A ten ball ring game race to 50 huh...
Tobby Sweet
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A ten ball ring game race to 50 huh...
A Tobby experiance:
About 14 years ago The MisCue in Pompano Florida had a $1,000.00 added 8 ball tournament, race to one, flip coin to break. Big turn out. I was hitting the ball real good that day. I had not missed one shot. At the end it was me and Tobby on the winners side and a Road Player from California on the losers side. Tobby had made the 8 in on the break at least twice that day. They flipped the coin, I just wanted to win the break but Tobby won. Sure enough, popped the 8 on the break. Now I have to play Road player from California, flip for break, he wins, break and run.
Tobby wins flip on California Road Player, wins flip, breaks and runs. Great news on my part, they only paid 1st and 2nd
Tobby went on to buy drinks for the house. By nights end he had spent all or the greater part of all the winnings buying drinks. I heard he had Hell to pay when he got home from the girl he was living with.
I never saw a wrinkled shirt Tobby wouldn't wear shooting pool.
Who's Tobby??
Is it the one where Toby missed the 7 ball on the rail.
I know that he was at Chelsea Billiards in NY. because I was just finishing playing a guy and I saw Toby standing there watching our match. I was playing pretty good that day and was wondering if he wanted to play so I asked around to see if I could get a line on him. I did get a line on him and when I found out that he was Toby I changed my mind fast, and when he asked me to play saying you shoot pretty good bla bla bla, I just smiled and declined.
He had a backer with him, a tall guy heavy set guy that I think said he owned a pool room or rooms in Florida.
I remember watching him play Tony Robles a ten ahead set at the old Amsterdam Billiards when it was on the upper West side of Manhattan. No one got 10 ahead and they had made a deal because they knew that the place closed at a certain time. But it was good to watch, I'm not sure if this match was at the same time period as above just don't remember.
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He's in N.Y. now and he is probably at Diamond Jim's in Nanuet, N.Y.
Phone # (845) 735-0733 of room, ask him. Good Luck!
About 4-5 years ago when he was in the NY area, he had an unsigned titlist conversion (extra long linen wrap). It was his playing cue. There was some speculation from a few guys at the time that it might possibly have been a Bushka. Don't know if anyone confirmed one way or another.
- B <---------- spells Toby with only 1 b.
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A little Toby factoid you can savor. Toby Sweet was the last man to SPOT Buddy Hall, giving him the eight ball in Johnston City in the late 60's. Sorry don't remember the exact year.
Anyone know who won this match?
I did......
I remember him having one with black collars way back when. The reason I remember it is it was around a lot later because the guy he sold it to always had it in the pool room and showed it to people. It was his claim to fame I guess. Why do you ask by the way? I should add, the cue was sold around 1983. I know who bought it if you want to PM me but can't say where it went from there. Long time ago. You don't by some chance own this cue today do you?
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Toby
I have seen him a few times here in N Y . He is friends with the past two owners of my pool room . When I just started playing back around 92 or 93 he came in to the room . I had heard a few stories and was so in love with the game I asked him how did he get so good . He said he threw out 3 balls on the table and tried to run them out , when he could do this with ease he moved to 4 and so on . A really good friend of his told me he would wear the cloth out at his home room in Nanuet . One other thing he said that had a huge impact on how I play and gamble , If he heard of a player that gambled he would bring everything he had and go play . If he lost he went home practiced saved up and went after him again till he busted the player . My longest post ever . He had a huge impact on me with very little interaction . David Pinkston Gallery Billiards and Bar Newburgh Ny .
I have seen him a few times here in N Y . He is friends with the past two owners of my pool room . When I just started playing back around 92 or 93 he came in to the room . I had heard a few stories and was so in love with the game I asked him how did he get so good . He said he threw out 3 balls on the table and tried to run them out , when he could do this with ease he moved to 4 and so on . A really good friend of his told me he would wear the cloth out at his home room in Nanuet . One other thing he said that had a huge impact on how I play and gamble , If he heard of a player that gambled he would bring everything he had and go play . If he lost he went home practiced saved up and went after him again till he busted the player . My longest post ever . He had a huge impact on me with very little interaction . David Pinkston Gallery Billiards and Bar Newburgh Ny .
He told me a similar story. He actually kept a notebook. He had exercises he did and kept track of his improvement. He systematically made an effort to become a good player. I don't know if he used systems but I would not be surprised based to his approach to the game.
Systems by the way are training devices not how you actually play in real competition. They teach you to play and hopeful at a point it all will become a natural thing you don't have to think about.
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I am pretty sure his name is not spelled with two b's.
During the late Johnson City days he stopped into Crazy Horse Billiards in Carbondale IL and hooked up with the best player there at the time, Dennis/Tex/Gieske. What I remember about him, petite man, looked like he was part of the Beatles Seargent Peppers Lonley Hearts Club Band, the flaired bell bottoms, the jacket, a sharply dressed hippie looking character with a very pleasant demeanor. What I really remember best, he made everything look simple and whitey never moved around allot/of course he won. He was said to always (as mentioned before) bet his own money, and he was always carrying large.
1968....
I lived in Opalaka for a mth and played a few times in Congress, who was the guy who had BuG Eyes. I remember him wearing bright green pants and dress shirts. He was a better player than I at the time (I didn't know that), but I caromed the 9 ball in a half dozen times in an hour and he quit, luckily. He must of thought I was toying with em since I won sooooooooo many short racks, this guy was kinda creepy, as a twenty yr old who had never even seen a 6X12 or even knew there was such a table. I was amazed at the size of the rakes, they had em I think leaning up against the walls nearly touching the ceiling.
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theeviltwin69
While Toby's in NY,ask him what he thought of Port Chester Mickey's game and if they ever matched up and what was the outcome? Rgds Rocky P.S. Tell Toby,Rocky said Hi!!!!!
While Toby's in NY,ask him what he thought of Port Chester Mickey's game and if they ever matched up and what was the outcome? Rgds Rocky P.S. Tell Toby,Rocky said Hi!!!!!