Jimmy Reid
US Open 9 Ball Champion
Hi, this is Jimmy Reid and you've got players from my generation ranked higher than me?
Believe me if the money in pool had escalated as it did in golf I'd be pool's Arnold Palmer or Lee Trevino.
Some of my pocket billiard accomplishments include;
1974./ Southwestern Open 9 Ball Champion, spotting the entire field the call 8ball, the only time in history this has been done.
You see I was the last entry in the 128 man field, JoJo the owner gave me his spot.
Since I'd already been in every major city in every state in the continental US and before leaving town offered everybody the last 3 playing 9 ball and having booked no losers since 1968 the players started griping.
So I told JoJo that everyone I played could win making the 8 ball or 9 the only stipulation was that they had to call the 8 Ball. I won the tournament anyway. An historical first.
The next tournament I played in was;
1977./ World Convention 9 Ball Champion, 9 racks first inning in the finals. Cornbread Red talked me into going and was laughing his behind off, naturally he had a 20% free roll coming.
1979./ BCA National 8 Ball Champion over 4300 entries on regulation tables, I don't think Mark Wilson or I ever missed a ball in that final.
1980./ World Classic 8 Ball Champion, $25,000.00 1st.
1985./ US Open 9 Ball Champion (the single most prestigious tournament in the world) shooting the highest accustat match of the entire tournament in the finals.
1988./ King of The Ring, top 12 payers in the world invitational, Nick Varner 2nd.
1992, 1993./ Winner of 6 European Open 9 Ball Championships in West Germany and Back to Back winner of the West German Annual 8 Ball Championship.
1994 - 2004 Competed in some major events but the better part of those years I was the sole care provider for 2 disabled WWII veterans.
2005./ Won the last two tournaments I played in at the Derby City Classic, the largest 9 ball bar table mini and the one day 64 player one pocket tournament. Then hit with 4th stage cancer.
Winning tournaments under pressure for 41 years from 1964 to 2005.
Wikipedia; In 1994 at The Lexington All Star 9 Ball Championship, a group of my peers all of whom were certainly in the top 20 list of the best players in the world. Had voted me as to have been the best money player in the world for the previous ¼ of a century, from 1969 to 1994!
Of all things, this I am most proud. My lifetime dream from 1958 had come true.
Add to this the fact that normally I had no partners unless I was forced to have a backer I wanted all of the bet myself. Who else on your list can say that?
"Son I've seen everybody play from Ponzi to today and can't none of em carry your cue playing that nine ball" Luther Lassiter 1970.
1980./ At the top 16 players in the world invitational in AC, NJ Mosconi took me to dinner in china town after beating Petey Margo 11/2 in the televised event. Petey had broken Willie's balls per inning average.
When ranked no.1 Sigel played me 8 ahead for $4,000, unscrewed and has never thought about playing me again.
Buddy Hall beat me a couple of times only to have me beat him right back. Finally, Buddy stated man that's just too good. I can't beat you, but I would like to bet on you in case you find somebody crazy enough to play you.
Let me stop right here Buddy Hall is one of the most down to earth people that I've ever met, he's never too proud to tell the truth.
My feelings toward Buddy are that of a brother, the same goes for Keith, Cole Dickson, Mike Massey, Danny Christian, Danny Diliberto, Ed Kelly, Bob Ogburn and Scotty Townsend to name a few brothers.
Are Danny D and Ed Kelly in your list?
Ray Martin is a fantastic, great straight pool player. In 1979 after he beat Richie Florence for a sizeable amount while having dinner he turned me down giving him the last 3 playing 9 Ball and I turned him down playing straight pool.
Mizerak the same as Ray only I loved Steve and Karen very much, we were good friends, played gin for hours at my real estate office and lots of golf together, we genuinely liked each other.
Rempe and Archer both jumped out in front then quit me after I'd gotten even, they had backers and I respect them for treating their backers money as their own.
Rempe and I were playing 9 Ball for $500.
Archer and I were playing 10 ahead 10 Ball for $4,000, after being 9 games down and getting even Johnny said bye Reid. As usual I had all of my bet, no partners.
Earl when ranked no.1 lost good $$ to me playing 10 ball the day after he won Red's tourney in Houston TX. Then he lost a couple more thousand $$ playing 9 Ball the day after he won the Clyde Childer's Memorial in Richmond KY.
