Latest activity

Latest activity

 Social Media Forum list

Do you ever get the feeling that the Fargo Rate of a player just does not seem right?

D
skor said:
Are there any leagues or tournaments that use FargoRate for handicapping?
In my opinion, the system will only work for 8ball.
And the top/pro rating is unnecessary as they don’t do handicapping and there are other ranking lists.
Click to expand...
BCA nine ball uses Fargo for handicapping.

And it is important for Pro players to have a Fargo (even if handicaps are not used in pro tournaments) because pro players intermix with all of us amateurs in a lot of regional tournaments and add meaningful data to the ecosystem that creates accurate ratings for everyone. Is it necessary to show us their rating on the broadcast or livestream of a pro tournament? Probably not. I think of it like chess. All chess players that compete have a rating, but ultimately at the top it is just the best players in a tournament and the ratings don't mean much.
Click to expand...

Best Players In Baltimore

Frosty
Pensacola said:
Ever hear of Richard Riggie (7/7/15-7/12/89) Md State Champ 20 yrs. His son played Gumphries speed.
What about Haney (can't remember first name) watched him play 50 no count. Heard he died in car crash down south.
Click to expand...
Yeah, Riggi was a great player, friends with the Miz who used to stay with him when he passed through town, buried with his Scruggs cue. His son Greg was a better player, one of the best bank pool players I ever saw, but he played all games well, died before his time. Once when Miz passed through town young Greg broke and ran 150 and out against him, when Riggi senior came upon the scene, Miz pointed at Greg and said “he just” and Riggi finished his sentence, saying “yeah I can’t beat the little bastard anymore either”.
Click to expand...

Best Players In Baltimore

P
jay helfert said:
Ed Kelly was from Baltimore and nobody mentioned him. Only one of the best all time! Nobody mentioned here could have beaten him, and only Keith could have hung with him at 9-Ball. Kelly played all games great! The best All Around player in the world for many years. Ask Tom Vanover about him.
Click to expand...
Ever hear of Richard Riggie (7/7/15-7/12/89) Md State Champ 20 yrs. His son played Gumphries speed.
What about Haney (can't remember first name) watched him play 50 no count. Heard he died in car crash down south.
Click to expand...

Unknown "monster" players

P
JAM said:
I knew the Gumpster's father in my area. We both belonged to the same organization and so I would run into him every now and then. He had a deep, booming voice, and was funny as could be. Tragically, Steve's brother passed away several years after Steve from the same type of cancer. His brother's wife, a friend of mine, posts on this forum from time to time, but not often. She is still active in the pool world, competes on a league, and usually goes to Valley Forge each year.

Steve had a good friend, an SES scientist/doctor, who was high in the ranks at NIH, which is right in Bethesda, Maryland, our neighborhood. The NIH doctor also happened to be a pool player from North Carolinia and is a good friend mine as well. He tried to help Steve by getting him in NIH and succeeded. However, the medicine did not work on Steve.

The NIH doctor used to stake Steve in many a game when Steve lived in Maryland. The Gump was loved by all who met him. He was definitely one of a kind. :)

JAM
Click to expand...
Gumps father was 100% full blooded American Indian, and his mother was a 100% lookalike of Debbie Reynolds!
Click to expand...

Unknown "monster" players

P
jay helfert said:
The Gump was one of my all time favorite pool players, along with Tommy Kennedy. They both always had (in Gump's case) a great big smile for everyone. And both played very good pool, about the same speed. I loved Steve and hung out with him every chance I got.

He got a melanoma about 20 years ago and just ignored it. When he finally went to the doctor it was too late. It had already gotten into his bloodstream.
Click to expand...
jay helfert said:
The Gump was one of my all time favorite pool players, along with Tommy Kennedy. They both always had (in Gump's case) a great big smile for everyone. And both played very good pool, about the same speed. I loved Steve and hung out with him every chance I got.

He got a melanoma about 20 years ago and just ignored it. When he finally went to the doctor it was too late. It had already gotten into his bloodstream.
Click to expand...
jay helfert said:
The Gump was one of my all time favorite pool players, along with Tommy Kennedy. They both always had (in Gump's case) a great big smile for everyone. And both played very good pool, about the same speed. I loved Steve and hung out with him every chance I got.

He got a melanoma about 20 years ago and just ignored it. When he finally went to the doctor it was too late. It had already gotten into his bloodstream.
Click to expand...
Gump couldn't beat anybody that was top speed, w/o weight! ie: Hopkins gave him the 7 ball. I knew him well, took him on the road in '73 '74? After dogging it the first day, he finally beat Bubba for a $500 race, then back to Maryland just before Christmass.
Click to expand...

(NEW) Jacoby Custom Cocobolo w/ matching Coco extension & 30” shaft

Talmadge
Hello,

Never used Jacoby custom cocobolo cue with
-29” butt
-full extended Spanish bull wrap
-matching custom 3” cocobolo QR extension
-30” V4 Jacoby 12.3mm shaft

$1450 shipped

* I ordered this cue from seyberts then sent to Jacoby for full custom wrap and matching extension but decided to buy there Tall Boy cue.

IMG_7438.jpeg
Click to expand...
Load more

Filter

Back
Top