KBP Amateur 9 Ball Tour Midwest & Lake MI Divisions

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lakemifurytour

Former KBP Tournament Dir
Silver Member
Please be advised that I have resigned from running anymore Kings Bay Promotion events. This includes the Midwest & Lake MI Divisions. For any information regarding those tours please contact Kay Higgins at www.furytour.com. Thank you.

Jennifer
 
Players no need to worry because we already have a tournament director in place name Kevin Burris. We plan on getting these divisions going right. Kevin has been with KBP for a couple of years and now is looking forward to running events. He comes with lots of knowledge (been playing pool most of his life) and loves the game. Already have rave reviews from the players at the last event. We are certainly looking forward to continuing these divisions and getting them to grow. BTW if you like to chat about any questions or concerns you have please feel free to call me....toll free 877-328-7449. Also to let you know that some of the things you've been told are not true. For instance your prize money that comes out of the membership fee that all tournament directors is still here. That only includes money sent to me Prior to May and is not going any where till the end of the season. I haven't gotten any points or money since that time so I am still trying to catch up on things but we are working hard at the office to research this and get things taken care of. We are looking forward to changes to bring these divisions up to their full potential. I've already sent some of the players info on the changes. For those of you who haven't been playing we hope to see you back to check out the new TD and I think you will be please. Feel free to contact me about any questions.
Kay
 
We plan on getting these divisions going right.

Anything would probably be a step in the right direction. When the fliers advertise sign-ups starting at 11:00 AM and your tournament director shows up at 12:30 PM, you have to make some type of changes! Then, to top it off, she starts calling local players asking them to come to the tournament that is scheduled to start fifteen minutes later...truly a sad situation. Luckily for her, there were only 11 players at the tournament in question. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that she openly rooted against me in the finals for reasons unknown. Can you imagine how out of control it would have been had there been a large field assembled? With any luck, your new tournament director will at least exhibit some professionalism, unlike your now departed director. In all my years of playing pool, I've NEVER seen such an unqualified person running a tournament, muchless an unestablished regional tour trying to make a good start. I vowed after the first Battle Creek debacle to never play on the tour again, but maybe I can reconsider now. Also, try to make a sincere effort to get the results sent to AZ a bit quicker. Ten days passing between the tournament and the results being posted on the website makes no sense...it's no longer news!!! If you need any assistance with your tour, feel free to send me a private message and I'll be glad to help out.
 
Cry Baby

Geeee Tom you look pretty happy in the picture that was taken after the event ended(see attached picture of Tom Stathis Jr., Josh Marlowe and me). I know taking second place to a junior player (guy in the middle) is rough but Josh Marlowe played his heart out and he deserved the applause I gave him after the event.
 

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Just another person blowing smoke up everyones ass

My resignation announcement was not to worry any players but merely to inform the industry as a last avenue of my actions. It appears you are now worrying them. I have not spoken negatively about the tour, did not call players on said days events and tell them that a stop of was cancelled like you told a room owner. These websites are for people who have nothing better to do with their time. The true advertising happens by local magazines and publications in the pool rooms.

Kings Bay Promotions, Inc. has received weekly stats, paperwork and points since April 2, 2005 of this year and forward. They have received them within two days of the events end. If any player from the tour would like a copy of these e-mail’s please contact me as I would be more than happy to give you a copy of this paperwork that is time and date stamped. If the home office cannot handle administrative activities like keeping track of your points and paperwork then maybe they need to hire a bookkeeper. The finger pointing is to the home office that is responsible for these activities not the tournament director. I agree they should be making sure that on their websites the points are updated weekly and that tournament results are posted in a timely fashion, weekly, I have the emails where I have complained about this for 3 months. I have personally never posted points or tournament outcomes on any website such as azbilliards.com, insidepool.com, insideenglish.net or furytour.com as per the direction of the home office. I do not have administrative rights to do such things. All articles are published by Jessica Barnes and are done for Kings Bay Promotions, when they are published is not in my control; however, it is in control of the company who owns the tour.

