I see that posters have included sharks from other tournaments other than the DCC and that is hardly a hijacked thread and so I will share another one which I observed.
At another tournament, Player A was in dead punch and subject to beat anyone in the world at that point in time.
The tournament director was sitting at the table watching the match in progress. Player A got down on an important shot (facing the direction of his opponent) and as he was stroking Player B started sanding his shaft with a frenzied motion that would shock anyone except someone who was completely blind. Player A got up off the shot and gave the WTF look and gestured with his hands. Player B then acknowledged the error of his ways and stopped sanding his shaft. As Player A got back down on his critical shot and in the final stages of pulling the trigger, Player B cocked his head up quickly toward where the rail birds were located and started an animated conversation with lots of head movement.
The tournament dirctor never uttered a word. Maybe it is not the job of a tournament director to stop sharking as I don't know if that is their responsibility or not.
Player A pulled the trigger and missed the shot by a diamond and it was only an average difficult shot but so critical that the double sharking proved fatal. It was the beginning of the match and Player A was sharked out of stroke completely. It was a sad state of affairs. Player A was angry but controlled his anger but could no longer control his stroke. Player A lost the tournament because Player B double sharked him.
I think I will continue to address any type of sharking and like I said, players who shark me the second time will not like it and I don't care who it is. They might be able to whip my ass on the table or off but they are going to come out on the losing end because when I sink my teeth into something it is hard for me to let go. It will take more than a stick across my head to make me quit and I guess I am just fed up with the sharking and am just not going to take it anymore.
For the record, those who feign ignorance of their sharking, I will give them one chance in life. After that, they will hear and feel scorn that they never imagined regardless of who they are.
One of my new and good friends (that I met at the DCC from overseas no less) suggested that I do what they do and that is to simply look at the person and wait until they stop doing the distraction because it will make them look stupid. I beg to differ and believe that these people are so callous that more has to be done to alter their behavior.
Anyway, I hope that sharking becomes less and less as it is exposed and I urge all players to deal with sharking as they please. For me, it will be direct and immediate.
For those who say that their opponent will have to be dancing in front of them for it to bother them, I call BS or it is is just that they have never been in a difficult tournament or never had a large sum of money bet.
People shark because it works regardless of whether someone thinks it doesn't and they shark because they get away with it.
But that is all coming to an end for me...........
I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! :angry: :angry: :angry:
JoeyA
