I saw Ray years ago at Elizabeth NJ pool hall. Watching him was awesome.

Thats interesting; I'll have to check out more Ray Cool Cat Martin pool play as soon as I can

I’d LOVE to get lessons from mike! He’s my fave pro!!

I myself am grateful for mute

That's what the mute button is for.

It was a fun tournament for sure. Except when my lighting fell down on Siegel !! LOL embarrassing moment for the video guy !

InsidePOOLmag any chance of you guys broadcasting straight pool again?

I have an Olhausen and from what I understand every table is made the same way. Same cloth, rubber, slate etc...So the play is always the same. You pay extra for craftmanship

Lol thank you, you sound like me

When Cranfield was 20-21 he tutored a 12 y/o by the name of Richard Hunziker, who by the age of 15 was destined to be World Champion, that was backed by the Mob for $500 per game in 1940 at age 16. When he turned 17 (nov "40) he joined the Navy to get away from their clutches. Got stationed in Pensacola Fl, and never left! No one including Danny Jones and George Chenier, both Champions, ever won the first game of snooker with 15 reds against him. He finally lost a game (he hadn't been playing) to Ronnie Allen early 1965, the first game of the day, for $50, but never won another game, and Cleo Vaughn's bag man lost app $2,600. Mosconi warned Mizerak about Dick, but he played and lost. Eddie Taylor broke even playing 9 ball, (short session) Relihan ran 100 and out the first game, never won another game in two days. A number of player came through Pensacola on the way to Jacksonville, to play Sammy Blumanthal; Jimmy Moore, Don DeCoy, Don Watson, Sonny Springer, Donnie Anderson and others. Sometimes dick wouldn't play 9 ball, if hadn't been playing. But 14:1 or snooker he wouldn't refuse....Unfortunately for Blackie who played snooker, as for the others, none got out with the money, either Dick won, or it was a scenario, where somebody runs 5-6 racks then the other runs 5-6 racks back & forth a couple times then they quit. Except Taylor, he quit $20 ahead when Dick was stringing 5. Squirrel beat him playing one pocket back up at the break end.

tbcombatmedic 1:19:58 :)

I also played him league at CM's for about 5 years. I almost beat him one time. I cleared the table and missed the 8-ball (A tough table length backcut) and he still had all of his balls. He finished me off. Ray was always nice to everyone. He loved my girlfriend and was "jealous" that I had her. Also, we are the same age. I hated to see him leave. Miss him. Also, my daughter plays. Beth and Sam wanted her on their team. She filled in when she could.

You got that right wow ...only in straight pool do you see that huh

It would be a foul….but in straight pool a foul is just loss of one point and not cue ball in hand as it is in other games. Three fouls in a row is loss of 14 points. At times good straight pool players will intentionally foul to gain a long term advantage.

If you can’t run 100 + don’t play for any stakes

I’m sure Mike would play for 5000.00 or more a game 200 balls per game

Eufemia's run was never recognized by the BCA. In any case, the new record recognized by the BCA is John Schmidt's 626.

@@9Ballr BCA? It's in the Guinness Book of World Records, 1981. So they have their own verification procedures. I didn't know of Schmidt's. When did it happen and who witnessed it?

@@kennethshouler3055 The Guinness Book of World Records is not a pool sanctioning body, the Billiard Congress of America is. Mosconi's run of 526 had been the recognized record in the pool world ever since it happened in 1954. John ran 626 balls on video at East Street Billiards in Monterey, California on May 27th, 2019. The BCA has already officially sanctioned that run as the new record. Here's a link to a news story about it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fJ6Hlcxi2dmUXY0.html

@@9Ballr Again, the Guinness Book of World Records recognize the run in their 1981 edition. I don't care what the BCA recognizes. I don't know about Schmidt.

@@kennethshouler3055 So you'd rather not accept one of the governing bodies of the pool world when it comes to an official pool record? Wow!

Unquestionably both these players are superior at straight pool at their peak.

Reyes never won a straight pool championship.

Another snooker snob Jesus

@@JohnS-il1dr Hurts when it's true doesn't it?

The ball was positioned where the rest of the balls would be racked. So it gets spotted. I don't understand why Mike lost his turn on the next shot. Do you have to contact the racked balls after pocketing the last ball?

@@kempercole Mike called safe, so the ball he pocketed gets spotted and it's Ray's shot. That's why Mike left the cueball down near the end cushion.

could be...

Looked to me he moved the chalk out of his way and no where near the shot he was taking. If he would have put it down behind the eight ball ,,maybe?? But I dont know how that would help him?? He just moved the chalk,,lol.

@@5153flash It's possible he was just moving it out of his field of view on the short rail and then taking another look at the shot, but he did put it (what appears to be) right in line with the pocket line of the shot. Visualizing this line for a long shot can be aided by having some point of reference like the chalk.

Unfortunately, he never shut up, and and the Announcers are Stone cold morons, yes, mute it

Straight pool break, where you don't try to pocket any balls and don't want to leave any sort of shot for your opponent. In straight pool, slop doesn't count -- you have to call in advance what ball is going into what pocket. If you have the ability to do that while smashing the rack with a gorilla stroke, great. Most can't, which is why they break this way.

HE IS ALSO A PRO AT BEING A DICK HEAD

@@frontdesk6225 Yup he is !!!!

From all that carbon dioxide from talking too much

Which is why I like Earl Strickland Presents vids. His commentary might not be as good as Grady Matthew's but he always commented on the shots and strategies without going off into crazy tangents.

I bet its because they can't smoke anymore.

@@supermanalexk your exactly correct

A pool player in a tuxedo is like ice cream on a hot dog --Ralph Wanderone aka Minnesota Fats whose name he stole off the Tevis novel

but... he won

alain7398 youngest player to get inducted into the pool hall of fame at 35 years old. And 108 professional tournaments won. Yea terrible 😂

He was voted the greatest living player a little while back you dumb piece of trash.

BS Mike is great

+Edmund Wong: Generally speaking, yes, you're right. But while there are definitely physical components to pool, 14.1, when played by true old school masters, does not need as much pure, shot-making physicality a la 9ball, etc...Cue control combined with critical knowledge can be far more important in 14.1 than anything else. As proof, in this very tournament, prior to this match with Mike Segal, that 75 year old guy Ray Martin beat the defending 14.1 World Champion, Oliver Ortmann, a player who is around 1/2 his age. Ray Martin, at 70, has obviously lost a step or three. But looks to me like all his accumulated wisdom in the game of 14.1 is quite intact.

He’s there or not you couldn’t carry his cue