Jack Hynes stories? (I know, I know)

[KellyOH]

Jack made me watch that match 100 times, LOL

KSI is also KellyOH.. I have 2 profiles

 

[book collector]

Yes, I think his name was Dale and Earl Kellum was around there playing quite a bit. Earl steered me and never wanted to play himself, but he did turn me on to some great "spots". My friend Charlie owned the "One Pocket Club" on the second floor there in St. Pete....there were some real characters hanging out there, that's for sure.

Earl played pretty darn good, and I'm pretty sure Charlies last name isn't Jensen.
But, you're close!

 

[madmiller]

I spent a few times at the Flamingo Lounge years ago when I was running with Earl Kellum. The owner and Earl were good friends and he staked Earl a lot. Does it still have the same owner now that owned it back in the 80's? He was a super nice guy and liked to bet it up staking. If I remember right, the place had the first 9 foot coin operated table I had ever seen. If its the same owner and someone here is a regular there, let me know and I'll get him to tell you about one of the biggest flukes to happen in pool one night there.

If you are talking about Flamingo Lounge in St.Pete, Florida, then yes, Dale Nichols is the same owner. He's a very nice guy and a lot of action going on at that place still. I used to live nearby and about two years ago I played on the same APA 9 ball team with him, but then the team broke up and I moved.I love that table there , too bad that I don't get out that way too often now since I moved a little bit further. But I still go there now and then and my recent APA team played the team from Flamingo's at our place this week. I believe we are going back to Flamingo's very soon to play them again.

 

[honestjchsfan]

I met Jack Hynes in the mid 90's. He showed up in a small one horse coal town in Eastern Kentucky called Paintsville. Paintsville is the home town of country music star Chris Stapleton. Jack was traveling under the name "Tony Miller". Paintsville is a very small town but back in the 90's it was a huge gambling town. The law just looked the other way when it came to gambling. At onetime there was two no-limit poker games going right in the down town area. Anyway, Jack first showed up in a old Pool Hall called Bill Burk's and played the owner a guy named Rob Haney some $100 a game 9 ball. Rob beat Jack for $1k. Rob was a strong player who had spent 2 years in Cal. playing pool 7 days a week. I later found out that Jack hadn't been out of jail more than a few days when he played Rob. I personally met Jack at a pool room located just off US 23 called "Redman's". The owner of Redman's was a out of town guy that went by the name of Bill Ross. Bill Ross was a pretty solid pool player and a very good one pocket player. Bill is the one that let the cat out of the bag to me about "Tony's" real name. I clearly remember my first conversation with Jack. I figure it was 5 min. into the conversation that he told me about the match with Earl Strickland and how Earl "lucked" a ball in and ended up beating him. I have read most of the post about Jack but no one has mentioned that Jack was a expert a cheating the Old VDO poker machines. There was a old type draw poker machine made by "Kramer" company that Jack could rob quicker than a cat could lick it's butt. I personally saw him use a ignitor out of a gas grill to shock the machine during the high low bonus and put a $1000 worth of credits on the machine with no more than $2 invested. Jack also showed me a system to beat the old "Cherry Master" machines. The "system' was so simple that it was genius. As far as pool goes it didn't take Jack long to get back in stroke. I can remember him playing $5 9ball in Bill Burk's laying "make a good hit" to anyone that walked in the door. The tables in Bill Burk's pool hall old vintage tables from the 1930's and many of them still had ivory balls. Jack could makes those old balls do wild things.

 

[alstl]

I met Jack Hynes in the mid 90's. He showed up in a small one horse coal town in Eastern Kentucky called Paintsville. Paintsville is the home town of country music star Chris Stapleton. Jack was traveling under the name "Tony Miller". Paintsville is a very small town but back in the 90's it was a huge gambling town. The law just looked the other way when it came to gambling. At onetime there was two no-limit poker games going right in the down town area. Anyway, Jack first showed up in a old Pool Hall called Bill Burk's and played the owner a guy named Rob Haney some $100 a game 9 ball. Rob beat Jack for $1k. Rob was a strong player who had spent 2 years in Cal. playing pool 7 days a week. I later found out that Jack hadn't been out of jail more than a few days when he played Rob. I personally met Jack at a pool room located just off US 23 called "Redman's". The owner of Redman's was a out of town guy that went by the name of Bill Ross. Bill Ross was a pretty solid pool player and a very good one pocket player. Bill is the one that let the cat out of the bag to me about "Tony's" real name. I clearly remember my first conversation with Jack. I figure it was 5 min. into the conversation that he told me about the match with Earl Strickland and how Earl "lucked" a ball in and ended up beating him. I have read most of the post about Jack but no one has mentioned that Jack was a expert a cheating the Old VDO poker machines. There was a old type draw poker machine made by "Kramer" company that Jack could rob quicker than a cat could lick it's butt. I personally saw him use a ignitor out of a gas grill to shock the machine during the high low bonus and put a $1000 worth of credits on the machine with no more than $2 invested. Jack also showed me a system to beat the old "Cherry Master" machines. The "system' was so simple that it was genius. As far as pool goes it didn't take Jack long to get back in stroke. I can remember him playing $5 9ball in Bill Burk's laying "make a good hit" to anyone that walked in the door. The tables in Bill Burk's pool hall old vintage tables from the 1930's and many of them still had ivory balls. Jack could makes those old balls do wild things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSgKU5sIAWI

The milk guy's gettin paid. The potato chip guy's getting paid. The beer guy's getting paid.

Robbing those machines works okay until the guy running the machines finds out you were robbing his machines.