He promotes multiple annual pool events and still competes as a professional contender.

At seven years old, after watching many tournaments on television, Allen began to play pool on a small table his parents bought for him.

As an amateur, at the age of 12, Hopkins ran a prodigious 110 balls and took this talent to play against grown men.

[7] In 2002, Hopkins triumphed in the Denver Ten-ball Open, defeating Earl Strickland, Filipino champion Jose Parica, Corey Deuel, David Matlock, and faced Shannon Daulton in a thrilling double-hill finals.

[9] Allen Hopkins Productions started the Super Billiards Expo, each year held in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, which has since become the biggest consumer-oriented trade show in the Billiards industry trade show in the world, with multiple tournaments for amateur, seniors, women and men professional player levels.