Mark Jarvis
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Doesn't look like him to me. ICBW. Mark pedalled up on a bike to the pool room I was hanging out in in East Detroit the late 70's called Playland. It was a great suburban pool room with a good level of action and quite a few players and gamblers hung out there at various times. Mark was a skinny kid, about 17 or 18 years old but looked younger. The story was he was staying with an aunt for the summer. Nobody knew him or the speed he had at the time. In about a week or so he had taken down some decent scores. I'll never forget that. We both had big laughs about that when I saw him at Derby City about 13 years ago.
One year at the DCC Mark got mugged in the parking lot of the old executive inn I believe.
Anyway a big guy clocked him from what I undersand and got his money.
He comes in looking like a truck hit him and says I was just robbed .
Shannon Daulton took off for the parking lot like a bolt of lightning and I immediately thought of the song , How Bizzare, How Bizzarre
Anyway a big guy clocked him from what I undersand and got his money.
He comes in looking like a truck hit him and says I was just robbed .
Shannon Daulton took off for the parking lot like a bolt of lightning and I immediately thought of the song , How Bizzare, How Bizzarre
Mark has been hanging around our pool hall here in Orlando for the last month, seems like a nice guy. I don't think he has had any action. Someone outed him when he first came in.
Tom
Tom
I played Jarvis at the DCC at the Executive West the year he got whomped upside the head for messing with the wrong guy's girlfriend. I guess he was still a little fuzzy because I recall winning pretty easily.
More recently, I was at Red Shoes warming up for their 1pocket event, and this guy comes over and asks to warm up with me and I say sure. Didn't recognize him but I could tell the guy played pretty sporty. He'd run a few, I would too, and and I won three games in a row. Now these are all games that we're both playing pretty loose and aggressive -- it's warm up, after all. Each game is taking like maybe 10 minutes and suddenly he says, "I can't warm up with you. You're playing like we're playing $100 a game." And I say, "er, OK." He goes off to find cheaper warm up action.
A few minutes later, Monsignor Lavin comes over to me and asks what happen and I tell him and he tells me, "Oh, that's Mark Jarvis. He's kinda like that now."
Lou Figueroa
More recently, I was at Red Shoes warming up for their 1pocket event, and this guy comes over and asks to warm up with me and I say sure. Didn't recognize him but I could tell the guy played pretty sporty. He'd run a few, I would too, and and I won three games in a row. Now these are all games that we're both playing pretty loose and aggressive -- it's warm up, after all. Each game is taking like maybe 10 minutes and suddenly he says, "I can't warm up with you. You're playing like we're playing $100 a game." And I say, "er, OK." He goes off to find cheaper warm up action.
A few minutes later, Monsignor Lavin comes over to me and asks what happen and I tell him and he tells me, "Oh, that's Mark Jarvis. He's kinda like that now."
Lou Figueroa
He was here in Dencer for a while.
Some roofing repair thing after a big hail storm.
Nice guy, I tried to buy his Kersenbrock, he wouldn't sell it.
Didnt know until it was recently posted for sale on Facebook the shafts were South West shafts, not original.
Really glad I didn't buy it.
Some roofing repair thing after a big hail storm.
Nice guy, I tried to buy his Kersenbrock, he wouldn't sell it.
Didnt know until it was recently posted for sale on Facebook the shafts were South West shafts, not original.
Really glad I didn't buy it.
Why does that matter?
As good as Mark plays he could have given up weight if he really wanted to play? So if he got outed which means that he couldn't steal, then its time to go to work...,
As good as Mark plays he could have given up weight if he really wanted to play? So if he got outed which means that he couldn't steal, then its time to go to work...,
Mark was a regular at my father's pool room. He was a teenager, I think we are about the same age, give or take a year. His dad did all the plumbing when they built out the space before they opened.
For his troubles, he was given free membership for life.
Mark plays great. He played just under pro level, and sometimes at pro level. As good as he played since he was just a teenager, I'm very surprised he didn't do more in the pool world. His bank game was pretty damn sporty as well as his 9 ball game. Not to many folks were eager to play this teen age protégé. And if they did, they had to give him some weight, I mean, he was just a kid
Mark's dad was also a backer. His dad had a plumbing business and did pretty well.
He was cocky and stubborn as I recall. But, just proves you need more than just talent to get to the top. Work ethic, determination, and sometimes just plain old common sense help move you up that mountain. Talent alone is just not enough.
For his troubles, he was given free membership for life.
Mark plays great. He played just under pro level, and sometimes at pro level. As good as he played since he was just a teenager, I'm very surprised he didn't do more in the pool world. His bank game was pretty damn sporty as well as his 9 ball game. Not to many folks were eager to play this teen age protégé. And if they did, they had to give him some weight, I mean, he was just a kid
Mark's dad was also a backer. His dad had a plumbing business and did pretty well.He was cocky and stubborn as I recall. But, just proves you need more than just talent to get to the top. Work ethic, determination, and sometimes just plain old common sense help move you up that mountain. Talent alone is just not enough.