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About Buddy Hall
- Cecil P.
- "Buddy" Hall (born May 29, 1945 in Metropolis, Illinois) has been an American professional pool player for three decades.
- The International Pool Tour heralds Hall as a "living pool legend." He is nicknamed "The Rifleman" for his accuracy.Hall has been credited for creating the "clock system" which is a technique for where to hit the cue-ball, using the clock as a mechanism for where to aim. Hall began playing at 14 years of age in a soda shop in his home town.
- When local pool rooms would not let him enter because of his age, he used subterfuge to obtain a new birth certificate from a local judge which stated he was of legal age.
- He cut his teeth at Herbie Lynn's pool room and was soon dominating the regulars.
- It was not long before he hit the road to try his hand at a wider playing field.
- He won his first pro event at the age of 17 in straight pool, which he did not play at the time.
- He first gained some prominence at the Johnston City tournaments.I went there to watch all the greats of the day play.
- Wimpy, Jersey Red, Eddie Taylor, Cornbread Red, Harold Worst, Jimmy Moore, Fats and U.J.
- were playing one another in both the tournament and in backroom ring games.
- I entered and was very pleased when I beat Wimpy and Jersey Red and won my entry fee back. In the following years, Johnston City lost out as the hub of top tier tournament play to Dayton, Ohio.
- There, organizer Joe Burns instituted a similar all-around tournaments to the format that had been used in Johnston City.
- Hall played in the Dayton Tournaments for many years.
- He took first place there in 1974 winning $4,000.
- In 1982 Buddy won the Caesar's Tahoe Nine-ball Championship by edging out Allen Hopkins in the final with a score of 11-6, winning $33,500 for his efforts; an unprecedented purse at the time.
- ESPN's announcement of Halls' win was the first ever mention of a billiard player on that cable television network.
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