Late last fall, a rumor began circulating through the pool world that Freddy "the Beard" Bentivegna, the great bank shooter and one of the last of the old hustlers, had passed away; or, rather, that he'd been killed in a terrible car accident on the south side en route to visit friends in the Cook County Jail. When Freddy himself logged into the message boards to announce that he was alive and well, he was accused of being a hacker.…
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