DrCue'sProtege said:

I thought Grady Mathews was considered one of the all time great 1P players back in those days?

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JPB2 said:

Where was Hopkins in that mix?

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Chili Palmer said:

On the flip side, sometimes you might want to call a pocket that you WON'T make the ball if you're playing safe. In the video below Ropero/SFR were on the hill, Ropero plays safe but called the 2 in the top right corner and made it, SFR was hooked and scratched. Fisher/Kazakis ran out the game to go hill-hill which meant a shootout. Ropero and SFR won the shootout but it could've turned out much worse.

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iusedtoberich said:

There is an accustats one pocket tape where the commentators stated Cookie Monster Steve Cook played Hopkins for $1000 per game, and beat him 12 games.

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sjm said:

The 1990s in one pocket belonged to Efren.

The 1980s are a bit more complicated. The first names that come to mind are Nick Varner and Allen Hopkins. Allen, in particular, used to bet real high back then. I'm thinking that Jersey Red, Ronnie Allen and Eddie Kelly were all past their primes by then.

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muskyed said:

At my house with my beautiful maple wood cherry finished Diamond table, you get one warning if setting chalk upside down, after that you are not invited back. We do have one person not invited back.

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lfigueroa said:

A few days ago a pretty high power player here in STL opined that he was told Ronnie Allen was the best back then.

Having watched many, many Accu-Stats 1pocket tapes from that era I don''t think that's an accurate assessment. But, I was just starting my 1pocket journey way back then. Over the years I did have the chance to see and occasionally play some of the legends. And, certainly Ronnie was an incredibly creative player and a fore-runner to the hyper-aggressive play we often see today.

But for the cash, who do you think was the guy you'd put your dough on around that time?

Lou Figueroa

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