John,
No alphabet soup when I gambled. I played whoever came through the door for what they wanted to play for. I did the same when I traveled. Good enough for me. No idea where you keep coming up with the Robin Hood shee-yit, I can think of one instance I posted about where a friend asked me to get his money back and I did. Even that was in the context of a longer story, a minor part of it. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else. A lot of the things you have said about me make little sense including some of your accusations concerning what I have said about you. Seems you have pissing contests with so many people you can't keep your story straight.
Conveniently no one is "alive" who can verify that you ever played.
I reposted my original post and bolded complete thoughts because many people read your spin in later posts in all threads and don't go back and check what was really said. Maybe your claims about the videos were just lies, you do seem to have a willingness to bend the truth. Wholesale fabrication wouldn't be out of the question.[/QUOTE]
You know a lot about fabricating stories. Mine contain specifics that can be verified. Many people who can back up my stories are ALIVE and members of this forum.
However I doubt you are capable of enough original thought to do that. You spend a lot of time bragging about stealing other people's original ideas.
I do? Proof? What were you saying about spin and fabrication? Cite some proof.
You are also proud that you use a sweat shop to produce the cases with your name on them.
Sweat shop? Proof? Kinda going out on a limb here aren't you? Are you feeling a little trapped? Want to be diversionary? Let's see now if I wrap myself in the flag and attack China then people won't notice that I can't back up anything I say. Is that your line of reasoning?
I wonder how many people have bought a case from you that your total input was to sketch a leather design or copy bits and pieces of other people's designs and call them yours then your people making less than $300 a month each do the actual work. I'm guessing at their pay, according to a recent article Honda pays an average of $280 a month to it's workers in their Chinese factory.
You wonder a lot. You also wander a lot. My people make $5 a month and I pay them in rice and fish heads. They are chained to their machines and only get one hour of sunshine a month. But we aren't talking about me here, we are talking about you. Isn't anyone alive who can verify that Hu ever ran a rack at least?
Feel free to correct me if my guess is low, we both know you aren't paying them but a small fraction of what you would have to pay US workers but you surely charge US prices for the work they turn out! If you really want to get personal you have put a lot more of your business on the forum than I have.
Um, yeah, I put my TRUE SELF on this forum. Not made up fantasies of playing that are unverifiable. Let me give you a little geography and economics lesson though - I am not in the USA, the cost of living is much lower here so wages are also lower. This reminds me that you have also posted all sort of stories about your business prowess. Seems like such a great and successful businessman such as yourself would recognize these two basic points.
It's true that the people I played with are dead and gone or I have long ago lost contact with them. I never paid much attention to names because most people gambling weren't using their own anyway.
Very convenient.
I never used more than Hu myself. Other people called me by a bunch of other nicknames, I didn't care as long as it wasn't pool related. I met Keith McCready in Greenway and tried to get together for a match-up that didn't happen, playing even.
Sure sure, that's a good name to pull out the hat. Let's see you claim that you met Ketih "the world gets the seven" McReady and TRIED to match up even and it didn't happen and this is supposed to say what?
First of all if you Keith had tangled then he wouldd have busted you so bad you would have needed to borrow back the H just have half a name.
Secondly this is just the kind of ambigous lie that you tell. You implication is that you were good enough to go toe to toe with Keith even and that he didn't want to play you because of how "good" you say you were.
I wouldn't remember his name had the Color of Money not came out afterwards and I recognized him in it. I think he was using his own name in Greenway but I still wouldn't have remembered it six months later. I'd never connect the Keith of today with the guy I met in Greenway either without the bridge of COM connecting the two.
For a guy who prides himself on being the moral compass of this forum and for being able to keep the story straight your memory is awfully fuzzy concerning your claimed pool playing exploits.
Unlike the people that woof for days and play for a few minutes that you consider the real subculture of pool, the idea for most of us was to get the money and get out without making waves. There were a few showboats like Keith and Fats but there were also a lot of people quietly making a good living without being known. I didn't pass on big bets when they came to me but I didn't look for them, the last thing I wanted was a reputation as a pool player.
Hu
Yep you were one of the great unknowns, the greatest apparently as no one alive can verify your claims.
The best that never was apparently.
J/K...keep on posting. Hope to see you in Vegas for the trade show.
