My grandfather left me a 1936 BrunswickBalk 3 slate pool table he bought off a pool hall that went out of biz during WWII. It is broke down in my storage room waiting for me to get a house big enough to do it justice. I played so much during my teen years I burnt myself out. I wouldn't mind getting back into it.
Fish I bet what you learnt in that pool hall has served you well in your life as a gambler.
Fish I bet what you learnt in that pool hall has served you well in your life as a gambler.
Fish my only claim to fame is that I am 5' 10 and 3/4 and in high school I could dunk anything I could palm. Pllayed at a big school and didn't even make the team after my soph year. I geuss it didn't help was that all I ever played was center until high school. Was decent in pool but learnt the hard way that there is always somebody better than you in pool. Best of luck fish I would love to have a drink with you.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by RPM:
fish,
as the years go by, you should be getting BETTER at pool not worse. i think you just need to practice more.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Probably so RPM, but oddly enough, the game kinda bores me now.
Guess gambling is more my passion now.
fish,
as the years go by, you should be getting BETTER at pool not worse. i think you just need to practice more.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Probably so RPM, but oddly enough, the game kinda bores me now.
Guess gambling is more my passion now.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by randyrohm:
Fish my only claim to fame is that I am 5' 10 and 3/4 and in high school I could dunk anything I could palm. Pllayed at a big school and didn't even make the team after my soph year. I geuss it didn't help was that all I ever played was center until high school. Was decent in pool but learnt the hard way that there is always somebody better than you in pool. Best of luck fish I would love to have a drink with you.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Very good Randy!!........my vertical leap is/was about 2.3 inches.
Always up for a cold one.......hopefully one day buddy.
Fish my only claim to fame is that I am 5' 10 and 3/4 and in high school I could dunk anything I could palm. Pllayed at a big school and didn't even make the team after my soph year. I geuss it didn't help was that all I ever played was center until high school. Was decent in pool but learnt the hard way that there is always somebody better than you in pool. Best of luck fish I would love to have a drink with you.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Very good Randy!!........my vertical leap is/was about 2.3 inches.
Always up for a cold one.......hopefully one day buddy.
I spent six days a week in a poolroom from age 15 till my early 20s. Gambled on pool, cards and sports. When I arrived in Las Vegas in 68' I was well schooled and ahead of most clerks working in the sportsbooks. Back then you had to know the game because tickets were written, graded and paid by hand. No computer to lean on. I remember pouring water in the cracks of the poolroom floor to put out smokes, cops playing cards on their lunch hour. They would check out our poolroom but never saw any $$$ under the rails. They would give us plenty of notice before a "raid" so they could put it in the paper but nobody got hurt. Those were the locals. The State guys were a different story.
One of my jobs was to go to Youngstown to pickup the parlay cards. If the State guys nailed you it was for real. PA & OH both had a shot. But like somebody said "you can never go home again".
Does anyone remember a pool game called Keno?. Played on a board with holes, 4.5 ft by about 2 ft that fit under the rails at the break end of the table. If I remember it was more like 21. Great game. I liked it because I wasn't the best pool player but the board kinda evened it up a bit. (I was still a dog though). Sports betting was my bag. Playing or laying I loved it.....ScottyS
One of my jobs was to go to Youngstown to pickup the parlay cards. If the State guys nailed you it was for real. PA & OH both had a shot. But like somebody said "you can never go home again".
Does anyone remember a pool game called Keno?. Played on a board with holes, 4.5 ft by about 2 ft that fit under the rails at the break end of the table. If I remember it was more like 21. Great game. I liked it because I wasn't the best pool player but the board kinda evened it up a bit. (I was still a dog though). Sports betting was my bag. Playing or laying I loved it.....ScottyS
I played Keno pool as a teen. We had a local poolroom that was owned and operated by a small time bookmaker named "Moonie" he had a round moon like face. A lot of us would call him "Moon beam" a nickname of his nickname. Moonie had a guy named "Three Fingered Pete' who racked balls, and collected the small change everyone paid per game (no hourly rentals). Pete could play both left and right handed equally well, he was the best stick in the joint. We played a game with pills, or dice, you got a pill with a number on it and that was your money ball, I can't recall the exact name of the game, it might have been called Pills. Natrually the top game was 5 ball 9 ball, quick and deadly. I still remember the place very well.
wil.
wil.
Wilheim, we called it pillpool & have also heard peapool. Draw two pills. One is your break order & the other is your money ball. Make sure all the pills are put back because someone could "forget" to put a good pill back for the next game. Good house game because of the quick turnover. Ditto 9 ball. We used to pay ten cents a game, call shot & billiards a penny a minute....ScottyS
Scott, thats right it was two pills. I also remember playing a game called rotation. You had to make either the high (9 -15) or low (1-7) balls in order to shoot the eight. Not a very good money game because it was to slow. I think 9 ball was a dime, and the others 15 cents back in the early to mid 60's.
wil.
wil.
