The Jansco brothers moved their Johnston City Pool Tournament to the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas after the Feds raided their tournament for, of all things, gambling!
Ronnie Allen was of the top players in Johnston City and Las Vegas and second only to Minnesota Fats in using his banter to get into a game and when necessary use it during a game to win by whatever he thought he could get away with.
His antics were fine in a pool room or in the practice room of a tournament but not during the tournament.
Ronnie had already been guilty of several disruptions and when the current problem could not be resolved the referee called the tournament director to make the decision.
The tournament director was Conrad Burkman, the publisher of the National Billiard News.
As Conrad approached the table everyone started talking at the same time and Ronnie was the loudest of the voices.
Conrad raises both hands to motion for everyone to stop talking then without waiting to hear what happened said, "Ronnie Allen is wrong", then he turned around and walked away!
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I just watched a YouTube video that showed the Stardust Casino was controlled by the mod when the Johnson City Tournament was moved to the Stardust.
If the stories are true the mob in Chicago provided some of the money to build the Stardust and Johnson City is located 314 miles South of Chicago.
Adding to the possibility that the tournament was able to relocate to the Stardust is the Jansco brothers were involved in bookmaking and gambling at their bar.
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