Grady “The Professor” Matthews, was born on January 3, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas. He currently lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife Randi and two spoiled cats. He is a legendary gambler and professional pool player, and is four-time World One Pocket Champion. Grady has promoted nineteen tournaments and eleven instructional tapes, and has written two books. He has commented on ESPN and The Billiard Channel, and writes a monthly article for Inside Pool Magazine. The Professor was recently inducted into the One-pocket Hall of Fame, and starred in The Color of Money with Paul Newman and Tom Cruise.
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Hey grady, I was pokin around for a set of rules for 9ball and 1pocket that I had seen either on you site or onepocket.org. If you have a set you could email me or post on your site that would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Hi Grady,
Could you give any advice on buying a couple of good cues around a 1000.00 or less, thanks. I’m a c plus player.if that is any help.
Thanks for your time,
Jo
As far as you leaving AZ Billiards, I for one will miss your presence there. You’ve always been able to ’stir things up’ and get tons of pro and con replies from teh masses. This can only be good for any forum.
While being a very public figure in the Pool World as you are, it is easy for the cowards hiding behind nicknames to take pot shots at you. None of these actions would happen in person. If you were in a pool room or at a tournament these cowards wouldn’t have the balls to come up to you and say what they do behind their shield of a nickname (poster username).
You’ve done nothing but point out the pitfalls of the current promoters actions in the last few years. This is exactly why you are needed. The pool players need to know more of the ‘behind the scenes’ actions of these promoters and their power crazed demands.
Grady this is Jerry GRuber , pool name Goob , I posted comment on the board in remembarance of Nicky Vllahos, there was another poster tripp, he was an old friend from the roman billiards that I haven’t seen in 40 45 years and would love to talk to. Also friends of his Rick Sanmsone, and Bill Masters would lik eto speak to him, so if it’s possible could you email him with my email and #
pooleman@aol.com
and 301-728-6828
thanks in advance, also would like to know if you have any tapes of nicky playing, esp. one hole, but any would do, I would certainly pay for them.
best of luck, and thanks for having your site
Jerry