I AM A ONE on you Scale, who will play in a local beginners, intermittent tournaments with an Entry FEE of $5.00 or LESS. Gambler of Quarter until I loose my daily limit of $1.00
I believe I heard Billy Lewis announce you at one of his many incredible tournaments as "Sam, always in the money" Kirby"!! I think that says 4 (due to the j-o-b) but more like 5 in reality.
I always played pretty good in Ft. Wayne for a couple of reasons. I felt at home there due to the fact that I spent a lot of weekends there in the early and mid 80's. I was playing tournaments and gambling for a large part of my income back then.
Then if you take into account, race to 9, loser breaks, on a bar table. I can play against almost anyone in that format. Plus I stayed in action on the big tables the whole weekend between matches playing bank and ring-game 9 ball. I miss those tournaments. I will be back out this fall, looking for tournamentsin Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Kentucky.
Now that my divorce is final, and I feel like playing again. Sam