Mark Tadd Stories

[ribdoner]

I saw him get 86'd a couple years ago for commenting on how nice the waitress' ass looked She said she would not have thrown him out if they tipped better

He was playing friendly games and was not running out but you could see some real skill that night...

Even BAC's appreciate fine ass's

 

[Poke N Hope]

Great Stories. Keepm comin

 

[lfigueroa]

I was reading the forum the other night and ran across a couple of threads that had referenced Mark Tadd. I have only seen him play twice and I don't remember him missing a ball. Anybody out there got a Mark Tadd story they would like to share?


OK, OK, so here's my Mark Tadd story:

I was warming up at the DCC last year when this guy comes over with his copy of one of Eddie Robin's 1pocket books in hand. I should know who this guy is, but I don't -- he's a tall older guy who's at all the 1pocket events and you can always see him in the background in all the Accu-Stats tapes, wearing a white Panama. Anywhos, he comes up to me and asks me to autograph the book.

So there I am, pen in hand, staring at this page with all these world beater signatures on it. Now, I've only been asked to sign *one* of these books ever before and that was at like the '99 US Open 1pocket event up in Kalamazoo when, Ed, the tournament director, asked all the players to sign his copy.

So I'm looking at "Autograph for an Adoring Fan #2" and I had to hesitate for a moment. Finally, the better part of me speaks up and I ask, "Are you sure you want *me* to autograph your book?"

And he says, "Well sure. You're Mark Tadd, aren't you."

I laughed and told him though I had no idea what Mark Tadd looked like, I had heard enough about him that I finally understood why, if I looked anything like him, I could never get a game while growing up on the West Coast back in the 70's

Lou Figueroa

 

[thebigdog]

I've told this one here before. But here we go again. Mark had one a large amount of cash playing poker in Vegas ( I heard it was around 200K). Before the players meeting at the Bicycle Club Tournament in Los Angeles, he tried matching up with Johnny Archer 8 ahead for 8K, Mark getting the last two. This was during the time when Johnny was dominating the pool tournaments here and nobody was trying to match up with Archer. They started the game and a guy walks in the room saying that he wished he had gotten there sooner so he could bet 2K on Archer. Mark told him that he would flip him for 2K if he really wanted to bet. So they flip, Mark wins and immediately declares, " I'm only playing for $6,000 now". Johnny ran through Mark in about an hour, I don't think Johnny ever missed a shot, and Mark might have only missed one. Archer was just to tough that night. After the game ended Mark went straight to practice, Incardona approached him for a even one pocket game $500 a game. They played and it wasn't even close. Mark won about 6 games in a row before Billy quit.
I heard that Mark blew the 200K within about a 6 month time period and thats when he gave up pool and poker. From what people had told me, Mark had only been playing for 5 years when he was playing his best pool. I always found that hard to believe, but there are a lot of things about Mark Tadd that are hard to believe.