Looking For Names Of Left Handed Pro Players...

troi said:

Hi All,

I am a lefty and have always wanted to analyze the styles of left handed pro players.

One of the things I have been meaning to do for the longest time is look at a few left handed players on Accu-Stats, YouTube etc...

The only players that come to mind are Jack "Jersey Red" Breit and Art "Babe" Cranfield; And they aren't on any Accu-Stats video!

They say your memory is the first thing to go, and I am having the hardest time remembering some of the other left handed pro players.

Can anyone help me out?!

-T

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ajrack said:

Ed Kelly, 1970(or '69) Straight Pool World Champ. I do not rmember which year. I saw Ed run 489 without missing a ball or playing a safe. He was playing Dick Lane in Vegas for $100 a game race to 100 ///and ran 89 and out / then 4 > 100's in a row with no safetys. Dick said he's thru, then Jim Mataya jumped up and hit Dick with another 100 the next game!

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TXsouthpaw said:

Ive always loved watchin rodney play. if anyone I try to emulate his pattern play and stroke.


FYI sigel is only lefty when it comes to pool. He thought being right handed meant you
bridge with your right hand on the table so thats how he learned to shoot. Hes righty in every other aspect.

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ajrack said:

Ed Kelly, 1970(or '69) Straight Pool World Champ. I do not rmember which year. I saw Ed run 489 without missing a ball or playing a safe. He was playing Dick Lane in Vegas for $100 a game race to 100 ///and ran 89 and out / then 4 > 100's in a row with no safetys. Dick said he's thru, then Jim Mataya jumped up and hit Dick with another 100 the next game!

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blah blah said:

If the probability of a person being left handed is .11, then in a room with 100 poolplayers, there should be 11 left- handed people, right? My friend got me on no less than 2 signed dollars at 2 different big tournaments on this bet. First she said that there would be more than 15% lefty's, and I bet there would be less (thinking that .11 plus another .4 would cover me easily.) Yes, we watched and counted- the tourney was out of our league. On the second signed dollar bet, different tourney, she even upped the %age to be more in my favor- something ridiculous, like 30%, but I forget exactly what. And yes, I lost again.

There are way more left handed poolplayers in any random sample than there ought to be- I don't know why. Maybe it's the creative thinking, I really really don't know. Maybe my best friend just cheats (a huge possibility). But I'm not betting her any more on this one- she can just kick rocks.

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