How would you have handled this?

rustysregular10

rustysregular10

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Ok, first off let me say this. When i go to the pool hall to practice, thats what im there to do. I was at the pool room today 20 minutes early in the ice to get a table. I was the first one there today so i could get the table i wanted. Another guy comes in about 2 hours after i was there and all the 9 footers were taken. I was not the only one shooting by myself. S the guy comes up to me and says hey can me and this other guy have your table so we can gamble? I said well i got here early so i could practice, thats all i want to do, so not this time sorry. I thought it was a done deal at that point. I said no so that shouldve been the end of it. Not even 5 minutes later, the douchebag comes back over and begins to lechture me on pool room etiquette and how i should give up the table that i already paid for so he could gamble. Ok, now im starting to get pissed. Its bad i had to tell a grown man no twice. I really wish you all could have been there. He then proceeds to go to all the other players and bad mouth me behind my back. I never start trouble and i keep to myself. Im one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. So after bad mouthing me he decides hes ready to leave. At this point im in a match for the fun of it with a friend of mine, and ive already forgotten about him. Water under the bridge right? Wrong, he says as loud as he can while leaving, ok if any of you ever need a table that im playing on ill gladly give it up. So there he goes lighting the fuse again. Im not a small guy by no means. I would have destroyed this guy in fight. But i kept a cool head and gave him one of those, youre on thin ice looks and said you talk too much. He waves me off and leaves. First off how brave of that man to badmouth someone he doesnt know, and second its my f##king table, and if i want you play on it, ill let you know. He left, because all the other players like me and told himto shut his mouth. I didnt know that til after the fact. Oh and i forgot to mention that he not once asked anybody else that was practicing alone for their table. Im glad i kept a cool head, because the bartender is telling the manager about this troublemaker and our incident. Do you think i handled this in the right way? What would you have done? Would you have given up your table for some gamblers? Sorry for the long rant, ive just never encountered this situation before. Should i have just kicked the shit out of this pice of shit? Sorry for the offensive language.
 
That sucks!

Ok... I would have done the same thing.

When I go to practice, thats what I want to do. I paid my money to be there. If I want to shoot break shots for an hour, or shoot the same shot all day. If I choose to play someone else, that is my business. Not anyone elses!
 
Here's the proper pool room etiquette: You put your name on the wait list and when a table opens up you get to play. The guys sounds like a self-centered nit. If anything, since he's a such a big "gambler", he should have offered you money to give up your table - in which case you still would have had the right to say no. I can see it if you and he are regulars and he's asking as a courtesy, you may want to do him a favor and give him the table, but for some shmo off the street to expect it of you? What a tool.
 
He should have offered to pay your table time and a drink or something. Trying to get you off the table, but offering you nothing is really nitty.
 
You handled that with a much class as humanly possible. I would say that guy got off very light and should be banned from there.
 
$20 and a cold one is the proper way to ask for your table, especially if it is for a money game. Should be no sweat for his potential profit on your table.
 
I would give up my table but...not for that guy.

I may be reading to much into it but it sounds like a lack of respect for "practicers".

As for what I would do,just ignore the guy or at least don't let him get under your skin.Around the pool room I tell myself "we are all friends here",its a bit cliche' but it keeps me in a better frame of mind at the pool halls and bars.
 
This happened to me once before. The guy was an utter twit so I had a word with the owner, who I've known for years, and the guy was thrown out in less than 2 minutes. I wouldn't have a problem if he asked sincerely and offered to buy me a few drinks, then I'd be willing to relinquish the table for an hour-- need breaks during 8-hour practice sessions. But what a nutter! You did the right thing.
 
