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Posted By: Mike Main In Response To: Definitions (Bob Koca)
Date: Thursday, 30 September 2010, at 11:30 p.m.
Are there any who keep an equitous eye open for whom has made himself available?
Bob, how could you even consider a backgammon player would do such a thing?!Stop-pots are, on the face of it, a highly efficient method of keeping players as “backgammon active” as possible.
By contrast if 8 or 16 player Jackpots are offered it is too often the case that players will reply “let me know when you have 7 others and I’ll be your 8th / 15 others and I’ll be your 16th.” Just to make the Side Action T.Ds job even easier (?!?) they will often add “Come and find me when you have them.” Yer right, sure I’ll leave my desk when I’ve at last mustered all the others only to return to find they too have wandered off though they might have paid but I now need them to re-find them to get playing. Players do have a responsibility in making an event work too.
Stop-pots – 2 players ready, pay up, pair up, off you go to play.
However players can (and some do) bend the ethos of stop-pots. An often asked question before a player pays is “Who will I be playing if I join?” This to my thinking is an unethical question. You go along to an event, you put yourself in the frame to play, you play whoever. You do not pick and choose your opponent. My standard response to this question is “A backgammon player.”
Some players will at this stage wander off. So be it; I’m not so desperate for the rake that I’m going to tell him/her if s/he’ll play Mochy or a rookie. Sometimes this shark will try to hang around the Side Action T.D. desk waiting until a rookie signs up and then, yup, s/he is now ready to play and whips out the entry fee quick and sharp. Na, na, na. That’s cheating too. Hanging around the Side Action T.D. desk is not allowed. Do so and I'll fine you a Side Action event entry fee and put you into a draw at a time of my choosing.
So yes, The Side Action T.D. has to be pretty savvy to the ways of some players and not allow them to… let themselves disgrace themselves.
Personally I generally prefer to offer 4 player Mini-Jackpots or 8 player Jackpots. This on the basis that players seem to prefer the kudos if playing in a little Side Action event over what is essentially a head to head and if there is a reasonable population of players it’s not that hard to gather together 4 otherwise in-active players. The potential for sharking does remain, but is lessened.
Putting all Side Action on clocks is an excellent method of keeping things moving along nicely thank you.
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