more . It seems like every tournament you play in , you leave with a few more friends . The next time you see them they are old friends . There are so many great people , and a very few not so great ones that you learn how to either avoid or ignore ( both laughing ). When I got into the game , Roger Carter was not only an amazing dart player , but a class act . Now he and his wife are running Papa T ’ s in Montgomery , Alabama . Pacer : Oh wow , I bet that will be one hell of a dart bar . Trint : I think it could be a monster . It ’ s a big place and Roger knows the game and the players as well as anyone . He has eight or nine Arachnid electronic boards , and six or seven steel boards . I think the sky is the limit ! The bad part is that it means starting next week I will be traveling 90 miles each way to Montgomery on Thursday night to play league , but it will be worth it ! Pacer : Driving 180 miles to play in a dart league , you ’ ve got to love playing the game to do that . Speaking of playing the game , you had yourself quite a weekend at the Tennessee Regional recently . Trint : Yeah , they were flying pretty good . I made the finals in four events and won three of them . It ’ s really great to have a weekend like that . But I didn ’ t get a chance to compete in the Pro Singles , because the guy I partnered up with over the weekend lost his father on Sunday morning . We had to figure a way to get him home as soon as possible . Later that day I shot the Mixed with Beth , and I think we did great considering the circumstances . Pacer : Trint , you not only got started playing at a young age , you also got an early start on the business side of the game . Trint : After high school , I went to work for Jim Boan at Atlanta Darts . It gave me the opportunity to do a lot of travelling and to literally meet thousands of dart players . Sometimes I would combine business and pleasure and get to do a little competing as well . One year about 2003 or so , Atlanta Darts worked the BullShooter and I took a top four in the Top Gun . I did well in some of the other competitions years ago and all and all it has been a heck of a ride . I hope it ’ s not over . Except when I took a break for a few years to go to school and get a real job , darts has been a part of my life and I have done my share of winning , met my wife , made a ton of friends , what else can I say ? Pacer : That really does about say it all . I would like to say something to Cosmo Darts and Dart Thugz who sponsor Trint . If I were you , I would be just as proud of the fact that Trint felt that helping a friend cope with a family tragedy was more important than competing in the Pro Singles event at the Tennessee Regional , as of the three championships he won over the weekend . It should feel good to know that you are sponsoring someone with both skill and character !
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