Slow play, slow pay & flying flamingos

[alstl]

I enjoy watching pool on live streams, especially top players. Recently I was watching a live stream and one of the players complaining the loudest about players not getting paid or getting paid late was on the stream. He was excruciatingly slow. Great player, by all accounts a great guy but if I have a hard time watching him because he is so slow how in the flying flamingo do you expect to attract casual sports fans to watch? If casual sports fans won't watch how are you going to get on television and get sponsors? Without sponsors and/or television where is the money going to come from?

Physician heal thyself.

 

[CreeDo]

What does playing slow have to do with the promoter not honoring a commitment to pay the player?

If you say you're going to pay someone, you pay them.
If the money's not there, you don't lie and say it is.

The player had every right to complain, and if we're being honest he was going to get stiffed
no matter HOW fast he played. I'm sure some fast & entertaining players got stiffed too.
Would you cut any promoter slack if he said "I was gonna pay the guy, but he was too boring to watch"?

 

[Nine ... corner]

Cut that player some slack. Maybe he thought he was being paid by the hour so he was slow playing for profit.

 

[Black-Balled]

JJ almost made me take my own life once.

 

[Mike Davis]

In bonus ball there was a 24 second shot clock so no one played slow there. Without a shot clock many of us play a little slow, myself included. Even though it might hurt my performace a bit I do think that we should use shot clocks more often for the good of the game, to make it more spectator friendly.

 

[thewhiffer]

In bonus ball there was a 24 second shot clock so no one played slow there. Without a shot clock many of us play a little slow, myself included. Even though it might hurt my performace a bit I do think that we should use shot clocks more often for the good of the game, to make it more spectator friendly.

Right on, Mike, a shot clock should be used in all major competitions.

 

[JB Cases]

In bonus ball there was a 24 second shot clock so no one played slow there. Without a shot clock many of us play a little slow, myself included. Even though it might hurt my performace a bit I do think that we should use shot clocks more often for the good of the game, to make it more spectator friendly.

Well, without a shot clock the other day people were ragging on your for playing slow. I timed you and you averaged under 30 seconds per shot. So you would have had to pick up the pace by about 6 whole seconds per shot with a 24 second shot clock but with anyone else's shot clock you were done in plenty of time.

 

[MitchAlsup]

The previous weekend, I wasthce Darren Appleton paly 4 matches in a row (Sun) to win the Tourney.

There were about 8 times over 7 hours that a single stroke took more than a whole minute. Yet, each time, the resulting play was simply outstanding--performing a lock-up safety from a seamingly impossible positiion (to even get a safety).

So, I tend to think that as long as your average shot is less than 30 seconds, a couple of long shots on the time clock are actually worth it to the (knowledgable) observer.