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Can't you just have some fun playing low stakes, sociable pool? that's what most of us do and we enjoy ourselves.


big $$$ pool is addictive, social pool is fun. two different worlds



I dont have lots of experience in big $$$ pool yet, only one $10,000 set race to 9-2, I got drilled, but I have played lots of 2-5K sets won some lost some. for me i love the big $$$ and love how I play when i'm in that spot, I cant imagine how hard it would be to lay that down, i have only tested those waters and I like it-so that will be my new thing, more big $$$ pool. And save that shit it dont matter to me cause you have $$, I lost over 70M this year, to me $100 now is the same as it was 15 years ago when I was busted, I have only had $$$ for 20% of my life. So yeah it hurts and I have alot to learn, but this is about Grady-I only mention myself to prove a point-I lost my passion Bodybuilding, now i'm getting ready for big $$$ pool-and not like Dippy dave all due respect-I'm playing to win.

I cried the last time I was at the gym and I knew body building was over, sure I can go to the gym and circuit train and be social but that wasnt me, so goinng back to the gym to be something I never was is gonna be hard. I like hardcore gyms where the smallest guy is me at 250 hard and full of roids. I dont like chrome plated gyms with starbucks at the entrance and a car wash.

Grady played 40 years of big action, was busted a time or two, but awalys got pumped up and bet more than 99% of anyone who holds a cue(no matter how big their bankroll is), its a rush playing big $$$ like that, just like pushing your body to its limit and then some(that feeling is addictive as sex). So for Grady to go down swinging may look ugly, isnt graceful, it wasnt for Tyson, MJ, Ali, none of them because you cant get the fight out of the dog-even if the dog is broken. yeah I know first hand when BBing was taken away from me. So while it PC or nice if Grady or any other gladatior of out sport goes down the hard way at least he did it his way a free man, not a crowd pleaser. To just lie down after 40 years and say gee I did good aint a fighter, how do you take the fight out of someone who has been a fighter his whole life??? you dont. Let it look ugly, history will forget that-they wont forget the Grady the fighter.


Grady endured more loss this year than perhaps any year of his life, and he is still a spirited warriorer and to say "its bad for the reputation of pool" is wrong, whats wrong with on man going down swinging??? it will be forgotten, look at howard Vickory nobody noticed for 8 months he was missing, I knew the story 7 months before while he was on the run-I didnt say anything(I forwarned Mike Howerton and Mr. Wilson). So whats better slip away like Howard(forget the bad reason) or go down swinging??? In BBing I slipped away as I had to stop and I dont like that but I had no choice, grady does so I support his decision.


thats how I see it
 
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Why would he waste his time ,now that he knows who he is dealing with?He might end up winning a pile of IOU .

I get defensive about things like this and I will tell a story about Grady I witnessed first hand.
In the 70's not sure exactly when, Grady had a room in Clorado Springs and another along with Frannk and Geraldine Titcomb up in Aurora Colorado, 70 miles north.
Jack Cooney and couldn't get any action inColorado and Grad having not played in several months agreed to play.
Grady had his car stolen and no transportation except hiw motor cycle.
They agreed to play on Tuesday night I believe, and Grady showed up to play at the set time.
What is the big deal bout that? It was only -15 degrees outside. jack allowed about an hour for him to thaw and quit shaking and then they played from app. 8 pm until daylight.
So before anyonegets too crazyhere. think bout any other warrior who woulddo that today?That is the kind of stubborn,crazy, SOB he is . With all due repect to Grady.
 
Fatboy is correct

I'm probably one of only a handful of people in this country that would be close to Grady for playing high dollar pool, and Fatboy made the statement that high dollar pool is addictive, and that is a fact. I certainly never had near Grady's talent but we are roughly the same age and what little skills I've had over the past 50 years are fading fast as I know Grady's are, but we both are still addicted to playing high dollar pool. Grady obviously has some health issues too and very few have given that much consideration. Grady I sincerely wish you would move your business to Louisiana where no pool rooms go out of business because of the high video poker revenues, please give it some thought. The many people that continue to bash you on this site simply can't understand a warrior's heart, but I do, and I wish you the best in the future. :wink::D:wink:
 
Is Grady's recent behavior at Kolby's then subsequent postings here on AzB "warrior" like? :confused:

Best,
Brian kc
 
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I'm probably one of only a handful of people in this country that would be close to Grady for playing high dollar pool, and Fatboy made the statement that high dollar pool is addictive, and that is a fact. I certainly never had near Grady's talent but we are roughly the same age and what little skills I've had over the past 50 years are fading fast as I know Grady's are, but we both are still addicted to playing high dollar pool. Grady obviously has some health issues too and very few have given that much consideration. Grady I sincerely wish you would move your business to Louisiana where no pool rooms go out of business because of the high video poker revenues, please give it some thought. The many people that continue to bash you on this site simply can't understand a warrior's heart, but I do, and I wish you the best in the future. :wink::D:wink:

I don't think anyone is condemning Grady for having a warriors heart. The main point in all of this is that Mike Tyson started a fight, offered to do that fight with one hand behind his back, got his ass kicked, cried like a little girl about it, and then started taunting the other fighter and wanted to do
fight over excapg this time he's not going to wear gloves.

In all fairness, if Tyson had just handled the situation like a warrior should, no one would say a thing and would be in his corner the next time around.
MULLY
 
I;m another one that doesn't like seeing an icon of pool reduced to the level of a common pickpocket. If the intent was simply to determine the better player on any given day.....then both parties involved would have made a legit attempt to provide the other with a match as free from variables as possible. The moment either or both began discussing anything other than a heads up match under optimum conditions .....It became a hustle and a pissing match. The outcome was about ego.....not cash. If Grady caved and agreed to play while knowing he was probably going to be sub-par in performance......he was looking to feed his ego....and not his wallet. The talk of unknown equipment and lack of sleep would have been used as salt in his opponents wounds, and fodder for yet more 3rd party stories about what a champ Grady is/was. But he lost....so now what would have been a wonderful boast.....turns to sour grape biaoching......A smart man would never have taken the game to begin with, and an honerable man will take his loss like a man......without excuses. Yes the guy that invited him and then hustled him is morally banckrupt......but a sore loser is a classless player........Dan
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I cried the last time I was at the gym and I knew body building was over,

That's the best line I've read in a while....lol

Not sure you got it, though. I think he was alluding to his bad back that causes him to be in a lot of pain these days.

Best,
Brian kc
 
This whole saga reminds me that we now live in a culture of litigation, where no one is responsible for themselves or their actions.
If you badly need $5g's you could always go spill hot coffee on yourself and sue McDonalds :)

How true, sad but true. :sorry:
 
Color of money...part 2

Eddie Felson: How much did you take off Moselle? I heard a hundred...
Vincent Lauria: One Fifty!
Eddie Felson: [sarcastically] A hundred and fifty?
Vincent Lauria: That's right, a hundred and fifty.
Vincent Lauria: You walk into a shoe store with a hundred and fifty bucks, you come out with one shoe! We were working on five thousand!

Grady I hear since you lost to Jimmy you've got action now in Atlantic city
 
ex·co·ri·ate (k-skôr-t, -skr-)
tr.v. ex·co·ri·at·ed, ex·co·ri·at·ing, ex·co·ri·ates
1. To tear or wear off the skin of; abrade. See Synonyms at chafe.
2. To censure strongly; denounce: an editorial that excoriated the administration for its inaction.

Learn something new every day...thanks Grady!
 
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