im sure someone out there has got something outrageous... even if its relative like you saw jimmy moore playing luther lassiter for 10k in 1965... thats hella action ... that would be like playing for 100k now... bet it up
HitHrdNDraw said:im sure someone out there has got something outrageous... even if its relative like you saw jimmy moore playing luther lassiter for 10k in 1965... thats hella action ... that would be like playing for 100k now... bet it up
JAM said:Rosey from Detroit versus Keith McCready. 360,000 jellybeans or 360 bags of sand, as they say in forum-ese!
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Smorgass Bored said:SJM broke my heart with:
In short, the highest stake I've ever seen played for is "one Chinese restaurant."
For the love of God...what happened to the BUFFET ?
JAM said:Rosey from Detroit versus Keith McCready. 360,000 jellybeans or 360 bags of sand, as they say in forum-ese!
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hemicudas said:Those NYers know nothing about BUFFETS, Smorg. All Ala carte' and you better bring more than a few bags of jellybeans. I so miss Pancho's in NOLA.
sjm said:Hemi, Smorgie:
You're right,of course. For the most part, the only buffets I've been to are the ones in Vegas. Here in NYC, you don't even get a free soda refill. Now that's a crying shame!
jay helfert said:...One score I was in on that was interesting was when Keith played Lebron in the finals of the B.C. Open in 1985. Mike was the U.S. Open Champion that year so he could play a little. This was a huge tournament back then with a first prize of 25K and 10K for second. Lebron came to Keith before the match and wanted to save 5K, making it 20 for first and 15 for second. Keith came to me and told me about this offer (I was Keith's backer). I asked him what he wanted to do. His reply was pure Keith, "I'd like to play him for the whole thing". Meaning all 35K. I told him to go back and tell this to Mike. He did so and Mike nearly had a fit. Totally psyched him out and Keith bombed him something like 11-3 in the Finals.
JAM said:I'm familiar with this tourney, and what always puzzled me was how in the world the tournament promoters came up with cutting up the monies like this, i.e., $25,000 for first place and only $10,000 for second place. That seems odd to me.
Keith said that at that time, this was the BIGGEST payout not only in his pool-playing career, but he thought it was the largest tournament payout in existence, at least in the States. I did ask Spanish Mike about the 1985 BC Open, and he was quick to tell me that the reason he lost is because he miscued against Keith, and he is very emphatic about this being the real reason he lost. Gotta give Spanish Mike his kudos though for winning the U.S. Open at the age of 54. Look at Efren and Jose Parica, both now in their fifties, and they're still going strong.
After the big win for Keith, he told everybody in the house that the drinks were on him, and he followed through and paid a $1,200-plus bar tab, before they all flew off into the wild blue yonder to Vegas. There were some celebrities at the BC Open who enjoyed the festivities, too, some prominent golfers and entertainers.
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