When is it ok to "quit winner"?

[mullyman]

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?".

God, those are the worst ones. I hate people that get all butt hurt when you knock them out of a tournament or beat them in the finals then they start up with the "Put your money on the line" crap.

I was visiting the States one time, going home for a visit, and I went to a local house tournament. That night they were playing 8-ball, a game I hadn't played in more than 10 years easily, but I thought it would be fun. It was just a local house tournament. Well, I'm not saying I stepped up and shot lights out, I'm king of the hill yada yada, but I shot pretty good that night, got the good side of some bad rolls on my opponents part, and ended up in the finals. Oh, I forgot to mention that they were really short matches like best of 3 or something like that. Those short matches, anything could happen. Anyway, I end up in the finals against one of the local "pros". Now, this guy was someone that I had known about for a long time but had never really met him. When we went in that night my friend introduced us, told him I was visiting from Japan etc... and we sat there and talked for a few minutes. He was as nice as could be. So, the final match starts and again, I got the good end of some rolls and wasn't shooting too bad and I ended up beating him for the cash prize. He wasn't having any of that. He threw a fit right there and started talking crap like I shouldn't have won, he got bad rolls, then he turns to me and starts in on the "put that cash prize up and we'll see who comes out on top". My reply to him was this "Yeah....sorry, that ain't gonna happen. I know who you are and I know what you can do. This cash stays with me." I then broke down my cue and sat off to the side until everyone was ready to go. Sad thing is that this guy lost all respect I ever had for him. I doubt he cared though.
MULLY

This has absolutely nothing to do with the original question at hand.

 

[Geometry]

I played a buddy of mine last week, and after 2 sets, he quit winner on me. I wasn't playing that bad, he was leading by only a small margin. He had no excuse as to why he quit, just seemed like he won, and wanted to leave without letting me give him a good match and win my money back.

This has happened before, and I gave a few guys some serious flak about it. When I am in the lead, I always give my opponent the chance to either even up the sets, or win back his money. I believe this is an "unwritten rule", but how many of you follow this?

When gambling, the duration should be defined before playing. If you don't define and your opponent quits at any point, that's his prerogative. He's under no obligation to keep playing.

Let's look at it from the other guy's perspective. He's beaten you two sets in a row now and he decides to quit. You start acting like a ***** and arguing with the guy. Now he thinks to himself what would happen if he won for another 2 sets. Perhaps you would get so angry that you would start a fight.

The fact is, you shouldn't be gambling because you are not mature enough to handle the emotions.

 

[Bigjohn]

If dude has a pocket full of your cash... It's probly good that he leaves before you lose the farm. Besides, If dude has a pocket full of your cash and wants to leave...whatcha gonna do about it... call the cops.