Update on the Des Moines pool scene

Billiard/Golf/Tennis competition Anyone up for a sum "Triathlon" competition. Scoring as follows: Fourteen games of ten-ball, one point each, ten games of tennis, one point each, Nine holes of golf, one point each. Sorry, i'm bored waiting for amare to go off on lakes

Tennis? Who the hell plays tennis? You must be bored Gary.
 
Billiard/Golf/Tennis competition Anyone up for a sum "Triathlon" competition. Scoring as follows: Fourteen games of ten-ball, one point each, ten games of tennis, one point each, Nine holes of golf, one point each. Sorry, i'm bored waiting for amare to go off on lakes

WTF is amare?

what about a best of three Greco-Roman wrestling? And a 5000M run?

:D
 
Dustin Gunia won the Masters 8-Ball and got 2nd place in the Masters 9-Ball at VNEA. Jessica Frideres won the Masters 8-Ball. Congrats to them.

Dustin is racking up some serious prize money the last few weeks in Vegas, he turned in quite a performance at BCA and APA as well. Good shooting!!!
 
Suck it!

It is a slow Friday...not my best but here ya go.

I know this is an old post of your 283s on Expert in Minesweeper but I just got a 99.47 and had to tell someone. I've only broken 100s two times prior. One was a 91 and the other was an 87. Which coincidentally are the last two years the Twins won the World Series.

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Yes I really am that much of a nerd that I'm playing Minesweeper instead of being out playing pool or disc golfing.
 
Well, Sunday was a good time. I sure enjoy this game.

The AC was working enough to make it tolerable. It wasn't as bad as the weekend before for sure.

Here's to a fruitful summer of pool.
 
Got APA masters this weekend. Going to try to hit balls at Stix a couple days this week. I guess there is three brackets of 5/9/11 teams. One team from each will go to Vegas.

Got to see Spimps cue this weekend as well, very nice looking sir. :)

Someone buy my Bobby Hunter !
 
Got APA masters this weekend. Going to try to hit balls at Stix a couple days this week. I guess there is three brackets of 5/9/11 teams. One team from each will go to Vegas.

Got to see Spimps cue this weekend as well, very nice looking sir. :)

Someone buy my Bobby Hunter !

I can't make days, but if you want to hit balls at Stix after 5 sometime this week to practice let me know. I think my cue is a keeper, after initially hitting with it. Now I have no excuse to not improve.

The 5/9/11 are the 8 ball brackets which is not this weekend, but next weekend. The 5 is for summer session winners...and a 1 in 5 chance is just crazy. Worm's team has a real good shot there, still gotta play though. There are two nine ball brackets of about 8 a piece or 16 total I believe. Most likely 4 wins to get your team in to Vegas.
 
I'm so oblivious I was playing on Sunday and didn't even know Jaime and Pet were in some decent action, like $200 and $300 sets I heard. Pet supposedly won every set. I didn't get paid.
 
I can't make days, but if you want to hit balls at Stix after 5 sometime this week to practice let me know. I think my cue is a keeper, after initially hitting with it. Now I have no excuse to not improve.

The 5/9/11 are the 8 ball brackets which is not this weekend, but next weekend. The 5 is for summer session winners...and a 1 in 5 chance is just crazy. Worm's team has a real good shot there, still gotta play though. There are two nine ball brackets of about 8 a piece or 16 total I believe. Most likely 4 wins to get your team in to Vegas.


How would you feel if you're in the bracket with 9 or 11 teams and the guys who win the bracket with 5 teams get the same exact money and trip as you do? I know I'd be pretty damn mad.

2 nine ball brackets only because the league don't have enough teams for 3 teams to be eligible so they do it the fair way there, go figure.

End of the day it's all a ploy for Randy Jones to get more people to play in the summer, the crux is a team gets an easier trip through the gauntlet to Vegas. Instead of trying to send the best teams in the league there he rewards the teams who play the most often, makes sense.

I play in the APA and will be out there in the summer time and it's still a joke. People know they are getting shafted and take it with a smile. The way he did 9-Ball should be the way he does 8-Ball, that's the only logical answer. All this you get a reward for playing summer session is fake advertising and nonsense. He's taking the money from Fall and Winter sessions and parceling it out to cover the difference for lack of participation in the Summer Session. It would be fair if the Summer Session winner gets less than half the check that the 11 team bracket winner gets.

