If It's True $ Was Held Back From MC
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all i know, is that one of the quotes @ Vegas, was:
IF EVERYONE KNEW ALL OF THIS, THEIR HEADS WOULD SPLIT
things can change. and a deal's not done till it's "shipped & paid". and those who aren't stupid, know how to manipulate rumours.
Mosconi cup is not a sanctioned event nor is it associated with any players association unlike many other events, it is an exhibition.
Yeah, but pulling the whole, "I know something you don't know" card is just as bad as actually spilling the beans.
Anyone who spent anytime at the post cup parties or hung out at the pool halls after the day's matches heard plenty of talk. Some of this talk came from people who were deep into a 12er, some of the talk came from a few that might just be full of crap and some from folks who I don't know. Similar to any party or bar scene that goes on everywhere every night. Who knows what is to be trusted and what is just loose lipped talk, IMHO it is best left at the party.....or in Vegas.
2pennies
2pennies
I get why you'd see it that way. But part of it is also that nothing has been finalized and much was said under the influence of alcohol. So anything said at this point would fall into the: drunken I heard it through the grapevine category. I don't think that makes me one of the cognoscenti, just someone who was at a really good party. YMMV.
Lou Figueroa
Do you mean a really good party where everybody was drunk or under the influence? :grin-square:
Been to quite a few of those myself.
Oh, man! Now those are the guys that Keith always likes to be around. In particular, he wants them to notice what he's doing on the table games, ALWAYS hoping to get COMPed.
Maybe not "just as bad". Mildly annoying a crowd with hints isn't on the same level as
spilling a secret you were told to keep under wraps.
Sometimes when you get info it's really hard to hold back and say absolutely nothing,
if it's something major a lot of people would care about.
There's almost like this internal pressure to tell SOMEone.
You can relieve a little of that pressure by dropping a hint.
That's the positive version.
The negative version is that Lou just wants to feel important.
Only Lou knows for sure what his true motivation is.
People CLAIM they'd rather not get hints and the hint-dropper should just
stfu and say nothing. But secretly, we do like having rumors to
gossip and conject about, as opposed to nothing at all.
There will be many guesses about these changes and at the end
a few of them will be correct and that guy gets to say "I told you so".
Or none of them will be correct and it will be something wildly
different that nobody saw coming, would that be interesting?
The pay for mosconi cup was stable and well-known for many years..
$15k for each winner, half that for each runner-up.
I guess this year for the first time, they pumped it up to
$20k for the winners, $10k for the runner-ups. A nice but not unexpected bump.
His handshake looked like borderline bad sportmanship.
You could argue that he was just pumped up and yelling and was in a rush to celebrate.
I could accept that as a possible reason for cutting it short and sort of throwing earls hand away.
But to me it looked sort of spiteful like he was sore at Earl's behavior earlier.
In that case there's no excuse... part of good sportsmanship is to not escalate
or retaliate when the other guy is a poor sport.
I can't see fining the guy for it though... if it's over the line, it's just barely.
i'll go you one better, Mc. (and try to keep up)
:wink:
i know
that you know
and you aren't telling.
and i know this
cause everyone i know @ UK
knows....
Everyone loves to use the fallback "economy" excuse. It is not the economy. Pool in Calgary was crumbling all around us, pool halls closing, the leagues shrinking, the large tournaments becoming more and more rare even when the economy was booming. In Calgary we never really got hit with a huge economic downturn, people make lots of cash there and the unemployment rate is very low.
Now I am in Fort McMurray and the average household income is $186,000/year in a city that has a population pushing 100,000 people and we had the only pool hall in town close down due to a lack of business. The problem is not that people don't have money, in this town people have tons of disposable income, the problem was the pool hall was a POS hole in the wall and no one wanted to hang out in it. I went into it back in 2008 and the place was dead, dingy, and boring, so I left. If a pool hall cannot attract ME, a diehard pool fan then it is in trouble.
Pool is simply not marketing itself right or targeting the proper segments of society. It is not creating the right image for itself and the right marketing strategy. People don't want to hang around in crappy family style billiards halls. If that is all the people you are targeting this sport at can afford then YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Stop trying to squeeze $10 a visit out of a segment of the population that has no money to spend.
We need to go back to the origins of this game.
We went from a game reserved to the royalty, to a game played in crappy family pool halls, we need to go back to billiards being a well respected great time out in really nice billiard clubs.
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what 12 dudes?
I like the way you think! But, that community of wealthy people have tables at home! So, why go to the pool room?????????
You can't attract people to something they don't need and already have!
Kd
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I guess there must have been a shortage on American flags. Somebody snapped a photo of this poor fellow in the stands, waving his a 3-inch flag vigorously. I guess it beats a blank.
:smile: