Does Anyone Here Know How Good Mark Tadd Played?

Many years back, NYC sharpshooter Frankie Hernandez told me that he would require more weight from Mark Tadd than from Leonardo Andam. Back when Andam was playing at his highest level, Frankie used to ask Andam for the six, but Frankie told me was in no real hurry to get on the table with Tadd getting the same. High praise indeed of Mark's game!
 
sjm said:
Many years back, NYC sharpshooter Frankie Hernandez told me that he would require more weight from Mark Tadd than from Leonardo Andam. Back when Andam was playing at his highest level, Frankie used to ask Andam for the six, but Frankie told me was in no real hurry to get on the table with Tadd getting the same. High praise indeed of Mark's game!
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Mark was better than Andam, by probobly the 8 ball. I saw Mark playing Cole Dickson in Las Vegas, one pocket for $2,500 a game. Both guys were running racks as if they were playing 9 ball. Taking huge risky shots without batting an eye, a totally fearless player. I think at the time he quit playing only Efren was a better all around player.
 
Mark played jam up !

:cool: Gave Eugene Browning who played a very good speed the wild eight in my pool room and the set lasted about 25 minutes. He played at that time with a cue that looked like it cost $10 (a five piece cue). Didn't miss a ball, didn't get an inch out of line....
 
Ted Harris said:
Yeah, well I am sick of people talking about how they are sick of Mark's posts, and I am also sick of hearing how he may or may not be Mark. I have already determined that it is Mark after our phone conversation...and he is sick of it too. This is pretty sick, huh?
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SICK,SICK,SICK,SICK,SICK,SICK,SICK,ECT. YUP LOLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL...........IS JUSY SICK:)TY BUDDY
THE FUNNY THING IS IS IT MUST HAVE BEEN JUST SOMETHING TO ARGUE ABOUT FOR MOST BECAUSE SOME OF THE GUYS THAT SEEMED CONCERNED NOW SAY, WHO GIVES A !@!@!#@!! IF IS MARK . LOL I THINK ITS FUNNY
I REALLY DO. BUT DOESNT BOTHER ME . PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE FOR THE MOST PART UNCHANGEABLE AND UNPREDICTABLE.
 
Jimmy M. said:
Well, they won't tell you this, so I guess I might as well spill the beans. You see, when Mark was a struggling pool player, and Ted was a struggling cue-repair man, neither of them could afford to buy their own underwear. So what they did was, they went halves on underwear! Seriously! As I can only imagine, you get quite close to a guy when you're sharing underwear with him!

Ba-da-da-chaaaaa!

Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week. Try the prime rib - it's great!

(I over did it on the coffee today)
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YUP THATS. TRUE AND IN THE MATCH AGAINT SEIGEL I TOLD TED I CAN BEAT HIM BUT I NEED THE UNDERWEAR BUT TED WAS MAKING HIS FIRST CUE AND SAID IT WAS ALMOST DONE AND NO CAN DO BUDDY. SO IF YOU LOOK CLOSE YOU WILL SEE ME PULLING UP MY PANTS ALOT . SO THANKS TED BUT
I SAVED ALOT OF MONEY ON UNDERWEAR CAUSE I NO LONGER WEAR THEM. THATS WHY I QUIT POOL . SO NPOW THAT IM PLAYING AGAIN I WILL NEED THOSE TED SO PLEASE SEND AND DONT FORGET TO WASH THEM THIS TIME .......SINCERLY MARK :cool:
 
sjm said:
Many years back, NYC sharpshooter Frankie Hernandez told me that he would require more weight from Mark Tadd than from Leonardo Andam. Back when Andam was playing at his highest level, Frankie used to ask Andam for the six, but Frankie told me was in no real hurry to get on the table with Tadd getting the same. High praise indeed of Mark's game!
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THATS BECAUSE WE DID PLAY IN NEW YOUK IF I RECALL I GAVE HIM EITHER THE 7 OR AND THE SIX AND...........WELL YOU KNOW :cool:
 
i KINDA saw tadd play in new york back when the first wba tourney was held in nyc.....

he played dennis hatch one late night and got beat(on this occasion) because hatch was simply on fire. breaking and running rack after rack after rack. what impressed me was tadd's eagerness to get just one chance at the table, cuz he knew he owned the table if he got his chance. he was chomping at the bit!

he finally got his chance(i think hatch scratched on the break or somesuch). tadd jumped to the table and ran the rack in like,,,,,,40 seconds. on his break, tadd scratched or something and had to sit down and watch hatch string together another gazillion racks.

what i came away with was an awe in mark tadd's resolve. here was a fellow who would not be denied in the face of hatch's flurry. i'm fuzzy on all the details, but came away impressed nonetheless. and an old timer from chelsea said mark is the best he ever saw.

saw tadd at amsterdam billiards around that time too. he had this,,,,presense, and i CERTAINLY can understand hernandez's staying away from tadd, becasue hernandez doesn't wilt from just anybody.
 
mark tadd said:
well i bought it off someone it was a grafite cue all black. it had gloss on it that made it sticky. so i sanded some of where my stroke was. it hit better than any cue i ever played with. and it was at the bicycle club. after i played one match and won , i wasnt playing much but wasnt playing to bad.
i put it under a pool table till my next match and someone took it. i had to buy a cue to finish tourny that played like crap......... some pool players..... man
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I had a graphite cue I played real well with and the
ferrule cracked and nobody knows how to fix it?1?!
 
bruin70 said:
i KINDA saw tadd play in new york back when the first wba tourney was held in nyc.....

he played dennis hatch one late night and got beat(on this occasion) because hatch was simply on fire. breaking and running rack after rack after rack. what impressed me was tadd's eagerness to get just one chance at the table, cuz he knew he owned the table if he got his chance. he was chomping at the bit!

he finally got his chance(i think hatch scratched on the break or somesuch). tadd jumped to the table and ran the rack in like,,,,,,40 seconds. on his break, tadd scratched or something and had to sit down and watch hatch string together another gazillion racks.

what i came away with was an awe in mark tadd's resolve. here was a fellow who would not be denied in the face of hatch's flurry. i'm fuzzy on all the details, but came away impressed nonetheless. and an old timer from chelsea said mark is the best he ever saw.

saw tadd at amsterdam billiards around that time too. he had this,,,,presense, and i CERTAINLY can understand hernandez's staying away from tadd, becasue hernandez doesn't wilt from just anybody.
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i dont remember playing him , but im sure i did. ive been to newyouk 2 times and it was the first time i went that i played frankie.
 
Wow, that is impressive! Browning came thru my town and stayed for about 2 or 3 months. Couldn't make a ball when he got there, gave our best player the 8 before he left.

I guess we taught him a lot!

-piga

jungledude said:
:cool: Gave Eugene Browning who played a very good speed the wild eight in my pool room and the set lasted about 25 minutes. He played at that time with a cue that looked like it cost $10 (a five piece cue). Didn't miss a ball, didn't get an inch out of line....
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If you're ever in Texas, give me a shout. I'd love to match up with you on some one hole.
 
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