Pool tournaments and social media complaining.

[JumpinJoe]

Mika, DAZ, Lee Brett, Scott , Shaw, there's a ton of em. Yes you never hear you shot better gg. You hear I got bad rolls and why don't we have better promoters and a tour.m

It's the most comical shit on earth.
They want to change everything, but themselves.
They all talk crazy. That's why I've got em all on blast on there. And don't worry, the days coming that everyone of them the talk shit on there will be crying why can't I play your tourneys.

I don't forget nada.


I like SVB on there. He always tells em, if you don't like it don't play.

 

[Str8PoolMan]

In billiards parlance...

Man, how do you all have time to keep up with Twitter? I barely have time to keep up with AzBilliards and Facebook. :embarrassed2:

My daughter says nobody uses Facebook anymore. It's old-fashioned. Today, everybody tweets and texts each other for instant gratification. I don't think I've ever tweeted im my life, but I did open a Twitter acount when it first came out.

Tweet, tweet.

Twitter could give Farcebook the 7.

 

[Cornerman]

You never see "I got out played" or "He played good". It's either "I won" or three paragraphs of crying about the rolls, the table, pattern racking, getting sharked, the magic rack sucks, the balls suck, the music etc etc etc etc!!!!!!!!

Scott Frost's Facebook posts are mostly pretty classy when he loses.

Scott Frost on Facebook:

"I was up 8-5 race to 9 alternate break against Oscar Dominguez... And a series of unfortunate events took place. Pretty strong to lose from there. The better bar table player won."


Pretty classy. Even if he admits to smashing his break cue.


Freddie <~~~ me, not so much

 

[budonahog]

I enjoy Stevie Moore's posts on facebook. No whining there and if his opponent plays well and wins, Stevie acknowledges it. Much class.

 

[IamCalvin06]

I enjoy Stevie Moore's posts on facebook. No whining there and if his opponent plays well and wins, Stevie acknowledges it. Much class.

That's cause Stevie's a class act all together. He was the first pro pool player I ever got to talk to years ago in a tournament in ATL where SVB first made his debut crushing Troy Frank and then giving Corey Deuel the 8 for the cash.

Stevie was warming up before his next match and my friend knew Stevie enough to introduce me and tell him this was my first pro tournament. Stevie stopped practicing came up to me and shook my hand and chatted with me a bit about pool. I was hooked ever since.

Stevie finished 2 or 3rd. I was amazed that he was able to shoot with arm always shaking. Has always been one of my favorite ppl in the pool world!

As for the complaining about rolls or what not. I can't say that I've never complained but I never say I got bad roll on my shot. If anything I might say my opponent got a good roll bc he made an unexpected shot or got a good leave after a miss. But when ur at the table it's ur shot and ur knowledge of the shot and where the CB is going. So if u made a good shot and the CB ends up married to another ball then it's your fault bc u put it there whether you knew it was headed there or not.

 

[Bella Don't Cry]

I thought you all knew;
Pro Pool Players are impervious to losing. :thumbup:

 

[abs]

In regards to Mika Immonen's comments. I know he has a craptastic demeanor at times, but that doesn't mean he's necessarily whining here.

I saw the match that caused his shot-clock post, and I'll say it stemmed from something real and problematic for a tournament. When the tournament rules allow for a 3-hour max match (it's not clear if this was supposed to be enforced or not since there wasn't a players meeting), but it actually goes to 4+ hours and it's well past 1am that's an issue.

I'll leave out the details of the match (let's just say both players had something to gripe about each other if they wanted to) but to Mika's post, I think he has a point and I'm not sure in this case it's whining. Just my two cents.

 

[watchez]

Here's an inquiry: Which pro player utilizes social media the most? :grin-square:

Justin Bergman gives them all the 7 and the break.

Watchez is the teacher

 

[corvette1340]

Stevie and Corey both have classy social media skills. No whining and praise for their opponents when they get beat.

 

[JAM]

What...no mention of how Thorsten never complains on social media?!

:grin:

In all fairness to NYC cue dude and his good friend, Thorsten Hohmann, I was very impressed with how Thorsten Hohmann handled the selection of last year's Mosconi Cup Team Europe members.

Though Thorsten's pool track record and championship wins that year most definitely exceeded his European peers that were selected, he handled it with grace and dignity on social media.

Even when his friends, supporters, and other players started complaining bitterly and some with a few choice words about the selection criteria, he replied very professionally, with good sportsmanship, I must admit, that he wants to support the Mosconi Cup and not bad-mouth them or any of those who were selected, and he further added that he would like others to please do the same.

