Thanks Dennis to you and Jimmy both along with all the great people at Kolbys.It was a great event and I look forward to helping you guys out and doing more streams for your tour which is put together very nicely.Thanks to the players who played in the event and to Scott and Bernie who played very good over the 2 day event in a solid field.Prince said:
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Roger Long said:
Prince said:I have the best one. He was playing in a big tourney here in Arizona, when he missed a key shot that was going to cost him the match. He stopped, looked around for a second, and then proceeded to start smashing his cue into the floor.
After about 6 or 8 good bashings, broken wood chunks flying around the room and players/spectators dodging debris, someone stopped him. It was quite a strange moment for the pool community. Not sure what kind of cue it was, but it wasn't a cue anymore.
BTW, no one was injured in the bashing of his cue.
Dennis
Roger Long said:...... When I returned a few nights later to play my second tournament (9-ball), I learned that the room owner had curiously assigned me a permanent rating that I considered to be much too low.Then I found out the real reason I had been given that generously low rating...the room owner bought me in that Calcutta!
Well, I felt it was my civic duty to try and make an honest man out of that owner, so I dumped that tournament and vowed that I would never play in his place again (and I never did).:thumbup: Later, I petitioned the ratings committee to bump me up a couple of notches (where I actually thought I belonged), but that request was refused because the chairman of the committee at that time happened to be that same room owner who rated me, and he didn't seem to be inclined to owning up to any wrong doing.:angry:......
Roger
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CocoboloCowboy said:Well JAM I would say don?t hold your breath as I have NO PLANS to be part of the DESERT CLASSIC, as I have said if I have no change of dipping into the GREEN I will pass. As I see zero reason to be a contributor of GREEN:idea2: I like playing in Handicapped Tournaments were the LESSER PLAYERS get a Handicap.
As Far as the NEW Avatar I believe I shall keep it for a while, or until I find something else I like better.
As far as 14/1 it is not my best game, and honestly the time I have played 14/1 or Straight Pool in the last 10 years can be counted on on both Hand, and Feet.
Maybe we can connivence FAST LENNY to start Live Streaming some of the Minor Tournaments in the Valley of the Sun, on the WEST SIDE of the Valley...:dance:
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You know Bruce I used to think you were just crazy for cocobolo cues. Now I think you are just flat out crazy!CocoboloCowboy said:
I would love to play this match with CooCooCowboy. I seriously doubt he will eve respond though. He doesn't have the heart.stuckart said:
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The biggest thing for me is having fun atleast,I havent been playing long enough to get to upset with myself or performance,would love to get to a 9 though one of these days. :smile:BRKNRUN said:
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), web reports, league reports, and anything else I could get my hands on that might tell me which players were still active in AZ, and what their current ratings might be. Where there was doubt on any rating, I referred to the last GPARC list I had in my possession and adopted that rating. When I had as many names as I could possibly put on the new list, I wound up with over 2,000. Now I know I might have missed a few hundred active players that are still on the GPARC committe's list, but I also have over 600 new and active players on my list that don't show up on their's. As far as accuracy goes, all ratings, mine or their's, are just someone else's opinions. I guess it boils down to, who's opinion do you want to use when having to make a decision where a rating matters? But it really doesn't matter to me which rating you want to go by. My rating service is a guide, a tool, that's all. It can be used freely by anyone at any time, or not used at all. It's everyone's choice for themselves. BTW, my website has so much more on it than just ratings. I'm hoping everyone will see the value of that content, rather than judging the site on its rating list.
Jon Smith is a tough guy to play,I one once against him and won then the 2nd time we played he drilled me.I stopped by Bullshooters the other day and really liked the place but they said no tournaments because the players dont spend enough money,me and my friend werent too happy hearing that,its a big room and could have a kick @ss tournament.I liked table 26 I believe there,its a great 1 hole table and super tight. :thumbup:Roger Long said:Sorry, Ray, I was away from this thread for a few days. I'll try to answer your questions now.
Q: "Is this why Pappy's won't use the Arizona ratings?"
A: Pappy's isn't using anything anymore. They quit holding tournaments altogether. I'm not there any longer, either. But while I was there I got tired of attending 2 to 3-hour GPARC meetings where the process of rating players seemed to be far less democratic and fair than I felt it should be. When I quit attending those meetings Pappy's still needed a way to take care of their regular players, so I started my own in-house rating list.
Q: "And is this the same event that prompted someone (you?) to engage law officials into the calcuttas that were going on during pool tournaments?"
A: No, I seriously doubt that anyone cared what my circumstances were at that time. And no, it was not I who dropped the dime on the calcuttas. I may not have approved of some of the things I saw going on, but it's not my style to snitch anybody off to the law.
Q: "Did you start the arizonabilliardsdirectory website? That would explain why the ratings on that website are incomplete and some of the ratings are inaccurate."
A: Yes, I did start the arizonabilliardsdirectory website. When I left Pappy's, I had over 500 rated players on my list. I was left wondering what I should do with that list. Should I just throw it away? Should I give it to one of the other pool rooms on the west side of town since that's where most of its players resided? And if so, which pool room should I give it to? So I finally decided to expand the list and make it public. I then researched 3 year's worth of back issues of AZ Billiards News and Table Talk (I save everything
Q: "BTW, what do you think your rating should be?"
A: That's a very good question, Ray. As I said before, ratings are just opinions. In the past, whenever someone would ask me what my rating is, I've told them I don't have one, and then asked them to give me their own opinion. Their answer was always the same, "Well, you're at least a 9." That's never told me a whole lot. Does "at least a 9" mean I am a 9, or does it mean I might be a 10? All I know for sure is, at Pappy's we would hold two open, non-handicapped tournaments a week, one 8-Ball and one 9-Ball. The only thing the ratings were used for was to determine how much you had to pay to get in. I rated myself a 10 so that I would have to pay $10. We had some fairly stiff competition there, but I usually came in first or second after I started playing regularly. I beat Charles Peten (rated 10) in the finals more times than he cares to remember. But after Jon Smith (rated 10-1) started showing up at every one of those tournaments, I became known as "Mr. 2nd." Still, I'm not that sure where any of that would fit me in. Now there is a new scoring system being tested in a Wed. night league at BullShooters that shows me playing at a high 9 level, but the guidelines for determining the different levels are not fully developed yet, so who knows?
Thanks for the interest, Ray. If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask.
Roger