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 »