Best Celebrity Pool Sharks
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made most of his own shots in The Color of Money, including a massรฉ that he made three times in a row.
the best player in Norman, Oklahoma when he was a young man, according to Jay Helfert.
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played Minnesota Fats in The Hustler and executed his own trick shots; he was able to run 40-50 balls at straight pool.
When Paul Newman challenged Gleason to a game for $50, Gleason ran 15 balls and won. Newman paid up the next day with 5,000 pennies!
When Paul Newman challenged Gleason to a game for $50, Gleason ran 15 balls and won. Newman paid up the next day with 5,000 pennies!
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of Law and Order once gave Cornbread Red a three-hour run for his money. Orbach's high run was 67. On the Tonight Show in 1973, he ran the table on Minnesota Fats.
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known to devote up to six hours per day to straight pool, and was able to run 100 balls.
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was also a pool enthusiast. Unfortunately so was John Wilkes Booth, who got loaded in a pool hall the day he shot Lincoln