JoeyA said:Come on now..... After the cue ball was airborne, it changed it's path (in the air)?
Did it hit a light? Ohhhhhhhhh, maybe one of his lizards hit the cue ball with his tail and you didn't see it.
JoeyA
tomgearhart said:
Jack Hines was by far the best shot i ever seen and i seen a few.now back in the days of rags fitzpatrick,i dont know how he would have been but i hung around him in huntington,wv for a few months, and ive never had so much fun in my life ,ill always remember some of the hustles he would through out there. hell im not shabby and he gave me the blue -through!! he had his own ways about him(drugs), but man could he shootbillb said:
I have to agree with Tom, this guy could be in the HOF right now had he not got into the drugs. Jack lived with me for about 6-9 months in Toledo so I got to know hm quite well. Someone here mentioned he had a good heart, I saw that first hand when we would go visit his grandmother sometimes and eat with her. I was at the Akron Open watching the finals when Jack played Earl. Jack had him 10-9 going to 11 (I believe, either way Earl was two games away from the hill and Jack was on the hill) and played a dead nut safe on Earl with only the 7, 8, and 9 left on the table. Earl kicks the cue ball 3 rails and thin cuts the 7 down the long rail and runs out the rack and breaks and runs the next rack for the win. This would have been Jack's first major tournament win. He was crushed when that happened and it seemed everything went down hill from there. Jumpin Rerack Jack, I still have yet to see a player anywhere that could put as much draw stroke on a ball as Jack. He was jumping balls long before the "Jump Cue" with his Schon R2 and could do it better than most now can with a jump cue. I hear a lot of bad stories and a lot of them are probably with just cause. But if you were close with Jack then you got to know him on another level.tomgearhart said:
catpool9 said:Jack Hynes, well no he didn't get killed at a halfway house during hurricane katrina.
I've personally known Jack Hynes for about 12 years. I think i got to know him better than anyone on the planet.
The first time i saw him he was playing my brother Country Calvin (Harcrow) , and beating Calvin races to 9 even on the bar box, at that time Calvin was still a World Beater!
Most all the things posted on this thread about Jack are true, he did have this thing with (perfection), hated to lose a game, or make a bad position play, he would lose his temper very easily, but usually at just him self.
Jack had a very serious motor cycle accident in New Orleans about 5 years ago, broke his leg in half, well him being with no insurance the hospital wanted to amputate his leg,tore his rotor cup in his shoulder, but he somehow talked them into trying to save his leg, they operated on him and put his leg into a cast , did nothing with his shoulder, wrote off the bill, and sent him on his way.
He came limping to my house in Texarkana, Texas (at the time I let all the Road Players stay at my house when they passed thru town)
Jack stayed about 6 weeks then left town, he eventuly got to where he could walk ok, but his shoulder never did get much better, couldn't straighten out his arm, it was kinda limpy. So i guess you could say his pool playin days were gone.
He would stop by from time to time but never really tried to play pool at all anymore.
The last time i saw Jack Hynes was December,2006......he was on his way to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. About 6 months ago a friend of mine from Houston, was told by (Good Time Charley) from Louisiana that Jack had gotten killed! Where at or how , i don't know.
Jack was a really good person at heart! , but was a loner and wouldn't let someone get close to him, he wouldn't give most people the time of day, you either had to put up or shut up!
Most all of the Top Players, and anyone in general hated his guts, you know why? because they were envious of him, because they couldn't win!......well tell it like it is , its true.
Jack went to the Super Bowl Tournament in Memphis, Tn. about 7 yrears ago, won it handily, went to JOB tourney the next week, won it, then went to Tunica,Miss. and won it too.......all in a 3 week span.........and you all know that the calibar of players at those tournaments were something fearce
Jack Hynes did strive to be the best, but in the end he got a bad roll!!!!!!
He let the alure of drugs get him!, so if any of you younger players are reading this and your doing drugs , or around drugs, their NO GOOD! it will eat you up like a CANCER!, and take away everything you ever dreamed of!, run from anyone that has anything to do will drugs!
I liked Jack, didn't like what he became.
.......don't know if Jack is alive or dead?...but he'll aways be my friend and have my respect for being one of the Greatest Pool Players i ever met!
.......i've known and know a lot of um'........and he was one of um'!!!!
.......thats my 2 cents!
David Harcrow
AZ9BALLER said:
AZ9BALLER said:
i spent a lot of time around jack hines in the late 80s and early 90s, and yes he was a great player with tons of talent, great shotmaker with a big break but also the biggest jerk in pool. away from pool he seemed like a nice guy though. anyways i was in the finals with him in a nine ball tournament and i had to beat him two sets. we didnt have much time because the director warned us we couldnt play after 2 am. altough jack was a better player then me i beat him the first set 7-6 and i was winning the second set 6-1 at ten minutes to two. now jack goes and sits in the bathroom and tries to stay there until 2 because then we would have to split the prize money. there was a big difference between first and second. i remember telling the director that it isnt right what jack is doing but what could anybody do, anyways they declared me the winner and after that about the next 5 times i faced jack he would shark me every chance he got, try to start arguements. i also saw a player upset him in a bar table tournament playing loser breaks and jack would throw the quarters at him so hard that the poor guy had to pick them up off the floor after trying to find them. so many times he would be in big arguements with whoever he was playing. i was told by one of his ex girlfriends that him being a jerk was just an act, he thought he had to act that way towards his opponents for some reason. and that is some of my jack hines stories. yes it is true that the drugs did ruin this guy. if he had a good head on his shoulders he probably would have made it close to the top.
WOW Brian.
I was looking for a thread to rep my old pal SmorgassBored and ran across this thread and noticed that this was your first and last post.
"This guy is smok'in".
) Jack didn't seem to be doing real great, but getting along, he's hitting balls in Texas, somewhere