He was one of the good ones....I played on a BCA team with him years ago, actually drove up and roomed with him that year. He was a Math Wizard. He taught math gymnastics or something like that to kids. He was the human "blue book" of cues and had a few of them. IIRC he played in Camel Tour Events years ago but not sure if he ever made it very far. Due to the proximity I did not get over to his house very often...but I played on that table at his house. IIRC he said something along the lines that Cory was the only one to ever run 100 on it so although I was never there when Cory was there, I am fairly certain that Cory has hit a few balls on it.
Not since the days of the Golden 8-ball when Danny D. was the house pro and played many a big name in the pit. There used to be an event that was held at the Convention Center (downtown). The last "pro" event of any signifigance was at Kolby's Corner Pocket. Many of the big names all over the world came in for that event. Other than that it has been pretty much a scattering of pros that come through and either tried to hustle or played Scott Frost One pocket. Efren came through for a big 1-pocket match. Cory came through in his early days and played the polite little geek that didn't know what he was doing role and hustled a couple players at Casino Billiards back in the day. He later came back from time to time pretty much just to visit and stayed at Ed Scott's house...(RIP Ed).....Now you hear some names coming through from time to time but nothing major.
Any more the only pros in town are the Fargo Pros........There is only about 3 (maybe 4) players that can actually compete against pros in town and about 10-20 that "think" they can.....I am not one of them....I am practicing at not practicing so I can someday become a Fargo Pro
Frost got a sweet gig with MR doing commentary on their events. AFAIK he is no longer a house pro anywhere. He said on a stream he still does lessons in Phoenix.
Mills Modern Social. Still has tables but its not a poolhall.
Mostly Fargo Pro events.....JJ's, Metro, BullShooters, Main Street, Dozers, are the main locations to check for weekly......Chip tournaments are now the norm and the higher your Fargo you pretty much have to play perfect and string 10-15 wins at least once to lap the field and catch up.....It can be done but very difficult.....the more players in the field...the harder it is for a higher rated player that gets less chips.
The area around Metro is being redeveloped.
Metro use to have great tournaments years ago, before Fargo.
Think Metro is still going tournaments nightly if you are in Fargo system.
Ultimate Pool USA had an event in Mesa at Dozer's. Played in February. A few pros from the US and UK showed up. I believe they are scheduled to be back next year.
That was the event I mentioned (post #2) that ended up being held at Kolby's. (IIRC I think it was supposed to be at a Hotel but the hotel it was supposed to be held at became unavailable and Kolby stepped up) Big Fiasco....Chuck got himself in all kinds of a bad situation...........Never crossed paths with Chuck again after that event......Never found out if it got resolved or anything.........That was back when I played on the last Alexanders team to win AZBCA .......Alexanders then closed....started playing at a different room......Got jerked around by my own teamates that I thought were my freinds....turned out I was just a pawn in thier Vegas plans.......quit league and started playing more poker.....petty much fell out of the AZ pool scene........Found out that one of those so called "friends" took over the league and at the end of the season all the league money was "stolen".....I don't know the details other than the "cash" (not in a bank) was stolen from his house. Never heard of the outcome details and have not seen him at any of my cameo tournament appearances.Well if you go to archives, and search Chuck Bobbit, you will get the info. Was over 10 years ago, and a \sc I said Jay H., was TD.
Forget the name of the event, but it was 25K add, then because fiasco.
here is place to get some of details.
