Probably be some action at the pool room soon eh? The pool waters have been chummed.
John Hennigan Won 1.6MM
- Thread starter Island Drive
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Well, if some C player won it, then yeah... but from what I hear, there's not a lot of guys who liked it playing John...
JoeyA said:
I hate to say it, but I ain't never heard of the fellow!
However, as a professional Googler myself, I found this:
http://www.launchpoker.com/players/poker_players/-john-hennigan-/
Is that the player they used to call "Corn Flakes"?
JAM
Been there, done that.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=53217
Flakes does not play pool anymore.
If he did, everyone and their mother would be talking about it.
I think the last time he played pool for money that i heard of was against Pat McNally a few years ago when he was home visiting, and i think they played a set on a bar table for $1000 which Pat won.
Knowing him, it might have been his most boring action in 10 years.
To give you guys an idea of where he stood in the ranks, he went on the road and ended up matching up with Archer in 9 ball, around the time Archer was making absolutely everything with his eyes closed, when he used to just SHOOT and didn't spend 20 minutes on each shot resetting and picking up imaginary lint.
Flakes lost.
They then switched games to Back Pocket 9 ball (Flakes' BEST game), and Flakes butchered him something HUGE.
If you were to walk into South Philly Billiards back in the day, odds were that you might catch Flakes playing 21 ahead for $15k with the owner over the course of a few days, or whenever the Efren and crew came to town, he was ALWAYS playing them some game. ALWAYS.
I remember them playing 10ball, and i think Flakes was getting the 8, and rule was that the 10 had to be frozen to the head rail on the middle spot before the rack could begin. I think we sat there and watched that game for like 6 hours before we had to head out. It was just some truly amazing pool.
He played absolutely EVERYONE that walked in the door that i know of. I remember back when he was still coming up, that Cornbread Red walked in cause of some tournament that was happening, and who's the guy that ends up playing him. Flakes. He got chopped up, but that's how he got so good. Playing everyone.
Considering he quit before he really got started and hasn't been in stroke since Poker came to Atlantic City, we can only speculate as to how good he might have been, but from what i remember, he played pretty friggin good.
Almost forgot, he's featured in PLAYING OFF THE RAIL, when they come to Philly LOOKING for him, but he's on the road, and they end up in the back room playing cards.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=53217
Flakes does not play pool anymore.
If he did, everyone and their mother would be talking about it.
I think the last time he played pool for money that i heard of was against Pat McNally a few years ago when he was home visiting, and i think they played a set on a bar table for $1000 which Pat won.
Knowing him, it might have been his most boring action in 10 years.
To give you guys an idea of where he stood in the ranks, he went on the road and ended up matching up with Archer in 9 ball, around the time Archer was making absolutely everything with his eyes closed, when he used to just SHOOT and didn't spend 20 minutes on each shot resetting and picking up imaginary lint.
Flakes lost.
They then switched games to Back Pocket 9 ball (Flakes' BEST game), and Flakes butchered him something HUGE.
If you were to walk into South Philly Billiards back in the day, odds were that you might catch Flakes playing 21 ahead for $15k with the owner over the course of a few days, or whenever the Efren and crew came to town, he was ALWAYS playing them some game. ALWAYS.
I remember them playing 10ball, and i think Flakes was getting the 8, and rule was that the 10 had to be frozen to the head rail on the middle spot before the rack could begin. I think we sat there and watched that game for like 6 hours before we had to head out. It was just some truly amazing pool.
He played absolutely EVERYONE that walked in the door that i know of. I remember back when he was still coming up, that Cornbread Red walked in cause of some tournament that was happening, and who's the guy that ends up playing him. Flakes. He got chopped up, but that's how he got so good. Playing everyone.
Considering he quit before he really got started and hasn't been in stroke since Poker came to Atlantic City, we can only speculate as to how good he might have been, but from what i remember, he played pretty friggin good.
Almost forgot, he's featured in PLAYING OFF THE RAIL, when they come to Philly LOOKING for him, but he's on the road, and they end up in the back room playing cards.
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, did you have to say that right before lunch?... I'm so hungry
SUPERSTAR said:
past post from Freddy B.
on Hennigan;
"The guy you are talking about is John "Cornflakes" Hennigan, who also now plays on the World Poker Tour. At the Legends 1pkt in South Philly I watched and bet on Cornbread playing Cornflakes, last pocket 9ball. The stakes were 2 sets of 15k each with all the side action you wanted. Buddy Hall, Wade Crane and I each bet $600 on Cornbread who Cornflakes apparently didnt know had invented that particular game with Kenny Romberg Remus back in Detroit. Red won the first set easily and Hennigan's man was taking all bets at a small table he had set up. He asked us if we wanted to push our bet and bet the whole $1200 on the next set. Barely able to suppress a giggle, we all bet the wad. Cornflakes was a real high-roller and the Philly boys said betting big money wouldnt bother Cornflakes at all. However, Buddy, Wade's and my take on it was a little different. Yeah, Cornflakes was used to betting high with people, but he hadnt bet big money against somebody like the frightening, high-rolling creature called Cornbread Red. Our confidence was soon rewarded when Red won the second set, long-stroking, and whistling in a straight-back session ball into the super-tough, triple-shimmed pocket. Red's only complaint was that he couldnt dig up more than 30k to bet in the time Cornflakes allowed."
SUPERSTAR said:
They may have matched up more than once, but I saw Corn Flakes and Johnny play back-pocket at Hard Times. I don't remember what the bet was but the game was that they played even and Johnny got to have a coach (Billy Incardona). From what I remember, Corn Flakes won pretty convincingly.
SUPERSTAR said:
IMHO John Hennigan has the best high stakes live limit (LHE,Stud) poker game when he is right in the world (I put Joe Cassidy second). I watched him destroy the 4k/8k game when they played a rotation of limit games. I seen him in pool action he may not have been the best player in the world but no bet is high enough for him. I have seen both palyers mentioned in "playing off the rail" and I like Johnny "World" by a bit.
Island Drive said:
Johnny "World" Hennigan knew that Cornbread was the inventor/main practitioner of back pocket ninball, but he didn't care Cornbread was the only guy that would play as high as Flakes wanted. When Corey was a kid Hennigan used to torture him at back-pocket 9ball. Corey will play anyone in the world at that game now and I like Corey's end of it.
arsenius said:
I'll explain it since i was watching it.
Racked up 10 ball like normal, and once the rack was broken, the 10ball was then spotted on the top diamond, and then the rack would begin.
It was because Efren was giving him the split 8/9 or the 8 (TOO long ago), so that the 10 wouldn't be hanging in front of a hole, and that Efren would have to negotiate just a tad harder then normal every rack, shooting at a frozen IN the rail 10 ball every time on a triple shim tightest table in the city.
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