Ted Rothman the principal partner in the group that created the very successful House of Billiards in Santa Monica and elsewhere in Los Angels was a Jew. Ted told me the proper way to refer to him was a Jew and not Jewish.

He paid his employees well and on major holidays he would drive to his four rooms and left $20 for every employee who worked that day.

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I was practicing on the "Front" table in Santa Monica when Ted stopped and asked, "Do you know what day is today?".

I knew he did not mean the day of the week and it wasn't a holiday so I said no.

"Today is Rosh Hashanah, a very important Jewish Holiday, and all the good Jews take today off".

Then Ted went to his office to work!

markjames said:

the quickest path?

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Quickest would probably involve eight hour days on something like this, but more horizontal.

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For me when I'd play on a pool league in Billings I'd have on a good night a bit over an hour drive each way if it was snowing to much I'd call & cancel for that night !

Thankfully that was in my younger days !

Let’s get it now PT!

You don’t have to like the nurses, but just do the crap they tell you to. A lot of them are douche nozzles, but you can come back stronger in spite of them.

Marshal your strength. Life changes and you won’t be the same, but it doesn’t mean you are used up.

But, you have to put in the work. Move, grow and live. Or Sit still and get decrepit.

Turn up the music and get after it!
Sooner or later it all gets real, walk on:
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I bet Ralfie's people made a pile.

50,000 fawnk?

Back in the day, most of the top players you ran across were gamblers of some sort, even it it was only for small stakes.

Many of them would not play you for funsies.

In order to learn from them through competing, you had to gamble with them.

I worked in a old-school pool hall as a kid and beat everybody in town for money before I was 16, but never once entered a tournament at the other pool hall where they forbid gambling and didn't serve alcohol.

Both places were owned by the owner of the pool hall I worked at.

He staked me against anyone who came in.

There was way more money to win (and possibly lose) in a gambling session than you could make by winning a tournament.

TheGrandWazoo said:

If they bag on yuma, I will be very disappointed. Bought tickets, reserved accommodations and planned pto for this.

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Yeah, I'm holding off for a while on those non-refundable Amtrak tickets. Yuma is different in that it is a WNT-run event.

I am not playing in any tournament that is 9-ball, race to 2.

It's a crap shoot, especially with handicaps.

paultex said:

...and by the way JB, I do appreciate and enjoy the protective qualities of your cases etc...

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John seems to have left us over a year ago.

CanadianGuy said:

Wu about to make up for alot of lost years , 220k already secured, playing in the finals to secure another million

how many players ever in any cue sport can say they played a match for seven figures? ...

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Well, it was a single challenge match, but Willie Hoppe said he won over $50,000 when he beat Vignaux in 1906. With inflation, that's more than $1.8 million.