You had to be there to believe the stories
I played millions of dollors worth of pool at the rack, I didn' stutter, millions. I personally witnessed at least 50 million dollors of pool that was played at The Rack formerly known as Capitol Billiards. The Rack was a reason to get out of bed and not fall asleep, never,you just didn't want to miss any of the action. I played $10,000 & $20,000 a game MANY times, there were nits playing $1,000 a game regularly. Forget about it, there will never, never be another pool room close to The Rack. In retrospect as I look back The Rack was unparalleled, unsurpassed, matchless, beyond compare, it was actually beyond belief period..
This just wasn't a short lived action room, The Rack went on like this for years, it was like dying and waking up in heaven. There were at least 10 huge gamblers that came into The Rack daily.
Pittsburgh John ran $500 into over $300,000 in less than two weeks. He beat Jew Paul Brusloff out of most of the money. The first time he staked me to play Jew Paul I beat him for $50,000 playing one pocket on the snooker table, playing him 8/7. Jew Paul trapped himself with that game. About 6 months prior to me beating him I played him for my own money (cheap) $500 a game, he beat me for $2,000 and bragged about how inexperienced I was and how bad of a game I had. Matter of fact he use to take me to breakfast and tell me that he liked me and why I couldn't beat him, I played his game with him and pretended that I was in awe of him and agreed. Six months later he weighed $50,000.
There were better men than Jew Paul that came into The Rack, men like Jones, big black D---e dealer, he played for $10,000 a game and up.He loved to stake players, particularly black players, Marvin Henderson, Kenny Romberg, Cecil Tugwell, Country, but Country had his own money and bet it himself. Country was one of the smartest pool players ever in life,he never lost for big money,we never played. (I wonder why) Country played Jew Paul one evening and won $500,000. Everyone in the pool room was betting on Country. Jew Paul badly wanted to beat Country,( ego thing)but it never happened. It took Paul several weeks to pay the money,I think most of it got payed. After that session Jew Paul took off a lot of time but was back in action about a month later,just like nothing ever happened.
Al Sherman was another great man ( ask Freddy) smartest conn man on earth,huge money earner in everything but pool. He played worse than anyone that I have ever seen that played for $1,000's, $1,000's he played for 10 and 20 thousand a game. Another guy who would lose two or three hundred thousand on a bad day. Al loved to play one pocket but didn't know the game well,so he would hire a coach and gamble high, he loved to shoot at his pocket, but his coach at the time was Paul Jones, Paul wouldn't let Al shoot at his pocket, but Al was stuck a lot of money and wanted to shoot at his pocket so he fired him in the middle of the game so he could shoot at his pocket. True story.
There are 100's of stories about The Rack, but you really had to be there to believe them.
I played millions of dollors worth of pool at the rack, I didn' stutter, millions. I personally witnessed at least 50 million dollors of pool that was played at The Rack formerly known as Capitol Billiards. The Rack was a reason to get out of bed and not fall asleep, never,you just didn't want to miss any of the action. I played $10,000 & $20,000 a game MANY times, there were nits playing $1,000 a game regularly. Forget about it, there will never, never be another pool room close to The Rack. In retrospect as I look back The Rack was unparalleled, unsurpassed, matchless, beyond compare, it was actually beyond belief period..
This just wasn't a short lived action room, The Rack went on like this for years, it was like dying and waking up in heaven. There were at least 10 huge gamblers that came into The Rack daily.
Pittsburgh John ran $500 into over $300,000 in less than two weeks. He beat Jew Paul Brusloff out of most of the money. The first time he staked me to play Jew Paul I beat him for $50,000 playing one pocket on the snooker table, playing him 8/7. Jew Paul trapped himself with that game. About 6 months prior to me beating him I played him for my own money (cheap) $500 a game, he beat me for $2,000 and bragged about how inexperienced I was and how bad of a game I had. Matter of fact he use to take me to breakfast and tell me that he liked me and why I couldn't beat him, I played his game with him and pretended that I was in awe of him and agreed. Six months later he weighed $50,000.
There were better men than Jew Paul that came into The Rack, men like Jones, big black D---e dealer, he played for $10,000 a game and up.He loved to stake players, particularly black players, Marvin Henderson, Kenny Romberg, Cecil Tugwell, Country, but Country had his own money and bet it himself. Country was one of the smartest pool players ever in life,he never lost for big money,we never played. (I wonder why) Country played Jew Paul one evening and won $500,000. Everyone in the pool room was betting on Country. Jew Paul badly wanted to beat Country,( ego thing)but it never happened. It took Paul several weeks to pay the money,I think most of it got payed. After that session Jew Paul took off a lot of time but was back in action about a month later,just like nothing ever happened.
Al Sherman was another great man ( ask Freddy) smartest conn man on earth,huge money earner in everything but pool. He played worse than anyone that I have ever seen that played for $1,000's, $1,000's he played for 10 and 20 thousand a game. Another guy who would lose two or three hundred thousand on a bad day. Al loved to play one pocket but didn't know the game well,so he would hire a coach and gamble high, he loved to shoot at his pocket, but his coach at the time was Paul Jones, Paul wouldn't let Al shoot at his pocket, but Al was stuck a lot of money and wanted to shoot at his pocket so he fired him in the middle of the game so he could shoot at his pocket. True story.
There are 100's of stories about The Rack, but you really had to be there to believe them.
