age pros started playing

I think we have to define, playing pool, and playing more serious pool.

I played pool some as a kid on friends tables, and as a teen, i'm sure like many do. Should I count this? Or when I got sucked into it, Hook-line and sinker, when I was 21? (Bar's) Thats when I started playing in Tourneys, Leagues, and buying equipment to assist me on the road to becoming a pro! :D
 
John, howmany yrs was it before you turned pro? Howmany hours a day did you play when ou got serious?

I know Lori Jon Jones started when she was 4. Her dad built a a stand around the table so she could shoot.
 
Inaction said:
Shane started at 18 months, I first heard of him when he was 6. I was the lucky one to be his first opponent in his first State tournament. He was very capable of getting out from the break then. 8 ball or 9 ball. Two years later he was runner up in his division.
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Hmmm.... at the Derby City, I asked him when he started and he said when he was 2 years old, climbed up on the table... etc.
 
I started when I was about 15. Leagues at 18, tournies at 20. First national title soon after.

Oh wait. Oh hell, that was a really nice dream there........:(
 
Dont get me started on Jeanette.... she used to come down and play pool and many other things in a room in Deer Park, NY. does she mention that in her book, or how she got to be so good??
 
stevekur1 said:
Dont get me started on Jeanette.... she used to come down and play pool and many other things in a room in Deer Park, NY. does she mention that in her book, or how she got to be so good??
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feel free to elighten us...
 
Flex said:
Hmmm.... at the Derby City, I asked him when he started and he said when he was 2 years old, climbed up on the table... etc.
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Shane must know.


http://www.billiardsdigest.com/current_issue/feb_08/
By Mason King

Deaf since birth, Van Boening grew up in a world defined more by sight than sound.
[Photo by Lawrence Lustig]

SHANE VAN BOENING, 18 months old, perched in a captain?s chair in his grandfather?s poolhall and watched the white ball chase the colored balls around the table. No fussing. No wandering. Just watching.
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reading further into the article it continues...
Months later, at Christmas, his grandfather ripped the wrapping paper off of a big box and said, ?C?mere, Shane.? It was a 2-by-4-foot pool table, with miniature balls and stick.
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chilli66 said:
Wow. You know, you see all these so called "feel good" sports movies but that would be a great one. Best part is it's true! Maybe that'll be the next movie to give pool a jump start!
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I was also thinking that the SVB story would make a great movie as I read that article. It could end with Shane winning the US Open and 15 or so years from now there could be a sequel.

Steve
 
sde said:
I was also thinking that the SVB story would make a great movie as I read that article. It could end with Shane winning the US Open and 15 or so years from now there could be a sequel.

Steve
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Absolutely. I'd pay to see that. I'd just be curious to see how the general public might recieve it. I honestly think they might go for it.
 
Wow, I just got back in town and noticed all the great replies. thanks John S. and everyone else. ps I won the tournament :D
 
9baller said:
Wow, I just got back in town and noticed all the great replies. thanks John S. and everyone else. ps I won the tournament :D
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Well done! Sounds like a good Saturday night to me!:D
 
I was 13 when i played for the first time. Use to go to the arcade after school and play on the bar tables they had. I remember getting so excited when I learned how to draw a cue ball. Sure miss them days! :)
 
stevekur1 said:
Dont get me started on Jeanette.... she used to come down and play pool and many other things in a room in Deer Park, NY. does she mention that in her book, or how she got to be so good??
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I honestly couldn't say for certain, I've only read the first chapter or so...it's my sister's book. I know she talks about NY a bit tho...
 
trendkill said:
I honestly couldn't say for certain, I've only read the first chapter or so...it's my sister's book. I know she talks about NY a bit tho...
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Does she have a NEW book out or are you talking about the old one? It's about 10 years old. Johnnyt
 
9baller said:
what age did each pro begin playing? I think a thread like this will be good if we can get a list together. i was wondering about john schmidt specifically, but am interested in all responses. thanks charles
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I've kept my own stats on pool players for almost 37 yrs now. I have way too many to list all of them, so here's some players that most will recognize and when they first started playing pool.
Earl Strickland-9, Luther Lassiter-13, Irving Crane-11, Ralph Greenleaf-8,Frank Taberski-12, Jimmy Caras-6, Shannon Daulton-5, Oliver Ortman-6, Ralf Souquet-6, Allen Hopkins-7, Larry Lisciotti-14, Joe Balsis-8, Cicero Murphy-11, Frank McGown-14, Ed Kelly-15, Dallas West-12, Grady Mathews-13, Billy Incardona-13, Nick Varner-5, Buddy Hall-14, Howard Vickery-14, Mike Sigel-13, Thomas Engert-12, Danny DiLiberto-16, Fong Pang Chao-11, Leonardo Andam-11, Ching Shun Yang-13, Rudolfo Luat-12,
Jim Rempe-6, Eddie Taylor-8, Don Willis-12, Efren Reyes-8, Jose Parica-8, Johnny Archer-11, Francisco Bustamonte-10, Corey Deuel-13, Jimmy Fusco-8, Pat Fleming-15, Kunihiko Takahashi-17, Taleshi Okumura-16, Thorsten Hohmann-11, Evgeny Stalev-10, Johnny Ervolino-10, Bill Staton-22, Pete Margo-14, Johnny Lineen-15, Johnny Vives-15, Bobby Hunter-16, Shawn Putnum-17, Danny Basavich-12, Tommy Kennedy-13, Warren Kiamco-16, Ronnie Alcano-12, Dennis Orcullo-8, Larry Nevel-6, Mark Wilson-18, Ismael Paez-10, Willie Munson-16, Lou Butera-7, Steve Mizerak-4, Al Bonife-22, Marvin Henderson-12, Danny Medina-13, Luc Salvas-5, Leil Gay-6, Scott Frost-16, Jose Garcia-9, Alex Pagulayan-10, Jay Helfert-18, Michael Coltrain-4, Joey Korsiak-12, Marcus Chamet-16, Alex Lely-20, Ernesto Dominguez-14, Jack Colavita-13, Steve Cook-15, Freddy Bentivegna-14, Mark Beilfus-11, Jimmy Moore-12, Jack Breit-14, Louie Roberts-16, Andrew StJean-8, Ronnie Allen-11, Keith McCready-10, Kim Davenport-10, Steve Davis-14, David Howard-9, Richie Florence-10, Mike Zuglan-9Ike Runnels-6, Truman Hogue-11, Jason Miller-11, Glen Rogers-6, Tony Chohan-14, Scotty Townsend-9, Chia Ching Wu-6.
 
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