Just got kicked out from tourney

Tourney organizers texted me and asked me not to come back cause I won the tourney 17 times out of 21 according to them ( had no idea they kept track ). I know I'm supposed to feel honored for being kicked out for being too good but I'm pissed. The wording implied I was a piece of sht for stealing and they got tired of it. It wasn't a sweet message at all. First of all it's an amateur tourney. I'm under 700! 100% not a pro. Nowhere near pro speed actually. Nobody would even call me a semi-pro. It just happens to be tourney packed with weak players. Not my fault. I told the organizers to make it handicap they turned that down. The tournament director has never won his own tourney I think that's what this is about. Or is he right? Where is the cutoff? Is it valid for me to be pissed? Now I'm thinking about all these other small tourneys I win and worry I'm gonna get similar texts. And no I don't only do small tourneys I gamble with monsters ( I get weight! ) and enter larger tourneys where I have no chance. I donate plenty myself. Whose side are you on? I have two friends who've gotten banned from tourneys and they both said it's normal welcome to the club. First time this ever happened to me. It's not even about the money, I have friends at those tourneys it's like I'm getting removed from a social scene for working my ass off.
I would have barred you long before this. People don't play in little tournament's like that for the money. It is supposed to be fun. Sounds like you get off beating up on weaker players.
 
Just how it goes. Anytime money is involved and it’s not a pro level event, if someone keeps winning, there is a real chance that at some point they may lose attendance. Or people just start complaining.

Happens with small cash local poker tournaments all the time.

Eventually you either get directly asked or very obviously implied to come less.

And getting bent over the wording of it won’t help. Maybe they were shitty about it, maybe you read too much into it. Doesn’t matter either way.

But, happens all the time when money and amateurs are involved.
32 bracket fills up every single time. I never heard a single player complain to me to my face. Same people came back and new players attend every time. Their tourney has gotten bigger not smaller. Imo me being there supporting their tourney is a good thing. Guess they don't see it that way.
 
I have a feeling there is another side to this story.
Nope, TD literally spelled things out. Anyone under 700 is not a pro in my opinion. I can't even hang with semi-pros. This is not the case of me being strong, it's just a weak tourney. I never thought about tipping TD maybe it's a good idea but can also look suspicious.
 
If you win most of the tournaments everyone else will be discouraged and quit. Simple math -- kick out one guy or have [25] [insert correct number] quit, and the organizer loses all the money. Or look at it another way -- you're too good for the tournament and you should move on to something more challenging. I would definitely not take it personally, it is really a "trophy" for your excellent performance.
So the real answer is to go and play the winner from now on, offer a spot and take the money down
I was winning plenty after the tourney 20/game, 100/game. I'm not driving there just for action. I got plenty of action anytime I want. I got fish I got monsters, whatever I want. I have a real career I don't like to play every single night, I enjoy practicing on my table more. Plus keeps me closer to my lady she hates me playing every night. This tourney was good cause I could bring her there.
 
It happens. I have a rule that I just take off the next week after I win. If I win too many in a row (every other week) then I skip for a few weeks.

I also tip the bartender/waitress and tournament directors generously.

They are always happy to see me.

There's a bar tournament I play in that I've been in the finals the last 5 times I played in it. Nobody knows but me because I skip it and then show and then skip. Nobody pays attention unless you're there every week and winning every week.

There are good players that play there every week (one +700 and a couple 650-ish). They don't tip, order only water and bitch and moan about every single roll or nice shot someone makes. Nobody wants them to come back. If the owner ever allowed it, I'm sure the TD would bar them in a heartbeat.

A Funny story, the 700+ player was telling someone who the best players in the tournament were. I was standing right there and he didn't mention me. Then I had to play him in the finals and beat him. For the 2nd time in a row. He turns to the guy and says: "Oh yeah, this guy can play too." lol.

Point is he didn't even really think of me because I'm not there every week.
This...you gotta let the small tournaments lay fallow for a bit before coming back. I used to play a lot of small bar box tournaments back in the '80s, I'd show up late after everybody paid in, or I might kill it. I'd win, then move on for two or three weeks. Back then there were enough to rotate through without killing all the action. Sucks if you really like a particular tourney and you killed your action there. If you'd have laid off a bit, the director wouldn't have banned you. Usually if you dominate one, they put a bounty on you and let you keep playing.
 
32 bracket fills up every single time. I never heard a single player complain to me to my face. Same people came back and new players attend every time. Their tourney has gotten bigger not smaller. Imo me being there supporting their tourney is a good thing. Guess they don't see it that way.

Almost no one every complains face to face or to the person they are complaining about.

I’ve run matches/tournaments in many games/sports. The amount of complaining after the event and privately is always there. It’s just almost never made public.

Either way, you’ve posted several examples that illustrate you’re better than most in your area. You might not be a pro compared nationally, but for your specific geographic location, you’re tapped.

Sucks. But it’s normal.
 
Dennis Hatch use to play in the Joss tour. Not counting the Turning Stone, he won something like 19 out of 20 at one point. Every once in a while he would lose one match and have to win through the losses side. Most of the time though, scores were lopsided.
 
Well I recall one bar were the owner of bar gave players BS who did not drink alcohol, he was like a major cry baby.

I told him once Ice Tea is my drink of choice, and I will not leave your bar buzzed, go out and kill someone after you over served me, and get your dunb A** named in civil suit.

They did a good job of over serving, and sending drunks to drive home buzzed.
 
Well I recall one bar were the owner of bar gave players BS who did not drink alcohol, he was like a major cry baby.

I told him once Ice Tea is my drink of choice, and I will not leave your bar buzzed, go out and kill someone after you over served me, and get your dunb A** named in civil suit.

They did a good job of over serving, and sending drunks to drive home buzzed.
You usually have some thin, wispy thread of reality connecting what you post and the topic at hand. Like one neuron fired correctly.

Here, however, you've completely left the reservation man.
 
This can happen from time to time.
These smaller comps then tend to have, you win it twice in 1 month. You can't enter for 2 weeks, which is fine.

Don't apologise for being good at anything.
Don't lay down for people either.
Let them improve or not.

Sometimes you're stuck in an area with weak players, it happens.
Sounds like you've got a mixture of strong players though and get weight elsewhere - this TD just sounds a sore loser to me and one that could not put in any measures at all to reduce a regular winner to give them a timeout.
Who let's it go for 21 weeks without saying a thing and then dropping the hammer, the guy sounds like a loser to me.
 
You usually have some thin, wispy thread of reality connecting what you post and the topic at hand. Like one neuron fired correctly.

Here, however, you've completely left the reservation man.

Opinion is like your nose, not a big deal everyone has nose.
 
Used to be in foosball tourneys I played, there was one promaster who played and won multiple weeks often. He was cool, nobody wanted him gone, but they did want him to lose.

We started a bounty system where a portion of the money would go into a pot after his third win in a row. When someone put him out, they got that money.

Funny things happened, he liked it, played harder, had more fun, and we started having a lot more guys winning multiple weeks.
 
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