution is shot clock warnings, start earlier or shorten races.

Ray
 
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Bigtruck said:
It's bad for the sport. Should not occur outside of weekly events. The solution is shot clock warnings, start earlier or shorten races.

Ray
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Play it out or no one gets paid. This practice is just one more thing that keeps this sport in the Stone Age
 
iusedtoberich said:
I feel the same way.

BUT, I put the root cause at the tournament director, not the players. Most of the time the pot is split, its because it just turned 1:30 AM and there are still 3 guys left in the event. Forget that, no one wants to play OR watch that. The directors need to do whatever it takes to structure their events so its over at a reasonable hour.
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Exactly.

Jeff Livingston
 
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