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Since that represents maybe 90 percent of pool played, it would be the end of all pool so to speak. Bar pool and leagues saved the game from total extinction.

Pool rooms that are run by people who act like they don't like their customers and don't know anything about the game.

I'm like 99% Abe Rich made it. If you measure the joint and find that it has no taper that could be a giveaway. Abe didn't own a metal lathe and most of his joints stainless and brass were just made from tubes. I knew Abe since I was a teenager and used to go to a shop often even when he was in...

That one has a bit of truth to it. I often beat none players with a broom handle. Poncho (Vince) played real good with a broom. He also played good with the bumper end of the cue. Also one handed. I know what the original poster means though. As a pool room owner I always heard the paid my way...

Essentially any tourney back then was just an excuse to get players in the same place at the same time to gamble.

The tournament's back then were worth so little. Look up the prize money at Johnston City you think those guys were there for the prize money? In fact the US Open straight pool tournament in the seventies had first prize of like $4,000. Meantime in Miami guys like Mike Corella are playing $300...

I knew so many of those players back then that gambled and travel hustling pool on the road and many had real talent but could care less. They reached the level that suited their needs and they weren't putting in 8 hours a day on the table to try and be the world's best or break any records.

I think the players from years ago could play with today's players assuming they adapted to modern style of play. I don't think it is a matter of less talent. Old time players were mostly gamblers and played different because they didn't value any one game or set that much. Tournament play is...

I read in a Facebook post by his sister that Grover Lions died in January. Some may have known him he was a room owner in the south Florida area and a very good player. It said that he and his wife died literally days apart. Does anybody know any details about this?

You know there's many aspects to people's lives. Louie was also a Vietnam veteran and a sergeant in the Air Force. In fact I think he's buried in a national cemetery. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81369476/francis-l-roberts

Sadly about a year later after that match Louie would be dead.I Played Louie in a tournament just a few years before that and he was so messed up I asked Grady who was running the tournament should we just play later? Grady just looked at me and said go ahead and play he's not going to be any...

I don't know how many people know how good a player he was. He was considered the best bar box player alive at one time. He gave me the 6 and ran out the set In a race to seven. I never shot. His loss is sad to hear, very nice guy.

Maybe there needs to be a new category for those players of the game from that era. He may not have won a lot of big tournaments, but I guarantee he beat all those players who did. That's got to be good for something.

I was trying to look it up. Is Ronnie in the BCA hof?

Just laying here watching Tubi and I found Hard Times is on it the list of movies. I used to have Hard Times on cassette and Danny DiLiberto used to ask me to put it on almost every time he came in. He liked old movies like Casablanca and so on but I think his favorite contemporary movie was...

Ronnie Sypher told a guy "if you heart was white, you couldn't find it in a salt shaker".

I have over the years shipped quite a few cues. I have used FedEx tubes combined with PVC. Also a cue of any real value I would only ship overnight regardless of cost.

Almost got arrested in france. I was in a place looking to play and I guess it became pretty obviously I was some sort of Hustler and they called the police on me. I don't think the French Gamble at least not at pool. And I definitely don't like Americans.

I just saw this the other day. I got an email from him just last month. Things can sure happen fast, you never know. I have been doing some reading and it sounds like the surgery has a high success rate. I guess every case is different but let's wish him the best and hope next year at this time...

Stick & Stein I think. Long time ago.