SO are you saying that he can't confirm your story??? IMAGINE THAT! I"LL buy your book like I said, if you promise to put it in the fiction section. As for the t-shirt, I think I will pass, but thanks anyway.freddy the beard said:
Biggest Air Barrels you have ever seen or heard of !!!
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billychips said:
Billychipps, Freddy,
Billy you said "Artie" when you meant "Archie" To Freddy Artie is Artie Bodendorfer (sp) A safe playing one pocket monster from Chicago who Steve Cook used to say was one of the top 1pkt players in the last 30 years. Many a player detoured around him. I believe he is a succesful sports handicapper in Vegas now. Archie is still able to get down and not to knock his action I play about a ball better than him when I am playing, but he bets about a digit or two higher than me. I know for a fact he played 50k a game nineball versus the owl. A lot of high stakes poker players play pretty good. Here is a partial list of pool playing poker players.
John Hennigan (roadie 80's to 90's)
Nick Shulman (Good New York player beat Archer in a race to 11)
Bill Blanda (Played in the skins game two years ago)
Toupee Jay Helfert (our very own profilic poster)
Tang Hoa (One of the best pool players on the left coast when he plays)
Josh Arieh (Not a great pool player but he will bet it up)
Cole Dickson (played as well as anyone in the 70's a 9ball and 1pkt monster)
Harry Platis (one of the highest rollers in the US.)
Amarillo Slim (Played onepocket pretty sporty I hear)
Chris Gentile (Chicago player played jam up)
Pokerhammer (Just ask him)
Any others anyone can think of I am curious I run into a lot of poker players who want to match up playing pool
Huck
huckster said:
He makes a living off poker. From what I hear, he is a great card player.
The biggest air barrel
The biggest air barrel I've heard of was from a friend in the Carolinas who told me about a big golf match in North Carolina a few years back. Shannon Daulton, Mike Coltrain, and a ringer they brought in from Georgia played a local pro named "Chew tobacca" and a big bookie at golf. The story went that the ringer laid down pretty good but played well enough to be up on these guys about 4-5 thousand on the back nine. Apparently after teeing off on a hole Daulton, Coltrain, and the other guy went one way towards their tee shots and the other two went another way. Long story short, the two that were down high tailed it toward the club house, left their carts in the parking lot and left the course without paying. lol
The biggest air barrel I've heard of was from a friend in the Carolinas who told me about a big golf match in North Carolina a few years back. Shannon Daulton, Mike Coltrain, and a ringer they brought in from Georgia played a local pro named "Chew tobacca" and a big bookie at golf. The story went that the ringer laid down pretty good but played well enough to be up on these guys about 4-5 thousand on the back nine. Apparently after teeing off on a hole Daulton, Coltrain, and the other guy went one way towards their tee shots and the other two went another way. Long story short, the two that were down high tailed it toward the club house, left their carts in the parking lot and left the course without paying. lol
cuetechasaurus said:
I play for a living and I play pretty high (25/50 NLHE, 300/600 limit mixed games I play as high as 1k/2k mixed games during the series) and I have never ran into him. I play in Cali, Vegas, AC, and the Indian Casinos and poker is alot like the pool world, if you play long enough (I have been playing for a living since 99) you know who the winning players are at each level. Don't get me wrong I know Mark Tadd is a champion pool player, but pool players like John Hennigan are winning players at every level they play at. I have been fortunate enough to be a winning player at every level except the few times I attempted to move up to the highest level in the world (4k/8k) Each time I moved up to that level I sold some of my action and I had to move down within a few weeks. I am very happy crushing the 200/400,300/600,400/800 games instead of eeking out a living at 1k/2k and above. I am curious where and what level Mark Tadd plays at. The two most succesful cash game players that used to be pool players are Cornflakes, and Nick "the takeover" Schulman. I never considered myself a pool player.
huckster said:
I read his post wrong. Archie, Artie, whatever, ain't nobody going to verify this story. I don't doubt that he won 100k, just not the way he is saying. Anyway, I am done with this whole subject. Good luck with the poker. It sounds like if you stick to the 400/800 you are going to get rich. Nothing wrong with that! What do you thin separate you from being able to win in the big game?
I won 200k
My friend, I won 100k the first night! I later won another 100k (200k was all he had on his person -- it was all in chips) and then got stiffed for 800k more because my partners were a little weak kneed.
the Beard
billychips said:
My friend, I won 100k the first night! I later won another 100k (200k was all he had on his person -- it was all in chips) and then got stiffed for 800k more because my partners were a little weak kneed.
the Beard
Uh huh! It only gets better.freddy the beard said:
He is not talking about Shannon Daulton. The Daulton he is speaking about is obviously a lot older, and has little class. Dumping a stakehorse, and pool players wonder why npbody trusts them???DRW said: