Rod Curry "Surfer Rod"

catpool9 said:

I accidently ran across Rod Curry's web site, he was a Champion 8-ball player and roadman in his day, I'm sure all you old schoolers know about him, for a very long indepth, and execellent read about him click here:

http://konnections.net/rodcurry/index.htm


When you get there click on ( Pool Players Rod has beaten, detailed version )



David Harcrow

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jay helfert said:

The old surfer shows up again! This guy has been around forever! First time I ever saw him was in 1966 in Dayton. I was hanging out at a teeny bopper poolroom on Salem Ave. where some rich kids hung out. I would get games for one and two dollars, and maybe make a ten or twenty dollar score once in a while. Doesn't seem like that long ago, I can remember it all so well. Probably the first poolroom where I was king of the walk.

In comes this guy, all buggy eyed and wild looking. He wants to play anyone in the house so they come get me. I play him some $2 9-Ball and lose $10 and quit. He is obviously better than me. He offers me the eight but I decline. I talk to him a little and he doesn't say to much but I find out his name is Rod. He wants to know where the action is, so I tell him what I can. Later that day I hear he is at Winks gambling and then he goes to some bar to play a guy called Sarge, one of the better bar table players around Dayton. I drive over to the bar later that night and the game is over, Rod beat Sarge quick.

I remember his old '50 Chevy and the big muscles rippling under his T-shirt. Funny the things you remember years later. Interesting to read about all the guys he beat on a bar table. What he isn't talking about is all the guys who robbed him on a big table. Surfer Rod was one of the big scores of the '70's and '80s. A lot of good players relieved him of some serious money. And I mean SERIOUS! He lost a few nice chunks in the '90's too. I guess he wants to remember his wins. Most players do. Overall he has to be a HUGE loser playing pool. Don't believe everything on his website. Sorry Rod, there are a few people, like me, who know all about you. Big muscles, small brains (at least at pool). And he was supposed to have some cush job for the government with big pay.

Oh well, everyone wants to rewrite history to make themselves look better. I may have won more pool games for cash in the 60's and early 70's than anyone else alive, but I wasn't playing "name" players. I deliberately avoided them. I wanted the money, not the glory.

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jay helfert said:

The old surfer shows up again! This guy has been around forever! First time I ever saw him was in 1966 in Dayton. I was hanging out at a teeny bopper poolroom on Salem Ave. where some rich kids hung out. I would get games for one and two dollars, and maybe make a ten or twenty dollar score once in a while. Doesn't seem like that long ago, I can remember it all so well. Probably the first poolroom where I was king of the walk.

In comes this guy, all buggy eyed and wild looking. He wants to play anyone in the house so they come get me. I play him some $2 9-Ball and lose $10 and quit. He is obviously better than me. He offers me the eight but I decline. I talk to him a little and he doesn't say to much but I find out his name is Rod. He wants to know where the action is, so I tell him what I can. Later that day I hear he is at Winks gambling and then he goes to some bar to play a guy called Sarge, one of the better bar table players around Dayton. I drive over to the bar later that night and the game is over, Rod beat Sarge quick.

I remember his old '50 Chevy and the big muscles rippling under his T-shirt. Funny the things you remember years later. Interesting to read about all the guys he beat on a bar table. What he isn't talking about is all the guys who robbed him on a big table. Surfer Rod was one of the big scores of the '70's and '80s. A lot of good players relieved him of some serious money. And I mean SERIOUS! He lost a few nice chunks in the '90's too. I guess he wants to remember his wins. Most players do. Overall he has to be a HUGE loser playing pool. Don't believe everything on his website. Sorry Rod, there are a few people, like me, who know all about you. Big muscles, small brains (at least at pool). And he was supposed to have some cush job for the government with big pay.

Oh well, everyone wants to rewrite history to make themselves look better. I may have won more pool games for cash in the 60's and early 70's than anyone else alive, but I wasn't playing "name" players. I deliberately avoided them. I wanted the money, not the glory.

P.S. Rod showed up everywhere! He got around all over the country, wherever he could find action. He'd get pumped up on the suckers and then take on a player and blow it all. He must have done that a hundred times.

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Scott Lee said:

Say what you will Jay, but at least he got out and gambled high! Rod played better on a barbox, with an oversize CB, than most anybody. He did lose a lot playing on big tables, but was never short on heart, and played for a ton of cash many times. Win or lose, he was an action hound to the end, and I never ever heard of him dumping or acting like some of the prima donna players I've seen over the years.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

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macneilb said:

I don't think Jay is knocking Rod, just his lack of modesty on a certain level. I don't doubt he was a monster player, but even I don't like when people, even champions, only portray their wins. Be humble and give the whole story, wins AND losses. After reading that, I personally don't think of him as less of a champion for knowing he got beat on the big tables, but I don't dig his lack of modesty in making it seem like he was "it."

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jay helfert said:

No question Rod would bet it up! That's why he got all the games he did. And on a bar table it took a champion to beat him, especially with the big ball. His other strong game was last pocket Eight Ball, on any table. Rod did book a lot of winners, no doubt, and against some good players. All I was saying is that he also lost some monster scores, and everyone knew about them as well. Bottom line, he took a lot bigger losses than his wins.

Nothing against Rod, he's a lot better player than me (I would've played him Banks on the big table, all day and all night) and a much bigger gambler as well. But truth be known, the top guys went looking for him. When he lost, they needed buckets to cart the money away . Rod over matched himself a lot of times. That was a known fact. Every time he took a big hit, the word went around the entire pool community, and this was way before the internet. :wink:

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jay helfert said:

The old surfer shows up again! This guy has been around forever! First time I ever saw him was in 1966 in Dayton. I was hanging out at a teeny bopper poolroom on Salem Ave. where some rich kids hung out. I would get games for one and two dollars, and maybe make a ten or twenty dollar score once in a while. Doesn't seem like that long ago, I can remember it all so well. Probably the first poolroom where I was king of the walk.

In comes this guy, all buggy eyed and wild looking. He wants to play anyone in the house so they come get me. I play him some $2 9-Ball and lose $10 and quit. He is obviously better than me. He offers me the eight but I decline. I talk to him a little and he doesn't say to much but I find out his name is Rod. He wants to know where the action is, so I tell him what I can. Later that day I hear he is at Winks gambling and then he goes to some bar to play a guy called Sarge, one of the better bar table players around Dayton. I drive over to the bar later that night and the game is over, Rod beat Sarge quick.

I remember his old '50 Chevy and the big muscles rippling under his T-shirt. Funny the things you remember years later. Interesting to read about all the guys he beat on a bar table. What he isn't talking about is all the guys who robbed him on a big table. Surfer Rod was one of the big scores of the '70's and '80s. A lot of good players relieved him of some serious money. And I mean SERIOUS! He lost a few nice chunks in the '90's too. I guess he wants to remember his wins. Most players do. Overall he has to be a HUGE loser playing pool. Don't believe everything on his website. Sorry Rod, there are a few people, like me, who know all about you. Big muscles, small brains (at least at pool). And he was supposed to have some cush job for the government with big pay.

Oh well, everyone wants to rewrite history to make themselves look better. I may have won more pool games for cash in the 60's and early 70's than anyone else alive, but I wasn't playing "name" players. I deliberately avoided them. I wanted the money, not the glory.

P.S. Rod showed up everywhere! He got around all over the country, wherever he could find action. He'd get pumped up on the suckers and then take on a player and blow it all. He must have done that a hundred times.

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