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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 2388516, member: 24633&quot;]Straight pool was the first game I ever learned. I had a natural talent for pool, and by the time I was 13, I could run 100+ balls most of the time. (I grew up on 9&#039; tables and had been playing for 20 years before I ever saw a bar table.) One summer, the owners of most of the metro area poolrooms decided to stage a round robin straight pool tournament. You played every opponent one game to 125 points. By the time I had played 13 matches, everybody quit. I won 12 of my matches 125-0 and only 12 points were scored against me in the 13th match.</p><p><br /></p><p>9-Ball had always been a fast-paced game for most players, but I could win more money playing one game of straight pool than most guys could make all day at 9-Ball. The problem was that the average players lost interest in straight pool, so I ended up playing mostly 9-Ball.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, &quot;The Hustler&quot; was loosely based on the life of Eddie &quot;Fast Eddie&quot; Parker. He was a close friend of the author, Walter Tevis. I met Eddie for the first time in 1999 at a tournament on South Padre Island, TX. We became friends, and decided to meet again on South Padre the following year. Eddie autographed a couple of cue balls for me and an hour later, he died of a heart attack.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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