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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 ...
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 ...
Ultimate Nine-Ball Challenge (1999) Ultimate Shootout (1999) Tokyo Open 9-Ball (1992, 2001) All Japan Championship (1979, 1990, 1999, 2003) International Pool Tour. IPT King of the Hill Eight-Ball Shootout (2005) IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship (2006) International Challenge of Champions (2002)
Other titles. 100. World Champion. 9-ball ( 2022 ), 8-ball ( 2023) Shane Van Boening ( / ˌvæn ˈboʊnɪŋ /; [1] born July 14, 1983) is an American professional pool player from Rapid City, South Dakota. Van Boening is considered one of the best players of all time. Van Boening has won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and has won the US ...
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.
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 International Pool Tour was a professional sports tour created in 2005 by Kevin Trudeau and hosted by Rebecca Grant. [1] It aimed to elevate pool to the level of other modern sports. Closely modeled on the PGA Tour, the IPT offered the largest prize funds in pool history in its first year. The tour attracted the top pool players in the world.
Single-player, multiplayer. Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo, released in Japan as Dragon Ball: World's Greatest Adventure (ドラゴンボール天下一大冒険, Doragon Bōru Tenkaichi Daibōken), is a video game based on the Dragon Ball franchise. It was developed by Media.Vision and published by Namco Bandai under the Bandai label.
Jimmy Reid in September 2003 at U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship in Norfolk, Virginia. Jimmy Reid (August 23, 1946 – September 28, 2016) was an American professional pool player. He was given the Lifetime of Pool in Action Award at the One Pocket Hall of Fame banquet in Louisville, Kentucky. His nicknames were "Hippie Jimmy" and "Diamond Jim".
In 2020, Orcollo recorded a 120–119 victory against Shane Van Boening to be crowned The Money Game King in a three-day one-on-one 9-ball tournament held at Bill's Bar and Billiards in Oklahoma City.