So it was 2004 2005 and i had been hustling around the pools halls and the camel pro tour, i would make games with the top pros who were starving for action. My best game at the time was one pocket, I knew the game and moved really well, so i made a game with gabe owens he was coming threw ohio with i forget who but we played 11-5 one pocket i like dthe game alot and wanted to get the bet right before i beat him i think we were playing like 50-100$ a game, wich back then in pol was a decent bet, but i didnt win knowing that at a later time i could get same game and bet more.

Fast foward a few months and there is a tourny in Olathe Kasas, i decide its time for me to take a trip there so i grab my bank roll all like 6k of it, jump on pla ne to kansas and make my way to the pool room where they are having tournny and just kinda mull around. Finally we get a game for 500 a game and my plan is to win 2 lose one and make the game go back and forarth for a wile using my mouth to agrovate him, and parley my winnings as we go.

Well we start playing and im loosing, i dont understand it, i remember missing a ball i would never miss, i felt like someone drugged me but they couldnt i only drank out of a bottle i kept the cap on. I of course raised the bet nd he of course obliged we were playing for 800 a game i believe, well before i knew it i was broke, had no money my room was only paid for one more night and i didnt have a plane ticket home, so i cried called a friend back home and they bought me a plane ticket.

I get back home and the next day i head to the poolroom and playa little and still dont feel right, so i sit down in the chair and am talking to a friend after about 30 minutes i black out and have the worste head ake. I end up in he hospital and have 2 brain surgerys. I have an abcess growing on my optical nerve and i lost my peripheal vision. i spent 30 days in hospital, and 4 months of getting ivs 3 times a day before i could even really move again.
My pool career was over i couldnt see any more

Wile i was recovering i started playing poker online and the rest is history!!!!

Tell the story of ur nickname, Viff. Gd ****.

Viffer found our little pool subforum nice....

Are you done with the big money pool games or just waiting for a better handicap?

How do you think you'd have matched up in your peak with some of the pros you played recently. Like what kind of handicap you think would make it even.

in my peak i played eferen reyes who was at his peek 15-5 one pocket, it was close game.

I played cliff joyner 12-4 and beat him,

i played gabe owens 11-5 and i think i was favorite.

i think i could of played anyone with the 7 break and ball in hand back then, now i just cant see.

I had a pretty good win percentage when i was playing,

no im not done, im about to play chris bartrum a few sets when i get back to the usa, ima going to rob him.

Hey viffer nice of you to post in here have you got any stories of big cash games under pressure?

Nice story , post some more interestig about ur games tho.

Why are all his posts being deleted? WTF

nice story viffer. before reading this i always thought u where a mark in pool. didn´t know about your surgery.

^^^^ This



and you never answered your PM?

i never got pm from you,

Yea, I sent one to you, I was in town from the 6th thru the 10th and I wanted to buy you dinner. I didn't know you were out of town.

lol why was my post deleted?

sup viff?

Strangely enough, my post was deleted too.
Anyway, very interesting story. ... We tend to take a lot of things for granted until something like that happens in our own lives, or in the life of someone we know. ... Or we're fortunate enough to be exposed to things that remind us just how fortunate we are.

Whats up with the ridic censorship in this subforum? R the mods trying to chase ppl away? This sux.

they trying to keep one person happy cause she uses bigger words then me and used to type for a lawyer so she writes scary letters, so any thing written bad about her or her boyfriend that she doesnt like she tries to get removed. its sad o well.


ill tell more storyies but cant use people names so we will call everyone a and b

hey viff come post in omg with us

pretty sporty if you beat cliff guys a beast, I used to play pool and tryed it full time I guess you can say was young/never worked before so blah no offense to others but I feel its just for lowlifes its to hard of a grind. Every single person is trying to angle shoot/throw u down da river. But any way prolly was the best thing that could of ever happend to you dude the pool life is gay unless your a world beater

wtf why was my post not deleted?????

viff im sure you're not short on action but if you're ever in s. florida and can't find any i'll play you some 9ball and heads up nlhe.

...or i can just buy you a beer.

btw that's a sucky story with the abscess tho i guess you ended up ok which is great.

viff, your a degen like me's hero. wasted alot of my teen years shootin pool would love to hear some hustle stories.... let me know if your ever in philly or AC ill take you to some sucker games...

all turned out well in the end, cool story.

can you tell us more about ur early poker career, like wat games stakes dd u play wat were ur turning points to get to nosebleeds..

Just beat Alex Pagulayan for 80k playing one Pocket 18-4.. was a tough match played about 50 hours over a few days.

more details pls!

Could someone please explain to a UK player what 18-4 means?