He has for years said he has a system that he is accepting offers for to beat Vegas, Macau, etc. out of everything. Every interview "the offer isn't big enough yet." I don't think it would be the Ivey system of card imperfections, but who knows. He can't turn down an interview, and everything is a mystery on how and why. Casino hosts don't know anything about his upfront parking space in every casino, or him having his jets taken away.
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I looked on my computer/tv and it's scheduled to run at 11:00 am EST.
Maybe, but he sure was a great player.
He was hustling. Which means trying to survive by any means possible. That could include defrauding folks but that is what hustling really is.
The guy is a total fraud! All BS
Played Joe, George Michaels and Tom Spencer all in one day at Chris'. $5 9-Ball! Spencer was by far the best of the three. He made me quit.
But Joe was probably the most fun! He’s got some great hustling stories from the 70’s. Houston was a magnate for hustlers then!
Just watched just now on Demand.
He was not talking about CJ.....but the other guy Mikki with the wack stories.
That's what social media is for. There you can block anybody that you wish.
I met Joe Gold in Chicago. Never knew that he moved to Houston or even spent time on the road for that matter. True about Houston. LeCue was one of the major poolrooms of that era, mostly because of Greg Stevens challenging the world in there. There were always six to ten top hustlers hanging around LeCue. I stopped in there on two occasions. First time I just watched the action and kept quiet and the second time was when my brother was doing his Internship at Ben Taub Medical Center there. I was playing a lot better by then and got into a game with Steve Gumphrey's. I made a game out of it, but Steve shot a little too straight and relieved me of $100 at ten a game. We remained friends ever since until his untimely death.
Gold/Spencer/Myself became combatant friends during the late sixties. We always played 14.1 in SIU Carbondale IL.
In that era straight pool was the game, as you and I remember. The game of truth! I started playing in 66 in the same room that Hippie Jimmy grew up playing in. Had a shoeshine parlor in the front and a sign. No girls allowed. Smoke filled, and cigarette burns on all the rails. That was pool!
