Marcel Eckardt picked up his first cue at 19 in a small German village, then landed a spot at one of only two pool clubs in all of Germany where he could serve his voluntary social year. By 23, he...

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Bobby Neues got his start losing money to old men on a snooker table, then watched his son Lincoln drain a near-full-table massé on the hill ball at regionals and realized he had something real to teach. A school teacher,...

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April Erfman started ditching high school in Los Angeles, spending her days in coffee shops and restaurant bars with pool tables, drinking coffee and grinding through games because she was too young for the real bars. That teenage obsession grew...

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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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