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...winner is ChemConnect of San Francisco, which has become "close to the NASDAQ of chemicals," says Stanford economics professor Bob Hall, author of Digital Dealing. ChemConnect has offices in seven countries and offers to bring together buyers and sellers worldwide. But rather than try to hook the computers of all participants into one online catalog, it started with a simple electronic bulletin board where buyers and sellers could post what they had or were seeking. From there the company worked up to more sophisticated auctions...
...from potential buyers and haggled over prices for hours. "I was getting cauliflower ear," she says. Now she simply tells the buyers when to log on to the website for an auction. Within 15 minutes, it's all over, with an e-mail message going out automatically to the winner. But when supplies of polyethylene are scarce, Mitchell stops doing auctions and doles it out to select buyers with whom the company has long-term relationships. It's one way she has kept favored customers from stalking off when asked to participate in auctions...
...time hustler who thought he could ride a few bar room triumphs to success on the pro billiards circuit. Maybe he was Mexican, or Filipino?he didn't say and no one asked. This was the 1985 Red's 9-Ball Open in Houston, Texas, $10,500 to the winner, where billiards' best came to win, not make friends...
...Billiards Digest's Player of the Year. In 1997, he survived a three-day, $100,000 race to 120 in Hong Kong?billed "The Color of Money I"?against top American Earl Strickland, winning 120-117 and collecting $75,000 (less a $10,000 winner-to-loser payment he and Strickland agreed to before the match). A year earlier in Reno, Nevada, again facing Strickland, he had produced one of the most memorable shots on record. "Earl left him on the end rail totally tied up behind the nine ball," recalls Helfert, the tournament director. "It looked like there...
...There's a distinct Filipino style of billiards, says Helfert, "flowery," with a lot of movement in the backswing. More crucially, observes Billiards Digest editor Kirstin Pires: "The Filipinos are great gamblers. They always play their best when there is winner-take-all money." In tournaments, consolation money is still a payday. But when $10,000 or $20,000 is on the table, and only one man can take it home?that's why it's gambling?they find that additional motivation provides a little extra focus...