cool thread, and nice post jay..
love to read about the history and all the great players that came through-
love to read about the history and all the great players that came through-
Pool tournaments history 1990s
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I'm Pretty sure it was the same year. I got it a little wrong. Efren did win in Hollywood (Roger was second) and Roger knocked him out at the Sands. I remember we watched the Buster Douglass-Mike Tyson fight during the Hollywood tournament. Douglas had been a 30-1 underdog and went off at 20-1. After it was over, Danny Diliberto (a great fighter himself) said something I never forgot, "A bad fighter in good condition will beat a good fighter in bad condition!"
Here are some results (top two only) from the Cue Sports Journal, a local magazine which was published for three or four years in the 1990s. These results are from before the CSJ started publishing.
Here are the results and some report from Sands XVII. The final went hill-hill.
Well worth mentioning re 1990's tourneys IMO are the annual ones that were (and I think still are) held as part of Allen Hopkins' springtime expositions initially in New Jersey then in several Philly-area venues (Valley Forge, etc.)
I remember one match there -- crowded with bleacher spectators -- between Earl and Johnny Archer, and mid-match Earl's trailing badly and very frustrated, turns to the crowd and quite audibly says "I was doing great in all the tournaments till this guy [Archer] came along."
Arnaldo
I remember one match there -- crowded with bleacher spectators -- between Earl and Johnny Archer, and mid-match Earl's trailing badly and very frustrated, turns to the crowd and quite audibly says "I was doing great in all the tournaments till this guy [Archer] came along."
Arnaldo