Pete Horne???
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He is living around Fayetteville NC driving trucks. I've been living here around 2 years and I haven't seen him in the poolhall once. I hear he comes around ever so often. I've heard stories about how well he used to play.
The other day I ran into a guy named Nathan Hope who said he used to run the roads with Pete. I had heard that this guy used to play pretty strong but had got hooked on some bad drugs. I ended up playing him real cheap 9 ball and was playing very well. I could tell that this guy knew what he was doing but hadn't played in a while. I got up 8 games on him and he asked me if he could play me the next day if he loses and that he is staying in the shelter until he gets back on his feet. So I let him get back even with me and then payed his table time. Someone told me that this guy at one point had two businesses and had close to a million dollars at one point and then got hooked on drugs badly. Told me a story about one time in Georgia he beat a poolhall owner out of around a thousand and got met outside with a bat across his face which retired him for a while. His nose got badly damaged by that and had to get his reconstructed.
Anybody hear of this guy Nathan Hope or have any stories about Pete Horn?
The other day I ran into a guy named Nathan Hope who said he used to run the roads with Pete. I had heard that this guy used to play pretty strong but had got hooked on some bad drugs. I ended up playing him real cheap 9 ball and was playing very well. I could tell that this guy knew what he was doing but hadn't played in a while. I got up 8 games on him and he asked me if he could play me the next day if he loses and that he is staying in the shelter until he gets back on his feet. So I let him get back even with me and then payed his table time. Someone told me that this guy at one point had two businesses and had close to a million dollars at one point and then got hooked on drugs badly. Told me a story about one time in Georgia he beat a poolhall owner out of around a thousand and got met outside with a bat across his face which retired him for a while. His nose got badly damaged by that and had to get his reconstructed.
Anybody hear of this guy Nathan Hope or have any stories about Pete Horn?
DeadPoked said:
Pete was a helluva a player back in the early 90''s....he won the Spring fling Pro pool tourney in 92 i believe, in which he knocked off strickland,davenport,archer, just to name a few players in the field that year....
We hung around each other for a couple weeks and won a few grand during... he could give up the weight pretty good.
Maybe he'll be at the big tourney coming up at king street billiards soon........
> I posted this about him in a previous thread.
I was a witness of the man's skills for 7-8 months about the same time. He came to the poolroom here in town with a semi-local eyeballer/action whore,and I helped steer him around,after seeing where he won a big tournament at Brass Tap in The Snap magazine. In the article about it,it said he had a 5 rack run in 3 consecutive races to 11 against guys like Keith,Earl,and Kim Davenport.
I've also heard the story about Earl never beating him in ANY kind of a set that mattered directly from him. They started out on the road together as kids,so they've known each other since their early teens. I have NO reason to doubt him. He took off everyone that got in the box with him,playing unbelievably sporty on totally unfamilar equipment,for God-awfully cheap stakes at times,and still made you wonder if he had 2 more gears he hadn't even showed us yet.
I THINK I saw what his top-end looked like,in the form of a warm-up for a 15 dollar entry fee tournament that started by him throwing all 21 balls out on a 10 foot GC snooker table,and running out. He shot 10 long cross-corner banks at warp speed,never missing one. He shot 10 balls off the 5 spot from the jaws of the corner pocket,and REPLACED the object ball with the cue ball,like the Kinister shot. The next phase was cutting balls in off the 7 spot from inside the D,alternating corners. He got in a 2 dollar a man,3 handed ring game,and ran 14 full racks on a temperamental 8 footer before coming up dry. Needless to say,everyone else was playing for 2nd that day.
I'd swap a testicle for his break,with almost NO hesitation. I watched him play somewhere around 1500 racks where he broke during the time he was up this way. He might have come up dry every 20-30 racks or so,and I swear he scratched on the break no more than 20 times,all from kicks/kisses. Not ONCE did he ever scratch directly into a pocket. He wasn't exactly throwing a sponge at them,either. I'd estimate his break at 27-28 MPH pretty fairly,and every once in a while 30,always with the cue ball bouncing straight back and stopping 1/2 way between the spot and the head string. If he had been playing on the same table all the time,there would have been a 4" circle where his cue ball stopped.
His speed control across all kinds of conditions,was near-Efren caliber,ruthless safeties,accurate kicks,he has it ALL. He was pretty cool with me too. Tommy D.
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I was a witness of the man's skills for 7-8 months about the same time. He came to the poolroom here in town with a semi-local eyeballer/action whore,and I helped steer him around,after seeing where he won a big tournament at Brass Tap in The Snap magazine. In the article about it,it said he had a 5 rack run in 3 consecutive races to 11 against guys like Keith,Earl,and Kim Davenport.
I've also heard the story about Earl never beating him in ANY kind of a set that mattered directly from him. They started out on the road together as kids,so they've known each other since their early teens. I have NO reason to doubt him. He took off everyone that got in the box with him,playing unbelievably sporty on totally unfamilar equipment,for God-awfully cheap stakes at times,and still made you wonder if he had 2 more gears he hadn't even showed us yet.
I THINK I saw what his top-end looked like,in the form of a warm-up for a 15 dollar entry fee tournament that started by him throwing all 21 balls out on a 10 foot GC snooker table,and running out. He shot 10 long cross-corner banks at warp speed,never missing one. He shot 10 balls off the 5 spot from the jaws of the corner pocket,and REPLACED the object ball with the cue ball,like the Kinister shot. The next phase was cutting balls in off the 7 spot from inside the D,alternating corners. He got in a 2 dollar a man,3 handed ring game,and ran 14 full racks on a temperamental 8 footer before coming up dry. Needless to say,everyone else was playing for 2nd that day.
I'd swap a testicle for his break,with almost NO hesitation. I watched him play somewhere around 1500 racks where he broke during the time he was up this way. He might have come up dry every 20-30 racks or so,and I swear he scratched on the break no more than 20 times,all from kicks/kisses. Not ONCE did he ever scratch directly into a pocket. He wasn't exactly throwing a sponge at them,either. I'd estimate his break at 27-28 MPH pretty fairly,and every once in a while 30,always with the cue ball bouncing straight back and stopping 1/2 way between the spot and the head string. If he had been playing on the same table all the time,there would have been a 4" circle where his cue ball stopped.
His speed control across all kinds of conditions,was near-Efren caliber,ruthless safeties,accurate kicks,he has it ALL. He was pretty cool with me too. Tommy D.
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I remember pete from a long time ago ( around the mid 80's). I was a kid and Pete was very nice to me. He played with a high end Huebler cue. He was a great player! He was also good friends with Barry and Cary who at the time co-owned Good Times Billiards in Asheville, NC
Tommy-D said:
Did he ever tell you about the oversized cueball that he would play anyone in the world with? He says that no one has a chance playing him with that CB.
He also had a few sayings that i will never forget...One in particular was "take your time kid and shoot fast"... It sounds odd but makes alot of sense to me now....
Hey Pete if you're out there i just wanted to say hi and hope you're doing ok. I will be attending the King Street Billiards Tourney next weekend and hope to see you there buddy....
An old friend for life,
Kenny Wilson.