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JonTravisTaylor

JonTravisTaylor

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Due to a shipping snafu and the integrity of Fast Lenny, I have an extra copy of Power One Pocket by Scott Frost...

I enjoyed the video and especially enjoyed the stories by Scott. Since Scott is a notorious gambler I would like to hear some gambling stories...

Reply here with your posts, over the next couple of days we will all get to enjoy the stories and on Friday I will pm the one I liked best and mail them the DVD. I will cover shipping, I just want to hear the stories :thumbup:
 

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JonTravisTaylor said:
Due to a shipping snafu and the integrity of Fast Lenny, I have an extra copy of Power One Pocket by Scott Frost...

I enjoyed the video and especially enjoyed the stories by Scott. Since Scott is a notorious gambler I would like to hear some gambling stories...

Reply here with your posts, over the next couple of days we will all get to enjoy the stories and on Friday I will pm the one I liked best and mail them the DVD. I will cover shipping, I just want to hear the stories :thumbup:
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If Lenny sent you an extra copy on accident, and you would like to thank him, wouldn't it be best NOT to give it away to someone else? After all, the person you give it to will be one less potential sale for him... The best thing for him might be if you send it back to him. Just another way to look at things.
 
Mr Hoppe said:
If Lenny sent you an extra copy on accident, and you would like to thank him, wouldn't it be best NOT to give it away to someone else? After all, the person you give it to will be one less potential sale for him... The best thing for him might be if you send it back to him. Just another way to look at things.
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When he messaged me that he did not receive the DVD, I sent out another one, it was to his PO Box this time, the other was sent to his home. I told him if they other one showed up to just pass it on to someone who might enjoy it. :smile:
 
$5 a game?

I'm banging some balls around in a loud tavern.

A guy walks up to table I am playing on and asks "You wanna play a game", but it sounded like "$5 a game".

So I reply "Five dollars a game, sure!", he says "No, no, no, Do you wanna play a game". It sure sounds like $5 a game to me.

So I reply again "Five dollars a game, sure!". He says OK and I win two games and he quits. Says he'll practice up and get me for $50 next time. I says OK!

Jay P.
 
ill post up a few that ive told before on az. I was in school at University of Florida and in that town resided probably the best pure pool hustler I have ever seen. "Honest" John Ferber. John might be the strongest pool hustler in terms of money won vs his actual speed. A shortstop, he probably gets beat by 90% of the guys at any Seminole tour event. But he has probably won more money than 90% of them playing pool. His speed really never exceeded shortstop level but he is one of the guys that consistently got himself into spots where the bet was high and he was matched up in a mortal lock. Like getting other shortstops to spot him the 6 out for $$$$.

When I was in college at UF in the late 80s, Stevie Moore lived for a while in Gville and John ran all over the country with Stevie, or "junior" as John called him. John would make the game and Stevie benefited greatly from John's ability to stir it up.

If there is a Wikipedia image of "back woods mountain man hick" its Johns picture. He has a slow southern drawl and is pretty furry with a stocky build. He plays sorta standing up and jumps up off of most of his shots, but he has a good follow through and I have seen him run 2-3 racks pretty effortlessly. What really makes Honest John super strong at hustling though is his gift of gab...he can talk and talk and the whole time you begin to think..well damn this guy really did just fall off of the turnip truck. Anyways, I give you this image of him so you can better understand this story.

John has been working this spot for a while. He comes in with work clothes on, all covered in grease and dirt and is basically talking shit about how good he is and how he can beat anyone. John keeps telling them he will play them soon as he gets this big check he has got coming. Finally after days of jawing to the locals, the house is pretty much worked up to a real lather wanting to get this loudmouth to the table. John shows up with a big fat wad of money and after some more woofing he says ok now im going to get my cue. He returns with a Budweiser cue with a dayglo vibrant fishing line wrap. He had a tip on his cue that is barely glued on.

The locals cant wait to get down. "Lemme warm up a bit" he says and takes a few shots and then "bink!" the tip flies off his cue. "w'alll dayyyyum I cant play now...my lucky cue is broke". The railbirds are falling over themselves telling him oh dont worry use my Schon/Meucci/McDermott. "Nope I can't play without my luuuuckkky cue". The locals begin woofing at him about all the shit he was talking and John says...well y'allll are so terrible...iyall find someone here to play y'all right now. The locals look around and the room is practically empty with one group of folks playing bar pool and drinking pitchers. John walks over and grabs a guy who looks like he just got off work at the Shell gas station. "this guy right here will play yall" Honest John has just "found" David Grossman (regional pro out of jacksonville area).

