When is it ok to "quit winner"?

Neil said:
Wait till you've been around awhile. You will learn that you CAN make some great comebacks and win, and feel like superman doing so. You will also learn that the majority of the time you are losing, you are going to lose.
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There's nothing wrong with losing. There is something wrong with losing in the situation the OP described. Way wrong.

You're offering advice to the OP and others about losing but that isn't even what this thread is about. It's about dipshit behavior.
 
BluesTele said:
When is it ok to "quit winner"?

Unless it's mutually pre-determined,

whether winning or losing - you can quit anytime !!
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Thanks for the advice about quitting winner. Now how about some advice about how to get anyone to play with you when you behave like a dipshit?

If I was the OP I would never play with that dipshit again even for funsies but I would go out of my way to remind him and everyone else of his behavior.
 
Neil said:
You go play anyway you want to. But, you sure make the definition of a sore loser.
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Yeah, I know. I'm a loser and you're a winner because you believe in running out on a game when you're up the first two sets. What would you do- brag about it to people outside the pool room? Because it wouldn't fly very well at the scene of the con. Maybe you don't know that.
 
Someone wins

When I gamble, it is always an odd number of sets. Something 3 sets of race to 7. Pay up at the end of the last set. If you want to gamble some more, then do the same.

If your opponent leaves winner before the last set, then NEVER gamble with him again. The man has no character.
 
I don't think anyone saying either side is free to quit at any point intends to infer that doing so may not be without consequecne
 
I agree with Drew for the most part. I think three hours notice to quit is extreme unless you've been playing for several hours and are way up. If you've only been playing a couple hours, one hour notice is plenty IMO.

In the scenario described by the OP, if you call me to the pool hall and I drive 35 miles to play and then you quit me after two sets(45 min) you'd better run. If we're both at the pool hall and you ask me to play and then quit after 45 minutes I wouldn't want to kill you, but I probably wouldn't play you again unless you had a very good reason or emergency for quitting. I'd also let everyone in the pool hall know the nit move you pulled and you're not worth messing with.
 
BKB said:
Thank you for the correction. English is my third language, and I am constantly trying very hard to improve it, rather than "inconviencing law abiding folks" here with my grammatical errors, like that sheriff... :grin-square:
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No problem....Hope I helped. :rolleyes:
 
Neil said:
The only reason you think it's dipshit behavior is because you are focused on the loser end of it. I've played "friends" that I have lost 6 sets in a row to because I knew I had the best of it but was just playing bad. Then, the next time we played, I win the first set and he quits. Next time same thing. 3 more times same thing. He wouldn't play me anymore after that. I was stuck on set over a period of time.

Did I like it? NO. But, I don't hold anything against him for it. It's my fault for losing 6 sets in the first place! Now, granted, in this case the loser quit. But, did I ever get a fair chance to win my money back in your eyes? I'm sure you would call him a nit. I don't.

What you and others fail to understand is that the OP's opponent stood by the bet. The bet was for ONE SET. The opponent won, and he DID play another set. Which was a totally separate bet, which he also won. You guys make it sound like the bet was not for a set, but for as many sets as you want to play. That's what is ridiculous.

If it takes you a while to warmup and get your head in a match, then don't play short sets! Make the set to 20 or 30 games! And, quit crying when you lose!
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Who's crying?

Let me ask you something. If you go sit at a cash game, win one big hand, and cash out, what do you think the other players are going to do? Better question: would you pull this move in a seedy card room?
 
Drew said:
Who's crying?

Let me ask you something. If you go sit at a cash game, win one big hand, and cash out, what do you think the other players are going to do? Better question: would you pull this move in a seedy card room?
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We can all find scenarios that make us seem 'right'.

Let me ask you something. What do you think would happen if you played cards for money at the ATF office?
 
Black-Balled said:
We can all find scenarios that make us seem 'right'.

Let me ask you something. What do you think would happen if you played cards for money at the ATF office?
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No you can't. Because there is no situation which makes quitting winner look good.

Play cards at the ATF office? What does that have to do with anything?
 
Drew said:
Who's crying?

Let me ask you something. If you go sit at a cash game, win one big hand, and cash out, what do you think the other players are going to do? Better question: would you pull this move in a seedy card room?
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Play cards at the ATF office? What does that have to do with anything?
 
I quit winner on a guy last night. We were both in the loser's bracket of a weekly tournament, and I knocked him out. He responded with the typical tough guy remark, "You wanna play some?".

I told him that I would see how the tournament went, and that I might not have much time since I rode with a friend. I lost my next round and he asked to play a race to 3 for $20. I agreed since my friend was still alive in the tourney. We played one set, which I won fairly easily, and by the time we were done, my friend was out and ready to leave.

I told my opponent that I would be happy to play some more tomorrow night but I had to go.

He seemed pretty pissed, but what was I supposed to do? Walk home to avoid being a nit?
 
the420trooper said:
I quit winner on a guy last night. We were both in the loser's bracket of a weekly tournament, and I knocked him out. He responded with the typical tough guy remark, "You wanna play some?".

I told him that I would see how the tournament went, and that I might not have much time since I rode with a friend. I lost my next round and he asked to play a race to 3 for $20. I agreed since my friend was still alive in the tourney. We played one set, which I won fairly easily, and by the time we were done, my friend was out and ready to leave.

I told my opponent that I would be happy to play some more tomorrow night but I had to go.

He seemed pretty pissed, but what was I supposed to do? Walk home to avoid being a nit?
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In your case, you were right in quitting, so long as he knew that you had to leave
 
the420trooper said:
I quit winner on a guy last night. We were both in the loser's bracket of a weekly tournament, and I knocked him out. He responded with the typical tough guy remark, "You wanna play some?".

I told him that I would see how the tournament went, and that I might not have much time since I rode with a friend. I lost my next round and he asked to play a race to 3 for $20. I agreed since my friend was still alive in the tourney. We played one set, which I won fairly easily, and by the time we were done, my friend was out and ready to leave.

I told my opponent that I would be happy to play some more tomorrow night but I had to go.

He seemed pretty pissed, but what was I supposed to do? Walk home to avoid being a nit?
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You didn't quit winner. You had time for one set. He knew that.
 
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