Is Nick Varner playing these days?

[ibuycues]

Kid at the pool hall was Alex Olinger, if memory serves.

Yep, it was Alex Olinger.
A few weeks ago he won the Shooters Olathe tournament, as he has more than once in the past, with champion caliber players entered.

 

[DynoDan]

DynoDan...Unless you graduated college in the 70's, those tables at Purdue were not the same tables that were there when Nick went to school there. They changed the gameroom dramatically, and took out all the tables. Some newer tables were put back in a different area of the union years later. I did an exhibition at Purdue 20 years ago, and the tables were definitely not the best.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

I was there early 80s. Tables were the same type older ball-return Brunswicks found in most 60s-era bowling alley/recreation halls, so I just assumed nothing had changed.