rustysregular10 said:
Ok, first off let me say this. When i go to the pool hall to practice, thats what im there to do. I was at the pool room today 20 minutes early in the ice to get a table. I was the first one there today so i could get the table i wanted. Another guy comes in about 2 hours after i was there and all the 9 footers were taken. I was not the only one shooting by myself. S the guy comes up to me and says hey can me and this other guy have your table so we can gamble? I said well i got here early so i could practice, thats all i want to do, so not this time sorry. I thought it was a done deal at that point. I said no so that shouldve been the end of it. Not even 5 minutes later, the douchebag comes back over and begins to lechture me on pool room etiquette and how i should give up the table that i already paid for so he could gamble. Ok, now im starting to get pissed. Its bad i had to tell a grown man no twice. I really wish you all could have been there. He then proceeds to go to all the other players and bad mouth me behind my back. I never start trouble and i keep to myself. Im one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. So after bad mouthing me he decides hes ready to leave. At this point im in a match for the fun of it with a friend of mine, and ive already forgotten about him. Water under the bridge right? Wrong, he says as loud as he can while leaving, ok if any of you ever need a table that im playing on ill gladly give it up. So there he goes lighting the fuse again. Im not a small guy by no means. I would have destroyed this guy in fight. But i kept a cool head and gave him one of those, youre on thin ice looks and said you talk too much. He waves me off and leaves. First off how brave of that man to badmouth someone he doesnt know, and second its my f##king table, and if i want you play on it, ill let you know. He left, because all the other players like me and told himto shut his mouth. I didnt know that til after the fact. Oh and i forgot to mention that he not once asked anybody else that was practicing alone for their table. Im glad i kept a cool head, because the bartender is telling the manager about this troublemaker and our incident. Do you think i handled this in the right way? What would you have done? Would you have given up your table for some gamblers? Sorry for the long rant, ive just never encountered this situation before. Should i have just kicked the shit out of this pice of shit? Sorry for the offensive language.
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I own a Pool Room, and I have table designated for my regulars for gambling, but with that said the guy was wrong and if I over heard a conversation like that in my Room I would have made that very clear. One thing I don't allow in my room is for anyone to bother my customers, when I rent a table to some one that table is taken until the balls are returned and the time is paid.

JIMO
 
Don t think about it- all was perfectly handled :p

Manwon said it....you did it :)

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Ingo
 
He should have tried to get your table by offering something. You should have flipped the script and said either of yall can get played but you are waiting on a game especially once he got mouthy. Either way you were in the right so hard to second guess what you should have done while you were right.
 
You did nothing wrong, it was your table and no one else gave their table up.

He should have offered to pay your table time, a 20 and a beer to make it worth your while. Once he got mouthy, he could go F himself.
 
You should have told him sure buddy...you can use the table...but put the balls back in the tray & tell him but I'm keeping the balls...I rented both of them !!! :grin:
 
I would give up the table,its an unwritten rule to let the money game have priority among the action players.They show me the same respect.

That is before his disrespectful behavoir.
 
Over the long run you handled it the right way. Of course it's a pain to stand there and be dissed or jerked around by someone like that, but your other ideas (fighting) are simply a bad bet.
I don't care HOW big or bad you think you are, mister, nowadays people are not going to square off in a karate or boxing brawl. They will pull out a pistol and blow a hole right between your eyes.
Yea, yea, yea, I know...."he will end up in prison". Yep, he probably will, but YOU are still dead just the same. And for what??....a lousy pool game?
I saw Jim Mataya, drunk on his ass, here in Atlanta maybe 20 years ago blowing off at the mouth in one of the worst pool rooms in the city about "how we did it in Detroit" etc etc etc. (all tables were filled and he wanted to gamble with some shortstop he'd trapped)
He had NO clue about the people who had the tables filled around him. There were at least 5 in there out of Reidsville prison from doing hard time, 8 who were carrying guns, and those were only the ones I knew about.
Your "fighting" idea is not too smart. A smart idea is to carry your pool playing business to another place.
Just an opinion here from an old man who's seen it all in 60 years of "small time" action.
Regards, etc. etc.
 
Only a weak dumbass would engage someone that's so obviously an ignorant dumbass. It's tempting to, but we're adults here, right?

Way to resist. :thumbup:
 
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