Pool Wars: On the Road to Hell and Back with the World's Greatest Money Players

by Jay Helfert

Pool Wars is a no holds barred look at the world of hustling pool, as told by someone who lived the life for many years. No names have been changed to protect the innocent! This is a non-fiction account told first hand by someone who was there!



Jay Helfert is and has been successful as a pool player, a road warrior, a card player, a stake horse, a gambler, a pool room owner, an entrepreneur, a tournament director, a television commentator, a consultant for film and television as well as a promoter and producer of major professional tournaments. In the pool world, he has been one very busy man.

Don’t expect for these stories to be sugar-coated because they are an exact accounting of Jay’s genuine experiences, and he brings you to each of them up close and personal. As a seasoned veteran of the pool world, the experiences Jay shares here will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last.

If you want to see the chronology and evolution of a person who lived and breathed pool as most of us have only dared dream, you’ll want to read this book from cover to cover. Pool Wars encompasses forty years of pool history and Jay’s ‘tell it like it is’ style will have you rooted to your chair.

You will feel as if you’re there with him, fading the harrowing experiences, making the bets, winning and losing, learning from the con men of long ago. It’s the never ending excitement of one realistic experience after another.

Pool Wars is sure to stimulate and rekindle pool players’ desire to seek the thrilling excitement shared by Jay chapter after chapter. Now sit back, relax and enjoy Pool Wars.

172 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 2012

About the author

Jay Helfert has spent a lifetime in the sport of pool; as a player, writer, gambler, tournament organizer and television analyst. He has seen and played with all the best players of the last forty years.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great stories, but the writing is a little rough. I don't think it was edited.

[Michael McCafferty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Paid money for it.
Read it.
Loved it.

Thanks, Jay!

[Carl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting first person anecdotes about the pool hustling world, can't wait to finish...

[Jonathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great read about times that are mostly gone now. The Internet has all but killed pool hustling like was told in this book.