John had a number of outfits he wore that were really amusing. My personal favorites were these two tshirts he wore. One was pink with two teddy bears hugging each other with hearts coming off of them. Below the bears it was written "I'm good under pressure". The other was this dark grease stained tshirt from a transmission shop. It had a picture of an automatic transmission on it and below it was written. "Im not good, im Automatic!". I think John just loved beating people in those two shirts and the message on them was the not so subtle message that would later sink in as he was separating you from your cheese.

Action was hard to find in Gainesville so one night we heard that a local room owner in Ocala was going off some and would play. So me and a buddy hop in a car and go 30 min south to Ocala. We walk in the door and horrors! There is Ferber playing our designated mark some 1 pocket. On this occasion though, John had underestimated the 1 pocket game of his opponent and was in a bad spot giving up too much weight. The bet was a race to 5 for $300 as I remember it, a good wager in the late 80s for Ocala Florida.

The score was something like 2-1 in games and John was down a few balls to nothing in the 4th game. His opponent slows kicks at a ball and doesnt hit a rail.

Ferber yells "Thats a faaawwwlll" with his hick accent and walks over and picks up the cue ball.

"What the hell do you think your doing?" His opponent says. "W'all it was a fawwwll and I gets ball in hand on a fawwwl raaht?"

"Hell no you dont!"

They argued back and forth until finally the guy Ferber was playing cracked his cue in anger and told John the game was over and to get the hell out.

Me and my buddy were stunned at this move. Ferber knew exactly that if he played stupid and cried FAWWWWWLL then it might just end this bad game. We didnt get the owner to play us either. He was so mad at Ferber he wouldnt play anyone and just sat there drinking beer biatching about Honest John.
 
First time i seen efren

a few years ago i was at the derby ..... when they still had it at the old place .... i got to see frost and efren play 1hole .. it was my first time at the derby n i was pretty young and just got started into the sport... they were gettikmg ready to do the mid night ring game ... i think it was something cheaper like 50 a man .. well it still had efren n it.. jonny archer ... tyler edey just to name a few ...... the tourney director was talking and getting the rules straightened out .. then the freezer came into the room n yelled out i want efren ... to make a long story short they shut down the ring game... so scott n efren could play .... efren killed scott ... but every now and again i go to watch this video ... n this is basically wat got me hooked on pool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXqd7G37Dds
 
I was talking to Mark Betor about 15 years ago. At the time, there was a lot of one pocket ghost action in Los Angeles -- almost every player in the room had a "number." People would come up and say "what's your number," meaning, in 5 racks what could you get to in one pocket playing the one pocket ghost. I think Tang Hoa was shooting at about 25 at the time to give some perspective on the story.

I watched Efren play this game against Aggi, a kinda infamous LA gambler, nicest guy you could ever meet. Aggi was considered the "smart money" in LA pool rooms i'd have to say. Aggi let efren shoot at 40 on the 4.5 inch pockets. I watched it all night -- probably some of the most amazing pool i've ever seen. It's amazing how things like this are just lost forever, only in one's memory. Just imagine efren when you watch him play one hole, well imagine every time he gets 8 you get to see what he'd do if he needed more balls, like he needed to get all he could every rack. That was what i was watching. He had this shot he'd do from time to time, 2 rail billiard into the other side (from his hole) of the stack with a touch of inside. Just amazing stuff. There were a number of 15's than night. Aggi had kinda sharked efren into not being able to spot anything, so if efren made a ball into another hole, it would never come up.... that stopped at least one 15. Aggi seemed relentless, really laying into efren verbally. I asked him about it afterward, and he said "oh, that's just me having fun, nothing i could ever say would shark him in the slightest." I believed him.

