Please post all the nice and or happy thoughts and memories you have about Michael here. I will rember him as he was, a true gentleman and friend.
Thank you,
Nick
Thank you,
Nick
Mike Surber Rest In Peace
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Mike Surber
I never once spoke to Mike, but I've seen him play many times at Breakers Billiards in Mobile. He was an excellent pool player, with a quiet, humble disposition that more pool players should aspire to convey.
It never seizes to amaze me at how inhumane humanity can be.
I never once spoke to Mike, but I've seen him play many times at Breakers Billiards in Mobile. He was an excellent pool player, with a quiet, humble disposition that more pool players should aspire to convey.
It never seizes to amaze me at how inhumane humanity can be.
Please post all the nice and or happy thoughts and memories you have about Michael here. I will rember him as he was, a true gentleman and friend.
Thank you,
Nick
It's funny how, though there are millions of us pool players out there, we're still a relatively small community. And for those of us that prefer to play mostly 1pocket, the tribe is even smaller and in some ways more closely knit.
I thought I knew most of the 1pocket "monster players" out there -- for several years I'd go to play in the US Open 1pocket event up in Kalamazoo and, more recently, have gone to many iterations of the DCC. I've also played 1pocket in various rooms around the country. And whenever I'd go somewhere and play in a tournament I always considered it my pretty good fortune to draw a name I didn't recognize from my travels, a pool magazine, or an Accu-Stats tape. So when I drew a "Mike Surber" in the 2nd round of the 2008 DCC 1pocket event, I was quite buoyed by my prospects: didn't recognize the name -- feeling pretty good. But then I'd walk around the tournament room and fellow competitors in the event I knew would stop and ask me, "So, who'd you draw?" "A Mike Surber" I'd cheerfully chirp back. "Maybe from Mississippi." And then, a strange thing would happen: every player I related my "good fortune" to, got a look on their face like I had just told them I got test results back from my doctor and maybe they weren't so good. Turns out Mike was in something like the last six in the banks that year and had finished in the top 10 in the 1pocket the previous :-o
Mike was a quiet, unassuming guy in the mold of Steve Cook -- a totally nice guy who looked like an aging boy scout and from whom the last thing you'd expect was super high level game of 1pocket. He was quiet, polite, and a true gentleman during our match. But nonetheless, when he was at the table, there was always a fire in his eyes that told you, in no uncertain terms, that he meant business. Mike beats Lou 3-0.
A year later I got a chance to speak with him briefly down at Doc's 1pocket event at Skeeter's down in Gulfport. Again, he was a complete gentleman and played great, finishing 2nd. Mike was just one of those guys that made an impression -- in a very soft spoken way -- that stayed with you long after you said goodbye. He was a great player and I offer my condolences to his family and those that knew him better than I. He will be missed.
Lou Figueroa
I really and truly liked Mike Surber. He was one of the "good guys" in the pool world. I am horrified by his senseless killing and just want the perpetrator caught. I know Mike would want that too. He can never rest in peace until this guy is apprehended. We must exhaust all our resources to find the guy who did this, for Mike's sake.
Please post all the nice and or happy thoughts and memories you have about Michael here. I will rember him as he was, a true gentleman and friend.
Thank you,
Nick
Nick I'm truly sorry in your loss of your friend. From what I have read about Mr. Surber he seem like a great guy. Hopefully justice will be swift and sever with a short rope and a tall tree.
I rember calling Mike.
The hurricane was heading straight his way. He answered and instantly he heard, you can stay here as long as you need Mike. Man he was just stoked. How can you be so nice? The answer was easy. You are nicer.
He had somewhere else to stay and thanked me and all I wished him good luck.
Mike would say if anything ever happens to me Nick, and always be cut short, nothing is going to happen to you Mike. He said it alot. Kind of weird considering.
He always was very careful. Street smart. When I was down and he knew it he would call and lift my spirits. That little guy had alot of fight in him and would kick me in the butt with it.
We met one day I saw him at a 10K added tournament with my old Scruggs and said hay that is my old Scruggs! He just stopped dead and looked up at me and before he could think of anything to say I said I have a couple more new Scruggs cues with me if you would like to trade it for any of them we can easily work something out.
He said man I own alot of cues and this thing puts them all to shame. All I could say was glad you like it. It is in the DCC pictures Great cue. Greater Guy!!
We had been buddies ever since.
Nick Serdula
The hurricane was heading straight his way. He answered and instantly he heard, you can stay here as long as you need Mike. Man he was just stoked. How can you be so nice? The answer was easy. You are nicer.
He had somewhere else to stay and thanked me and all I wished him good luck.
Mike would say if anything ever happens to me Nick, and always be cut short, nothing is going to happen to you Mike. He said it alot. Kind of weird considering.
He always was very careful. Street smart. When I was down and he knew it he would call and lift my spirits. That little guy had alot of fight in him and would kick me in the butt with it.
We met one day I saw him at a 10K added tournament with my old Scruggs and said hay that is my old Scruggs! He just stopped dead and looked up at me and before he could think of anything to say I said I have a couple more new Scruggs cues with me if you would like to trade it for any of them we can easily work something out.
He said man I own alot of cues and this thing puts them all to shame. All I could say was glad you like it. It is in the DCC pictures Great cue. Greater Guy!!
We had been buddies ever since.
Nick Serdula