Any players remember a guy named Crazy Bruce who used to play in Southern California years ago? My friend was telling me all kinds of stories about this guy, pretty funny stuff. I heard that one time he missed a 9-ball, and he yelled to the worker to open the back door. So the guy did, and Bruce went running and jumped off the balcony and fell 10 feet flat on his face. This guy supposedly was a really good player, but he was just nuts.
Crazy Bruce
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Knew him and played him many times. Stories about him can't begin to live up to the reality. I saw him punch himself in the face so hard one night he knocked himself out for a few seconds. I once saw him break a cue over his own head. One day he was standing in the pool room and someone stepped on his shoe, a pair of very expensive white shoes. He said they were no good any more and tore them apart with his teeth. One of the funniest things I saw him do was he broke his cue and now had to play with a house cue. He began collecting all the cues in the room and playing with every cue. He must have broke about a dozen more during the session and would go to the desk and pay for it every time. I used to play him at the Congress Billiards in Miami. When he would be in town you could not get into the pool room he would put on such a show, three in the morning and there was not a parking space by the pool room. It had to be seen to be believed. He was a good player and played a game called "One pocket 9-ball." He would beat world class players at the game. He ran around with a player named Tommy (Doc) Hallady. They were a funny pair. I heard he moved to Cal. and made a lot of money in real-estate. I could tell you dozens of stories about him.
I have to add he did this stuff EVERY time he play and would talk continually. He would say the funniest stuff you ever heard and didn't mind people laughing at him. This was in the early 70's by the way.
I have to add also, none of this has anything to do with him losing. He could have just beaten you 10 in a row and scratched, he may throw the cueball up in the air and let it bounce off his head.
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This was in the early 70's
Oh man you brought back a lot of memories. Ive seen bruce rip up money because a guy playing on a table next to him complained about Bruce making noise and that was throwing his game off. Bruce just started ripping up money saying "youre complaining about a $5 nine ball game! Here! (starts tearing up $5 bills).
Ive seen him run into many walls when he missed a shot. I think he knew what he was doing all the time. Because once when Danny Diliberto got stiffed by him for a hundred (Danny was supporting a family at the time). Danny just started beating on him and Bruce was begging him to stop.
About a year ago Bruce walks into my local room and is wearing an expensive Rolex looking like a million and starts to stand by the table where I am practicing a difficult bank shot. He pulls out a wad and says Ill give you 5 shots for a hundred. I say and if you lose will you run into a wall. He looked stunned like he was incognito, surprised he was recognized. He smiles and when I turned around he was gone.
Oh man you brought back a lot of memories. Ive seen bruce rip up money because a guy playing on a table next to him complained about Bruce making noise and that was throwing his game off. Bruce just started ripping up money saying "youre complaining about a $5 nine ball game! Here! (starts tearing up $5 bills).
Ive seen him run into many walls when he missed a shot. I think he knew what he was doing all the time. Because once when Danny Diliberto got stiffed by him for a hundred (Danny was supporting a family at the time). Danny just started beating on him and Bruce was begging him to stop.
About a year ago Bruce walks into my local room and is wearing an expensive Rolex looking like a million and starts to stand by the table where I am practicing a difficult bank shot. He pulls out a wad and says Ill give you 5 shots for a hundred. I say and if you lose will you run into a wall. He looked stunned like he was incognito, surprised he was recognized. He smiles and when I turned around he was gone.
