Yes, Nick...My eyesight is just fine, thank you! JB was running out, and on two tables at the same time. It figures that Lou would post up picture of JB's unorthodox stroke in that 1-pocket match, but Lou missed a bunch of balls too, regardless of whether he had "better form" than JB. One other thing...at least John had the balls to put up his own money...the same cannot be said for Lou.
Scott Lee
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I played JB at the expo last year, briefly playing him some one pocket just to get a good feel for how the match would go in a few days. The John that played me that night and the John that stepped into the ring with Lou were two completely people from two different solar systems. John played very solid one pocket against me, was rock-steady and made good decisions.
The bottom line is moments before John played Lou, Eric Hu was probably a blink of an eye from bashing John's face in for opening his mouth about playing some --- which not only caught Eric by surprise, but Eric didn't like the tone and content of the comment and basically put John in a "check" that probably shot John's heart-rate into orbit.
To be clear, John had zero business even LOOKING at Eric, given their history and probably deserved whatever Eric told him (I'm not knocking Eric for what happened or what was said). That said, it was evident to me that it took John a while to calm down and settle his nerves and he flat-out "GAVE" Lou the first collection of games.
I watched the stream from my phone while driving south on I-95 on my way to a client's location and HOW I DIDN'T wreck was beyond me (I held the phone in front of my left eye and watch the road and phone at the same time, like a heads-up display). All I know is John was a different human being than I played a few nights earlier and that's a fact. He's NOT the goofball player, like Lou's photoshop pics show.
Lou's margin for winning was NOT greater than the flat-out give-up games at the beginning and had John not made an idiot decision by engaging with Eric, the outcome might have been WAAAAAAAY different. When you also pair that fact with the fact that Lou didn't have the heart to take the entire bet with his own money -- and if he was forced to, the entire match could have flipped upside down for sure.
In short, when I played John in private, he played 100% better than Lou did in every single game in that entire set....prob because he was an inch from getting bashed-in and because Lou had a free roll by taking a very small % of his full bet. Had Michael NOT given Lou a "heart injection" and gave him "permission" to play, this thread wouldn't have existed because there's zero chance Lou would have showed up with that cash on his own... like John did for himself.
lease, :happydance
