Well, here we go ! Never before seen onepocket from 17 years ago!!! These matches are brought to you by sappo from the onepocket.org site. He shipped the VHS tapes to me and I converted them over to be able to upload to Vimeo. Since youtube has a 15 min restriction (unless you get lucky and the remove it), I uploaded to Vimeo so they can be shown in their entirety. These VHS tapes were from the owner of the Billiard Playground, who taped some of the matches when the US Open was held there, in Kalamazoo, MI.
For some unknown reason, there is no audio on the tapes. As far as the quality, keep in mind these were taken with 17-20 year old technology as far as camcorders, plus you got the tape degradation from 17 years of sitting around, the conversion from tape to digital format and the uploading to Vimeo. Considering all of that, these matches are perfectly fine to get to watch some great onepocket from our players of almost 2 decades ago.
The tournament details: (thanks to Mark Griffin for the details, maybe more to come)
Aug 25-28th at Billiards Playground in Kalamazoo, MI.
Grady was the Tournament Director. A article mentions Ed Hall was the owner, but Matt Rosendahl was heavily involved.
$100 entry
39 player field
$10,200 in prize money
Billy Incardona was the winners bracket winner and came in 2nd to Joyner.
1st -Cliff Joyner $2,800
2nd -Billy Incardona ($2,000)
3rd -Willie Munson ($1,500)
4th -Grady Mathews ($1,000)
5-6th -Ritchie Richeson $500
5-6th -Cornbread Red $500
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All of the matches will be grouped together in a album on my Vimeo site. You can get to the album here
For our 4th match, we have a couple of guys that everyone knows. They've both been playing onepocket for decades and have played at the highest level. Both have also put out instructional tapes/dvd's on the game as well.
Grady has book and dvd's which you can get here
Billy has a DVD which you can find here
In this match, Billy puts the hammer down on Grady. When you watch Billy go thru some of these opponents, keep a eye out on how he's playing. He remembers that he played well in this tournament, and I know from watching a bit of the semi's and the finals, both with Cliff Joyner, there is some fantastic onepocket being played. You guys that appreciate great onepocket are going to enjoy these. I haven't' had a chance to even watch these myself yet.. but I am thinking that Billy is playing some kick-ass onepocket, as the scores are reflecting that too.
if you have trouble with the video below, just click the link above to the album that has all the videos in them.. you can then watch it directly from Vimeo.
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|Billy Incardona vs Grady Mathews - Running time 1:20 minutes
|http://vimeo.com/calired/incardonamathews
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Recently posted matches from the same tournament
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|Richie Richeson vs Paul Mottey - Running time 1:16 minutes
|http://vimeo.com/calired/richesonmottey
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|Bugs Rucker vs Dean Moore - Running time 40 minutes
|http://vimeo.com/calired/bugsmoore
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|Jack Cooney vs Bruce Perry - Running time 36 minutes
|http://vimeo.com/calired/94usopencooneyperry
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For some unknown reason, there is no audio on the tapes. As far as the quality, keep in mind these were taken with 17-20 year old technology as far as camcorders, plus you got the tape degradation from 17 years of sitting around, the conversion from tape to digital format and the uploading to Vimeo. Considering all of that, these matches are perfectly fine to get to watch some great onepocket from our players of almost 2 decades ago.
The tournament details: (thanks to Mark Griffin for the details, maybe more to come)
Aug 25-28th at Billiards Playground in Kalamazoo, MI.
Grady was the Tournament Director. A article mentions Ed Hall was the owner, but Matt Rosendahl was heavily involved.
$100 entry
39 player field
$10,200 in prize money
Billy Incardona was the winners bracket winner and came in 2nd to Joyner.
1st -Cliff Joyner $2,800
2nd -Billy Incardona ($2,000)
3rd -Willie Munson ($1,500)
4th -Grady Mathews ($1,000)
5-6th -Ritchie Richeson $500
5-6th -Cornbread Red $500
===========================================
All of the matches will be grouped together in a album on my Vimeo site. You can get to the album here
For our 4th match, we have a couple of guys that everyone knows. They've both been playing onepocket for decades and have played at the highest level. Both have also put out instructional tapes/dvd's on the game as well.
Grady has book and dvd's which you can get here
Billy has a DVD which you can find here
In this match, Billy puts the hammer down on Grady. When you watch Billy go thru some of these opponents, keep a eye out on how he's playing. He remembers that he played well in this tournament, and I know from watching a bit of the semi's and the finals, both with Cliff Joyner, there is some fantastic onepocket being played. You guys that appreciate great onepocket are going to enjoy these. I haven't' had a chance to even watch these myself yet.. but I am thinking that Billy is playing some kick-ass onepocket, as the scores are reflecting that too.
if you have trouble with the video below, just click the link above to the album that has all the videos in them.. you can then watch it directly from Vimeo.
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|Billy Incardona vs Grady Mathews - Running time 1:20 minutes
|http://vimeo.com/calired/incardonamathews
|_____________________________________________
Recently posted matches from the same tournament
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|Richie Richeson vs Paul Mottey - Running time 1:16 minutes
|http://vimeo.com/calired/richesonmottey
|_____________________________________________
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|Bugs Rucker vs Dean Moore - Running time 40 minutes
|http://vimeo.com/calired/bugsmoore
|_____________________________________________
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|Jack Cooney vs Bruce Perry - Running time 36 minutes
|http://vimeo.com/calired/94usopencooneyperry
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