More info, please…..I doubt it there was anybody smarter.
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No hear-say on my part….I won $1,500 on a side bet on a two ahead one pocket match on a 5 x10 snooker table.
Paul Bruseloff lost $180,000 on that match….so there was $360,000 in the center.
That was one of many big money matches there….saw one with $220,000 in the center.
I HEARD Mike Carella won a million in one session giving the 5-6-7-8 to a guy who owned a company that made private jets.
There was a guy named Mike that I think was clearly more talented, Michelangelo. They were fierce competitors. Leonardo and Michelangelo were painting murals on opposite sides of a hallway. It was supposed to be a chance to see each of their works side by side, nose to nose.
Common practice at the time was to have apprentices do much of the work and perhaps that was part of the issue but Leonardo decided to use wax as his medium. In an absolute dumb cluck move the work in wax was started from the bottom. As more heat was needed higher the lower portion of his work was melted and badly damaged or destroyed. Both artists quit on their projects or majorly backburnered them leading to major issues for reneging on their obligations.
"Smarter" is something I have always found impossible to define except within narrow frameworks. If we look at overall knowledge Leonardo clearly had more. He was one of the last people or the last person to know everything that was available to him. With that and his free thinking inventive mind he might have been the smartest man in the world in his time or most any time. Best I recall both of these artists and others risked their lives doing illegal autopsies primarily for their art or solely for art.
Had Leonardo had the supporting technology to make his inventions work we would have had submarines, helicopters, many engines of war, in his day. No telling what all. I think he clearly had more knowledge than Michelangelo because of the wide range of knowledge Leonardo had. He was a gifted engineer and inventor on a scale that Michelangelo didn't match. That doesn't indicate which was smarter, raw IQ. Michelangelo had a tighter focus. Even today I don't think we are able to discern between IQ and education. I am somewhat lacking in documented formal education myself. That led to a perfect score the last time they gave me an IQ test back in the mid nineties or so. I got a good laugh out of it, "measure that jackasses!" I didn't kid myself though, I am pretty smart if measured against a stump too.
Somehow I forgot or never knew you had been at The Rack in it's heyday. Tell us a story or two please, in a new thread. We might see if we can stir up more stories too, been awhile and none of us are getting any younger!
Funny thing, I find most of my pool memories to be forgotten with just a few sticking out. I missed few nights gambling for ten or twelve years, or wagering because I can't honestly say I was gambling most of the time. Now all these years later it is like asking me to tell stories about what I did on the day job that long ago. A few things are remembered and sometimes one memory brings back another one but for the most part it was just another night chopping wood as I called it even then. Nothing too special about most nights.
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23DenaliBDE
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Like they did in the photo….
23DenaliBDE
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These are all true most places. Parking lot stop signs, even the one as you pull into traffic on the main road, are almost never enforceable. It’s a moot point thought because the car entring the roadway still has to yield. The number of people that are clueless is the only reason for most of them. Fire lanes, handicap parking, reckless driving, DWB, DWR due to OWI conviction and OWI might be the only traffic traffic related violations here.
In many states vehicle must stop before entering roadway.
I saw a poker player win, I believe $240,000 by 10 or 11 am at a popular pool room in Vegas in 2017. Many other games for less and I'm sure some for more in that place.
tomatoshooter
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Didn't Efren play for $200,000 in the early 2000s? Part of Kevin Trudeau's joint?
23DenaliBDE
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Correct. That’s why it doesn’t matter that the stop signs aren’t enforceable. The law still says you must yield. The “fake” stop sign gets people otherwise not knowing the law to stop anyway. Out of the half dozen or so charges I listed that can still be filed if you’re driving in a parking lot, some of them even apply in your own yard in IA. OWI and DWB specifically. And a lawn mower is a motorized vehicle lol
A tournament prize and a money match are two different things.