Whatever happened to.....

mullyman

mullyman

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Anyone know anything about Jim Mataya? I always liked him. Enjoyed watching him play and really enjoyed listening to him talk. Is he still around the pool world?
MULLY
 
I asked this same question on here months ago and from the answers i got it sounds like he shows up as a spectater to a few big events and drinks beer and shoots the shit with everybody.
 
I believe he's been back in Lansing for several years now. I heard he enjoys the "book" he is currently reading. :wink:
 
jay helfert said:
I believe he's been back in Lansing for several years now. I heard he enjoys the "book" he is currently reading. :wink:
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Jay, you don't mean..............?
 
There is a story in "Playing off the Rail" about Floyd making a huge bet in Vegas, bet everything he had down to the clothes on his back, I believe. He won the bet. Jimmy was known for that kind of thing. The arch typical "flush one day, broke the next". I've heard he doesn't play much any more, but he had $10,000 challenge to anyone to play him Straight pool, I think, in the late '70s or early '80s. I remember the Scranton, PA players coming to the B C Open in Binghamton, NY, I think the second or third year, telling how the night before Jimmy ran his Cadillac into the plate glass window of the action room in Scranton. Drugs and alcohol.
 
Pushout said:
There is a story in "Playing off the Rail" about Floyd making a huge bet in Vegas, bet everything he had down to the clothes on his back, I believe. He won the bet. Jimmy was known for that kind of thing. The arch typical "flush one day, broke the next". I've heard he doesn't play much any more, but he had $10,000 challenge to anyone to play him Straight pool, I think, in the late '70s or early '80s. I remember the Scranton, PA players coming to the B C Open in Binghamton, NY, I think the second or third year, telling how the night before Jimmy ran his Cadillac into the plate glass window of the action room in Scranton. Drugs and alcohol.
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jimmy bet his "life" once. He bet all the money he had on a Detroit Lions game, many thousands of dollars (over 20K as I recall). He said if he lost he was committing suicide. And I think he meant it too. Detroit won, so we're stuck with him. :D
 
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