At the time before running into me Earl had been beating everyone in the country for the money.
Everyone else on your list either tried and didn't like the results or refused to try.
Jersey Red went crazy in Johnston City in 1971 when I beat him at the same proposition that Harold Worst lost at, I hope Harold is on your list.
Having plenty of money at the time it was just something to do for me, I bet Red $20 a game playing 9 ball, me against the table. If I break and run out more than I don't I win. Even money that I would break and run out, no ball in hand and if I didn't make a ball on the break I lost.
Red had the nuts and lost $220, after he was down about 8 games or so Danny Jones came in and up against Red real quiet asking him what the prop was and mentioned something about the nuts and Red went off the air scaring Danny who flew into the back room.
Red was saying I hope somebody else tells me I've got the nuts looking at a few players in the stands and waving the rack around.
I also loved Jersey Red he was one of my favorite people ever. Red could remember every game that he watched or played for the previous 20+ years.
He'd put the balls up and tell you the score of your match yesterday or last year, maybe when you did something wrong or extraordinary it didn't matter, Red remembered. What a delight Red was (is), I believe.
No hard feelings but whoever made this list, if you've got something against me, don't let it influence the truth. The truth will set you free.
Go ahead and name someone on your list that's beaten me for money playing 9 Ball, 8 Ball or 1 Pocket it didn't happen from 1969 to 1994.
Fats and Jansco staked Larry 'Boston Shorty' Johnson against me playing one pocket the day after the tournament ended in Johnston City in 1971.
Fats got beat by Jimmy Fusco getting a ball on the first table and I beat Shorty, (Stuff was my nickname for my great friend Shorty who I'd known since I was 15 years old) 18 ahead playing $100 one pocket.
Not one person on your list that I didn't beat even or gave them a handicap and beat them. Who's no.1?
"I saw Jimmy Reid play 9 Ball for 3 weeks in LA and he could've given anybody that ever lived the 2 and they would've never known they had it." UJ Puckett
Who's been a better player than me? Please I'm very curious who's going to tell you they played better rotation on any size table from 7' bar tables to 12' snooker tables.
While you're at it ask Pat Fleming about some accu-stat records that Pat made me aware of in 2004 at Derby City.
Believe me if the money in pool had escalated as it did in golf I'd be pool's Arnold Palmer or Lee Trevino.
Some of my pocket billiard accomplishments include;
1974./ Southwestern Open 9 Ball Champion, spotting the entire field the call 8ball, the only time in history this has been done.
You see I was the last entry in the 128 man field, JoJo the owner gave me his spot.
Since I'd already been in every major city in every state in the continental US and before leaving town offered everybody the last 3 playing 9 ball and having booked no losers since 1968 the players started griping.
So I told JoJo that everyone I played could win making the 8 ball or 9 the only stipulation was that they had to call the 8 Ball. I won the tournament anyway. An historical first.
The next tournament I played in was;
1977./ World Convention 9 Ball Champion, 9 racks first inning in the finals. Cornbread Red talked me into going and was laughing his behind off, naturally he had a 20% free roll coming.
1979./ BCA National 8 Ball Champion over 4300 entries on regulation tables, I don't think Mark Wilson or I ever missed a ball in that final.
1980./ World Classic 8 Ball Champion, $25,000.00 1st.
1985./ US Open 9 Ball Champion (the single most prestigious tournament in the world) shooting the highest accustat match of the entire tournament in the finals.
1988./ King of The Ring, top 12 payers in the world invitational, Nick Varner 2nd.
1992, 1993./ Winner of 6 European Open 9 Ball Championships in West Germany and Back to Back winner of the West German Annual 8 Ball Championship.
1994 - 2004 Competed in some major events but the better part of those years I was the sole care provider for 2 disabled WWII veterans.
2005./ Won the last two tournaments I played in at the Derby City Classic, the largest 9 ball bar table mini and the one day 64 player one pocket tournament. Then hit with 4th stage cancer.
Winning tournaments under pressure for 41 years from 1964 to 2005.
Wikipedia; In 1994 at The Lexington All Star 9 Ball Championship, a group of my peers all of whom were certainly in the top 20 list of the best players in the world. Had voted me as to have been the best money player in the world for the previous ¼ of a century, from 1969 to 1994!
