Everyone likes to read good action stories.
I don't like to read anything about jarring someone else, especially when guns are pulled out and it's planned.
That is a piece of shit move.
Interview With Road Agent, Bobby Hunt - Part 3 Added
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I don't like to read anything about jarring someone else, especially when guns are pulled out and it's planned.
That is a piece of shit move.
Yep , I agree with you, if it was planned it was a shit move. What I didn't post before was, the owner of the room was a major bookie there in Charlotte NC. He was also the backer of Denney and was backing Denney that day. Did he plan it when Billy was handing Denney a major loss ?
I'm not really sure to this day, but Eddie asked me the question later on and after I had thought about it, it did fit in pretty well. The years I spent on the road , I saw many things go down that were shit moves. There were many times those moves were made to take home the money. Main thing I tried all of my days was to make sure I wasn't one making those moves happen.
Probably should have sugar coated it a bit about the bum biz, but that was the way Eddie put it to me. Too add , the discipline that I put towards my game at a young age, carried over to my discipline towards my business carrier . Lots of things could be learned from the road, not just about pool, but the in's and out's of dealing with people.
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Chip
I'm wondering if Titanic Thompson ever played pool? Ben Hogan said Titanic was the best golf ball striker he'd ever seen. I know Titanic did about everything else: golf, horseshoes, bowling, poker and etc. He could throw a skeleton key into the lock on a door, knock over a Coke bottle with throwing a card, get a strike with the bowling ball coming out of the gutter.... Amazing dude
I ran around with Joe Villapondo and learned lots and a few other guys. What I learned doing that I carried into the biz world. I got schooled by many players when I was coming up and those lessons were far more valuable than anything I learned in school.
To this day I remember those lessons and still play by the rules I was taught and how to act in certain situations. When to talk, when to stfu.
I can’t repay the guys who helped me. But I got a couple guys I know in their early 20’s I’m giving that knowledge to and helping them along. So far so good. I told them what I was told-“someday teach a kid what I’m teaching you”. So I’m paying my debt to my teachers.
Hustling, business, tactics to create action are all important to me. I’m thankful I learned what I did. Sure I’ve been hustled, robbed, fell for traps. I’d be lying if I said otherwise. I learned from all those too. It’s a process and the life I chose.
And yeah I’ve heard of the gun play move-I’d never cross that line. Pimps use that move on their hoes to “get something on the bitch” so they can control them 100%. To me that’s as bad as it gets. How do I know? I been around. But that’s a line I’d never cross.
Sure I’ve done bad things. But I do have lines and standards. I’d never rob a person that was senile or had dementia in telemarketing. That’s way lower than I’d go.
Guys who resort to that aren’t hustlers they are losers/criminals and don’t have true hustlers blood.
A good hustler or con man doesn’t have to be a criminal. It’s a fine line.
Fatboy<——-has his limits
Earl and I were talking about this , bout 20 years ago , he mentioned when he slipped into the room in Charlotte to play Denney , it cost them about 40 grand and he left safely.
Earl knows how to survive. I don’t know him well, but over the years we have spoke many times and I have 2 take aways. Don’t underestimate the obvious-he can play. And don’t underestimate his brains, he’s a sharp guy. He’s very aware of where he’s at and what he’s doing. He’s always been 100% with me and what he says is usually spot on. There’s a couple trivial things my opinion and his vary just a little.
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Fatboy
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Thanks for putting these together. Top-shelf oral history, not just of the pool world, but of the United States.
Wow, loved stumbling onto this thread, Never met Bobby, but the stories are great. Brings back old memories of growing up in the 70’s and the pool scene. Even our small town in Kentucky had 2 pool rooms and a college University Center. Action all the time. Great interview Thanks for sharing.
Bobby is getting along fine these days. Thanks to jumping out of a helicopter in Vietnam before it was a little closer to the ground, the gov takes pretty good care of him.
I see him a few times a week at our local pool rooms, plus we do a fair amount of commentary together on the Yale Billiards Sharkstream during tournaments and match play.
Bobby is in his early 70's now and even though he can still beat pretty much all the guys who come through the door, he still laments over how time has pushed his game down a ball or two. Yesterday, he was there when a good friend of ours gave me 3 games on the wire going to 7 in 9b and I only won 1 out of 3 sets. It can always be worse, Bobby!!!
Thanks for noticing the Storytellers interviews.
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brian kc
Love to hear some stories, if you want to PM instead.
Brian, those are great! Long though so I bookmarked them long ago to watch later. Most of these interviews with old players suffer from their difficulties to speak clearly and my hearing problems. I don't have the patience to watch those video's. No problem here!! Good clean production and great stories. I watched all three back to back with no fatigue or difficulties.
Somebody asked about Titanic Thompson's pool abilities, I happen to have a book that is roughly his life story. When he met Fats, Fats left no doubt they weren't in the same class playing pool lightening Ti's wallet $30,000 the first time around. The story goes that Fats took Ti for a million before they were done but then they teamed up, hit the highway, and Ti recovered his losses along with Fats' making the same amount. Seems like Ti was low A or weak shortstop speed at a guess. At cards and dice, I think everything except pool, Thompson was superior. According to the book Ti was a world class golfer too even without trickery. A few decades too early, there was no money in pro golf. He won a lot more gambling than he could on the tour.
Hu
Somebody asked about Titanic Thompson's pool abilities, I happen to have a book that is roughly his life story. When he met Fats, Fats left no doubt they weren't in the same class playing pool lightening Ti's wallet $30,000 the first time around. The story goes that Fats took Ti for a million before they were done but then they teamed up, hit the highway, and Ti recovered his losses along with Fats' making the same amount. Seems like Ti was low A or weak shortstop speed at a guess. At cards and dice, I think everything except pool, Thompson was superior. According to the book Ti was a world class golfer too even without trickery. A few decades too early, there was no money in pro golf. He won a lot more gambling than he could on the tour.
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