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We just lost the best Doc Holliday ever at 65 years old. Ordered myself an 8 by 12 metal man cave poster of Val as Doc Holliday in the movie Tombstone! Best gunfight movie scene ever! Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday. SAY WHEN!!!!

The Masters golf tourney starts in 8 days from now, first prize 3,240,000.00! 10th place 486k wow!! 35th place 97,200.00 wow! Let’s start practicing! I broke a hundred about 6 years ago for the first time and haven’t played since! I didn’t start playing until I retired at 58 years old and...

Victor Hovland won the Valspar golf championship today and 1st place paid 1,566,325.00. Tommy Fleetwood came in 16th and it paid 128k and change! Do y’all think we played the wrong game?

Point taken, a little bit of both.

It takes Heart to win!

My life long friend Bobby Taylor and myself left Houston area two weeks before Johnston City in September of 71. We hustled small town poolrooms for almost two weeks and made about 800$ before arriving in Johnston city two days before the one pocket division started. I posed for a few pictures...

I quit playing in October of 71 while Johnston City tourney was going on but decided to go to the Stardust in first of April in 72 to try to pick up some fast cash. Practiced two days before I flu there and came in third in the one hole division and went cold turkey just before my 20th...

Danny Diliberto won the 14-1 and All around in 1972 at Johnston City. It was the last tournament held. I saw him at Johnston City or Vegas in 70, 71 or 72 but never spoke with him or see him play but no doubt he was one of the Giants back in the day. My condolences to his family! The old...

Click on the 3 bars up in left hand corner, go down to search and click, click on Posted By and type in Keith Thompson and all my post will come up, click on the Post “practice “, that’s the best way to make yourself a better player. Practice 14-1 a couple times a week for 8-10 weeks and if...

I went cold turkey in 72 and haven’t practiced hardly at all! There was nothing there unless you enjoyed staying broke lol. Worked at champion papers for four plus years and then Shell oil for 34 years and retired from there with a good pension check and saved quite a bit of money in their...

If there is a legitimate hall of fame there’s numerous players from the 60’s 70’s and 80’s that should be honorable mention! Mataya being one of them! He was a solid niner and 14-1 player. There was also great Niners and one holers back in the day that didn’t play 14-1. Cole Dickson was a...

Search for post by Keith Thompson and read my practice post! 14-1 is the best way to up your game. If your 14-1 game improves all other pocket billiard games have improved also! I haven’t made many post so it’s just one of about 20 or so.

I played Buddy even 9 ball when I was 18 years old about 6-8 weeks after I won Johnston city in 1970. It was December or maybe January of 71. Played him for 25 a game for about 3 hrs. Got him 10 games loser but he got even so I quit. Swapped 3 to 6 racks with him the whole time. Too tough of...

Read my post on practice!

There was no good money tournaments back in the day like there is today! Most players just relied on gambling as an income and lived out of a suitcase! That being said none of them had a break cue. Some players used a heavy house cue to break with as a break cue! But most of the good players...

I’ve read post that some of you’ve made about practice habits to improve your game wether it be 9 ball, one hole, snooker or whatever. If any of you want to take your game to a higher level practice 14 and 1 for 2-3 months a few times a week. Place a makeable ball near the rack and pocket the...

Played Ronnie the first time in 1969 in Houston Tx. During the invitational nine ball tourney, I was barely 17 yrs old not 16.5 years like I’ve posted before, my mistake! We played even one hole, he played one handed I played two handed! Beat him six in row for 50 a game, he called me a hub cap...

Go to the little 3 bars and click on it and find the word search and type Keith Thompson in the “posted by” Box and my Lassiter post will pop up! I posted my three matches I played with him in the 1970 Johnston city All around. I’ve made a few more post also and hope you will read them. Thank...

This is the only photo I know of myself playing in the all around against Ronnie Allen and Lassiter. I flew from Atlanta back to Johnston city and my decent cloths were in my suitcase which was sent to the wrong city and I slept in that rag of a shirt and had to play the all around the next day...