Dave started playing pool when he was 19. The first time he picked up a cue he ran 6 balls without missing. Three months later he lost in the finals of the British Open. They say that there has never been a phenom like Dave. He later went on to win tournaments all over the world, but his talent was in entertaining millions of people.
Dave was 21 when he broke his first world record. He was able to run a rack of 15 balls, waiting for the cue ball to stop in between shots, and pocketing the 8 ball last, in an amazing 43 seconds. Looking back now that seems slow as Dave’s current record is 26.5 seconds.
Single table records
43.0 seconds
39.1 seconds
35.1 seconds
32.4 seconds
26.5 seconds
Dave has signed contracts with several different companies as he became a must for television. This resulted in him being one of a handful of world record holders that Guinness Book of World Records used to promote the book all over the world.
The next challenge for Dave was the 24 hour World record which he managed to run 16,499 balls in 24 hours, only resting a total of 35 minutes through this ordeal. I guess Dave attempted this record because his social life was not very good at the time.
Dave was performing for Guinness when they tried to push him to the limit and see what he could achieve. They set up 2 pool tables 6 ft apart and wanted to see if it was possible to run 2 tables in under 2 minutes, low and behold Dave set a new record 1 minute 58 seconds.
2 Table records
1 minute 52.6 seconds
1 minute 48.7 seconds
1 minute 42.9 seconds
1 minute 35.8 seconds
1 minute 28.9 seconds
1 minute 22.0 seconds
I guess this wasn’t enough for Dave and Guinness, they now set the ultimate challenge, running 10 racks of 15 balls on 2 pool tables 6 ft apart in under 10 minutes. Well he did not let the 5 million viewers down he ran 10 racks in 9 minutes 46.3 seconds!
10 table records
9 minutes 28 seconds
9 minutes 19.7 seconds
9 minutes 6 seconds
8 minutes 57 seconds
8 minutes 51 seconds
This year Dave is going to attempt something special at the world’s biggest pool tournament, he is going to try and beat the two table record and the 10 rack record at the same time. I guess that lack of social life has come back. I know all the pool players all over the world will be cheering Dave on in