In regards to money, well everyone knows the story she told about Sandy Schuman and she even had me fooled. But, Kay Higgins has received a total of $1,936.00 from me since I have offered to run the tournaments for her after she pulled the rug out from under Sandy. She has been paid in full and will not receive any more monies until she pays for the expenses she agreed upon for running tournaments for her. If your tour money is not their it is because she has spent it. As far as I know as well Sandy has paid her everything as well. If ANYONE would like to see the copies of the Money Orders sent to her I would be more than happy to provide such documentation. I have also been operating these tours with the expectations of receiving a signed contract from Kay Higgins/KBP, Inc., well guess what that never happened either, therefore, it has been long enough and tiresome enough watching her destroy relationships in the industry to continue being part of it. Kay Higgins was also sent back all the merchandise that was sent to me last week Thursday through DHL, I have a confirmation on the shipper. John Barton is sending me a shipping label to send back all of the unsold cues that were on consignment to me through KBP and he will be getting them back as soon as I get the label. By the way I only asked Kay for this label 4 times over a 2 week period, probably follows the same pattern about your points and tour outcomes not being posted, I know this is called procrastination. In regards to membership fees being charged players. All players were charged per the direction of KBP’s home office – Kay Higgins, $40 annual membership and if you belong to another division then it was $20 additional each time you played out of the division. This additional $20 was to pay Kay to maintain your points in another division. I actually made agreement with her to allow Midwest players to only have to pay $20 for an additional membership fee otherwise she wanted to charge you another $40 fee to play in another division.

In regards to membership fees, it should be there that is what the players paid for. I have been told by John Barton of Sterling Gaming, Fury Cues, that there will be one paid entry into the Amateur Nationals and one Pro Team spot on the Fury Team for all divisions, not one for each division as what was told to the two tours earlier by Kings Bay Promotions, Inc. This means that out of all the divisions that play in the Amateur 9 Ball tour owned by KBP there is only one spot. There is still no definite answer as to how this will be awarded. Maybe they will tell the players the truth maybe they won’t. But one of the biggest gripes about this whole tour is not getting answers from the home office. This also means that players in these two divisions will have to play for that spot at some point against players who are in FL & GA divisions who should be rated a pro status or top regional area status. Good luck guys and gals, it is my hope that the tour continues and that you get what was promised to you, maybe by speaking out about this it will make it happen, maybe it won’t.

This will be my last post on this website in regards to these tours. I am acting in a professional manner as always and see that the shady business practices of the tour owner is evident as ever. In my opinion tours are about players making money not the people who run them. If you would like a copy of my expenses, what Kay Higgins has taken from the players and what the players have received please send me an email. I know my bookkeeping skills are a little rusty but when you have an MBA some things are like a walk in the park.
 
lakemifurytour said:
Geeee Tom you look pretty happy in the picture that was taken after the event ended(see attached picture of Tom Stathis Jr., Josh Marlowe and me). I know taking second place to a junior player (guy in the middle) is rough but Josh Marlowe played his heart out and he deserved the applause I gave him after the event.
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Everyone smiles when its picture time. that's no big deal. Its how the event is handled that's important.
 
your falling over your own words

Ok I wasn’t going to post but seeing as the truth is not being told I guess I need to make sure the truth is told. I will not get into a bashing competitive nature with Kay Higgins, there is a historical pattern of her carrying on and on about things until she gets caught up in her lies and trying to goat people into arguments. The last time she received money from me which, she just contradicted her earlier statement about not receiving any money from me, was in June of this year. I have the Money Order in front of me as I type.

She doesn’t know where her updates are? Hmmmm, Isn’t she the owner of the tour? Isn’t it her responsibility to make sure she had all her paperwork and doesn’t she owe it to the players as the owner of the tour to make sure they are taken care of? I have saved every piece of communication with her to date. Kay Higgins has been sent all of the paperwork work which includes the following: 1. points update, 2. room owner information sheet, 3. tournament report form which details all new memberships and anything I sold for her company along with deducting any receipts for expenses incurred for her business, 4. then she also gets an updated membership form with all of the players personal information including phone numbers and email address and 5. the players board that is transcribed every week into an electronic format which has the places the players placed in that event. I also send stats and news reports for the articles to be published to Jessica Barnes. Now if Kay isn’t computer literate then she needs to go to school to learn how to use a computer.

I don’t whose wife complained, well maybe I do, there were only two players who had wives there, but then again wives just about bitch about anything especially if their husbands don’t bring home the purse.

When I left The Billiard Café in Battle Creek on June 25th, I did not run anywhere, I picked up my belongings and left the establishment and the room owner held the door open for me and asked me if I needed any help. I retained the property in my possession as the new tournament director you sent out there with copies of your frivolous emails looked a little shady in my opinion. You have lied so much in the past that if I handed him anything it might not reach its rightful owners which are Sterling Gaming and Fury cues. I also did not have any case full of cues; I had a standing agreement with the owner not to sell merchandise in his room, why would I carry them with me. Several players called me that day while I went golfing instead of running that tournament and told me that he had no clue what he was doing and that they played by house rules and not your KBP rules.

