Secrets of Pool Hustling.🤯

Well this started off as a bad U-Tube if on the big screen a “D” Movie for dreadful movie.🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Typical pirates rode up, and hijacked the original thread.🤣
 
Well this started off as a bad U-Tube if on the big screen a “D” Movie for dreadful movie.🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Typical pirates rode up, and hijacked the original thread.🤣
It wasn’t the best video I’ve ever seen, not the worst either. I like Jimmy, so for me it was cool. But as a movie it’s not a plan at all
 
All us COBs have earned the right to be COBS...Crusty Old Bastids. May the young pups be able to breathe long enough to enjoy the same status.

As to the video? Yeah, many of us have seen it before. So what? It's kinda funny...
 
Bruce, that's Jimmy "Pretty Boy Floyd" Mataya; was married to the "Striking Viking":alien:

Here's what pool used to be about; all you need to know:
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This is a collection of very personal and color full stories loaded with Local Pool Hall History Told by the players who lived it first hand. A story told with passion can last for ever and they will.

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Firt time I say thought it was 🤮
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Be cool Cowboy is old and he’s here. That’s good enough for me. 🤠🤠🤠

Respect goes a long way in this world

Lack of, is classless and gets ZERO back.

Picking on the weak, young and old is something I don’t tolerate. Everyone else is fare game. Not a old guy.

Not on my watch.

Are you that weak? You need to knock a old guy?

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His posts used to irritate me as well but eventually I figured it out, now I kind of like reading them, puts a smile on my face :)
 
My father was an executive in a department store chain. He spent his career (among many other things) trying to change the conduct of crabby sales people who would give customers shit about returning stuff (and usually take it back anyway). He said to the crabs -- most of the people in Missouri and Illinois have never even been to our store. Anyone returning something has been here at least twice so let's take care of them respectfully. Same thing applies here I believe.
 
You don’t play pool long in Lansing without hearing Mataya’s name come up. This is one of my favorite Larry Carr stories and it goes like this…

Rafael Martinez and Paulie Campbell were hill/hill in their set at the Glass City Open in the early 90s when Paulie froze the cue ball off angle against the nine. Paulie played the only shot he had, kick to the side rail and back across the table at the nine. Nine in the corner. Paulie was ecstatic, but Rafael jumped up. "Foul, you moved the nine with your hand." Paulie was a strong advocate of the philosophy: "Deny 'til you die," and things started to get a little heated. Rafael is known to have a bit of a temper, he is rumored to have once chased Johnny Archer around a pool room with a knife, and Paulie's self control was limited to when things were going his way.

The tournament director made the call: In the absence of a spotter, the shot goes to the shooter. Rafael was left on the sidelines sputtering in Spanish. My Spanish is limited to singing along with the Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs, but I later learned that Rafael was swearing to gut Paulie. At this point, Lansing player Ramiro Sanchez pulled Rafael aside. Ramiro was a good friend of Paulie's and he had been on the road with Rafael. After a good deal of animated Spanish, Mo was able to convince Rafael that Paulie was really a good guy and that Mo would consider it a personal favor if Rafael didn't kill him. Still unhappy, Rafael walked over to Paulie and said, "You, sir, are no gentleman," and walked away. That seemed to be the end of it and Paulie had no idea how close he had come to being Campbell filet.

Later that evening everyone was sitting in the hotel bar when Jimmy Mataya walked in. Spotting Paulie on one side of the bar and Rafael on the other, Jimmy raised his voice so the whole bar could hear. "Yeah, Paulie," Jimmy crowed, "I hear you don't play so good, but that you cheat like a champion." That's Jimmy, always trying to be helpful. (If you know Jimmy, you know his sardonic delivery made the quip twice as funny.)
 
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