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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!

80-50 sounds like an ass kicking going on here. I'm used to seeing Shane do this to others, but like they say, what goes around comes around.

Happened more than once with the Books in England going off for a big number. Engineered by a couple of well known pro players. Silence is golden!

A few more who are left from Buddy's generation include yours truly, Jim Rempe, Billy Incardona, Nick Varner and ? Allen Hopkins is only a few years younger.

"I used to play really good!" Like it was an excuse for not playing good now. I've actually heard young kids use this line. When a twelve year old kid tells you that you have to laugh. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I heard either "I worked my way through college playing pool,"...

We used to call these guys "pool imposters." They would dress the part and act the part, but they couldn't play a lick. Usually it was very hard to get them down, but once in a while one of them stepped out of line or simply got outsmarted. You caught a live one!

Try to do that sometime. It's triple tough!

Buddy and I go back, way way back, to Johnston City and beyond. Sixty years as friends and pool compatriots. I saw so many highs and lows in our times together around the green fields of glory. Buddy was the ultimate pool warrior, fearless in battle and a head above everywhere else. In a field...

I staked Tang in that tourney. In the Winner's bracket final they were both at their best. Buddy won the match 11-9 but I was so proud of Tang for how he played. When they played the final Buddy suggested a "saver" with Tang, telling me afterwards he knew Tang was capable of beating him.

My father was a urologist and believed in the Hippocratic Oath he took. He treated everyone who came to him whether they had money or not. He never turned anyone away who needed his help. I was proud to be his son.

Ray Martin is still alive at 90! Still playing pool and giving lessons too.

That could be a Tom O'Connor cue. Tom mentored under Burt Schrager in the late 80's, early 90's and then struck out on his own. He mostly sold cues to the bar league players around Los Angeles, in the low to mid hundreds range. Tom moved his shop to Ridgecrest, CA in the 2000's and continued...