Who's the best player you've beaten?

Santos Sambojan - 9 ball tournament 9-7. I was down 7-6 and ran out the set!

I've come very close to beating a few top 14.1 players but never quite did.
 
robin dotson, at hard times, 9-ball, late 90's, scott frost, many local tournaments. (ok so he wasn't old enough to drive!! ) and that guy that moved to houston from Des Moines?
 
some old fuzzy headed guy, warner, or verner....can't remember, he was selling cues with his name on them at the state tournament. I had to pay him just to play though. Smart man, get the money up front, and don't give it back even if someone beats ya!! :cool: :p
 
Steve Mizerak,Tony Ellin, and Scott Kitto(was ranked 12th in the world at the time)...even...I was 20 years old...1991
 
Alan Hopkins and he quit because I was too tough..... true story.

I beat Alan Hopkins playing even-up. He thought he could play the pinball machines.... hmmmmph.... $10 early 80's. :yeah:
 
In tournaments, Jimmy Fusco and Dan Louie. Gambling, Jimmy Reid and Keith (got the eight ball from both). Also beat Jim Rempe playing Banks getting 8-7. Won a few games from the Monk (Warren C.) playing 9-Ball in a very long session.
 
fan-tum said:
Al(the plumber) Winchenbaugh,1969, Town and Country Billiards, Sunnyvale,Ca.
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The best player I have ever beaten was Travis Trotter, but I think I got kinda lucky he didn't expect to play that night so he did ot have his Cuetec with him!!!!!!!!:smile:
 
Don Willis once played in a tournament and all the players were asked to fill out bios for the announcer to read. Don was normally very undercover and tournament averse. So he didn't fill out a sheet. When asked to fill one out listing his accomplishments he asked to see the other bios. He picked one that had a long list of championships on it and wrote, "I beat him".
 
At the only Camel Tour event I played in, I beat back to back, Jimmy Reid, Nick Varner, Efren Reyes, Alan Hopkins and last Dallas West to finish in the last money spot. I also double dipped Archer in his home court and Buddy Hall in his home court.
 
scottjen26 said:
I think my old pool partner Mark Berry has the nuts on this… Unfortunately this happened during one of my breaks from pool otherwise I might have been able to share in this as well…

Mark played in a scotch doubles tourney sponsored by Canadian Club whiskey I believe, and Jeanette Lee was sponsored by them as well at the time. There were 6 local qualifying tourneys, winners got $1000 and paid trip to Vegas. Winners of that tournament won $20,000 for the team, pretty nice sum of money.

But here's the kicker - the winning team also got a chance to play Jeanette race to 2 in 8-ball. And if they won, they won $500,000! And on top of that, if they won they got a chance to break an 8-ball rack and try and make the 8 on the break for another $500,000! It was billed as the $1,000,000 tourney.

Long story short, Mark and his partner (who also played in the league with Mark and I on another team) won the qualifier, went to Vegas and won the tourney, and broke and ran the first rack against Jeanette then almost ran the second but messed up, and somehow Jeanette messed up late in the rack herself leaving a 2 ball out for the cash. They narrowly missed the 8 on the break. So they won $10,500 each for the tourneys, got a trip to Vegas, and $250,000 each for the challenge, paid out in an annuity over 20 years. Not a bad haul for amateur (albeit strong amateur) players.

Never did understand the premise of the tourney, someone didn't understand the odds for these things to happen somehow, either that or the insurance policy was really cheap…

Scott

fan-tum said:
I assume Canadian Club never heard of the concept of dumping and splitting..not saying that's what happend, but that's a lot faith in your horse.
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Agree, as I said someone in charge certainly didn't understand the odds of her getting beat in a short race or other things happening for sure. Either that or the promoters took advantage of a very cheap policy from someone in order to promote the tourney. Don't believe Mark and his partner split with anyone, they were thrilled to win, I only wish I would have been there either playing or even rooting him on.

To my knowledge, even though the larger payout was annuitized, this was the largest amateur prize ever. Even the initial money ($1000 for regional, $20,000 for Vegas) was very high, higher than the typical national championships. Oddly enough, there was very little press about it, I only ever found a few articles about it, one in the local Milwaukee paper and one on inside pool magazine or something. Wonder if they were trying to underplay it somehow because they didn't expect that outcome. I believe he had to wait a bit to get the initial tourney payout, but overall there weren't any issues getting the annual part and it's still flowing every year. Must be nice...

Scott
 
I could make an impressive list but won't do it because most of the guys on that list could have just as easily have won on another day (and some did).

And that was then anyway. Nowadays my play ranges anywhere from a 2 level to a 12+... and where I'm at within that range depends upon a lot more factors than I'm able to control.
 
Let's see

Leil gay, Kenny McCoy, Paulie Campbell, Norm Wines, Jesse Padilla, Paul Bowman, Weldon Rogers, Rodney Keown,. Wow am I getting old. If anybody recognizes all of them and where they are from, definitely gets drinks on me at the DCC...
 
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