As far as your little books full of paper, they are standard forms that you emailed me. By the way there is a spell check button in WORD. You are not getting the copies of the forms I made and paid for, are you kidding me? Your so called tournament director book has no value and your business license has no barring in any other state except the state that you purchased it in. There are no other documents that were yours or your company’s property, the damn bag was mine as well as the cues that were in my Giusseppe case and the Rambo that is my boyfriends cue.

I have an email that you state you are suing Sandy Schuman, what are you suing her for again? Why are you continually threatening people, it’s not nice to threaten people with lawsuits and with calling the police. Is the Sandy issue a separate issue or a continuance of your pathetic ways?

The players are all aware of when I get my $10/ a player up to 50 players and they are fully aware of your TAKE. I have never hid anything from anyone and especially not the players. You were asked and agreed to pay for the expenses incurred in running your tournaments. After some of the initial expenses were paid and your husband found out about it, you turned around and told me you wouldn’t do that anymore. You cannot change the rules or the story to suit your needs alone. You can lie all you like Kay, one minute you say you haven’t received any paperwork or money and then the next minute you say you have received money and have looked into the paperwork, so which is it. Maybe I will attached all of the tour documents out here on AZBilliards for all to see and for all to see the truth and that you are the one lying in this matter. You have been doing these events for seven years and have such high turnover rates….why is that? You may have been a barmaid but that doesn’t make you a sound ethical business owner. A sound business owner who allows people to handle cash makes sure those individuals are bonded.

My apologies to all who have to endure this communication, it is not my nature to publicly announce situations like these. Unfortunately, in this industry the truth of the has-beens needs to be known and the truth of those do-gooders should be known. It has been my intentions to maintain a professional relationship with this company and keep things confidential and discreet but it is obvious that that cannot happen because Kay has a history of publicizing her dirty laundry and her business everywhere for everyone to see.
 
neverwas said:
Anything would probably be a step in the right direction. When the fliers advertise sign-ups starting at 11:00 AM and your tournament director shows up at 12:30 PM, you have to make some type of changes! Then, to top it off, she starts calling local players asking them to come to the tournament that is scheduled to start fifteen minutes later...truly a sad situation. Luckily for her, there were only 11 players at the tournament in question. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that she openly rooted against me in the finals for reasons unknown. Can you imagine how out of control it would have been had there been a large field assembled? With any luck, your new tournament director will at least exhibit some professionalism, unlike your now departed director. In all my years of playing pool, I've NEVER seen such an unqualified person running a tournament, muchless an unestablished regional tour trying to make a good start. I vowed after the first Battle Creek debacle to never play on the tour again, but maybe I can reconsider now. Also, try to make a sincere effort to get the results sent to AZ a bit quicker. Ten days passing between the tournament and the results being posted on the website makes no sense...it's no longer news!!! If you need any assistance with your tour, feel free to send me a private message and I'll be glad to help out.
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We are working on the issues at hand. I have a staff writer that does the articles and sometimes it depends on how quickly the TD get the items to her. We are using the internet to make it quicker but still have a few kinks to work out as we go along it will get better. Also when we do send in stuff we don't have any control about what they post or when they do . Thanks for the good words and we will be working hard on getting the changes done quickly.
Kay
 
Jennifer....glad to see you finally saw the light. What took you so long? I have lots of questions. Why would you work for someone and not get paid? What are you going to do now that you don't regularly stay in 5 star hotels like the Motel 6 in NoWhere, Ohio? And how did you ever sleep at night knowing that you were charging players an outrageous $40 membership fee and this confusing $20 companion fee that was just stuffed into someone elses pocket? After this you took $10 a player!!!, the tour took how much ($10 a player?)...Was there anything ever left for the players? Was there anything ever left for say the IRS after you collected and pocketed all these fees? I wonder how FURY feels about sponsoring such a mis-managed tour like this? They probably don't care as they already have let it be known about their own integrity and business practices of stealing other people's ideas when it comes to their immitation break cue.

