Where did this story get started? I remember Lassiter describing how he ran into Bud Hypes in Mullins, WVA and played him for three days or so before he got even. As I recall they played on a 4X8 which was what Bud was accustomed to playing on. Now I hear a story that Bud beat Wimpy 8 out of 9 times. I just don't think it happened. I think it was just as Wimpy described. It took him two or three days of playing to get back even. He told other hustlers to scratch Mullins off their list.
Bud Hypes beat Wimpy?
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NO ONE could ever beat Bud Hypes in his home room on the 8' table. He did beat quite a few good players until the word got around. Wimpy may have tried him once or twice and given up. He was smart enough to know when he had bad action.
9BallBanger
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In 1993 I went to the barber shop that Bud owned in Mullens WV, and saw the pool tables he played on. There were newspaper articles framed, hanging on the wall, with different dates on them; publicizing different victories Bud had over Luther. Bud busted many a road player in his day.
Back in Bud's hay day, he won dozens of brand new cars off road players. He became notorious for busting players and giving them redemption by allowing them to put up their car titles against part of his winnings. If they lost, he'd buy them bus tickets back home. He won several almost brand new Hudson Hornets. Road players would get pumped up hitting up the little towns up and down the Virginias, Pennsylvania, and Ohio; and be pumped up good hitting honey holes (6-7k$ in the 1950s), and spend half their bank rolls on a brand new Hudson. Over the course of over a decade, some guys lost 3 or 4 vehicles to him, as they told themselves: "There's NO WAY the cook at the diner next door CAN BEAT ME like this!". He definitely got their noses open, got the bet up, and then got them to chase their money!
Bud just wasn't the cook, he was the owner of the diner, the barber shop, the pool tables, the shoe shine stands, the garage, and the small warehouse that was a toy factory for the kids of Mullens WVa; that was behind the building that Bud owned and had turned into strip mall. The diner, the barber shop, small 2 table pool room with shoe shine stands, and the auto garage; were in what today, would be considered a strip mall. HE GOT IT ALL FROM PLAYING POOL!
There's a reason why Lassiter told his inner circle to scratch Mullens off their list!
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