Is there any footage of ''champagne'' Ed Kelly?

[nicksaint26]

you wont be able to come even close to match it buddy. and go pick on someone else to boost your sagging ego. and stick to your dead end job.

Already flaking out on flipping the coin you nit. A “professional gambler” telling me I got a dead end job. I’m sure you told Ed Kelly the same thing as he was a dealer too. He also probably knew nothing about gambling either since he was a dealer. Keep pretending you are some big time gambler we all believe you.

 

[maha]

ed only took a dealer job because he had no money and wasn't playing pool anymore. he knew more about pool than almost everyone but wasn't a pro gambler. just had made money playing pool.

 

[hello]

I hate the sound of Archer’s cue in this video…they were made off shore.

To me, Ellin's cue here is the worst sounding...like it's hollow...

 

[jay helfert]

Jay, when I first saw em at Janscos his presence struck me.
My dad and my dads great group of friends were very similar.
Irving was not like the norm in the pool room.
He looked like he worked in an office.
Clean cut, well dressed and mannered.
He personified the American Man.
Yep.... I too gave em room.

Nice wright Jay....
I think Mex Johnny was in that Ten Ball Ringer.

Bill, he looked more like a Cadillac salesman, which he was!

 

[WildWing]

Sadly, there's not much footage of Ed Kelly. Here's a bit of nostalgia though. Grady Matthews and other one pocket players are inducting Ed Kelly into the one pocket hall of fame.

 

[Island Drive]

yea jay i always forget the name of that place and get it wrong. i didnt see you there but spent most of my time playing cards with beannie and crew. poker and blackjack mostly blackjack as that was beannies favorite and he kind of ran the game or at least made the game.
he got lucky and won a bunch and i got lucky and relieved him of some of it but he brought a small suitcase of money to the place anyway.

there was all kinds of great pool action as well. as that was the purpose of the event. it seemed richie was said it was his event with ronnie. but my friend bobby lambert i think funded things or had a big say. he also helped me get richie down again on the table for a decent score. took him over to some place in bend so as the knockers wouldnt get involved. bobby got murdered by accident running into a grocery store robbery. or something to that effect.
a couple of the rich guys in the club went off good in cards. an got taken on the side on some pool games.

fun days long gone with sterile environments left now.

Ma.... thx for the Bean memories, I flew up to his daughters place in Seattle, a looker, not anything like Mr or Ms Bean.
First saw em with the boys at Janscos.
Roadies..... like Boston Shorty/Red Raider/Ronnie Allen/ all loved him being around, he was never broke. He bet and could play good.
Early 70's drove E. Coast to his and DeValles pool room, below street level. Gumpf also showed up.
There, I saw Mike Carella empty Louie Roberts down to his gold jewelry, let em hock it for $800, then Louie busted Carella.
Next event....
CA, Helfert ran the even in downtown LA/multiple disciplines I think Weanie didn't play....
BUT.... Bean showed up at the end of the event with his Keno Board, old school stuck the Europeans pretty good, winnin' thousands with ''his'' board .
Summer of 89 at Palm Springs/Heubler Cup he came outta the stands at the end of my match to congratulate me (I won the event) he remembered me since 69.
He introduced me to his wife..... WOW, she was gorgeous I would of dated her at her age, she was in her fifties.

 

[maha]

yea both him and bucky had real "nice" keno boards.
its like people bringing their own cards to a card game.

 

[RJV]

As a young college boy in the late 60s or early 70s, I met Ed Kelly at Celebrity Billiards in Hollywood. I never could play very well, but loved one pocket. One day when there was nothing else going on, he gave me 9-6 and played with one hand. I was lucky to break even. But the highlight of my pool playing was the day Ed asked if I wanted to warm him up a little before he was to play a big money game. I don't know why he chose me, because as I mentioned, I couldn't play for shit, but he did. My $75 Tad cue was in my car, so I grabbed a house cue. Cecil Tugwell was watching with amusement at the idea of someone like me playing Ed Kelly, I guess. Ed broke the balls and scratched. Probably for the first (and only) time in my life I ran eight and out. Cecil's only remark was something to the effect of "and he beat him with a house cue." Ed laughed, and then that was it. Fifty five years ago, and I remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[maha]

both were funny guys and both had sad endings to their pool careers. eddie was a great guy and cecil was not one to be around and certainly not to play.

 

[maha]

oh and beenie after i beat him bad at blackjack in bend he wouldn't play anymore without using his own cards he went and got in town.

 

[hello]

As a young college boy in the late 60s or early 70s, I met Ed Kelly at Celebrity Billiards in Hollywood. I never could play very well, but loved one pocket. One day when there was nothing else going on, he gave me 9-6 and played with one hand. I was lucky to break even. But the highlight of my pool playing was the day Ed asked if I wanted to warm him up a little before he was to play a big money game. I don't know why he chose me, because as I mentioned, I couldn't play for shit, but he did. My $75 Tad cue was in my car, so I grabbed a house cue. Cecil Tugwell was watching with amusement at the idea of someone like me playing Ed Kelly, I guess. Ed broke the balls and scratched. Probably for the first (and only) time in my life I ran eight and out. Cecil's only remark was something to the effect of "and he beat him with a house cue." Ed laughed, and then that was it. Fifty five years ago, and I remember it like it was yesterday.

Sir, do you still have that Tad cue..?I'd take it off you for 100$

 

[jay helfert]

It's nice to read stories like this about Beenie and Kelly. This is how we keep them alive. I had many good times with both these guys. Kelly had that dry humor like Wade Crane and he could hit you with a zinger when conversing with him. Beenie was always smiling and hustling. Even after we won money together at BJ, the next day out by the pool he hustled me to play Gin and beat me for a couple of hundred before I pulled up.

 

[jay helfert]

both were funny guys and both had sad endings to their pool careers. eddie was a great guy and cecil was not one to be around and certainly not to play.

Not so sure about a sad ending for Kelly. He came out of a ten year retirement to win Grady's big One Pocket tourney in Reno, I think it was 1992. He beat Cornbread Red in a great final match that went hill-hill (4-4) and 7-7 in balls in the case game. They each shot at the game ball a few times before Kelly made a nice two rail bank to win the 20K first prize. Big money back then.

Cecil fell victim to Crack cocaine and lost his senses. I took him to play in a tournament in Sacramento that he won, beating Lou Butera in the finals. First prize was $1,000 and I split it with him. I went to the room and got some rest and Cecil went out for the night, never bothering to sleep. The next morning we took off back to Los Angeles and he started talking some crazy shit to me in the car that frightened me. I stopped at a rest stop to pee and when he got out of the car I left him there. I didn't see him again for a couple of weeks in L.A. but when I did he didn't say a word about it.

The best advice he ever gave me was to not try Crack even one time! They were sprinkling it on weed and smoking it back then. I took his advice.