Remembering Buddy Hall

garczar said:
He practiced ALL THE TIME.
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A few years back, A gentleman from Louisiana,
was working part-time in Tulsa in the oil or gas business, a Good 1 P player, would come to Magoos on the weekends to play-
Told me He used watch Buddy practice by himself -shoot all day....sometime just 1 particular shot over and over for hours,
Jeremy Jones said He was watching Buddy on a shot-shooting left-handed, shooting so well thought Buddy was left-handed
 
Interestingly enough, Pat Fleming told me he stopped practicing in the later part of his career...do you know what he was working on in practice or was it more playing a lot..?
 
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Interestingly enough, Pat Fleming told me he stopped practicing in the later part of his career...do you know what he was working on in practice or was it more playing a lot..?
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Buddy lived in tulsa a few times over the years. When i first met him in 80ish he would toss balls on the snooker table and run out from everywhere. Never saw him do drills per se, he'd usually get warmed-up then matched-up. I don't think he wanted waste good shoots for free. If you wanted to hit balls with him you had to bet something. One time he told this local cat, " I don't have much fun playing for fun."
 
Duane Remick said:
A few years back, A gentleman from Louisiana,
was working part-time in Tulsa in the oil or gas business, a Good 1 P player, would come to Magoos on the weekends to play-
Told me He used watch Buddy practice by himself -shoot all day....sometime just 1 particular shot over and over for hours,
Jeremy Jones said He was watching Buddy on a shot-shooting left-handed, shooting so well thought Buddy was left-handed
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Buddy said commentating that Efren once was looking for someone to gamble with playing left-handed and when someone pointed his manager to him, Bata went '' No! No! '' :D
 
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I had that "91 accustat VHS tape(had blue sticker on it with description/match) and must have watched it a 100 times when I was young and playing pool. We would always rewind a cut shot he made then drew back up table off the rail close to side pocket (had to see it) but it was frickin great. Had to pause play briefly because the audience kept on clapping nor could he stop smiling.

Funny story about that match, been looking for years hoping see it again only to find nothing. I was at the derby in 24' and sitting next to Archer by the Bigfoot table. Had a cueball for him to sign and I asked him about that match and what it meant to us watching it back then. Lost or probably borrowed it out never see it again. He says to me "I don't know why they haven't posted (accustats I assume)that match out there(YouTube), it was probably the best match ever/near the top between us" or something along those lines, been a couple years. . Coming from someone who was on the losing end tells you how good it was. I am still waiting for someone to post it to YouTube just so I can maybe watch it one more time. It was that good! If I recall there wasn't many matches on that tape.
 
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