Tournament: House 8-ball at The Pool Room

Posted On Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 By David Veatch

I played in my first Sunday afternoon tournament in weeks today. Since I no longer feel like I NEED the money from tournaments when I enter, I thought I would be able to play with a clearer head. Not so much. Well… sort of, but sort of not also. Jesse, the manager listened to our local cuemaker, Chris Klindt about the current handicap system being… lacking somewhat. Used to be that whoever was running the tournament would just take the players and guess at their handicap. You can see how that could cause problems. The person in charge was never dishonest, but leaving something like that up to opinion, even well-meaning opinion is just asking for trouble. So they’ve adopted the something along the lines of the NPL handicap system. I’m not sure about the details, and I know it’s different than what’s behind that link, but after playing today, I like it. I didn’t do too badly today. There were two notable matches (in the absolutely huge pot of 6 whole players). The first was against a guy named Brian, who I pretty much tromped 5-0. He’s one of those guys I’ve been afraid of for months, so beating more »

Dave’s Good Stuff – A New Session

Posted On Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 By David Veatch

Dave’s Good Stuff (the name of this website as well as my in-house BCA-style 8-ball team) is starting a new session in two weeks with the same line-up that won us 4th place last session. Last night was signup, which meant free pool and free beer (for you freaks that like that piss) all night in the back room. It’ll be a bigger session too. Nine teams last session has turned into 12 this time around. 4th place out of only 9 teams may not seem like much, and maybe it isn’t, but for a team consisting of one obsessive, two beginners, and one part-timer, we didn’t do too bad. Somehow, I’m not sure how, we beat out arguably better players. Not that I’m complaining. Anyway, about last night… While I didn’t have so much of the beer, I *did* have so much of the pool. Craig and I started around 6:15pm, pausing only briefly for the actual signup part of the signup night. He took off around 12:30am or so, which I was going to do, before I was distracted by a friend of mine who roped me into a few more games, which meant I was there for more »