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I spoke to Laurie yesterday, and I knew it was bad. I'm lost. Three of my closest friends in this year 2013, it is really heartbreaking. I guess I have a couple more close friends, but not many. I remember the first time I met Cole. He had just gotten back from Hawaii, and he was with...

Well, just woke up, boys. I want to thank everybody for their birthday greetings. This year 2013, I believe it's been the toughest year for losing my closest friends. So reading everybody's words to me on this day gives me a little bit of hope. I want to thank everybody again. It really...

I heard about the bad condition Bernie was in. I've known him a very long time. He hustled me pretty good one time and got me to spot him 3 balls off, playing 8-ball. I had about 1,100 of my own money on me. It was, I think, around early 1970-ish, which in the '70s, 1,100 bucks was a lot of...

I do remember that, Freddie. All the cueballs were getting beat up and caked with chalk. Some of them seem like they warped. But this particular cueball was a good one, and I wasn't going to give it up to Frost. I think I was mad at him about something, so I just stuck it in my pocket. He...

Needless to say, it looks like to me I sort of had that game pegged right. My over and under was a landslide. I have played many hours on that table. I've played Efren lots of times on that very table. That table, when you have been playing on Diamonds and you go to that table, plays...

I've been sitting here 4 or 5 days now, trying to put it all together about Ronnie's death, and I finally have enough strength to say a little something about him. For whatever it's worth, Ronnie was an action man. He loved pool, tried to pretend like he hated pool sometimes, but he loved...

Hi, Christine. I'm very concerned about Cole. I used to have a phone number on him, but I don't have it anymore. Ronnie Allen said Cole may be getting an operation this morning. I hope everything goes well. If you speak to Cole, please let him know that I am thinking about him, and he is...

Sorry to hear that bad news, Humph. I grew up around Howard when Howard was in California, back when I was 15 and 16 years old. The last time I saw him was in New Orleans. He might have been running your place. I used to play him and Hawaiian Jay partner games all the time, but in...

That picture brings back good memories. I believe I was in my twenties in that photo. If I'm not mistaken, that looks like the Golden Cue in Sacramento, with those white tables, I believe. It's either that or it's somewhere north in California, but I could be wrong.

You're definitely right. Stamina is always a factor. It used to be in a lot of the games I played in. I figured I could wear my opponents down. In this case, I'm on the other end of it. I got enough battle scars in me to realize what's happening and weather the storm. Like I said before...

Just woke up today and I'm fresh as a daisy, raring to go. I've been thinking about this pool game, well, supposedly a pool game. All these knockers and naysayers talk big, want to try to put somebody down, saying what they can and can't do, wanting to antagonize people to play, but guess...

I got a call from a friend of mine that was in the tournament, and he mentioned something to me about this thread. So I decided to read it. I have had the exact same thing happen to me over and over, not once but lots of times, when there was referees -- and still lost the decision. I got...

It's a sad day for me. I do wish that me and Grady could have had one more crap hand together. I really enjoyed all of that. Where is that big dick from Boston now, Grady? Where's those two cauliflowers, Grady? Come on, Grady, make that five. Fever in funk, baby. How do ducks go to...

I want to thank everybody for all the birthday wishes. I hope that there's more to come to celebrate. It means a lot to me to be remembered a little. I would write more, but I'm having to deal with a very sick dog who's barking right now and needs my attention. Thank you, everybody, again...

For all those down on Earl, I don't want to get into long ordeal, but I know another side of Earl. To be honest, in my opinion, he hates pool, hates the game he has to play to survive, hates the people around it. Very few people he likes. He would have much rather been a professional golfer...

Playing two-shot/roll-out back in the day, you could roll out, and the player would have the option either to take the shot or not. If he gave me the shot back, if I missed the whole ball, he would have the option to make me shoot it again or he could take the shot himself. Now if I missed it...

Sorry to hear the sad news. Grady reminds me of an old pioneer. He did so much for pool and never seemed to get the credit he deserved. Grady was never afraid to bet his own, put it on the light and play for it. Me and Grady played dice together a lot. He's a hell of a dice man. I have a...

I just woke up and was asked to post about Louie. But I had other information that I was going to tell Jennie. There's a couple action matches going on in Vegas, but I guess the details are supposed to be sequestered, or are they? Hmm... Louie and I were very close. Me and Louie had a lot of...

I remember the cuestick getting stolen vividly. I remember Steve the Whale very well, and he did take the cue. He almost killed me in New York the way he drives in and out of traffic, going 60, 70, 80 miles an hour, worst than any cab driver ever thought about going in New York. And if you...

Just for your interest, JCIN, everything that's been written on this thread was by me. It seems like you got a hard-on for my old lady, but you sort of need to know what you're talking about. It's just like the last time we had words with each other and you didn't even have the integrity to...