Best display of cueing you've ever seen

Island Drive said:
I saw this match from beginning to end live, and Darren didn't mention being tired/fatigued at the beginning of his video. I'm gonna watch it and see if that's mentioned.
He was trying to save a little energy when needed, the 2 pocketed 9 ball scrapers told me so.

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really enjoyed that...thanks
 
sjm said:
Wow, must have been ages ago. Andam was fairly well known by the mid-1990s. I believe his ranking on the Pro Billiards Tour in 1997 went as high as #2. He was a superb cueist. Like Luat and Lining, his reputation was below Parica, Reyes and Bustamante, but all six of them were stone cold killers.

Funny to remember how even the greatest were once under the radar. I saw Earl Strickland play in New York City in 1980 when he was an unknown 19-year-old. He wouldn't be unknown for much longer.
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Andam came thru CO in the 80's Medina ducked em, I got to see him play.
Much better game than me, woulda asked for the 6.
I was an unknown and beat Earl in 79 :). 4 sets races to 11.... 9 ball/2 shot roll out. I'll never forget that. Was in great shape then and still doin' my roadwork. Played for 6+ hours straight.
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J SCHWARZ said:
In one pocket Danny Smith winning an 8 ahead set against Chip Compton in two hours at High Pockets. Chip never had a peak at anything and Danny got out from everywhere. That same weekend Danny beat JJ a banks set and tore though Justin Hall at banks when he was considered the top $ banker in the country. All sets were big $$.
In banks a young Billy Thorpe matching up with Tony Ferguson at 11 ball banks. Other than a few dry breaks Billy got out almost everytime he walked to the table. Billy was banking them a 100 mph and smacking the back of the pocket every shot. He was hitting 2 and 3 railers like they were hangers. Tony had absolutely no quit and and burned through 3 different bankrolls. Billy played Omar Alshaheen sets of short rack banks at Derby one year. Billy either broke and ran 5 or left Omar needing every ball at the table every game.
At Smoking Aces $2000 entry race to 15 bar table 9Ball tournament Rob Saez ran a 9 pack in one match, an 8 pack in another, and a 13 pack in the first set of the finals. What set it apart was he didn't pattern rack or soft break. Just racked em quick and smashed em.
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Tony has always said that people can come and win everything if they can beat him.
 
I think the best play I've ever seen is around 1985 when Efren was was hanging around the pool room with Mike LeBron and Parica. For 3 days Efren was giving tremendous weight to top local players many of them tournament players, the kind of weight they probably never been offered before. You can count on one hand the number of balls he for missed in 3 days.

Even Miz drove down a couple of nights. I'm sitting next to Miz and honestly he is marveling at what we're watching. I'm not sure if he hadn't driven down planning to maybe match up but all he did was sit in the chair and drink diet soda.
 
My road dog produced the second best,, and it was on a bar table. Finished out a dry break by the other pair, then seven break and runs. There was a lot more after that. We were up thirteen games when I had shot a few balls twice! that's when he became my road dog.

Playing Johnny Archer, barroom again. He called the pocket eight on the break three times. Fourth time it rolled up to the same pocket and stopped in the jaws, didn't rattle just ran out of gas. Sounds funny but I had never heard of Johnny Archer so after I won a few games, break and runs nothing fancy, I let him swing his stick. No reasonable shot. He waggled his cue stick around a couple minutes telling me it was no accident then kicked eight rails including both end rails to hit his ball perfectly. Again a matter of just ran out of gas, his ball stopped in the jaws of the pocket he was shooting at.

That eight rail kick with all of the angles perfect and over ten balls still on the seven foot bar table creating traffic remains the best shot I have ever seen live or video. If I combine it with three golden breaks out of four, the first four times he ever shot on that table and fresh in out of the cold, that was the most amazing string I ever saw. There was a reason he was named the player of the nineties!

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Island Drive said:
Andam came thru CO in the 80's Medina ducked em, I got to see him play.
Much better game than me, woulda asked for the 6.
I was an unknown and beat Earl in 79 :). 4 sets races to 11.... 9 ball/2 shot roll out. I'll never forget that. Was in great shape then and still doin' my roadwork. Played for 6+ hours straight.
bm
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Great stuff, Bill. Thanks for sharing.
 
watching lou run over 100 balls in less than 15 minutes regularly without looking over or thinking about shots.

or seeing steve call all the pockets and where his cue ball would be for each one in a 9 ball game after the break.
 
Watching my two favorite players play each other, one of the best moments ever....
Sorry for the poor quality of the picture, back then cameras were not that great and I was a bad photographer...

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Frosty said:
Leonardo Andam. A pair of stakehorses brought him into a hall in Northern Virginia looking for action before most knew who he was. Danny Green had carved out a spot there doing cue repair and selling cues. He matched up with Andam playing 10 ahead for $1000. Andam broke and ran 10 racks, it took 28 minutes. Danny looked at me as he was putting his cue in his case. He shrugged and said “I dogged the coin toss”.
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Is Andam the Filipino that died early in some sort of wreck?
 
Frosty said:
Leonardo Andam. A pair of stakehorses brought him into a hall in Northern Virginia looking for action before most knew who he was. Danny Green had carved out a spot there doing cue repair and selling cues. He matched up with Andam playing 10 ahead for $1000. Andam broke and ran 10 racks, it took 28 minutes. Danny looked at me as he was putting his cue in his case. He shrugged and said “I dogged the coin toss”.
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If I was the 'Stakehorse' I would have been Pissed!

So much for his 'Hustling' skills!
 
LeftyIke said:
I saw Miami run out Three straight times playing One-Pocket, for Big Dollars, One-Handed! I saw Bugs run 5 straight Racks in One-Pocket giving up the Nuts! Like Three and Four “Hit and the Pick” for much cash!
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Agusate was the Best One-Handed player ever playing 'Rotation' games!

Artie B. beat Him, both playing with the wing 1 hole and Last pocket 8 ball at the Northshore club in Chicago!
 
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