We had a guy that moved to Indy, Leroy Fonteneau, who beat Miami one handed for the cash once.
Best display of cueing you've ever seen
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Funny how you remember things. I was in Joe burns office with him at that tournament and he pointed a gun at me. I also beat Omaha fats for like a hundred and got stiffed. I'm almost 80 and I think a lot of that stuff was not the good old days as we sometimes remember it.
Memory is kind to us we remember the good times and forget the bad. What was funniest was an older couple I drove for. Ten or twenty years later they hung out the passing flag for Mario and AJ to get out of my way! Funny, I was there and I don't remember the story quite the way they do.
Pool stories were usually closer to true. Play over 350 nights a year and you have to have some magic nights!
Hu
Chris Raftis from Dayton was the best one handed 9-Ball player I ever saw and Little Sergio might have been second. Never saw Agussate play. Miami specialized in one handed One Pocket and Eight Ball. I played him (my two hands to his one) 9-Ball at Danny Jones poolroom in Columbus, $5 a game. I won two games and he quit. He thought I was just another dumb college kid.
Joe was the real deal. You wouldn't have been the first guy he shot. Some outlaws beat up his son once and Joe went looking for them. He was carrying both his 357 pistols. They got lucky and got away. One time at the Dayton tourney some guy brandished a gun on one of the players. Don't know why. Someone told Joe and he went into the tournament room and told the guy to drop his gun on the floor. The guy hesitated and Joe shot one bullet through the ceiling (yes, people were playing). The guy dropped his gun and Joe picked it up. Told him to come for it when he was leaving. Fuck'n Joe Burns!
Earl Strickland in TAR 20. It was unbelievable. Looked like he was playing on a bar table instead of a 5x10.
I must know you. Fats typically was a $2 player. He hustled me at JC for $2 a game Six Ball and beat me out of ten bucks. The next year I was much better. He remembered me and we played again. I won three games and he quit. He was the second funniest guy there after Minnesota.
Perfect! Earl is the only player I ever said that about. I said he makes a 9' table look like a bar box.
The funniest story I've read on these forums was from someone who was present during one of Mosconi's exhibitions. The story goes, Willie did his usual thing and at the end when everyone was socializing, there was a woman who was not impressed with the run she just saw. So she was asked why she had those thoughts and her answer was, "he never had a hard shot."
There’s an Accustats video of a Banks match at the 2002 Derby between Truman Hogue and Shannon Daulton where Truman runs 13 straight banks after losing the first game. I love how after the first 5 and out of that run, Truman returns to his chair and takes a long draw off a Budweiser.
The moment'It was so invigorating when he explained the jump shot. The precision of the strike to the white that is required. So my position er uh question is, "Why would I look anywhere else ?"
Having never been there, he will soon find out.
He did mention his Adrenaline quite a few times.
To get such a Huge lead in the first 10-11 games ''takes allot outta yah''.
Yet those two 9 balls he almost hung, told me 100% effort/concentration was not available.
That has nothing to do with adrenaline.
The challenge is control of the elevated senses.
Some elevated with uh chemicals. On the Natural has a much longer life expectancy.
The threat of blood does excite me. One large uh well that's redundant with Samoan.
He jumped in our $10 ring game and put off that uh vibe as he racked. I enjoyed "The Stare" so much that I let him do it twice more. Before the next guy got to shoot. The good news was only one more after him before he gets to shoot.
Take the adrenaline and season it with Tai Chi is the advice of a Well Seasoned Gentleman. Otherwise known as that old Cork Sucker.
Gentleman. Otherwise known as that old Cork Sucker.
It's hard to be deliberate (slow) when you have the whole solution. Like little Johnny jumping with hand raised. Savor the precision of the strike to the white.
Dan Louie put on so many incredible performances. Some said he was slow. I say he was precise. He took on the Best.
Dan Louie put on so many incredible performances. Some said he was slow. I say he was precise.
He took on the Best.
Speaking of "a full match" AND Shane Van Boening, most impressive match to me was Shane and Josh Roberts 8-ball match where in 15 games, neither player missed one single ball. Won by Shane 9-6 because Josh scratched on one of his breaks (alternating break format).
Yes, yes. I know, I know. It was a bar table. Still pretty damn impressive cueing by BOTH players. A clinic in 8-ball.
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If we're talking Shane and 8-ball, his best ever effort was at the 2013 US Open 8ball final, played on the big tables. Biado and Shane produced a match that is in the conversation for best match ever played.
In alternate break format, each broke and ran nine of his first ten racks and the match had a win by two rule. Shane eked out a 13-11 win over Biado, whose play very nearly qualified as perfect. Many of us on the forum have tried to find a video of this match but with no success.
Willie was awesome. There were times when he ran rack after rack with never a hard shot. I always thought that was a big part of his value to Brunswick. People that had never played could watch Willie an hour and think they could buy a table and be running racks in a few weeks. I saw a young Willie on video and spent several years trying to copy him. No danger of matching him but I did play a similar style.
There were a few years when I could make a cue ball do anything but sit up and beg on a bar table. I would have significant others of the other player come up to me after a match, tears in their eyes, a couple openly crying, "that wasn't fair, you got all the easy shots!" All I could do was agree, "Yes ma'am, it goes that way sometimes!"
Hu
Irving Crane’s 150 and out. On YouTube.
Will Prout