If that specific situation accounts for a cumulative total of more than 15 seconds of "wasted" time in any given match, I'd be surprised.

There are plenty of things that annoy me in pool, but pros playing by the rules isn't one of them...

I was home on leave getting ready to be stationed in Taipei, Taiwan and I was in the old pool hall where I worked as a kid when an old guy who fixed the tables saw me playing pool.

He came up and asked me if I was still in the Army and I said, "Bruce, I ain't in the Army, I am in the Air Force."

Bruce had drank about a dozen or more beers by this time and he just smiled and asked, "where you going to be stationed now?" and I said, "Taiwan."

He laughed and said, "Taiwan! I'm gonna tie one on right now."

Bruce was good for "tying one on" pretty much every day. He would come in the first thing in the morning and sip Budwiesers with a shaker of salt all day until he was buzzed really good and then he would call a cab and go home.

muskyed said:

Maybe they have pool tables in prison where he was.

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they generally do for some.

and dont underestimate any one that is a money player that misses some. not all are on important games. you play to beat your opponent not to teach him a lesson.

maha said:

bad audio and bad commentary. are they just doing it for fun or trying to make money off it.

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If he's making money off it, should be charged with a crime.
He's been at it for years and it's been consistently awful.

One Saturday early, I was getting my morning practice and the youngster wanted to challenge my table as all the rest were empty. I tried to be gentle and explain that, "I am a money player." He puffed right up and replied, "I Am a Money player too!" Oh and as he racked for 9 ball Freebird came on the jukebox. "He looks up and says, "I never lose to Freebird." .....His allowance was gone before the tune was over. Shrug . At the pay and surrender, I said "I never lose to Freebird either. " true story.

they had a famous tree on that drive. i wonder if it is still there. i know, garzar will google it and inform.
and they patented it and said they would sue anyone who used the pic of it.

i used to travel around with a golf pro and they have an unwritten thing that the club pro lets the pro and crew play free. so i got to play all the famous courses even in hawaii, around except pebble as they wouldn't allow that.
but back then it was only a hundred or so.

skip100 said:

I had never seen him play before. He looks and strokes like a banger but can get the job done.

His current opponent is a 691 and Kenny’s winning 9-3. Does the opponent not play for money or something? Ouch.

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Maybe they have pool tables in prison where he was.
I don't know him and never heard of him till this post, but I had to start watching the video just to see him. I have to admit he actually seems likeable, his non stop talking while he is shooting is fun to watch. If he were to stop talking for a second, it would really be a quick game with him, even quicker than it already is if that was possible.

Poolhall60561 said:

Some familiar names in that list.
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Great tournament every year

cuban joey came into our room once and had the line on the two players that he could beat out of a few thousand or more. they werent around.

he asked for people to play and i didnt know him so as always take one or two barrels at any comer. 20 a game 6 ball. 1960's time line.
so we played and i could beat most all new faces and knew good road players would stall for awhile.
so i got ahead a few games and he had to come out of his shell so i quit him winners. he said"you cant do that". i said "that is risk being a road player". later years we becomes so called friendly;

so after that he was putting on his why cant i get a game thing. so we got the black guy janitor who was out in the bowling alley.
he got 5 pockets to one on the 9 and joey didnt know he could play as well as him. after he started running out and out playing him on the nine. joey yelled out "who is this guy anyway".

staten island who sent him in didn't think of including info on the janitor who really no one there ever had seen him play.

maha said:

nature boy post the name of the place so others can go there.

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Rooster’s on Dixie Highway. It is a local chain and has incredible bar food and pizza at very reasonable prices.

skip100 said:

Kenny won a 9 ball set for 4k, lost a 14.1 set for 2k, and won a 9 ball set for 1k against a second opponent.

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Played him a couple of times.
He has unlimited confidence in himself at the table. If you have skills at the table then you know that unlimited confidence can take you far. You can take what the table gives you because you already know that you're going to pocket the ball.

skip100 said:

I had never seen him play before. He looks and strokes like a banger but can get the job done.

His current opponent is a 691 and Kenny’s winning 9-3. Does the opponent not play for money or something? Ouch.

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Kenny can get around the table...