Does anyone have Ronnie Allen on video playing

jay helfert said:
Ronnie was an avid fisherman. One time after he made a big score in Detroit he bought this cool fishing boat and station wagon to tow it. My wife and I and our oldest daughter met Ronnie and Faye and his oldest son Ronnie Jr. at Lake Havasu for a fishing weekend. Ron Jr. and Heather hit it off (there were pre-teens then) and Julie (my wife) and Faye did all the cooking and we camped at the beach in tents Ronnie had. Ronnie took me out on the boat and fish were literally jumping out of the water! The problem was Lake Havasu was over run with Carp and they were bad eating. We spent the day traveling all over the lake trying to catch bass and came back empty. Ronnie must have tried ten different lures to no avail.

After one night sleeping in a tent on the beach my wife and I opted for a motel room the second night. We were such pansies. I had bought a new 50 power telescope and I could see all the way across the lake (a few miles) and If I held it steady could see the people walking on the other side of the lake. That was my idea of fun. I didn't go out on the boat the second day and Ronnie actually caught some fish. Faye thought maybe he bought them at the seafood market and just claimed to have caught them. Either way we cooked them and had a fish fry on the beach that evening. Yum, Yum!

P.S. One other tidbit. The city of Lake Havasu bought the original London Bridge and had it shipped there and rebuilt as a promotional gimmick. As far as I know the London Bridge is still there to this day! I just checked and it was Robert McColloch, the founder of Lake Havasu City who bought the bridge and had it shipped over, and then rebuilt. It cost him like ten million in the late 60's to do this. People do some crazy things!
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What an interesting story. That sounds like so much fun!
 
JAM said:
Him and Keith both. :p
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Ask Keith to tell you about the bank account we opened in Marina del Rey to put his pool winnings in. It was a healthy five figures to start but a couple of weeks at the race track and it was good bye bank! :grin:

I made the mistake of trying to reform Keith and make him a proper citizen of the world. Keith just did not fit into that mold. Besides being a great pool player, he was a total renegade, living life on his terms and not dictated to by any conventions of society. Of course by now you know all that! :smile:
 
jay helfert said:
Ask Keith to tell you about the bank account we opened in Marina del Rey to put his pool winnings in. It was a healthy five figures to start but a couple of weeks at the race track and it was good bye bank! :grin:

I made the mistake of trying to reform Keith and make him a proper citizen of the world. Keith just did not fit into that mold. Besides being a great pool player, he was a total renegade, living life on his terms and not dictated to by any conventions of society. Of course by now you know all that! :smile:
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That is so funny. I'm sure it was not funny at the time, though. :embarrassed2:

That is the stone-cold truth about his management of money. A few times when we were on the road, we were stuck from tournament expenses when he didn't cash. He'd then want to get in action for high stakes, and sometimes I wouldn't go for it, but that didn't stop him. He'd then gather up funds through a backers committee, people who wanted to go in on it with him so he could get in action. He actually made a few scores like this. :grin-square:

We never go to the horses anymore. Instead, we have the sports channel, and Keith can watch the horses all day long. And he does. He and his pool buddies handicap them on the phone and sweat the races together. Sometimes if one of his friends make a big score, he'll send Keith a little jelly roll for the consult. :cool:

This is as close as Keith gets to the horses today. We live near a stables in Rock Creek Park and go by there all the time on our walks with our dog. :wink:
 

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The Jean / Ewa match is available at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/matayavsbalukas

The Ronnie / Danny match is being worked on and should be online this week.

Mike

jay helfert said:
You can still buy the full version of this classic match between Ronnie and Danny on my website. It's called the World One Pocket Challenge Match and they played for twenty grand over thirty years ago! It was ten hours in length and the full match is on five DVD's. The edited version is two hours and forty minutes on one long DVD. I edited it myself in an editing booth, and it took me two days to do it. I cut out all the time between games and much time spent analyzing shots. I also had to cut some lengthy safety battles for brevity. Almost all the real shotmaking is there though.

Interesting that someone should ask about the "streamed" version. Mike Howerton is ion the process of making that available here as we speak. I think the famous Jean Balukas - Ewa Mataya match is already here for streaming now.
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AzHousePro said:
The Ronnie / Danny match is now online for On Demand viewing.

You can find it at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/allenvsdiliberto
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This is your chance to see this classic match at a big discount. People ask me if this is Ronnie at his best and I tell them this was at the twilight of his career. He wasn't the same player he'd been in his prime, but he could still really play One Pocket and knew all the moves. You might learn a few things watching him, and his conversation makes it very entertaining. Danny was a dangerous opponent playing on his home court. Ten hours of sheer enjoyment for a pool buff.

This was a real match with 20K on the line and these guys were playing for blood. There were hard feelings when it was all over. I can attest to that. It went right down to the wire!
 
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jay helfert said:
This is your chance to see this classic match at a big discount. People ask me if this is Ronnie at his best and I tell them this was at the twilight of his career. He wasn't the same player he'd been in his prime, but he could still really play One Pocket and knew all the moves. You might learn a few things watching him, and his conversation makes it very entertaining. Danny was a dangerous opponent playing on his home court. Ten hours of sheer enjoyment for a pool buff.

This was a real match with 20K on the line and these guys were playing for blood. There were hard feelings when it was all over. I can attest to that. It went right down to the wire!
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OMG! What a match! Jay, you haven't changed a lick. I want some of what you're drinking. Fountain of Youth.

Cool pool right herre! :cool:
 
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