Florian "Venom" Kohler received a six-foot pool table for his 18th birthday in Eastern France and, with nothing but a 56K internet connection and Mike Massey's book, taught himself every trick shot from the last 100 years in two years....

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Roy Pastor started playing pool at nine years old because his parents in Queens, New York figured a table in the basement would keep him off the streets. Nobody in the family played, so his father bought a used Willie...

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Emily Duddy grew up at the Hollywood American Legion Post 43, where her dad ran events for 35 years and she learned to play on a gorgeous antique nine-foot Brunswick surrounded by veterans. She sat through 15 minutes of college...

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Eric Naretto found pool at seven years old on a bumper pool table at the Lake of the Ozarks and spent the next decade chasing the feeling until a Jeanette Lee trick shot on ESPN sent him to Kmart for...

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