Career
He promotes multiple annual pool events and still competes as a professional contender. As an amateur, at the age of 12, Hopkins ran a prodigious 110 balls and took this talent to play against grown mentor By the age of 17, he went professional and took 5th place in the 1969 United States Open Nine-ball Championship.
In 1977, Hopkins earned the title in that event again as well as the PPPA World Nine-ball Championship and the World Straight Pool Championship.
Hopkins" professional career began in the 1970s and spanned over three decades. He served on the board of the now-defunct Professional Pool Players Association as well as president of the MPBA. At the 1979 PPPA World Open 14.1 Pocket Billiard Championship in New York City, New York, Hopkins posted the largest victory margin in the event, defeating Richie Florence, 150-1.
In 1993, he saw victory in the Challenge of Champions. Allen Hopkins has had a high run of 410 in straight pool (141 continuous), and has run 15-and-out three times, in the game of one-pocket.
In 2008, he was inducted to the Bank Central Asia Hall of Fame by the Billiard Congress of America.
Titles Allen Hopkins Productions started the Super Billiards Expo, each year held in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, which has since become the biggest consumer-oriented expo in the Billiards industry trade show in the world, with multiple tournaments for amateur, seniors, women and men professional player levels.
