Bobby McGrath is an American

United States

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 professional pool

Pocket billiards

Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...

 player from Washington, Illinois

Washington, Illinois

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, nicknamed "the Kid" for being one of the youngest professional pool players.

He won US$

United States dollar

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50,000 in the 2007 International Speed Pool Challenge

International Speed Pool Challenge

The International Speed Pool Challenge is a pool tournament held in the United States since 2006. It is the most notable speed pool event, as well as being the richest in prize money for that discipline. Luc Salvas won the 2010 championship, defeating Bobby McGrath in the finals.Four players...

, not only beating the UK

United Kingdom

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's Dave Pearson

Dave Pearson (pool player)

Dave Pearson is a British professional pool player.Pearson was the runner-up in the International Speed Pool Challenge four years in a row, losing to Luc Salvas in the 2006 and 2009 finals, and to Bobby McGrath in the 2007-2008 finals.-References:...

 (a long-time top ranking speed pool pro and holder of several world records), in the final, but also knocking out defending 2006 champion Luc Salvas

Luc Salvas

Luc Salvas is a Canadian professional pool player. His quick-paced speed pool play earned him the nickname "Machine Gun". In 2006, he won the first International Speed Pool Challenge and the US$50,000 winner-take-all purse by defeating Great Britain's Dave Pearson...

 of Canada

Canada

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, in the semi-finals. In 2008, McGrath met Pearson again at the finals of the same tournament where he successfully won it for the second time in a row.

Despite having competed professionally for several years, he was permitted to play earlier in 2007 in the amateur VNEA

Valley National 8-Ball League Association

The Valley National 8-Ball League Association is one of the world's largest amateur pool leagues. , there are nearly 100,000 individual members in some 1,400 weekly local leagues playing in over 10,000 pool halls, bars and other venues in around 400 different cities, towns and suburbs in 36 U.S...

Speed Pool Championship, which he won.