Shane Van Boening is arguably the best American pool player ever to break a rack and was ranked number one in the world for 2022. Can the South Dakota Kid help turn pool-popular in bars and basements but not on TV- into a proper pro sport?
You'd expect a 600-year-old sport to have played through its identity crisis. Not the case for pool. The sport's very name comes from pooling money to determine odds. And wagering lends pool mystique; hustling and pool go together like a cue stick and chalk. But that's as much a curse as a blessing. How can a sport thrive at the highest level, when so much of it exists in the shadows? Well, here comes Shane Van Boening, from Rapid City.
Think you could have made that shot? We went to Rapid City, South Dakota, a side pocket of America, to Van Boening's pool hall, where he explained that making balls disappear into pockets is only half of pool excellence. It's also about setting up your next shots - cue ball control, they call it. Van Boening comes by it honestly. His grandfather, Gary Bloomberg, a known trick shot artist, opened pool halls off I-90. Easy access for hustlers passing across the Great Plains, but these rooms were family-friendly places. So much so, Shane got his first pool cue when he was two; and went to the pool room every day after school - not just to play, but to escape kids who picked on him for being deaf. Shane Van Boening: The kids would start throwin' rocks at me.
Jayson Shaw: You'll see shots that-- and you'll be, like,"How did that happen?" You'll-- you'll hear that all day."How did that land over there?" Or,"Did you see that, how that went in?" In pool you see every game somethin' weird'll happen.Jayson Shaw: Both. Mentally, you wanna, like, flip the table at some point.
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