What happened to gambling during tourneys?

[gregcantrall]

Somehow funny that players who dont like to gamble are called out as nits......

Ever heard about respect for someones personal Opinion?

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I have always had the utmost respect for pool players that do not gamble. I do not respect a player that tells me no thanks they do not gamble if I ask to play for a beer and then an hour later are playing my wife for $10 a game. In that instance I have said to them "Oh I see you don't gamble but you will steal!"

 

[Diamond69]

In my experience when I ask someone I don't know to play for cash they think I am a shark or something. Even if I offer low sets they think I am setting them up. I usually play in bars though and not a pool hall.

There are sets to be played while waiting for matches, but as mentioned by others, everyone wants the nuts. I'm just speaking about putting $10 or $20 on the actual match in the tourney.

 

[Diamond69]

A question for you guys who like to side bet on your matches in tourneys. Do you ask before every single match you play? Do you ask people of comparable skill or anybody you draw?

When I was asking, I was a $10 calcutta player asking guys who went for higher. I only asked a few times before I got uncomfortable asking because it wasn't just a "no thanks" response. It was more a "where are you from" response.

I look at tourneys as a day out for fun. I expect to spend $ with an outside shot at making some in the tourney. So if I go 2 and out, I lost my entry fee, calcutta fee, $20 bucks on 2 matches, food and drink. The extra lost on the gambling wouldn't make a difference. If I were fortunate to win a few of those matches, it'd pay for my entry fee.

 

[tablerunna]

Times have changed, and if you look around it's not because people are getting smarter. People have become way over sensitive about everything. The younger generation (20-30 years old) seem to be a little more spoiled and have a feeling of entitlement(I think it's caused by a lack of discipline and the art of teaching children respect is long lost). People it is OK to just say no and walk away. Life is only as hard as you make, relax and enjoy it.

 

[leto1776]

When I was asking, I was a $10 calcutta player asking guys who went for higher. I only asked a few times before I got uncomfortable asking because it wasn't just a "no thanks" response. It was more a "where are you from" response.

I look at tourneys as a day out for fun. I expect to spend $ with an outside shot at making some in the tourney. So if I go 2 and out, I lost my entry fee, calcutta fee, $20 bucks on 2 matches, food and drink. The extra lost on the gambling wouldn't make a difference. If I were fortunate to win a few of those matches, it'd pay for my entry fee.

Ok,as someone new to tournaments, what is the difference? Or maybe I should just ask,what is a calcutta, in pool terms?

 

[krupa]

Ok,as someone new to tournaments, what is the difference? Or maybe I should just ask,what is a calcutta, in pool terms?

A calcutta is a player auction. People bid on each player and that money goes into a pot that pays out based on how the people place in the tourney. People expected to win go for a lot of money. At the only tournament I played in with a calcutta, the strong players went for 100+ dollars while I bought myself for 5 (hey, lightening strikes every now and then, right?)

http://www.billiardcoach.com/home/2011/01/25/thirty-one-tips-25-understand-a-calcutta

 

[FreeShot]

What I hate are the poser high-rollers.

I played in a handicapped 9-ball tournament and after beating this guy, he gives me the whole "let me know when you want to play for a thousand" crap. I ignore him, but as it turns out we end up playing each other in the finals. He asks if I want to side bet a hundred. I agree, then watch him go over to someone and try to borrow a hundred. That guy wouldn't loan it to him so he went looking for someone else. Earlier he was going off about playing for a thousand and here he was trying to scounge up a hundred bucks.

I'll gamble, though I'm not a big bettor and I've had situations like that happen often. At a bar tournament once, I ask a guy if he wants to play some cheap. He goes on about, "No, I'll play you some 500 sets though. I don't play cheap." I didn't know the guy so I went and asked one of my buddies who stakes pool players if he knew the guy. He said that he did, that the guy wasn't that good, and that he would back me if I wanted to play. So I go back to the guy and say I'll play him, of course now he doesn't want to play.

 

[Lonestar_jim]

Grrr

What I hate are the poser high-rollers.

At a bar tournament once, I ask a guy if he wants to play some cheap. He goes on about, "No, I'll play you some 500 sets though. I don't play cheap." I didn't know the guy so I went and asked one of my buddies who stakes pool players if he knew the guy. He said that he did, that the guy wasn't that good, and that he would back me if I wanted to play. So I go back to the guy and say I'll play him, of course now he doesn't want to play.

Irritating at best. Some people just like to hear themselves chatter.