Yes, He Was Beatable, Shut Up Please

[Gerry]

If I hear from a top player/pro that someone was unstoppable during a given time, I believe it. what I hate hearing is soandso beat everyone in the place, while GETTING weight. I'm all for game making, and giving weight, but can you really say "I drilled that guy" when getting weight?....G

 

[hemicudas]

If I hear from a top player/pro that someone was unstoppable during a given time, I believe it. what I hate hearing is soandso beat everyone in the place, while GETTING weight. I'm all for game making, and giving weight, but can you really say "I drilled that guy" when getting weight?....G

Gerry, if that is insinuating that Dan Louie must have gotten weight from Buddy, WRONG. They played dead even. In fact, the following weekend when Dan busted Louie Roberts in Jackson Buddy was also there and Dan and Buddy played again in Jackson. This time they both played left handed on a 9' table with the small ball. Same results, Dan won. Buddy pulled up because Dan wouldn't play call your next position shot.

The big table referred to in Baton Rouge was an 8' table as opposed to the 7' bar table they played the first set on.

 

[BillYards]

Thanks, Linda!

Linda:

Thanks for calling Dan and getting the whole story. I met you, Dan, Mike Z., Paul Potier, and various other NorthWest troublemakers when I lived there from 1995 until 2001. I have to admit that I kinda had the hots for you... the cute little Asian-American girl with attitude... If I had known that you were gonna get rich off of the IPT tour, I woulda tried harder...

I actually took lessons from Danny at Jillians... then he switched it to his house which is in a very high rent area of Seattle. He was very nice and showed me his trophy room, which was amazing. I did not know that he was selling the restaurant, but am glad to hear that he is going to try for the IPT. The lessons went well, but I was never able to snatch the pebble from his hand. Grasshopper I remain.

I have videos of some matches he played in Bellingham and I can tell you that he does play a little slowly, but I was never bored because it is great to watch such precise pool and to watch him grind over his opponents like a methodical steamroller. Slow painful death has its own allure.

He is quite talented and once when he was escorting Jennifer Chen and Paul P. around, I saw him execute the Mike Massey 'Impossible Draw Shot' which only a handful of players in the world can pull off.

He is beatable, but he is not a pool bum like some guys on tour. He is a gentleman and a winner and I can't wait to see the devestation left in his wake now that he will be shedding his real job to get back into the arena.

 

[SpiderWeb]

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Dan Louie was unbeatable....

-djb

Danny Medina came to Seattle and beat Dan like a drum at Duffy's on a 8' trap bar table, many years ago. Don McCoy also beat him for the $$, as well as Larry Hubbard, as well as Fly Boy at fatsos, and this was when he was playing a lot.

 

[sixpack]

Linda:

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He is quite talented and once when he was escorting Jennifer Chen and Paul P. around, I saw him execute the Mike Massey 'Impossible Draw Shot' which only a handful of players in the world can pull off.

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Would somebody do a wei table diagram of this shot? I've heard it referenced before, but never seen it.

Thanks!
RC

 

[rackmsuckr]

Linda:

Thanks for calling Dan and getting the whole story. I met you, Dan, Mike Z., Paul Potier, and various other NorthWest troublemakers when I lived there from 1995 until 2001. I have to admit that I kinda had the hots for you... the cute little Asian-American girl with attitude... If I had known that you were gonna get rich off of the IPT tour, I woulda tried harder...

That's sweet. Why don't I remember you? And what are you doing in Puerto Rico?? Dan couldn't remember anyone who lived there, but of course you must have moved there since we knew you.

Yes, Dan did get beat, but not very often. Mike Z. even 9-zipped him once. For about a month there he never booked a loser on the road. Danny had a bad kidney and was on dialysis until his transplant a few years ago. He is ok now, thank goodness. For being a pure gentleman though, Danny can give anyone the 7.

Linda

 

[Gerry]

Gerry, if that is insinuating that Dan Louie must have gotten weight from Buddy, WRONG. They played dead even. In fact, the following weekend when Dan busted Louie Roberts in Jackson Buddy was also there and Dan and Buddy played again in Jackson. This time they both played left handed on a 9' table with the small ball. Same results, Dan won. Buddy pulled up because Dan wouldn't play call your next position shot.

The big table referred to in Baton Rouge was an 8' table as opposed to the 7' bar table they played the first set on.

No Hemi
My comment was in general, not directed towards anyone, especially Dan Louie! I've heard stories...........

I was knocking guys that say they "broke" someone getting weight. That's always bothered me for some reason..........Gerry

 

[hemicudas]

Back to the point

The point of this thread, a good one in my opinion, was that no one was unbeatable. It is a true statement. As great as Buddy Hall was in the 70s, Dan Louie did beat him. Here is a name 99% on you guys have never heard of that beat Buddy Hall playing even on the 9' table in the 70s, Andy Oguine. Andy was a W. Texas product that when in stroke was capable of beating anyone. Another guy that beat Buddy in the 70s on the bar table was John Henry Neil. This is the white guy, not the black John Henry from the east coast.

Players can be unbeatable over a period of time but eventually they are going to fall. When Buddy lived in Shreveport they all came and none took it off. Buddy moved for lack of action and the aura of invincibility was gone.

 

[BillYards]

$Bill: You are certainly a fountain of knowledge regarding the times and places referenced in this thread. I, for one, certainly appreciate your input, and am facinated by the stories. Thanks!

Linda: We only spoke a few times, so you would not remember me. We played in tournaments together, but never against eachother. I was... quite unrefined then also... And you were justified in ignoring me! Haha! I met a nice Puerto Rican girl in Seattle (See! I have a thing for brunettes!), I proposed next to the water in Kirkland and I married her in a lavish ceremony in San Juan, and she gave me a makeover, motivated me to slim down, and lose the sweatshirts. Then she convinced me to move to PR. I have a smal celebrity status here, because there just are not too many Gringos down here.

We are both working for engineering firms on the island. She has me mostly retired from billiards, but I am plotting a return. She may let me buy a table for the house... And I got to shoot for 5 hours straight last Saturday... I have not done that in a long time and it felt.... GOOOOOD!

Good luck on the IPT! I will be watching!

 

[rackmsuckr]

$Bill: You are certainly a fountain of knowledge regarding the times and places referenced in this thread. I, for one, certainly appreciate your input, and am facinated by the stories. Thanks!

Linda: We only spoke a few times, so you would not remember me. We played in tournaments together, but never against eachother. I was... quite unrefined then also... And you were justified in ignoring me! Haha! I met a nice Puerto Rican girl in Seattle (See! I have a thing for brunettes!), I proposed next to the water in Kirkland and I married her in a lavish ceremony in San Juan, and she gave me a makeover, motivated me to slim down, and lose the sweatshirts. Then she convinced me to move to PR. I have a smal celebrity status here, because there just are not too many Gringos down here.

We are both working for engineering firms on the island. She has me mostly retired from billiards, but I am plotting a return. She may let me buy a table for the house... And I got to shoot for 5 hours straight last Saturday... I have not done that in a long time and it felt.... GOOOOOD!

Good luck on the IPT! I will be watching!

Well hey, if that's your wife in the avatar in Puerto Rico, then I can understand how you left me, but to leave pool???? Just kidding ya.

Thanks for the good wishes and I hope you get your table.

Linda