Kay...your turn. Knock off the 'we are investigating and looking into this matter' bullshit. Either you got the email or you didn't. Either you took money that was suppose to be for players or you didn't. This is 2005....if you are needing information faster, buy a fax machine, a cell phone (free long distance--what a bonus!!), a laptop, wireless internet, or a well trained homing pigeon. IF someone was running your tour and not turning in info you needed and MONEY for over a month and you didn't say anything...you are, to be blunt, a complete moron. Jennifer had to quit? Uhhh, maybe she should've been fired. And she wasn't even fired after she showed up late for tournaments and you knew about it?

Jennifer...you should stick to golf and other activities. And change your avatar.
Kay...you should, well you are a lady so I will refrain. Just give the money back!!!
Fury...you should get an original idea and surround yourself with more ethical personal.
 
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Membership is $40 a year.
entry is $40 per event
If you want to play one time its $20(the player still gets put on a mailing list and that is the charge for this)
If you want points in two divisions its $40 for the first and $20 for the second division. You don't have to join two divisions. With the $40 membership you can play in any event that has the KBP logo.
$10 of the membership fee goes into a prize fund for the top 8 places at the end of the year.
The room gets $10 to cap at $500 for green fees. There is a $10 registration fee which is the TD's fee that also caps at $500. The TD's receive their money before the players, the room or I recieve any.
The players have informed me that when they showed up for an event that was not in the division they belonged to they got charged by Jennifer the $20 one time fee and that she told the room owners and players that that went to her. The reason I am saying that I am researching this because I received some files from Jenn that does not have all the info that I was told that happen. I am reverifying all the files to make sure of the divisions and what really happen. You see I tend to trust people too much. I do not owe Jenn any money. The only thing I did agree upon was to LOAN her the money to keep her cell phone on and it was to be paid back after a few tournaments which it was not. I only agreed to that to help her keep her phone on because that was the only way to contact her or for her to contact me if needed. I was only sent a piece of paper with the amount written on it and the money taken out of the players money. I have no way to verify the real amount she needed. I have since found out that the reason her phone bill was so high was due to her calling every player as many times as she could. Some of the wives were complaining about this and I can understand their feelings.
The tour is still going on and a new TD is in place. We are going to try to build these divisions up to be better than before. The numbers, according to the players I have spoken to were no coming to the event due to the way she ran it. Instead of letting the tournament run she was running around calling fouls that were not fouls and she had not been called to the table. The players and the room owners were complaining to me. I will give you an example of what I was told on more than one occassion. She called these fouls several times. She called a foul because a player was putting his jump cue together, and another foul because he let go of the bridge. I tied to talke to her about this and she continued this. The TD's only go to any table if they are requested and then they make a call. They do not bother the players. They let them play a gentleman's game let them have fun.
Kay
 
I have 4 other TD's that don't have any problems with any of the tour and how its run. Maybe that should give some of you some insight to the real problems.
Kay
 
Just to add another perspective, I have been running the Fury tour in North Carolina for the past 3 years working with Kings Bay. We haven't had any issues with Kings Bay as far as pay, accounting, paperwork, points or any other area of the tour. I work hard to build the tour, make it good for the players, room owners and the tour operator. It's a 3 legged table. If one isn't taken care of, it all falls down. All my players understand the financial payout system, and the number of players continues to grow.
It sounds like there was some mis-understanding on someone's part about how much should be collected from players for what. No Fury tour player is EVER required to buy more than one tour card membership per year. They do have options if they want to gain points in more than one division, but it is not required.
I am sorry that the players in this division had to deal with the problems outlined in this thread. I can only say that this is not typical of the way all the tour divisions are run. I hope that the personnel changes up there lead to a successful tour. The players down here enjoy the tour and look forward to each event. I hope the players in this division will find the same opportunity.
Steve Jennings
TD
Fury Carolina (and Georgia) Tour
 
watchez said:
Jennifer[/B I wonder how FURY feels about sponsoring such a mis-managed tour like this? They probably don't care as they already have let it be known about their own integrity and business practices of stealing other people's ideas when it comes to their immitation break cue.

Fury...you should get an original idea and surround yourself with more ethical personal.
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I don't know who you "think" you are. As far as I know you have never even been to a Fury Tour stop. But, that's beside the point. You asked how we feel about the tour. We feel just fine. Fury is getting the exposure we planned on and the room owners seem to groove on our products. As for whether the tour is "mismanaged" or not I have to say that any endeavor, especially one that is essentially franchised like this one is going to have conflict somewhere. In 18 years I have never had a show or a business where someone else didn't have some kind of issue. Sometimes people just don't gel. So, Fury is very happy with King's Bay Promotions and being the title sponsor of their tour.

