There are no stupid questions I suppose.
First names that come to mind are Mark Tadd and Jon Kucharo. Both set the pro pool world on fire when they first appeared.
First names that come to mind are Mark Tadd and Jon Kucharo. Both set the pro pool world on fire when they first appeared.
The first one I can think of who might fall into that category was Harold Worst. ???
And "Cesar Morales" robbed 'em all at Red's 'way back when'. They didn't know what hit them. (But he was well seasoned from wars in the Phillipines.)
I remember hearing the name Jon Kucharo a long time ago (back in the 90's). I heard he was a really great player. A hustler maybe? This guy from my local area used to talk about him sometimes (saying how he ran pretty even with him one night in a big money game, getting the 7 out, playing 9 ball). He told me that Jon loved the game so much that he would sleep with his pool cue. I thought of him as a road hustler. Never seen him play though. I imagine he was great.
There are no stupid questions I suppose.
Shane was winning things like the VNEA nationals long before he turned pro. Those things made him fairly well known in amateur pool.
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That's true but I remember him (or Big Nasty) posting a thread on AZB saying that anyone who would come to South Dakota could get played. And a lot of posters on here thought he was nuts. I remember people posting things like "So I could bring Corey..." And he was like "Bring 'em."
So even though he was a good player and had won a few things, there were a lot of people who didn't think he had proven himself yet.
I loved it when he started killing it.
That's true but I remember him (or Big Nasty) posting a thread on AZB saying that anyone who would come to South Dakota could get played. And a lot of posters on here thought he was nuts. I remember people posting things like "So I could bring Corey..." And he was like "Bring 'em."
So even though he was a good player and had won a few things, there were a lot of people who didn't think he had proven himself yet.
I loved it when he started killing it.
I am curious about players in the past that have come onto the pro pool scene out of nowhere (players that nobody has ever seen or heard of) and just started beating everyone on the scene.
Have there been many players like this in the past?
Maybe players that just played by themselves on their home table, and never competed, until one day they just went onto the pro pool scene and started beating everyone (including all of the top pro's)?
I assume that if there were any players like this in the past, then it rarely ever happened (like a player that nobody has ever heard of, maybe even including the players home town, who just came onto the pro pool scene, and started to destroy everyone that they competed against).
Just a crazy thought I just had in my mind, but maybe there have been players like this in the past?
You can note international players too, if you do not know of any US players from the past that fit this description (of the way I describe any players coming onto the pro pool scene).
Thanks.
First names that come to mind are Mark Tadd and Jon Kucharo. Both set the pro pool world on fire when they first appeared.