Posted in General on Jul 30th, 2007 No Comments »
It is well worth waiting for, in most instances, to get the other guy to ask you to play. That puts him at a huge disadvantage, whether he knows it or not. It says tacitly that he thinks he can beat you.
Once you get him to hustle you to play, you hit him with the […]
Posted in The UPA on Jul 27th, 2007 3 Comments »
Wow, team trick shots, with hand-picked guys. What rocket scientist came up with that? Of course it’s in exactly the same vein as Matt Braun’s 8 man joke of an event and other assorted wrestling like formats. Invitationals suck, period. No quality player should ever be left out of things, like the many who didn’t […]
Posted in Gambling on Jul 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
Randi and I decided to do some instructional writings on the blog. The material today is roughly from “Money Pool”, probably the best tape I ever made. Some of the following will be paraphrasing and the content isn’t exactly from the tape.
I’ve been a sucessful gambler most of my llfe. If you learn and do […]
Posted in General on Jul 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
There have been several questions that I’ll try to answer here.
Brian: Thanks for all your suggestions. We’ll take you up on your offer of sending us one of your menus. It will probably give us some good ideas. As for the pro shop, yes we will have one. My step-son Matt will handle that. He […]
Posted in General on Jul 14th, 2007 8 Comments »
It looks like the landscaping engineer has cleared us and we will be getting our business license, which has been holding up everything. If there are no more complications, we’ll be open about mid-Sept. and have a grand opening with a tournament in early Oct.
It’s certainly financially tramatic on an ol’ warrior like me to […]
Posted in General on Jul 5th, 2007 6 Comments »
I guess we’re just going to call the place “Grady’s”. Technically, I think it’ll be Grady’s Billiards but we’re trying to keep things as simple as possible. Not to mention, if the sign makers charge by the letter, we’ll save money.
Getting the beer license is a hoot. They even expect us to post a notice […]
Posted in General on Jul 4th, 2007 6 Comments »
I’ve been asked to relate some Jack Cooney stories. For starters Jack is darkly brilliant and probably the best “lemon man” ( a hustler who with great skill disguises his ability) who ever lived.
Jack, “San Diego Dave”, James Christopher , Jeff Sparks and I were all in the navy at about the same time, the very […]
Posted in General on Jul 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Grady and Matt have worked their butts off trying to find a place for the pool room. After dealing with realtors (who must be rich since they don’t work very hard helping us), owners (with notions of pool rooms fronting drugs and prostitution), and the religious zealots (who think beer is the direct link to […]
Posted in Gambling on Jul 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
This was posted on AZBilliards but I thought you might enjoy reading it:
Jack Stamper, better known as Jack Webb because he looked exactly like Jack Webb the actor. Jack moved to LA from Kansas City in the mid sixties. He played around the action spots in Socal, mostly in the Tropicana Bowl. Nobody ever knew […]