Now, as to your second jab. Which idea are you referring to? Oh, I think I know it, the ferrule on the Sledgehammer. Who did this first? Oh, I know, you get all your education from product websites. Let me see if I can elighten you a little bit. I know you probably won't believe me since you seem to be a fairly hostile person anyway but this information is not for your benefit anyway. It's for the other readers on this board.

In the early eighties there were several people experimenting with jump cues. They were more jump rods back then, aluminum rods with 15mm phenolic tip/ferrules on them. People were jumping with no leather tip, just a flat ferrule. Then it was discovered that jump cues work well if they are super lightweight with a normal tip so the trend went tht way for a while. Then in the early nineties lightweight plus phenolic tips were in vogue. In the mid-nineties Han Joerg Bertram and his apprentice Oliver Stops were making jump cues with the same ferrule/tip setup that Mike uses today. Well before the Sledgehammer. The "idea" you refer to has been around and in use for a long time. We didn't "steal" it from anyone. And in case you haven't noticed, everyone is doing it now anyway. No one has a lock on anything in the billiard market. I got a head start with the Bunjee Jumpers but it didn't take long for everyone else to catch up. Find another cause.

I really feel for you dude, you have a lot of anger built up that is apparently fueled by ignorance. I don't think Mike would appreciate what you are doing here because you are about to open up a can of worms that you really shouldn't. In this game you can't win with the break and the rainbow.

John
 
onepocketchump said:
I don't know who you "think" you are. As far as I know you have never even been to a Fury Tour stop. But, that's beside the point. You asked how we feel about the tour. We feel just fine. Fury is getting the exposure we planned on and the room owners seem to groove on our products. As for whether the tour is "mismanaged" or not I have to say that any endeavor, especially one that is essentially franchised like this one is going to have conflict somewhere. In 18 years I have never had a show or a business where someone else didn't have some kind of issue. Sometimes people just don't gel. So, Fury is very happy with King's Bay Promotions and being the title sponsor of their tour.

Now, as to your second jab. Which idea are you referring to? Oh, I think I know it, the ferrule on the Sledgehammer. Who did this first? Oh, I know, you get all your education from product websites. Let me see if I can elighten you a little bit. I know you probably won't believe me since you seem to be a fairly hostile person anyway but this information is not for your benefit anyway. It's for the other readers on this board.

In the early eighties there were several people experimenting with jump cues. They were more jump rods back then, aluminum rods with 15mm phenolic tip/ferrules on them. People were jumping with no leather tip, just a flat ferrule. Then it was discovered that jump cues work well if they are super lightweight with a normal tip so the trend went tht way for a while. Then in the early nineties lightweight plus phenolic tips were in vogue. In the mid-nineties Han Joerg Bertram and his apprentice Oliver Stops were making jump cues with the same ferrule/tip setup that Mike uses today. Well before the Sledgehammer. The "idea" you refer to has been around and in use for a long time. We didn't "steal" it from anyone. And in case you haven't noticed, everyone is doing it now anyway. No one has a lock on anything in the billiard market. I got a head start with the Bunjee Jumpers but it didn't take long for everyone else to catch up. Find another cause.

I really feel for you dude, you have a lot of anger built up that is apparently fueled by ignorance. I don't think Mike would appreciate what you are doing here because you are about to open up a can of worms that you really shouldn't. In this game you can't win with the break and the rainbow.

John
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John...First try not to use words you don't know how to spell. Secondly, answer this honestly. Did Fury use a picture of a Sledgehammer in one of their ads for a Fury break cue because they look almost exactly the same? Remember, answer honestly---this will help me determine if from your character you are worth having a conversation with. Oh, and don't worry about if Mike appreciates what I am doing. Maybe you should concentrate on how do you think he feels about the fact that Fury exactly imitated his idea? I think the fact that a patent is pending answers that question.
 
watchez said:
John...First try not to use words you don't know how to spell. Secondly, answer this honestly. Did Fury use a picture of a Sledgehammer in one of their ads for a Fury break cue because they look almost exactly the same? Remember, answer honestly---this will help me determine if from your character you are worth having a conversation with. Oh, and don't worry about if Mike appreciates what I am doing. Maybe you should concentrate on how do you think he feels about the fact that Fury exactly imitated his idea? I think the fact that a patent is pending answers that question.
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Ok, I'll try not to misspell words I know how to use. You should try and understand the words rather than nitpicking the spelling. May I suggest you try and stick to concepts you understand?

