This was the second year I traveled to the Super Billiards Expo in Oaks, Pennsylvania. Billed as the largest consumer-oriented trade show in the industry, with over 150 vendor booths, more than 200 barbox tables in over 225,000 square feet of exhibit space.
“Once a rising star on the pro tour, the legendary New Jersey hustler was a charming antithesis to the profession that earned him a small fortune.”
Frank Taberski was born March 15, 1889 in Poland. He immigrated to the United States as a child and grew up primarily in Amsterdam, New York, before moving to Schenectady as an adult.
aiwanese sensation Chou Chieh-Yu has been crowned the women’s world nine-ball champion for the first time in her career following an emphatic 9-0 victory over Allison Fisher in Atlantic City.
“You’d expect a 600-year-old sport to have played through its identity crisis. Not the case for pool. The sport’s very name comes from pooling money to determine odds.
In 1969, Denny Glenn was 18 and made a trip to New York City to ask George Balabushka to make a cue for him, the cue cost him $125.00.
Today, Glenn owns over near 800 cues, some of them the most famous cues in the world. He even owns owns the Herman Rambow cue that Willie Mosconi ran the 526 balls with back in 1954 and the Balabushka St Louie Louie played with back in the day.
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