"I saw the movie "The Hustler," but I liked "The Color of Money" with Tom Cruise better. To me, it's pretty accurate.
"When you're playing somebody for money or you're in a big tournament, it adds so much pressure. But it makes me focus real well, and I picture the shots going in. I like it. I play better under pressure.
"With my winnings, I was able to buy my car, a TV, an iPod and a camera. My (older) sister and my mom and I went backpacking to London and France for three weeks. I paid my whole trip — hostels, train and plane tickets, food, shopping — with my pool money. I didn't bring my cue, but we saw a pool hall in France. I didn't go in, though; it looked a little sketchy.
"I hate when people say stuff about me being a girl. I find it offensive. I think I'm equal to any guy playing pool and can beat a lot of them.
"One guy in Louisville made me really, really (ticked). I was maybe 14, and I was playing him for $10 a game. He was drunk. I beat him really bad and he goes, 'Isn't it past your bedtime?' I said, 'You gotta be kidding me ... and then ... I destroyed
Who is his Lizzy Lovely? She's going to be in Valley Forge and sounds like the one to watch!
Her pool cue — a fancy Lucasi — has taken her across the United States and to Australia, as well as every Monday night to the Open 9-Ball Tournament.
She was the points winner on the Jacoby Cues Great Lakes Tour last year, a satellite of the Women's Professional Billiards Association. She won the World Junior 10-Ball Championship — and $2,800 in cash and equipment — in Jacksonville, FL, and in the next three weeks she will compete in both Valley Forge, PA, and San Diego.
She lives in two worlds she said are at "the complete opposite ends of the spectrum."
At Centerville High, she is nearly a straight-A student. She drives a Hyundai Tiburon, has a pet iguana, taught herself to play piano and loves to read, things like Harry Potter and the Twilight Fantasies.
Source: http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/local/2009/03/08/ddn030809sppeople.html [Retrieved 12 March 2009]
"When you're playing somebody for money or you're in a big tournament, it adds so much pressure. But it makes me focus real well, and I picture the shots going in. I like it. I play better under pressure.
"With my winnings, I was able to buy my car, a TV, an iPod and a camera. My (older) sister and my mom and I went backpacking to London and France for three weeks. I paid my whole trip — hostels, train and plane tickets, food, shopping — with my pool money. I didn't bring my cue, but we saw a pool hall in France. I didn't go in, though; it looked a little sketchy.
"I hate when people say stuff about me being a girl. I find it offensive. I think I'm equal to any guy playing pool and can beat a lot of them.
"One guy in Louisville made me really, really (ticked). I was maybe 14, and I was playing him for $10 a game. He was drunk. I beat him really bad and he goes, 'Isn't it past your bedtime?' I said, 'You gotta be kidding me ... and then ... I destroyed
Who is his Lizzy Lovely? She's going to be in Valley Forge and sounds like the one to watch!
Her pool cue — a fancy Lucasi — has taken her across the United States and to Australia, as well as every Monday night to the Open 9-Ball Tournament.
She was the points winner on the Jacoby Cues Great Lakes Tour last year, a satellite of the Women's Professional Billiards Association. She won the World Junior 10-Ball Championship — and $2,800 in cash and equipment — in Jacksonville, FL, and in the next three weeks she will compete in both Valley Forge, PA, and San Diego.
She lives in two worlds she said are at "the complete opposite ends of the spectrum."
At Centerville High, she is nearly a straight-A student. She drives a Hyundai Tiburon, has a pet iguana, taught herself to play piano and loves to read, things like Harry Potter and the Twilight Fantasies.
Source: http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/local/2009/03/08/ddn030809sppeople.html [Retrieved 12 March 2009]
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One of my very favourite action-threads are the thread you started about Alex Pagulayan and John Schmidt at the DCC a couple of years ago, playing straight pool.