I have never, ever, been good at pool. My great-uncle owned a bar at which my grandmother worked and we would go visit her there and fool around at the bar’s pool table but it somehow never kicked in. I’m bad, bad bad bad.
So Keith O’Dell, the “pool playing prodigy” kid who’s been all over YouTube and recently profiled on CNN makes me feel like really an idiot. This kid is 23 months old and shoots like a grownup. Admittedly it’s on a miniature pool table, but if you’ve ever played you can tell the kid’s got skills.
Keith O’Dell Jr. has performed at the American Pool Association nationals earlier this year, has been interviewed all over the place form local to national media, and is now working with cue maker McDermott Cues to develop his own cue line for baby and child pool players. Yeah, I can’t believe there are enough little-kid pool players to have a market for such a thing, but there you go.
I’m just hoping he;s doing it because he enjoys it –I know my kid at that age would be wildly interested in something one week and totally over it the next, but you sure don’t get the kind of stick skills this kid has without lots of practice.
How many of us got good at pool in college? This kid might just use his skills to make it there.
