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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Tanner Pruess grew up a third-generation pool player in South Dakota, watching his dad get paid in crispy new $100 bills at a smoky 1996 state tournament while Eric Clapton played on the jukebox. By 16, he was glued to...

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