If he's giving the money out however he sees fit, where's the extra money for our Master's team, since the whole league quit because we were too dominant???? Yeah pick and choose and a league operator, nice!!!
 
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How would you feel if you're in the bracket with 9 or 11 teams and the guys who win the bracket with 5 teams get the same exact money and trip as you do? I know I'd be pretty damn mad.

It wouldn't phase me at all. All you have to do is play 4 times to be eligible in the summer.

Let's put it another way. When I qualified in 2006 with Kelly's team there were about 50-53 teams if I remember correctly (Kelly or anyone else can let me know if this # is off) and 3 teams went. That was about a 1-16 to 1-17 chance vs the above #s of 1-5, 1-9, 1-11. Which odds do you like better?
 
It wouldn't phase me at all. All you have to do is play 4 times to be eligible in the summer.

Let's put it another way. When I qualified in 2006 with Kelly's team there were about 50-53 teams if I remember correctly (Kelly or anyone else can let me know if this # is off) and 3 teams went. That was about a 1-16 to 1-17 chance vs the above #s of 1-5, 1-9, 1-11. Which odds do you like better?

Are you comparing screwed more against screwed less?
 
Are you comparing screwed more against screwed less?

Lol yes. You have to remember before you were here that the APA was awful when Carol ran it years back. She was stealing money, and the way things were ran blah blah....it is better now. It can still be improved, but it is a start. You can always be a board member and make your voice heard sir.
 
Spimp, can't wait to see your cue and your improved ability when I get back there again which should be sometime around halloween or slightly before.

J, PM coming your way in a bit.

Yeah Frost. before you ask, we can match up. It'll be fun just for action :thumbup:

And if the Blackhawks sweep the Stanley Cup i'll be +4k woohoo, won't happen but I'm a dreamer but once the Blackhawks win, I'll still be +$750.

I miss you guys lol....I am such a putz.
 
Lol yes. You have to remember before you were here that the APA was awful when Carol ran it years back. She was stealing money, and the way things were ran blah blah....it is better now. It can still be improved, but it is a start. You can always be a board member and make your voice heard sir.

I'd prefer to be a board member in my house.

Seriously though send the teams who win it fair and square. When people sit and laugh at Summer Teams that would never make it during the other sessions(they prove this by not qualifying the rest of the year) and then one of those 5 teams wins a trip and gets to borrow bank from the other sessions, it just makes you go hmmmm.

Besides if that's the model he's going by I want some more money from him. Why just cause we deserve it and he should borrow it from other divisions and sessions if necessary. It's not our fault he couldn't keep a Masters Division going is it? We did nothing but win and pay dues. We get a penalty for that.

So yes Randy Jones is a joke in my book for that. There will be some happy people come this weekend and some sad ones, that's just tough.

Oh and too elaborate even more on why he's doing things bad. If you win a doubles trip you can't play teams. How stupid is that rule? Ohh wait, trying to get more people eligible to go right? It's a competition send the best players, if not people will continue to look at APA as the worst league. Good players won't touch APA for the most part.

So yes he may not be as bad as Carol, but I'm not impressed at all. If I wasn't about to go home this post probably would have been 6 words long to symbolize how little I actually care, but I felt like letting off a small pellette.

Oh and the Reason I specifically type Randy Jones is so Randy Hanson doesn't think it's him and ban me from Big Dogs.
 
Spimp, can't wait to see your cue and your improved ability when I get back there again which should be sometime around halloween or slightly before.

J, PM coming your way in a bit.

Yeah Frost. before you ask, we can match up. It'll be fun just for action :thumbup:

And if the Blackhawks sweep the Stanley Cup i'll be +4k woohoo, won't happen but I'm a dreamer but once the Blackhawks win, I'll still be +$750.

I miss you guys lol....I am such a putz.

LOL that was hilarious. I'm gonna definitely win a minimum of $70.01 when you get your tail back here. I maintain you still can't win on a Diamond of any size at any game including straight pool chump ;)

Miss ya kid get home safely! Don't pull no Hurt Locker shit out there and go on a solo mission.
 
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