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Quarter finals 1992 WPA World Nine-ball Championship. Tournament wins. Other titles. 100. World Champion. English Eight-ball ( 1985) James Rempe (born November 4, 1947, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, US) [1] is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player, and was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America 's Hall of Fame in 2002.
Efren Manalang Reyes OLD PLH (born August 26, 1954), popularly known by the nicknames "Bata" (Tagalog for 'Kid') and "the Magician", is a Filipino professional pool player, who is widely regarded as the greatest pool player of all time, and especially famed for his skill at the challenging one-pocket discipline.
World Champion. Straight Pool ( 1979, 1981, 1988) 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 ...
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. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white cue ball to pocket nine ...
Eddie "The King" Feigner (/ ˈ f eɪ n ər /, FAY-nər; March 25, 1925 – February 9, 2007) was an American softball pitcher and entertainer. Biography [ edit ] Born Myrle Vernon King (Eddie Feigner) in Walla Walla, Washington , he played softball for much of his early life, and turned his attention to the sport full-time following an ...
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 2) List of episodes. " King Nine Will Not Return " is the season two premiere episode, and 37th overall, of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on September 30, 1960 on CBS . This was the first episode where Rod Serling appeared on camera at the beginning ...
Straight Pool ( 1980, 1986 ), Nine-Ball (1989, 1999) Nick Varner (born May 15, 1948, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American professional pool player who was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1992. Varner is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. [1] Varner is a multiple world champion and ...
2001 The Color of Money II vs. ( Earl Strickland) [60] 2000 U.S. Open One-Pocket Championship [61] 2000 Camel Riviera Eight-ball Open [55] 2000 Pennsylvania State Nine-ball Championship [62] 2000 USA Billiards Challenger Event 2 [63] 1999 Philippine Legion of Honor. 1999 The Outstanding Filipino Award.
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth -covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of ...
International Challenge of Champions. The International Challenge of Champions is an annual nine-ball pool tournament held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. It has always been broadcast on ESPN and is sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association. As of 2009, four invited notable players compete in this single-elimination event.