14.1 Straight Pool is my lastest challenge and when I think about it I am amazed it took this long for me to get engrossed in this game.
I was fortunate enough to be in the live audience in Chicago at the Pick Congress Hotel in 1989 to see Oliver Ortmann beat Steve Mizerak in the U.S. Open. My friend gave me the tickets and I went alone because my friend had something else come up that night and she couldn't make it. She was supposed to go with me. She will probably never know how much that free ticket has changed my life. She will also never know that it took 11 years after that match for me to begin to play serious pool. Further more Denise will never know that it took 20 years for me to get hooked on straight pool!
In 1989, Oliver "The Machine" Ortmann was very young and Steve "The Miz" Mizerak was already a ledgend in the world of pool.
I was a total newby! I loved playing bar pool. To me it was 8 ball on a bar table for a dollar or a beer, some times playing last pocket on the 8 ball to give the lesser skilled guy a better chance of winning. I thought I was a pretty good bar pool player, WOW...was I ever wrong! I only knew who Steve was because of the Miller Lite commercials that made him famous and of course I sort of liked Miller Lite too.
I was fortunate enough to be in the live audience in Chicago at the Pick Congress Hotel in 1989 to see Oliver Ortmann beat Steve Mizerak in the U.S. Open. My friend gave me the tickets and I went alone because my friend had something else come up that night and she couldn't make it. She was supposed to go with me. She will probably never know how much that free ticket has changed my life. She will also never know that it took 11 years after that match for me to begin to play serious pool. Further more Denise will never know that it took 20 years for me to get hooked on straight pool!
In 1989, Oliver "The Machine" Ortmann was very young and Steve "The Miz" Mizerak was already a ledgend in the world of pool.
I was a total newby! I loved playing bar pool. To me it was 8 ball on a bar table for a dollar or a beer, some times playing last pocket on the 8 ball to give the lesser skilled guy a better chance of winning. I thought I was a pretty good bar pool player, WOW...was I ever wrong! I only knew who Steve was because of the Miller Lite commercials that made him famous and of course I sort of liked Miller Lite too.