One Pocket handbook?
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Surely Tom, you know me well enough to know everything I say, is always loaded with sarcasm!..I admire your skill at putting your words into an easily understandable context..A few people have been wanting me to write down my thoughts and memories, of my 65 years in the racket, while I'm still above ground!
First of all, my memory is broken!..I can't even remember what I had for breakfast, let alone recall with any degree of accuracy, what happened 50-60 years ago!..However, most pool authors have never let 'accuracy' get in the way of their recollections..
..Besides, I can't even remember what I had for breakfast! 
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Hookers and Tequila not related to One Pocket? My. oh, my. You've got a lot to learn.
I consider myself an A player, but with health considerations being what they are, who knows.
I never paid for a lesson in my life. I've given a few, back in the day, to new players. Basic stuff. I gave a lesson once to a Chinese couple (elderly) who had recently bought a table for their home. Neither had ever picked up a pool cue, but their daughter was bringing her fiance and his parents over and they wanted at least a rudimentary understanding on making a ball go into a pocket.
By the end of an hour I had them both making one and a half foot shots into a corner pocket about fifty-percent of the time. They were tickled pink and forked over thirty bucks. Family rate, you know.
To me, and I know Dick and Lou feel the same way, One Pocket is the best game in town, bar none. It contains all the elements that make it great. It's challenging. There's drama galore. It's definitely entertaining. And, it's just fun to do.
Although I personally don't gamble, it's the best there is for gaming.
So, because of that, and other considerations, I tend to be a bit protective of the game, and I think a statue should be erected in Enid, Oklahoma, to honor the guy who invented it. (Maybe they already have.)
Anyway, 'nuff said.
I don't know about tequila and 1pocket but hookers, oh yeah. Way back when at the EW, when the DDC was being run out of there, the ladies had a very nice little cottage industry going. I wrote a funny story about it one year. Almost everyone (except one person) found it pretty funny.
Lou Figueroa
No sir....has to do with I'm always getting f.............. but that is a personal issue.
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Thank You SJD, I do understand and appreciate your sense of humor.
I think it would be a great benefit to all in the pool community if you did write that book. At least you should grab yourself a digital audio recorder and spill out what memories you do have about your exploits. Even if these memories never get published at least they will be there for your family to enjoy. I know I would have loved to have had some form of autobiographical record of my father's life.
I think it would be a great benefit to all in the pool community if you did write that book. At least you should grab yourself a digital audio recorder and spill out what memories you do have about your exploits. Even if these memories never get published at least they will be there for your family to enjoy. I know I would have loved to have had some form of autobiographical record of my father's life.
Yes Tom, I have already written a such a story to my kids, some years ago..It is quite long, and much too personal to share on the forum..I have 4 boys and a girl, (all well into middle age now) none of whom were ever really into pool, thank goodness!..So 'inside' pool stories of interest to us, would have been wasted on them.
It is more like an explanation, or weak excuse, of why their father was gone so much!..To greatly compound it, shortly after I wrote it, their mother, (my wife of 28 yrs.) lost her life in a tragic accident, in perfect health, in only her late 40's..I am still struggling to deal with the guilt and frustration of that, today!
I missed so much of their lives growing up, and I have always regretted that..I guess that is true of most full time pool hustlers with families..We all look back, and realize maybe we could have made some better life decisions!
PS..I'm assuming your dad was probably not a pool hustler, so his story would be a real treasure for you to have!
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No, Dick, he was a product of the depression and held a very hard stance against my playing pool. The pool hall stigma was alive and well within my Dad. As a result, I was somewhat a "black sheep" family member. I was not alone in that club though. lol.
We all have our skeletons Dick. I wish to express my sadness for the loss of your young wife. The pain stemming from a loss due to senseless accidents such as the one you have suffered can never fully be resolved.
Tom
We all have our skeletons Dick. I wish to express my sadness for the loss of your young wife. The pain stemming from a loss due to senseless accidents such as the one you have suffered can never fully be resolved.
Tom
Thank you Tom, I knew you would understand..Paula and I were recently divorced at the time!..And not to make it all about me, and my misgivings, but my 2nd youngest son, Steve, was somewhat indirectly responsible for her early demise..As kids will do, he ignored her plea for help with a very simple task!
And of all my kids, he was the only one who then turned to drugs, and has since wasted his life over it! ..Another tough cross to bare!..If I had only been there, (where I should have been) she would probably still be alive today! ..Being a full time road hustler, can certainly bring about a lot of regrets, can't it?
P..Thanks to you, and everyone, for allowing me to vent my frustrations! (sorry for the hijack)
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Sorry to hear all of this.
Surely Tom, you know me well enough to know everything I say, is always loaded with sarcasm!..I admire your skill at putting your words into an easily understandable context..A few people have been wanting me to write down my thoughts and memories, of my 65 years in the racket, while I'm still above ground!
First of all, my memory is broken!..I can't even remember what I had for breakfast, let alone recall with any degree of accuracy, what happened 50-60 years ago!..However, most pool authors have never let 'accuracy' get in the way of their recollections..
whadda you say old salt....?
:smile:dick, i'm somewhat certain that i'm not crazy.... what became of what you were writing a few years ago? weren't you five or six chapters in? (back to the think i'm not crazy thing -- think i read some of it.....)
(i also enjoy the dvd when lenny "interviewed" you a few years back.)
go easy.
dustin
You used Bing!