player says to calcutta bidder he will lay down

COREYGT1977

COREYGT1977

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I brought someone to the first pool tournament he has ever been to. this guy all excited about bidding on players.. He buys his first player no problem. then starts bidding on the second player he wants to buy, bidding back and forth then this player tells him if he buys him he will lay down and lose just to screw him!!! so he stops bidding. lets just say he will never be a spectator again... It kills me to know that a good player with a valid chance to win would do something like that.. I think its very out of line.....
 
That's fuxing raw. Did the player and your friend have some history? did they know one another? I have to doubt it based on the fact ur friend had never been to a tourney before. WHat motivated this player to say something like that??? Did the player just want to buy himself? If so, isnt it customary to sell the player half of himself anyway?
 
Beware_of_Dawg said:
That's fuxing raw. Did the player and your friend have some history? did they know one another? I have to doubt it based on the fact ur friend had never been to a tourney before. WHat motivated this player to say something like that??? Did the player just want to buy himself? If so, isnt it customary to sell the player half of himself anyway?
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Greed maybe? The player wanted to buy himself and didn't want to share?
 
Wow, yet another Calcutta thread.

Calcuttas should be wiped off the face of the pool universe.

If someone wants to go bet on a horse, GO TO THE TRACK!!!

Do a search of the word Calcutta. You will have all the viewpoints on earth about this topic.
 
Did the TD get informed? The player should have been barred from the calcutta...at a minimum.
 
So I don't get it either. Was the player wanting to rob the tournament and split half with the other guy who was bidding, not your friend? If he personally didn't like your friend and had never even met or heard of him before, I do not understand the reasoning behind him saying that.

I am confused, but there is a certain poster on here whose brilliant thread about Calcudas explained a lot to me. Maybe someone else could enlighten me this time....
 
that wasn't it. no one else was bidding. my friend and the player going back and forth. He was a good player i guess and was saying it always cost him to much to play. I dont know. It just sucks when you bring someone for the excitment of bidding and it goes that way...
 
All for the best...

COREYGT1977 said:
that wasn't it. no one else was bidding. my friend and the player going back and forth. He was a good player i guess and was saying it always cost him to much to play. I dont know. It just sucks when you bring someone for the excitment of bidding and it goes that way...
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Well, it's good to find out from the get-go, pool players will suck the life out of you. A good life's lesson...
 
Woosh!!

COREYGT1977 said:
that wasn't it. no one else was bidding. my friend and the player going back and forth. He was a good player i guess and was saying it always cost him to much to play. I dont know. It just sucks when you bring someone for the excitment of bidding and it goes that way...
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I scored a clean miss on this one. I have been knowing JoeyA for long enough to know he really was just messing with the hall owner. Joey won't dump and won't seriously play games with the calcutta.

Hu
 
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If you aren't taking someone in a blind bid, it's a good idea to do a little homework before bidding on them. You'll find some players will threaten you with that type of line at which point its not worth the hassle.
 
I would have bought him anyway and told him to go ahead and lay down.
Is he really going to screw himself out of the tourney money to burn me on the calcutta? If he does he is only hurting himself.

Either way I win, if he gets in the money I make money, if he lays down I get to tell him it was worth every dime to watch him waste his entry and time.
 
Perhaps a forearm shiver would work

swrooster said:
Well, it's good to find out from the get-go, pool players will suck the life out of you. A good life's lesson...
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Personally I stake players in tournaments since due to the economy many of them are broke. I usually do well. Sometimes I do not.

Specifically to your problem, when he said that. I would have instantly bid another 20 bucks, and told him I hope you do. After the auction I would have spoken to the TD if he did not buy half and had him removed from the calcutta. Or, just sweated the fact he was playing for the tournament money.

I bought 5 players Saturday at a tournament, 2 of them did not buy half themselves. 3 did. One came in 2nd and one came in 5th, I came out ahead. One player that bought half himself forfieted his first match on Sunday due to whatever reason on Saturday night. No biggie it is part of the game.

If I get in a bidding war over a player I am staking, I let him go and we take half. The odds on your money for the tournament in a decent added event are usually about 30 to 1. The odds on your money in a calcutta are at best 3-1 , take Indy Blind pick 1300, 1st place 4300? give or take.
That is less than 3-1 on the money.

If you want to do well in a calcutta, you need to know the players. Are they there to play or to gamble all night? Buy a player that plays with the blind bids for a bottom dollar price, and then there are the rolls. You have to get a roll or two.

For those of you who do not buy half yourself? When you win, you will get some jelly from me.

Sorry for the long winded post. And if you do NOT want to be included in a calcutta review with the TD, they will throw you in the pool or let the buyers know you are NOT interested.

Guys that do not buy half, are the best kind. It is like horse racing, I mean the horse cant buy half.
 
i doubt that the player would have followed through with his threat. he can buy half so he would be screwing himself.

just a cheap bluff on his part. i hope your friend can see this for what it is and that very few if hardly any players would do this.

the good news is this guy is just one misguided person, just make sure your friend sees it for what it is. bad judgement by one person and that's all................
 
About 20 years of calcuttas

genomachino said:
i doubt that the player would have followed through with his threat. he can buy half so he would be screwing himself.

just a cheap bluff on his part. i hope your friend can see this for what it is and that very few if hardly any players would do this.

the good news is this guy is just one misguided person, just make sure your friend sees it for what it is. bad judgement by one person and that's all................
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I have been going to pool tournaments staking players and buying players in the calcutta and have never had this issue come up.

As pointed out above. I kind of like having a chance to win ALL the cash. Just to be point of fact, I do not buy many players that do not cash.
 
markpatrick said:
Personally I stake players in tournaments since due to the economy many of them are broke. I usually do well. Sometimes I do not.

Specifically to your problem, when he said that. I would have instantly bid another 20 bucks, and told him I hope you do. After the auction I would have spoken to the TD if he did not buy half and had him removed from the calcutta. Or, just sweated the fact he was playing for the tournament money.

I bought 5 players Saturday at a tournament, 2 of them did not buy half themselves. 3 did. One came in 2nd and one came in 5th, I came out ahead. One player that bought half himself forfieted his first match on Sunday due to whatever reason on Saturday night. No biggie it is part of the game.

If I get in a bidding war over a player I am staking, I let him go and we take half. The odds on your money for the tournament in a decent added event are usually about 30 to 1. The odds on your money in a calcutta are at best 3-1 , take Indy Blind pick 1300, 1st place 4300? give or take.
That is less than 3-1 on the money.

If you want to do well in a calcutta, you need to know the players. Are they there to play or to gamble all night? Buy a player that plays with the blind bids for a bottom dollar price, and then there are the rolls. You have to get a roll or two.

For those of you who do not buy half yourself? When you win, you will get some jelly from me.

Sorry for the long winded post. And if you do NOT want to be included in a calcutta review with the TD, they will throw you in the pool or let the buyers know you are NOT interested.

Guys that do not buy half, are the best kind. It is like horse racing, I mean the horse cant buy half.
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A horse can't buy half, but the jockey can...sort of. Johnnyt
 
There was a thread about Mrs. Breedlove doing something like that because the winning bidder wouldn't give her another opportunity to buy half.
 
I think Im in the minority here. Im looking at it from the players point of view and agreeing wholeheartedly with him. The choice of words were childish, but getting pissed off because the guy who was at his "first tournament" went bid happy is justified.
Chuck
 
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