Mike Orr's pool story starts in 2015 with a phone call from a friend: "I need another low-rank player on the team." He showed up. He fell in love. Not with winning - with the room. The atmosphere. The people. The strange family that forms around a pool table when nobody's in a hurry to leave.

He's the player, the recruiter, the connector - the one who knows which Pack member is having a rough month and checks in. He runs the room.

Right beside him through all of it: his wife Jenn - known to the Pack as "J-Lo" - captain of her own winning tournament teams. The "family" in "family beats roster" isn't a slogan. It's how Mike and J-Lo actually live.

Colin Silva and his friends were just broke kids who wanted to play pool. They figured out - the way broke kids in every pool hall figure it out - that if you stuffed paper towels into the pockets of a quarter table, the balls would stay up and you could play longer. That's where his game came from. No coach. No lessons. Just hours at tables he couldn't afford, learning by losing to people twice his age.

Twenty years in, he still plays five nights a week at Sharky's Bar Grill and Games in DFW, where he knows every league player by first name.

He helps lead the brand, design, and operations - the parts of the business that have to work whether anyone's watching or not.

Right beside him: his girlfriend Rosie - two states on the road with the team and now a full-fledged Pack member. The family keeps growing.