Pretty classy, if you ask me.

 

[Worminator]

Jayson Shaw is really bad for complaining on Facebook.

Maybe Jayson should spend his time slowing down a bit and thinking through the table layout instead of using it to post on social media. He's a great shotmaker, but from what I see he just fires from the hip.

 

[Island Drive]

Man, how do you all have time to keep up with Twitter? I barely have time to keep up with AzBilliards and Facebook. :embarrassed2:

My daughter says nobody uses Facebook anymore. It's old-fashioned. Today, everybody tweets and texts each other for instant gratification. I don't think I've ever tweeted im my life, but I did open a Twitter acount when it first came out.

Tweet, tweet.

Here's my tweet....his name is Easy.

 

[Kris_b1104]

Maybe Jayson should spend his time slowing down a bit and thinking through the table layout instead of using it to post on social media. He's a great shotmaker, but from what I see he just fires from the hip.

Agreed, I think if he slows his game down he could very well be one of the best. And also needs to work on his mental attitude, too much Earl rubbing off in him.

 

[jay helfert]

When I go to a poker tournament all I hear is bad beat stories. When I go to a pool tournament all I hear about is bad rolls. I got knocked out of a poker tournament yesterday with AK against JJ. I got my money in, in a good spot when I was getting short on chips. If I win I double up and have a good shot to make the money. But that's poker!

Pool is the same way, you play your best and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Even Shane does not win all the time (even though it seems that way :smile. Dennis O. beat him in One Pocket last night and it was Shane's first loss this week (after something like 17 or 18 straight wins).

My philosophy in pool is that the good players get the rolls! The balls have no mind of their own, they only go where you tell them to go! If you can't handle bad beats in poker, you should not play the game. Same goes for pool if you can't handle getting bad rolls. It happens to everyone and some deal with it better than others. Reacting negatively is a sign of weakness! In pool and poker.

P,S. I watched Jayson's match with Warren. He played bad shape on the nine when he had a chance to get out for the match. I wouldn't exactly call that a bad roll. If he truly believes that he won't become a better player.

 

[overlord]

As far as slow play goes it does not just drive Mika crazy. As far as I know Mika was sharked during the swannee in the final. Not everybody can have a ahh shucks I lost attitude like Efren. Mika was taking pictures after his loss to Dennis with fans and was fine.

Mika is a world champion and has put his life on the line for pool and is one of the classiest cats in the game. The fact that he does not like to lose is whats makes him a champion. For a couple of years he prevailed against everybody worldwide in Nine and Ten Ball plus back to back US opens.

 

[joelpope]

mind games...

For a period of time I worked in a sales driven organization where the sales people were on an "eat what you kill" compensation plan in that they had no base... just commissions. (I was in operations, I don't have the makeup for the sales arena)

To make matters worse, a "world class" closing ratio was in the neighborhood of 20%! That means they went home loser 4 out of 5 days on average and sometimes they could hit a streak of several weeks without a sale.

One thing I noticed is that they always blamed others for their failure to close a deal. I finally realized that to stay in the game they had to believe they were the best at what they did and when they failed it wasn't their fault.... a weird way to go through life but it is what got them through the day.

I think there is some of that with pro level athletes. They have to have the mind set that they can win any match up and when they lose it is due to outside forces. I don't agree with that approach but it seems to be evident in a number of pros across a number of sports.

 

[Island Drive]

When I go to a poker tournament all I hear is bad beat stories. When I go to a pool tournament all I hear about is bad rolls. I got knocked out of a poker tournament yesterday with AK against JJ. I got my money in, in a good spot when I was getting short on chips. If I win I double up and have a good shot to make the money. But that's poker!

Pool is the same way, you play your best and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Even Shane does not win all the time (even though it seems that way :smile. Dennis O. beat him in One Pocket last night and it was Shane's first loss this week (after something like 17 or 18 straight wins).

My philosophy in pool is that the good players get the rolls! The balls have no mind of their own, they only go where you tell them to go! If you can't handle bad beats in poker, you should not play the game. Same goes for pool if you can't handle getting bad rolls. It happens to everyone and some deal with it better than others. Reacting negatively is a sign of weakness! In pool and poker.

P,S. I watched Jayson's match with Warren. He played bad shape on the nine when he had a chance to get out for the match. I wouldn't exactly call that a bad roll. If he truly believes that he won't become a better player.

So true, blaming the loss on something other than Reality has its own problems.