Recent content by jay helfert

None of that matters right now! This is a moment to celebrate for Carlo! And I am.

He's happily married you idiot!

Nope!

WORLD CHAMPION CARLO BIADO!! That says it all. To be the best, you have to beat the best, and he did!

Da Dong is the nickname for Leonardo Andam, another filipino great! He made a run across the USA and beat everybody he played. Passed away a few years ago.

Seven of the last sixteen players are Filipino. They qualified twelve into the final sixty four. Still the single most dominant nation worldwide. They just keep producing champions! Dozens more teens who shoot high 700 speed right now!

I parlayed 15K won from playing pool into a poolroom that made 75K a year in the 1970's. Invested some of that into real estate and turned it into 10M (after only 40 years!). It took a lifetime but it was a winning parlay. ;)

I brought Dorothy to my room in Bakersfield to put on an exhibition. She needed an opponent for her Straight Pool match so I elected me. I really thought I could beat her since I was running 30 and 40 balls practicing. So the day game and she was terrific, entertaining the crowd and telling...

One match does not make or end a career! Shane is not going away so quick. You can count on that.

Rude Dog was John Morton, at one time an up and coming star player out of L.A. He and Tang Hoa were the two best young players to come out of Hard Times in the early days during the late 1980's. John died from a heart attack at age 40 a couple of years after his release from prison. He never was...

You beat me to it, great answer!

Tugboat Whaley is the first guy, not sure about the second one. I knew most of the old timers but he doesn't look familiar.

Yep, that's him all right! Good find. ;)

A guy wanted to get a Gandy Big G table out of the house he had just bought. Put it online for $500. I went there, took a look and made the deal. He then gave me a hard time when I told him I could come back in the next day or two to pick it up. He wanted it out that day or no deal. I had to go...

The Rifleman!