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Van Boening is a three-time VNEA national amateur eight-ball champion. In 2007, he reached the final of the BCA Open Nine-ball Championship, losing to Dennis Orcollo. A few days later, he won the Predator International Ten-ball Championship.
In 1994, Reyes won the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship by defeating Nick Varner in the finals and became the first non-American to win the event. In 1996, Reyes and Earl Strickland were chosen as the two best players in the world, to compete against each other in a challenge match, named after the film The Color of Money.
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side.
Michael Sigel (born July 11, 1953) is an American professional pool player [1] [2] nicknamed " Captain Hook ." He earned the nickname from his ability to hook his opponents with safety plays. [3] Sigel was dominant during the 1980s in 9-Ball and Straight Pool and has a high run of 339 balls in Straight Pool.
Fedor Gorst of Russia and Alex Pagulayan of Canada are the only players to win all three events: nine-ball, bank pool, one-pocket. The oldest pool player to ever win the tournament to date is Efren Reyes, at 59 years old at the time of his victory.
List of WPA World Nine-ball champions. The World Nine-ball Championships are held annually, and are sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association. Events have been held for boys and women, and for the main world championships since this time, with a girl's tournament being created in 2004.
Efren Reyes is a professional pool player, who has won over 100 professional tournaments. [1] Below is a list of all championships Reyes has won and his achievements.
López took the ball and allowed a double to Dodgers rookie Miguel Vargas, got Mookie Betts to fly out, then allowed an opposite-field, two-run homer to Shohei Ohtani, pushing the Los Angeles lead ...
In 1980, Rempe went to New Zealand where he defeated World Snooker Championship finalist Rex Williams in a series of Snooker, English billiards Nine-ball and Rotation . He represented the USA three times at the Mosconi Cup, most recently in 1999.
Archer is a two-time WPA World Nine-ball Champion, winning in both 1992 when he defeated Bobby Hunter, and later again in 1997 after beating Lee Kun-fang of Chinese Taipei ( Taiwan ). He was also a runner-up the following year, losing in the final to Kunihiko Takahashi of Japan.