Banking with the beard?

CeaseLess

CeaseLess

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Bank pool is my favorite game and I'm starting to play one pocket and wanted to look around for some information on banks and one book that kept coming up was ''banking with the beard". I heard nothing but good things about it and decided to pick it up from pooldawg.com. They accidentally sent me the banking with the beard 2 disk DVD instructional instead, double the price. Has anyone read/seen the book and/or the movie? Deciding if I should return it for the book or if the DVD is better. Thanks in advance.
 
Never saw the movie, the book is handy. I don't care for pool instructional books in general that aren't spiral bound so they lay flat on the pool table though.

If it was me I would just reorder the book. I suspect there is plenty of pool goodness in the disks and I know the book is worth the money.

Hu
 
I have the book in front of me. I was looking for a collection of Banks That Look Like They Don't Go - I don't recall if that's another book. I don't play banks so If one comes up I need to take, I just aim it.
 
Fred was introduced to me as "Freddy the Banker" in the 60's at the infamous stardust lounge owned by a redneck named george walker who had a much younger, blonde, attractive wife who was excellent at being a distraction when required

perhaps he thought that handle knocked his action and that might be why "Freddy the Beard" came about

On topic: i picked up his book and found it informative
 
CeaseLess said:
Bank pool is my favorite game and I'm starting to play one pocket and wanted to look around for some information on banks and one book that kept coming up was ''banking with the beard". I heard nothing but good things about it and decided to pick it up from pooldawg.com. They accidentally sent me the banking with the beard 2 disk DVD instructional instead, double the price. Has anyone read/seen the book and/or the movie? Deciding if I should return it for the book or if the DVD is better. Thanks in advance.
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if you are serious about learning about banking you should have everything freddy put out
one nugget extra from one of his products could win you a match
jmho
 
About 90% of my time at the pool table is shooting banks, and "Banking with the Beard" is my favorite instructional pool book. I highly recommend it. I don't have any of Freddie's DVDs, so I can't compare the two.
 
lakeman77 said:
To be honest, I have the books, seen the dvd's and took a lesson from Freddy. Still can't bank :)
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I had to genuinely laugh at your last line. I think we have all been there!

Many years ago I played around with Freddy's book and Virtual Pool, two or three, I don't remember. I went to the pool hall and got on a blue label or upgraded red label nine foot Diamond. When banks came up I immediately recognized them and with very little adjustment from the computer screen they went in nicely.

Incidentally, last I knew Bugs had all three disks of his instruction on youtube. It is called an introduction or disk one but it rolls into disks two and three also. An amazing banker. Heard tell it didn't take a bunch of takes for most shots. If the videos are still up I would go watch them while they are. Hours of banking goodness.

Hu
 
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