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“Justin’s girlfriend (Katie Cool) is on our pool team here in Wilmington,” said Mike Tackett, seated at one of a number of folding tables and chairs on the opposite side of the table from the VIP area. “I think you’d have been hard-pressed to find someone in the crowd who didn’t know me personally,” said Martin. The crowd hovered throughout the match between 40 and 45 attendees, most of them with some form of personal relationship with Martin. All things considered, the match, the VIP Party, and expectations of attendance went smoothly and met expectations. In addition to the exhibition match itself, they arranged for a VIP after-party at which spectators who had paid to sit at four VIP high-top tables and chairs, positioned a few feet away from one of the pool table’s long rails, would hang out after the match, play some pool and socialize. “I don’t gamble,” he said, “and I’m always looking for new ways to compete, to find new ways to stay sharp, so I always felt like exhibition pool is a good answer.” As the lathe continued to turn and Martin kept his eyes focused on the task at hand, he’s asked what prompted the decision to organize the match. And then suggested that it would be Martin who would be doing the butt-kicking in the near future. Having arrived only a few hours before and still dealing with a bit of travel fatigue, Garcia yawned. Garcia, sitting a few feet away, is asked whether he intends to emerge victorious in the upcoming match. “We see each other out and about at the tournaments a lot and he’s definitely one of the few guys that I like to hang out with, spend time with out at the events.”

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“We’re good friends,” Martin explained, as he worked with a cue on a lathe in the Pro shop a few hours before the match. Garcia is currently the #1-ranked competitor in the Predator Pro Billiard series. tables and invited world-class pro player, Roland Garcia from the Philippines to be Martin’s opponent in the Exhibition match. In coordination with the room’s owners, Jim and Margaret Grago, they transformed a restaurant space within the facility into a 60-seat arena, dismantled and re-assembled one of the room’s nine, 9-ft. The event was organized by pro-player Justin Martin, who grew up and currently lives in Wilmington and for the past 15 months, has run the JUMP Billiards Pro Shop at Breaktime Billiards in the city.

10, two professionals squared off in a somewhat isolated venue in Wilmington, NC and played a double-hill exhibition match that was everything, as a spectator, one could hope for ups and downs, lead changes and at the end of a race-to-17, a single game to determine the winner. Exhibition and/or Challenge matches happen all the time, but on Saturday, Sept. It was, in many ways, emblematic of the much larger pool community that has come so far while continuing to have a long way to go.

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