Efren came up slight winner at the end of it all, which takes me back to my conversation with Mark Betor (one of efrens backers). Mark said "if you knew what efren was really supposed to shoot at, you'd be afraid." Mark told me "efren's real number," and I told him I would not mention it to anybody, so i'll have to keep that promise.... let's just say I was afraid, very afraid. The number was higher than I think any living human, past or present, could ever dream of beating.
 
doublej487 said:
a few years ago i was at the derby ..... when they still had it at the old place .... i got to see frost and efren play 1hole .. it was my first time at the derby n i was pretty young and just got started into the sport... they were gettikmg ready to do the mid night ring game ... i think it was something cheaper like 50 a man .. well it still had efren n it.. jonny archer ... tyler edey just to name a few ...... the tourney director was talking and getting the rules straightened out .. then the freezer came into the room n yelled out i want efren ... to make a long story short they shut down the ring game... so scott n efren could play .... efren killed scott ... but every now and again i go to watch this video ... n this is basically wat got me hooked on pool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXqd7G37Dds
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I was sitting right next to Disco when this went down. When the camera scrolls to the left to show bustamente and lebron thats my head lol.

At one point early in this money match frost left efren up table with a whole bunch of balls in front of his hole. Efren was doubled up by a mass of balls from either making or moving the key ball out that was in the jaws of frosts pocket. Efren studied it for a while....then came with a rail first shot going off the side rail and into a group of balls. Made some sort of combination and then ran a whole bunch more. Ended the inning by taking the hanging ball out of frosts pocket. Frost was pretty hilarious. He kept saying stuff like this isnt right...a person shouldnt be allowed to do that...hes not human....
 
Never Safe!!

About 15 years ago George Breedlove was going through Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was playing Pete @ Plush cue. The game was one pocket and I don't remember the bet but Pete was winning over all. George needed 2 and Pete needed 1. George had a hanger that was hugging one side of the pocket and a long cut shot up the rail. He shot the cut shot, thinking it was a gimme with the other ball there he hit perfectly. nHowever about the last diamond the ball started to drift a little...it ended up double kissing the other ball, leaving both hangin in the pocket, with the cue ball just off the spot. He starts grumbling a little bit, but not to much because really what was Pete going to do with both balls litterally hanging over the edge of George's hole??

Pete steps up and jumps the cue ball over both object balls and into the back of the pocket, the cue ball rebounds off the back of the pocket into the 2 balls, sending 1 of them 3 rails and into his pocket!! Leaving the cue ball hanging and a difficult cut shot on the other ball...which he made to win the set. Sure it was lucky, but I once heard...."for some, luck itself is an artform..."
 
doublej487 said:
a few years ago i was at the derby ..... when they still had it at the old place .... i got to see frost and efren play 1hole .. it was my first time at the derby n i was pretty young and just got started into the sport... they were gettikmg ready to do the mid night ring game ... i think it was something cheaper like 50 a man .. well it still had efren n it.. jonny archer ... tyler edey just to name a few ...... the tourney director was talking and getting the rules straightened out .. then the freezer came into the room n yelled out i want efren ... to make a long story short they shut down the ring game... so scott n efren could play .... efren killed scott ... but every now and again i go to watch this video ... n this is basically wat got me hooked on pool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXqd7G37Dds
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DOUBLEJ487 is the winner of the Power One Pocket! I liked his story. It makes me wish for the days when players stepped up and PLAYED!! Knowing full well they were probably going to get beat, but the best way to learn is to play people better than you. Not whining and crying for spots before they even know what the line is. I have seen Scott do this exact thing myself...yelling loudly he will "Play anybody in the room, or Anybody that wants it can have the 7 on a barbox"!!! And to note...this is at pretty decent tournaments that have quite a strong field! HEART !!! Scott's always had it and now he is in the top 3 of the world at one-pocket! Enjoy your Vid....everyone else thanks for your stories.
 
JonTravisTaylor said:
DOUBLEJ487 is the winner of the Power One Pocket! I liked his story. It makes me wish for the days when players stepped up and PLAYED!! Knowing full well they were probably going to get beat, but the best way to learn is to play people better than you. Not whining and crying for spots before they even know what the line is. I have seen Scott do this exact thing myself...yelling loudly he will "Play anybody in the room, or Anybody that wants it can have the 7 on a barbox"!!! And to note...this is at pretty decent tournaments that have quite a strong field! HEART !!! Scott's always had it and now he is in the top 3 of the world at one-pocket! Enjoy your Vid....everyone else thanks for your stories.
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i finally won sumthing ahahahaaa
 
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