How many Champions parents owned Pool Rooms

Wedge

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I can think of a few but I bet there were a lot more. Must be a great advantage playing at a very young age.

Willie Mosconi

Jimmy Caras

Babe Cranfield

Jean Balukas


Wedge
 
Good question

Many in fact.
Ko pin yi n ko pin chung
Ga young kim
Jasmin n albin ouschan
Chen Si Ming
Marlon manalo
Efren reyes ( his uncle's )
Jose parica ( if im not wrong )
Kuo po cheng
Wu chia ching ( grandma's )

Apart from jose , the rest r confirmed.


Any others ??
 
The Lion's father managed a room when he come to Canada. Alex was 13.

Ding Junhui, runner up in the 2016 World Snooker Championship, played in his father's room. His father sold his grocery store and opened the room so Ding, 9 years old, would have a place to play - Free Enterprise, not government socialism. :grin:
 
Wedge said:
I can think of a few but I bet there were a lot more. Must be a great advantage playing at a very young age.

Willie Mosconi

Jimmy Caras

Babe Cranfield

Jean Balukas


Wedge
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Didn't SVB's grandfather own a room?
Thought I read that somewhere.
 
Shane Vanboening's grand father owned a pool room ( ? Golden 8 Ball) in Rapid City,SD and his Grand father used to play in the super seniors in National leagues (Valley,BCA.) in 80s-
 
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Still can't play

I remember my Dad owned a bar when i was
a kid (maybe 6 or 7) n he had a bar table in
there n I suck playing pool so I don't see
the correlation :grin:. That really is a good
question because most top quality players
pro or not started as a child in someone's
pool room . I only remember going to dad's
bar a few times so I guess that's why I never
became a world champion , he didn't see
my potential n I'm still looking for it. thumbup:
 
Yes SVB when he was young, he had access to a poolhall free, but I think this is an interesting topic, because it goes to show you that repetition is what make champions a huge percentage of the time.

It actually make perfect sense to me.
 
asbani said:
Yes SVB when he was young, he had access to a poolhall free, but I think this is an interesting topic, because it goes to show you that repetition is what make champions a huge percentage of the time.



It actually make perfect sense to me.
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I think "immersion" is the word you're looking for. Most importantly the immersion starts at a very young age, this is what makes champions.
 
Ronnie O' Sullivan's father owned several snooker clubs. And countless champions of English pool were children of pub landlords.
 
I have said on here many times over the years how more than 75% of the best players got started. Poolroom owed by the family or friend of family. some one very good at playing or teaching, table at home with some one there that was a good player. You still have to love the game. Johnnyt
 
Colonel said:
I think "immersion" is the word you're looking for. Most importantly the immersion starts at a very young age, this is what makes champions.
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Which speaking of (immersion)... that's why children can learn languages at an
early age. Try learning Chinese (or any secondary language) as an adult and see how far you get.
I actually stuck with it and am now a high beginner Chinese speaker--not easy tho.

I imagine learning pool at a relatively early age can instill certain mechanics that
are integral to playing good pool.
 
asbani said:
Yes SVB when he was young, he had access to a poolhall free, but I think this is an interesting topic, because it goes to show you that repetition is what make champions a huge percentage of the time.

It actually make perfect sense to me.
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Yes, but I'm surprised nobody has pointed out the bigger implication of the this observation--the observation that champions frequently are drawn from kids growing up around poolrooms. It means ours is a very underdeveloped activity and that no current pool player would likely even be pro level if pool had a couple decades with the popularity of, say, soccer

What immersion does is put an INDIVIDUAL at the high end of the INDIVIDUAL's potential. Whether that individual's personally high performance is good in the bigger world depends the pool of people who are reaching their potential.

Consider this. If everyone who responded to this thread was immersed in basketball from a very young age, we would all be way better that we are now. But likely none of us would be basketball champions. That is because, at least in the US, pretty much any kid who runs and jumps well and has decent coordination is reinforced from a young age with a basketball.

By contrast, you could adopt any kindergarten class, work with the kids immersion style for a decade, and produce some world-class pool players.
 
mikepage said:
Yes, but I'm surprised nobody has pointed out the bigger implication of the this observation--the observation that champions frequently are drawn from kids growing up around poolrooms. It means ours is a very underdeveloped activity and that no current pool player would likely even be pro level if pool had a couple decades with the popularity of, say, soccer

What immersion does is put an INDIVIDUAL at the high end of the INDIVIDUAL's potential. Whether that individual's personally high performance is good in the bigger world depends the pool of people who are reaching their potential.

Consider this. If everyone who responded to this thread was immersed in basketball from a very young age, we would all be way better that we are now. But likely none of us would be basketball champions. That is because, at least in the US, pretty much any kid who runs and jumps well and has decent coordination is reinforced from a young age with a basketball.

By contrast, you could adopt any kindergarten class, work with the kids immersion style for a decade, and produce some world-class pool players.
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The proof is in the pudding. Countries that do this, to any degree at all, are the ones producing the vast majority of high level players.


<----- Was not immersed :)
 
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