competed in his 5th final of the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship, although falling short to German champion Oliver Ortmann. In the mid 90s Mizerak had settled in Florida where he founded the senior tour for professional billiards players in 1996. He owned a Florida-based company that sold billiards equipment, ran a billiards parlor in Lake Park, Fla., and wrote instructional books, one of them titled "Just Showin' Off."

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