belmicah said:
I watched Mike Zimmerman pull his hair out trying to come up with a way to slow him down last year in Portland at the Nite Hawk. It was the finals, and Dan was breaking perfectly every time with the wing ball and one ball going in literally every time with the cue ball squatting like a duck.
Every time he came up (after running out another rack) to inspect the rack, he would find a hair-line space in the rack and make Mike rerack, just to snap and run out again. He was amazing. When he is ON; You can't hook him, You can't loose rack him, you can't out run him.
Danny has been everyone's hero here in the NW, including Mike's. It was a big day when he finally beat Danny. Later, I watched an amazing feat where Mike 9-zipped Danny at the Casino Club (where the book "Playing off the Rail"'s Seattle chapter took place) on 9 footers with awesome safety play.
Amazingly, in all the open tournaments I have been in, I have only played Danny once. We giggled so hard during the match because the strangest things kept happening. It was a fun match, even though I got drilled.
When we first met, I told him that someone asked if we were siblings, so it kind of stuck that we were brother and sister for awhile, and people called me Linda Louie.
After winning a minor tournament back in the early 80's, I decided to reinvest my winnings and get a lesson from Danny. I was going from big ball little table 8 ball to small ball big table 9 ball and wanted to know how the cueball reacted coming off different rails. His reply? "Just shoot a million of them and find out!" Well, that was what I was hoping his lesson would give me some insight into. Since then, well I guess I have hit a million!
I think like Mike, it is hard to break down the actions, everything just came intuitively from "hitting a million of them."
When Danny owned the Chinese restaurant in West Seattle, it became a favorite place for players to come get great food. The Ashton twins and I made countless trips there. After a Seattle WPBA stop, everyone packed the place and sang karaoke. Jeanette Lee, Allison, Helena, Belinda - all were there. Here is a pic of Allison and Bonnie Arnold singing karaoke. Sorry, I did not fix Bonnie's red eye. Danny is in the background trying to fine-tune the sound system.
I talked to Danny yesterday because I am trying to put a BCA team together and Danny has committed to playing with Mike Z., possibly Todd Marsh and JD, so that should be the start of a pretty good team.
I will post a couple more photos for you.