Pools Great One Strokers!

Walt Frazier

Walt Frazier

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I know the heading sounds a little cheesey..but this should be fun!You all know them..They take one practice stroke/swing and then BAMMMMMMM! They split the wicket!(another thread idea:where in the hell did that phrase come from?"split the wicked/wicket/wick"):cool:

when I think of great One-stroke players..Keith Mcready is the first guy to come to mind.. also Earl when he is in dead gear/stroke.can't forget Jamie Farrel from my neck of the woods...

Who else....?
 
Walt Frazier said:
I know the heading sounds a little cheesey..but this should be fun!You all know them..They take one practice stroke/swing and then BAMMMMMMM! They split the wicket!(another thread idea:where in the hell did that phrase come from?"split the wicked/wicket/wick"):cool:

when I think of great One-stroke players..Keith Mcready is the first guy to come to mind.. also Earl when he is in dead gear/stroke.can't forget Jamie Farrel from my neck of the woods...

Who else....?
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Jamie, wouldn't fit into that category, Walt. Jamie, takes NO strokes but it seems to work for him. Real good dude too. Had to throw that in just in case Harry reads this, LOL.
 
Vivian use to one stroke. It looks like she takes a little more time now a days. That speed player from Canada Luc? (Can't think of his name) but he one stokes and is deadly with it. Johnnyt
 
Black-Balled said:
Rodney Morris has got to be the best quik-fire out there now...
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Rodney does shoot quick but he usually takes 3 strokes then pulls the trigger. Earl usually takes 2 strokes then fires. Luc Salvas has to be the fastest but he takes 2 and fires, apace.
 
Jimmy Moore just got up and fired and took your money all day long at $100 per game - just what I heard.
 
One stroke players

Allen Hopkins uses a punch stroke and he's very good at it I might add. He doesn't have smooth delivery to the cue ball, but he's a top player in many games.
 
Johnnyt said:
Vivian use to one stroke. It looks like she takes a little more time now a days. That speed player from Canada Luc? (Can't think of his name) but he one stokes and is deadly with it. Johnnyt
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Both Frenchie and Luc Salvas are deadly one-two strokers. How about Machine Gun Lou Butera? There was another guy that Mike played in the IPT that was really fast on the draw.
 
Lou Butera, Lou Butera, Lou Butera. One stroke and shoot, one stroke and shoot. And never miss either!

"Machine Gun" Lou actually did take only one stroke and then shoot. He would race the cue ball for position, around the table. It was funny to watch, but sickening if you were his opponent.

Tom Cosmo was also the master of the one stroke, but he was more of an entertainer than a player. Although he was capable of 50-60 ball runs.
 
Johnnyt said:
Vivian use to one stroke. It looks like she takes a little more time now a days. That speed player from Canada Luc? (Can't think of his name) but he one stokes and is deadly with it. Johnnyt
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luc salvas
 
Tempo Player

jay helfert said:
Lou Butera, Lou Butera, Lou Butera. One stroke and shoot, one stroke and shoot. And never miss either!

"Machine Gun" Lou actually did take only one stroke and then shoot. He would race the cue ball for position, around the table. It was funny to watch, but sickening if you were his opponent.

Tom Cosmo was also the master of the one stroke, but he was more of an entertainer than a player. Although he was capable of 50-60 ball runs.
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It seemed to me that his tempo was more important to Lou than actual position play. When he'd get 25 or 30 balls into a straight pool run, he'd be operating at his optimal tempo, and at that point, I think he'd rather slam a cross-side bank rather than walk (read run) to the other side of the table to play a straight-in shot. Preserving his tempo once he was in the zone seemed to be of high importance. Once he got (or gets, does he still play ?) into his zone it was poetry at high speed.
 
kvinbrwr said:
It seemed to me that his tempo was more important to Lou than actual position play. When he'd get 25 or 30 balls into a straight pool run, he'd be operating at his optimal tempo, and at that point, I think he'd rather slam a cross-side bank rather than walk (read run) to the other side of the table to play a straight-in shot. Preserving his tempo once he was in the zone seemed to be of high importance. Once he got (or gets, does he still play ?) into his zone it was poetry at high speed.
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Try 150 and out in less than half an hour! AWESOME!

He still plays, but he misses a lot now. Who doesn't?
 
jay helfert said:
Try 150 and out in less than half an hour! AWESOME!

He still plays, but he misses a lot now. Who doesn't?
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RIGHT!!!

The way I heard it was 150/out in a World Championship match, maybe finals? in 19 minutes, but you know how those stories go.
 
kvinbrwr said:
RIGHT!!!

The way I heard it was 150/out in a World Championship match, maybe finals? in 19 minutes, but you know how those stories go.
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It may have been 18 and a half minutes. For the title in Los Angeles. Don't remember who he played. Crane, Martin. I'm just not sure. Someone must remember.
 
Old Age and Memory

jay helfert said:
It may have been 18 and a half minutes. For the title in Los Angeles. Don't remember who he played. Crane, Martin. I'm just not sure. Someone must remember.
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Anybody old enough to remember is proabably too old to remember.

Wiki has it at 21 minutes in 1973 vs Hopkins.
 
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