Of all things, this I am most proud. My lifetime dream from 1958 had come true.
Add to this the fact that normally I had no partners unless I was forced to have a backer I wanted all of the bet myself. Who else on your list can say that?
"Son I've seen everybody play from Ponzi to today and can't none of em carry your cue playing that nine ball" Luther Lassiter 1970.
1980./ At the top 16 players in the world invitational in AC, NJ Mosconi took me to dinner in china town after beating Petey Margo 11/2 in the televised event. Petey had broken Willie's balls per inning average.
When ranked no.1 Sigel played me 8 ahead for $4,000, unscrewed and has never thought about playing me again.
Buddy Hall beat me a couple of times only to have me beat him right back. Finally, Buddy stated man that's just too good. I can't beat you, but I would like to bet on you in case you find somebody crazy enough to play you.
Let me stop right here Buddy Hall is one of the most down to earth people that I've ever met, he's never too proud to tell the truth.
My feelings toward Buddy are that of a brother, the same goes for Keith, Cole Dickson, Mike Massey, Danny Christian, Danny Diliberto, Ed Kelly, Bob Ogburn and Scotty Townsend to name a few brothers.
Are Danny D and Ed Kelly in your list?
Ray Martin is a fantastic, great straight pool player. In 1979 after he beat Richie Florence for a sizeable amount while having dinner he turned me down giving him the last 3 playing 9 Ball and I turned him down playing straight pool.
Mizerak the same as Ray only I loved Steve and Karen very much, we were good friends, played gin for hours at my real estate office and lots of golf together, we genuinely liked each other.
Rempe and Archer both jumped out in front then quit me after I'd gotten even, they had backers and I respect them for treating their backers money as their own.
Rempe and I were playing 9 Ball for $500.
Archer and I were playing 10 ahead 10 Ball for $4,000, after being 9 games down and getting even Johnny said bye Reid. As usual I had all of my bet, no partners.
Earl when ranked no.1 lost good $$ to me playing 10 ball the day after he won Red's tourney in Houston TX. Then he lost a couple more thousand $$ playing 9 Ball the day after he won the Clyde Childer's Memorial in Richmond KY.
At the time before running into me Earl had been beating everyone in the country for the money.
Everyone else on your list either tried and didn't like the results or refused to try.
Jersey Red went crazy in Johnston City in 1971 when I beat him at the same proposition that Harold Worst lost at, I hope Harold is on your list.
Having plenty of money at the time it was just something to do for me, I bet Red $20 a game playing 9 ball, me against the table. If I break and run out more than I don't I win. Even money that I would break and run out, no ball in hand and if I didn't make a ball on the break I lost.
Red had the nuts and lost $220, after he was down about 8 games or so Danny Jones came in and up against Red real quiet asking him what the prop was and mentioned something about the nuts and Red went off the air scaring Danny who flew into the back room.
Red was saying I hope somebody else tells me I've got the nuts looking at a few players in the stands and waving the rack around.
I also loved Jersey Red he was one of my favorite people ever. Red could remember every game that he watched or played for the previous 20+ years.
He'd put the balls up and tell you the score of your match yesterday or last year, maybe when you did something wrong or extraordinary it didn't matter, Red remembered. What a delight Red was (is), I believe.
No hard feelings but whoever made this list, if you've got something against me, don't let it influence the truth. The truth will set you free.
Go ahead and name someone on your list that's beaten me for money playing 9 Ball, 8 Ball or 1 Pocket it didn't happen from 1969 to 1994.
Fats and Jansco staked Larry 'Boston Shorty' Johnson against me playing one pocket the day after the tournament ended in Johnston City in 1971.
Fats got beat by Jimmy Fusco getting a ball on the first table and I beat Shorty, (Stuff was my nickname for my great friend Shorty who I'd known since I was 15 years old) 18 ahead playing $100 one pocket.
Not one person on your list that I didn't beat even or gave them a handicap and beat them. Who's no.1?
"I saw Jimmy Reid play 9 Ball for 3 weeks in LA and he could've given anybody that ever lived the 2 and they would've never known they had it." UJ Puckett
Who's been a better player than me? Please I'm very curious who's going to tell you they played better rotation on any size table from 7' bar tables to 12' snooker tables.
While you're at it ask Pat Fleming about some accu-stat records that Pat made me aware of in 2004 at Derby City.
