[MHarris]

Back in the early/mid-90's, there was a great action room in the area, South Philly Billiards. I think it was Jimmy Fusco that ran it, and a guy who went by "Cornflakes" (known in the poker world as John Hennigan) took on just about all comers. One day, a young Shannon Daulton came in, and he and Flakes end up matching up in one-pocket, a race to 4 for 10k, with Flakes getting 9-7. Flakes was dominating, taking a 3-0 lead in games, and a 6-(-2) lead in the 4th game. Shannon battled back, eventually tying the set. In the last game, they were jockeying back and forth with one ball left on the table to decide the winner of the set (and anyone who ever saw him play will tell you that Flakes maneuvers a single ball around as well as anyone). Anyway, Flakes leaves the cue ball and object ball both frozen to the long rail adjacent to his pocket, about 5 diamonds apart. Shannon gets up there and banks it into his pocket at warp speed! The whole room, Flakes and Jimmy included, were absolutely stunned. After that display, Shannon set up the same shot again, except with the object ball barely beyong the side pocket, and banked it cross-side, turning the ball BACKWARDS. You'd have to have seen it to actually believe it.