Thanks for all of the replies. My friend is the one that wants to take them on the road, I did tell him it is not like it was in the old days as many of you pointed out.
BUT
As far as an education, both of these kids are in college.
As far as how they play, Trent hit it on the head, have them play someone who can actually play first. As far as I know, me being about an APA 6, I think they are damn good but my friend is not looking at putting them up against any top pros.
As far and just putting them in tournaments, well that would not even give my friend a chance to try to have some fun. It not about hustling, stalling, sandbagging but about working a pool room and playing from the bottom up, not going into a place and challenging the best player in there your first time.
When I went on the road years ago with my father, Rafael Martinez, Little Al Romero, etc, we waited for the players to ask us for action and picked the weaker players first, then worked our way up the food chain. I think this can be done nowdays too. Have somebody that knows the local player level that just wants to get in on the railbird action.
JB cases wins for what I think is the best answer to the original question. I am working on the cue case as I type and will order the APA patches, Hustlin USA shirts, etc later tonight.
CaliRed asked if he goes by the name of Buffalo, hahaha, but that is a good point here. I don't know if either one of these two kids could beat Jason Hunt but I feel the younger one could. I played Buffalo a few times with the five ball spot and we broke about even like I did with the older brother but we were playing for a few dollars. I figure Buffalo would play better for more money. When Buffalo first hit SA he was winning, he lost some because he would get drunk, and he cut alot of his action by getting kicked out of pool halls and tournament. Buffalo or Shane Manaole are not pros but they get some decent wins from time to time and they ARE known locally. Shane was making some decent scores at Bananas his first month in town until he got kicked out.
These are two decent players, not pros that made some money within a month of getting to San Antonio.
As far as the internet goes, a guy came through San Antonio with his girlfriend about a year ago. He was from Florida, his girlfriend was on the womens pro tour at the time and they were headed for Arizona or someplace, I forget. But in one night they took almost a thousand dollars out of bananas and as some say, San Antonio has no action. It was not until the next day that somebody figured out the guy had placed 4th in the US OPEN 9 ball tournament a few years earlier. Both he and his girlfriend took off the local girls and guys. I figure they were in a hurry to get on the road but if they had spend a week in town I figure they may have made five to ten thousand in a week. Of course they did not mention his 4th place or her being on the womens pro tour when they were here, hahaha.
As far as the description of the brothers, it was right on. I like that, look out for Rainman with a cue, hahaha. Why do you think I use the name Cesar Morales, I think it was the best hustle ever.
Bottom line here, I have had a few PM's from people who feel these kids could make some money in their area so lets go further with this, I think it is working.
If you think you can get some action for these kids in your area, PM me.
