Welcome! I'm sure our paths crossed....
Welcome! I'm sure our paths crossed....
Thank you and everyone else that has responded so kindly but due to my continual visits to this site that kind of response is no surprise to me.
A lot of people here obviously knew, and played, people I was always hearing about but not seeing. Around the pool room in Boulder I'd hear stories about what Danny Medina did last night, 'he ran 8 racks and out to win' or about a big game with Flyboy and so on but I wasn't witnessing it and short of a very small part on YouTube I never saw him play except for a handful of games on a bar box when he showed up in Vancouver BC. with three other players.
It was not at Seymour Billiards but a snooker room in Burnaby and about five of us went out there to check it out. I only wished I had walked in the snooker room before the others , all by myself because as soon as Medina saw this small group walking in he immediately stopped shooting on the 6x12, gathering up the balls. Damn I wish I could've seen some of that.
Jimmy Bear was with few backers and I just went along to meet up with them but other than the very brief match Danny had with one of our group (Danny drilled him) it as a small guy whose name I'm not sure I even heard that got the game with Jimmy Bear, not Danny. Jimmy wasn't going to play on a bar box and only the short guy was willing to play him on the 6x12 snooker table IF they played with regular sized pool balls.(What's the trick to that?)
Jimmy shouldn't done it, he just couldn't work those balls right and I think they lost a few hundred before Jimmy quit in frustration but no matter what he offered in a spot no one would play him snooker.
Maybe they knew he ran centuries like Medina ran out on a bar box, and maybe I missed out on a little education when chatting with Medina about Boulder and Denver places he offered to teach me the 'three card monty' trick for ten bucks but that was about what I had on me so I had to pass.
I bet he was good at it because I did see him play foosball years later in his bar in Aurora (or Arvada?) Pirates Cove, and talk about hand to eye coordination his hands were like lightning you'd hear the sound of the pop of the ball hitting the back of the goal opening before a guy could flinch to block it.Foosball was big then with high dollar tournaments.
Oh well if anyone knows of any videos of Medina at his best, or close to it I'd like to know about it. Maybe accu-stats does but which one to pick? The same wish applies to Ronnie Allen whom I only saw play a little in Vegas at the tournament, he was mostly seated and nodding out on his stool so I saw nothing I'd heard of for so many years.