Larry Lisciotti

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Next weekend they are having the Larry Lisciotti memorial Tournament
It's been just over 7 yrs since his passing.
To remember Larry does anyone have some good stories
 
As a road player in the early 1970s in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lisciotti was playing nine-ball with an unknown entity for $15,000 for six-ahead.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a black, shiny object pointing directly at his head as he was getting ready to shoot the nine-ball in the pocket.

He missed the shot, as the bullet flew over his head.

It happened five more times, each time Lisciotti was getting ready to shoot a game-winning shot.

After missing six consecutive nine-ball shots in a row, Lisciotti had had enough and said, "If he's going to kill me, let him!" He fired the last nine-ball in the pocket with authority, but thankfully only heard a clicking sound as the gunman ran out of bullets.

:shocked2::shocked2::shocked2:
 
Here's another copy-and-paste of another Larry story. :)

I was kind of green, having been away from pool altogether for 15-plus years. Keith and Larry Lisciotti were both kind of shocked that the kid wanted to play Keith even, never having seen the young'n before. But Keith, the veteran road man, got air-barreled by Pistol Pete.

Believe me, Larry was pissed off to the max. At one point, out in the lobby when I realized the kid wasn't going to pay, I screamed to Larry, "Take his cue. Take his cue," and Pistol Pete, never missing a beat, put the cue case strap across his body like a life preserver. Larry's hands were within seconds of grabbing it.

I wish you could have seen the fiasco out in the lobby. Me and Larry had steam coming out of our ears. The kid was a scared puppy with his tail between his legs, shaking like a leaf, and Keith was looking him dead in his eyes, listening to every word the kid said before he granted him forgiveness.

Several months later, Pistol Pete had a rude awakening when Keith and I walked in on him gambling with a local action man. He was winner on Danny Green by a couple hundred bucks. The game came to an abrupt end when the kid saw me hawking his game. He couldn't hit a ball. LOL! So he unscrewed his cue, quit winner, and paid the time, hoping to slither out of the joint with his dough.

The house man at the pool room, about 250 pounds and all muscle, pulled the kid aside when he heard about the incident with me and Keith. He told Pistol Pete that he better give Keith and me some of his winnings or else. There's more to this story which I'm saving, but we got paid what I'll term as "interest." And I'll just leave it at that!
 
I went to the first Larry Lisciotti memorial pool tournament in Maine. It was a Joss Tour Season Finale event, and Kid Delicious won it. My partner was very close to Larry, and the two of them did get to speak on the phone several times during the last days of Larry's life. Even though he was in pain, he still had a sense of humor. When he passed, it was a very difficult for my partner to digest. The two of them were like Mutt and Jeff at pool tournaments together. :)

Here's a great link about Larry's life: http://www.laudizen.com/gathered/dugout_and_lisciotti.htm

The author of that website above wrote a beautiful description of Larry:

He was a slim young man with a great sense of humor who enjoyed a good laugh with his friends. He had intelligent eyes and a wonderful smile with lips that turned up at the end, lending him a type of Cheshire cat grin...

...I can close my eyes and see Larry now, and watch that Cheshire cat smile morphing into the eyes of a feral cat on the hunt. He was young and handsome in the Dugout days, and so very talented. There was such a mixture of power and possibility in the raw beauty of how he played the game back then, the way he held a cue, how he looked at the table, in the fluidity and grace of his movements.

There are also the hidden words I see shining through the obituary, and they are the words I want to use to describe Larry Lisciotti. He was a pool player and people loved him; he was more than a pool player.

He was beautiful.
 

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My story about Lisciotti is a non-event. He asked me if I wanted to play some $100/rack 9 ball and I said.... NO! :)
 
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