Marvin Yakos
- Thread starter jgpool
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OMG hes the greatest player ever!!!! NO
Isn't he the russian comedian in Branson,Mo?
He could be, that's why I asked. :grin:
Joe, I remember him...found a video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pEApsuaa1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pEApsuaa1o
Never heard of the guy.
Someone with that name won an amateur tournament at the Eagles Lodge in E. Helena, Montana in 2002.
p. 19: https://issuu.com/thebreak/docs/ebreak2-02
I met Marvin today and he said he was from Racine Wisconsin and also lived in Montana for many years. He said he was on the pro tour for a short time. He is just getting back into the game after an 18 year layoff.
I have never heard of him either, but it brings to mind a story a good player named Bill Mielke told me.
He said it was when he was playing really good, and he was travelling with a young guy, he thought he would have a real tough game with, giving him the 8 ball.
They heard about an old guy in a retirement home, that liked to bet it up playing 9 ball .
They go over, and the young guy starts playing the old man.
The old guy plays like superman running out from everywhere and beats the kid out of 240 or something like that at 30 a game.
Then the old man says, this games too easy, let's play some straight pool. lol
I wonder who that guy was!
By the way, Bill was from Milwaukee I think, the guy should probably know him.
Could have been someone like Babyface or Al Miller, two very good players from that area who were a lot older than Bill.
Jay....maybe you heard of this guy.
A truck driver in Davenport IA told me about an old guy ( this was late 70s).who played
like Mosconi in Rapid City SD......he would only play nine ball for fifty cents a game....
...the truck driver, who played short stop speed, said he would lose ten or twenty to him
every time he went through ....cheapest lessons he ever got.
I wonder if Shane ever heard of him....long before his time.
Shane's grandpa! The old man was a helluva player. He's like 90 now. Would have been in his 50's then.
Wow..........
