That shit’s good, yo. Until it isn’t. Ask me how I know.Yrs back i got talked into a Sun. nite tourn. I was tired and one of the wait's had ADHD. She gave me a addy. I didn't blink for 4hrs. Came in 2nd too.
Who is Jack Hines?
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Not that it will probably help anyone but do tell.
No way!!!Hey in a another 43000 posts he will be probably be 1/2 as good as you
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Like gas on fire...
I was told Jack was mentored by Ted Elias. I know Teds wife posted here a few times ,I would sure like to know if that was true. I can't imagine 2 people further apart on the spectrum.
Amazing that he lived as long as he did and that he died in bed. Doc Holliday is reported to have looked down at his feet right before he died and said "I'll be damned!" in amazement that he didn't die with his boots on. Jack could have said the same. He deserved a violent death a dozen times over, a minor miracle he died peacefully.
Hu
the issue i had with jack was he was like the pied piper, taking young people (esp women) on the highway to hell with him
There are people that are immoral, then there are those that are amoral. They have no moral compass at all. I think that he was one of those people. If someone like that came around my children or grandchildren I would give them the option to leave immediately or be made dead.
There is another pool player honored as one of the great players and gentlemen of pool. I never post about him, won't even watch video he is in although I would like to watch some of the video's. A few more real scumbags on the business end of pool. You probably know right away who I am talking about.
These people deserve to swim with the fishees. I won't take care of that myself unless they do something that impacts me or mine, very unlikely.
Hu
Jack did pass away back on November 2, 2023.
Hopefully his demons didn’t follow him.
RIP Jack
Here’s the info I posted over on onepocket.org
Post in thread 'RIP Jack Hynes'
https://onepocket.org/forum/index.php?threads/rip-jack-hynes.433229/post-502343
Hopefully his demons didn’t follow him.
RIP Jack
Here’s the info I posted over on onepocket.org
Post in thread 'RIP Jack Hynes'
https://onepocket.org/forum/index.php?threads/rip-jack-hynes.433229/post-502343
Lonnie
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Thanks for posting that and giving me some confirmation.
Does anyone remember the old cartoon "Heckle and Jeckle"? I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but I remember the two main characters were crows. The corn farmer would go to great lengths to get rid of these two pesky crows, but every time he turned around, he'd catch them casually munching on another ear of his corn as though it was wonderfully delicious, and as though all the farmer's previous efforts to stop them were completely in vain. That was the Jack Hynes I knew.
Many times I saw him get on people's nerves well past their normal limits. He knew exactly how far he could push someone and he seemed to enjoy introducing them to their new higher levels of tolerance. When Jack was in that mood, he could push most people further than they've ever gone before.
As for his pool, there's no question in my mind that he was a world-class talent. He saw outs where others only saw safeties. His pool game was strong and bold and a complete joy to see. Despite his great flaws, Jack was very intelligent. He was good at anything he tried to do (chess, cards, pool, golf, etc.), except a balanced life. He had a photographic and even an audiographic memory. Even years later, when I'd call him on the phone, he would sing the lyrics of this song I wrote verbatum. I think, in his mind, he was just signing along with when he heard me sing it to him serveral years prior.
He often told me that playing pool was just like playing a video recording in his mind. Any task that required repeating or adjusting a previous movement, he excelled in. To him, it was like playing a video of the previous experience and either matching it or adjusting it slightly. His internal visualization was off the charts.
In 2008, I recall taking Jack to a place called Banita Creek Hall (in Nacogdoches, TX) that had a washer pit set up (where you'd throw washers from several feet away and the object was to land the washers into a hole about the size of a golf hole). Jack threw the first washer, and it landed an inch short of the hole. That's all the practice he needed at that game; all remaining washers landed directly into the hole!
I have a lot of colorful stories I'd like to tell about Jack. Now that he's dead, I might tell them, but first I'll have to check the statute of limitations laws. I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who felt like an accomplice to a crime by merely driving him around without reporting him to the authorities!
