Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey
by David McCumber
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Author: David McCumberEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-04-01
ISBN: 0380729237
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: It Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
Playing off the Rail, was a book about the the roadtrip of a Pool Hustler Tony Annigoni with his stakehorse David McCumber the author of the book. McCumber has the heart for playing but he knows deep down that he doesn't have the skill to become a successful road player. Therefore, with $27,000 in McCumbers pocket then go on the road traveling all over the United States from California to New York. Grabbing as much action (games) as they can in every city. They play lots of the greatest players in the world in some of the highest stakes games they have ever witnessed. They play with the best and are able to beat them many times and take loads of cash off each player they came across. Of course, with winning comes lots of losing but they wade through that continuing on the road. I really enjoyed this book it was written very well. The way McCumbers writes shoves you right into the heart and soul of the game keeping your attention at every turn and your heart pounding with $2,000 on the line with one shot. The book moves very well and it's defitnely one of the greatest books I have ever read on pool. I could relate to it at many parts of the book and I felt like many of the characters throughout the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves pool or even has a mild interest in pool or even if you have ever heard of pool. By the end, this book will have you interested in pool or at least have a renewed respect for it. I know I certainly do and whenever I was done reading a chapter it made me want to go out and play pool so much. Mad props to McCumber I look forward to the next pool book!
Summary of Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey
At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler," student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle.
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