No, Fury has never used any Sledgehammer pictures for anything. I would also like to suggest that you may want to get your eyes checked if you think that the Fury Jump Break "looks almost exactly the same" as the Sledgehammer. The design of both cues is very different. And in my opinion, the Fury is much nicer looking. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I have seen soem very nice custom Sledgehammers.

Since you told me to be honest would you care to bet some money on my answer above? How about the small sum of $1000 dollars that we have never used a picture of a Sledgehammer in any advertisement? I'll donate $500 of my winnings towards your education and new glasses.

I don't worry about what Mike thinks about what you are doing. I just thought you might want to ask him since you are apparently trying to speak for him. Your accusations are without merit and easily disproven.

Fury took nothing from Mike Gulyassy. The phenolic capped shaft has been around for 20 years. Just because Mike started advertising it and has a patent pending does not mean that he invented it. Furthermore, nothing in our ads suggests that the materials or construction is the same or similar to the Sledgehammer. The only real similarity between Mike's descriptions on his website and the Fury ads is that they are both jump/break cues.

Are you going to say that Mike invented phenolic resin? Was he the first to put it on the end of a cue for a jump/break cue? Did he invent the jump/break cue? Of course the answer to all that is no. Do you see me crying because everyone ripped off the Bunjee Jumper? How about because everyone ripped off the Instroke case? No. My answer to both of those situations was to invite consumers to test the products for themselves. Neither the Bunjee nor the Instroke was ever beaten in their respective categories on performance and value.

So, how about you just put up or shut up? Put you money where your mouth is and then you can come in here and claim to sell "the best". Otherwise, without proof you are just another blowhard with an ignorant opinon.

Lastly, I am just a sucker for the underprivileged, I will give you a quick lesson in intellectual property matters. A product in patent pending status is not protected from infringement. Patent Pending means that a patent has been applied for not that it has been granted. Even after a patent has been granted it still must be proven that other products infringe upon it to have any grounds. This is all stuff you could easily find on the internet if you cared to educate yourself rather than making stupid accussations.

John

P.S. please spellcheck this for me would you?
 
VERY TRUE! Just like I tell my students in so many words...."practice what you preach!"
 
The first and last post on this subject from me

lakemifurytour said:
When I left The Billiard Café in Battle Creek on June 25th, I did not run anywhere, I picked up my belongings and left the establishment and the room owner held the door open for me and asked me if I needed any help. I retained the property in my possession as the new tournament director you sent out there with copies of your frivolous emails looked a little shady in my opinion. You have lied so much in the past that if I handed him anything it might not reach its rightful owners which are Sterling Gaming and Fury cues. I also did not have any case full of cues; I had a standing agreement with the owner not to sell merchandise in his room, why would I carry them with me. Several players called me that day while I went golfing instead of running that tournament and told me that he had no clue what he was doing and that they played by house rules and not your KBP rules.
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I was going to stay out of this mess on being posted here and on other forums, but in light of everything that I know to be true and not true that is being said. I have decided to make a small post.

First I would like to thank every that played the Battle Creek event that was played under KPB Fury Amature Tour rules. Hopefully other events will have more players even though first place took almost $1000 home with total prize money.

The reason for this message is mainly in response to the attaced quote. My letters I handed to you were no where near shady and when I offered to call Kay you stood up walked out grabbed all the cues that I agree were not in the case you had but where in the plastic they come from the factory in. But none the less you stood up and took them and walked out. As far as the ethics you work and live by, I hope your students get a better side from you than the tour has.

As far as my ability as a tournament director. I have ran tournaments for about 8 years and participated in thousands more. Been playing this great game all my life and given every thing I have to it. Dropped out of school to play, lost my fiancee because of the game. I did go back to school and finish and then graduated from college. But if that isn't dedication and love for the game I don't know what is. I am here in this contract with KBP to do a job that to my knowledge from tour players has not been done properly or efficiently. I also own and operated a T.A.P. pool league that has tournaments regularly.

For those players that were banned from the tour for personal reasons, you are now able to play again and I hope to see you at a stop soon. And for those players that stopped playing due to the way the tournaments were being ran I hope to see you back on the tour.

Have fun and keep shooting and remember this is and easy game anyone can play.

Kevin 'Woody' Burris
 
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Woody,
Give me a call if there is anything I can do to help you make your division a success. I have has some pretty good success running the North Carolina and Georgia divisions of the Fury tour.
Steve
 
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